Western Kentucky University NCAA News

In a back-and-forth affair the Alabama softball team held off Western Kentucky, 7-6, Saturday afternoon in day two of the NCAA Softball Tuscaloosa Regional at Rhoads Stadium.

A pair of home runs off the bat of sophomore Preslie Cruce would be the only offense produced in the first game of the NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional, as the swings gave the Western Kentucky University softball team a 3-0 win over USC Upstate at Rhoads Stadium on the campus of the University of Alabama.

Garnering a season record of 41-16, the Western Kentucky University softball team has been selected to play in its first-ever NCAA Division I Softball Championships, the NCAA announced on Sunday night on ESPNU.

DE Quanterus Smith is still rehabbing a knee injury that ended his 2012 season prematurely, but he expects to be "full-go" by training camp.

TROY, Ala.- Going toe-to-toe with the defending Sun Belt Conference Tournament Champions, the top-seeded Western Kentucky University softball team fell 2-0 against second-seeded and No.

TROY, Alabama - Mallorie Sulaski fired a two-hitter to guide top-seeded Western Kentucky to a 3-1 victory over No.

Running back Stefphon Jefferson, who finished second in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision in rushing yards and carries in 2012, is among the 15 undrafted rookie free agents with whom the Titans have reached contract agreements, the club said Thursday.

The Denver Broncos believe they found a gem in the fifth round of this year's NFL Draft .

ULM opens the Sun Belt Championship in Troy, Ala., against a tough Western Kentucky team at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Rising sophomore D.J. Johnson has been selected to participate with Reach USA on a cultural exchange trip to the Far East from May 11-26, while rising junior Thomas Gipson and incoming freshman Jevon Thomas will compete with the Athletes in Action Tour to Lithuania from August 6-19. As a part of Reach USA, Johnson and his teammates will play eight ... (more)

Five members of the Western Kentucky University softball team were selected to the All-Sun Belt Conference Team as announced by the league office during Family Night Tuesday evening on the campus of Troy University.

Chanell Lockhart, a 5-foot-10 combo guard from Chicago, Ill., has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball at Western Kentucky University, head coach Michelle Clark-Heard announced on Tuesday.

"After multiple discussions with Kene and Eddie about their basketball futures, we have come to the decision that it is in the best interests of both of them to continue their playing careers elsewhere," Harper said in the statement.

Kawaun Jakes was a standout for St. Augustine High School and a standout in college at Western Kentucky.

The Jaguars' Head Coach had remained enthusiastic and upbeat - as if he knows another way - throughout the rainy first two days of the team's three-day rookie minicamp at the Florida Blue Health and Wellness Practice Fields.

Western Kentucky's Quanterus Smith, a fifth-round draft choice of the Broncos, closes in on Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron during a game last year at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

After being bypassed in the draft last weekend, he signed with the Jaguars as a free agent.

Oct 27 2012; Miami, FL, USA; Western Kentucky Hilltoppers wide receiver Willie McNeal runs the ball and gets a block from quarterback Kawaun Jakes on Florida International Golden Panthers safety Johnathan Cyprien in the second half at FIU Stadium.

"After multiple discussions with Kene and Eddie about their basketball futures, we have come to the decision that it is in the best interests of both of them to continue their playing careers elsewhere," said WKU men's basketball coach Ray Harper in a statement.

After moving the games against Middle Tennessee up a day because of inclement weather predicted in the Bowling Green area, the Western Kentucky University softball team swept the rival Blue Raiders to claim the program's first-ever Sun Belt Conference Regular-Season Championship on Friday.