Month: July 2021

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Local News

Fair concludes with wrestling, truck and tractor pulls

It’s the final day of the Western Kentucky State Fair and there will be more truck and tractor pulls in the grand stand and professional wrestling in the air-conditioned convention center. Another 6,609 people entered the Western Kentucky State Fair gates Friday, an increase from 4,900 on the same night in 2019. Gates open at 3 and rides at 4, with a $25 armband getting you unlimited rides. The Mid […]

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Local Sports

Hoppers fall to Franklin-Friday night’s OVL scores/Tonight’s Games

The Hoptown Hoppers spotted the Franklin Duelers a 6-0 lead but fell 15-10 Friday night at Colonel Field. Three Hoppers-JoJo Cruz, Alex Gonzales and Riley Garczynski each had three hits, with Gonzales hitting a home run. Cam Thompson, BJ Banyon, Nico Montes and Landon Choboy each had a pair of hits. Starter Tyler McLaren took the pitching loss for Hoptown, now 11-11 on the season. The Hoppers are back in […]

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Local Sports

Austin Peay names Conlon as new assistant baseball coach

photo credit: Austin Peay athletics Austin Peay announced the hiring yesterday of Shane Conlon as the Governors' assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Conlon-who has been an assistant at Morehead State the last two years-replaces David Weber, who was recently hired as head baseball coach at Hopkinsville High School.

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Local Sports

Reds edge Cubs, Cardinals and Braves win Friday night

The Cincinnati Reds opened a weekend series with a 2-1 win over the Chicago Cubs last night. Game two of the series is this afternoon with pregame at 2:40 on News Radio 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP. Elsewhere in the National Lesgue The Atlanta Braves were a 1-0 winner over the Miami Marlins last night at Truist Park. The teams play again this afternoon. The St. Louis Cardinals were a 9-3, […]

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Local Sports

Golf Roundup

Round two of the LPGA Tour’s Volunteers of America Classic outside of Dallas was suspended Friday due to weather issues. Princeton’s Emma Talley had played eight holes before play was stopped. She was one over for the day and five under for the event. No bogeys through 36 holes have Tom Lewis and Joaquin Niemann at the top of the leaderboard of the PGA Tour’s Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit. […]

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Local News

Gov. Beshear announces first ‘Shot at A Million’ winners

The first round of winners of the Kentucky “Shot at A Million” vaccination program were announced Friday, including a student from Princeton for the scholarship portion. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear made the announcement, along with celebrating that approximately 2.2 million people have been vaccinated, and that number continues to grow each day. https://media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/1411/files/2021/07/0702beshearvaxrate.mp3 He says there were approximately 600,000 entries for this round of drawings, and people have more time […]

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Local Sports

U of L adds Hodges to football staff

FootballScoop.com reports the University of Louisville is adding Aron Hodges to the coaching staff as recruiting coordinator and the defensive staff as a quality control coach. Hodges comes to U of L from Texas Tech. He’s also worked at Purdue, Ohio State and Notre Dame among others.

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Local Sports

WKU announces Conference USA schedule for 2021-22 season

Western Kentucky has learned its Conference USA schedule for the 2021-22 season. The Hilltoppers will play 18 conference games with a format change to divisional play. WKU will open conference play on December 30th at Southern Miss and play Florida International in the conference home opener on January 8th. To see the complete Conference USA schedule, visit wkusports.com

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Local News

Fort Campbell soldiers recognized for high COVID-19 vaccination rate

Fort Campbell and its soldiers were recently recognized for its high vaccination rate by the director of the Defense Health Agency. According to a news release, about 78 percent of division soldiers on Fort Campbell had at least one vaccination and 74 percent were fully vaccinated—Blanchfield Army Community Hospital is responsible for the vaccine mission on Fort Campbell and has administered about 56,000 doses to its TRICARE-eligible population and the […]

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