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Category: Sports

Street Named For 1982 State & National Championship Indians Baseball Team

Tuesday night the city of Richmond during the city commission meeting honored the1982 State Championship from Madison Central with a street named in their honor. The street is located from North Second Street down behind the football stadium to the baseball field. It replaces Georgia Street. Of course has much as an honor this is […]

Mahan, Two With State Ties Added To Barbasol Championship Field

LEXINGTON, Ky. (KT) — The list of participants for next week’s PGA TOUR Barbasol Championship keeps growing and includes several players with ties to the Bluegrass State. Derek Fathhauer, a University of Louisville graduate and Owensboro’s Matt Atkins will compete in the event featuring 132 of the top golfers in the world. Fathhauer and Atkins […]

Former EKU Colonel Mandy Alvarez Named To Double A All Star Game

Former EKU Colonel Mandy Alvarez has been named to the Double A All Star team. Alvarez plays for the Trenton Thunder, affiliate of the New York Yankees. As a senior in high school for Killian in Miami he hit .490 as a junior and .400 as a senior being named all Dade County both seasons […]

EKU Men’s Basketball Team Set To Hold Open Practices

New head Coach A.W. Hamilton is getting the opportunity to get his team in the gym early as the NCAA will allow the Colonels to have ten extra practices this summer as they will they will be heading to Coast Rica August 7th for three games. With the extra practice’s EKU will open them to […]

Reds Reach Halfway Mark Of Season, Recap of First Half

As the weather turns warmer and the calendar flips to July soon Major League baseball is at the half way mark of the regular season. Tonight the Reds will play game 81 of 162. The Reds opened the year 3-18 in the month of April, worst start in the 137 year history of the franchise, […]

Former EKU Great Nominated For College Football Hall Of Fame

Former Colonel great Markus Thomas has been nominated for the 2019 College Football Hall Of Fame. Thomas, a Cincinnati native, played for Eastern Kentucky from 1989-1992. He became not only one of the greatest Colonels ever, he is also one of the greatest players to ever play in the Ohio Valley Conference. Markus was inducted […]

Calipari happy for 4 NBA draftees, disappointed Gabriel not chosen

By KEITH TAYLOR, Kentucky Today LEXINGTON, Ky. (KT) — John Calipari felt a mixed bag of emotions after watching the NBA Draft unfold Thursday night on Brooklyn, New York. Four of his former players — Kevin Knox, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Hamidou Diallo and Jarred Vanderbilt — were among the 60 players taken in the draft, while […]

EKU Basketball Hosting Youth Camp

Eastern Kentucky Head Coach A.W. Hamilton held his first basketball camp this week at Alumni Coliseum. WBON spoke with Coach Hamilton about the camp.Hamilton said that when he got hired to be the coach there was no camp scheduled. The Colonels had three players transfer so tone of the main focus of the staff was […]

LIVE Sports Show Tonight From Jack Burford Chevrolet From 6-7

Tonight on the Wallingford Sports Show presented by Vapor Stix Inc, and from the Jack Burford Chevroley Studios, Michael Watkins and Samantha Hyatt Burford are live at Jack Burford Chevrolet to discuss this Thursdays NBA Draft, where will the 5 Kentucky players get selected and which one will have the best NBA career. We’ll also […]

Trio Of Madison Central Indians Named All-State

Three Indians were named All-State following the season. Logan Thomason, an Eastern Kentucky commit, was named second team. Logan helped lead the Indians to the State Tournament for the second time in three seasons. He led the team in batting at .448. He had three home runs and knocked in 38 runs. He led the […]

Estill County Softball Players Earn All-State Honors

A pair of Estill Softball players earned All-State honors this week. Senior Lindsay Wood was named second team after helping lead the Lady Engineers to the State Tournament for the third time during her four seasons. She hit .520 her senior season (51-98) and scored 47 runs. She had two home runs knocked in nineteen, […]

Watch The Wallingford Sports Show Tonight at 6 On WBONTV

Tonight on the Wallingford Sports Show live from Vaporstix in Richmond and the Jack Burford Chevrolet Studios, Michael Watkins goes solo again. Jaydan Johnson comes in to talk about the NBA Finals and where LeBron James might end up. Randy O’Neal will come on and discuss Justify and what him becoming another Triple Crown winner […]

Indians Fall In Opening Round Of State Tournament

Madison Central (30-7) entered the State Tournament riding high after winning the eleventh region. They match up with Bowling Green (21-11) the winners of the fourth region. Indians had the last game of the opening round and it turned into one of the best games thus far in the state tournament. Madison Central was the […]

Estill County Falls In Game One of State Tournament

On a hot afternoon in Owensboro, so hot that the afternoon games were being delayed due to heat index, Estill County ran into a Boyle County team that was just as hot. Specifically a hot pitcher in Kelly Lay. The game started with a lead off hit from Lindsay Wood but she would be stranded […]

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