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WKU Baseball prepares to face NMSU in CUSA Tournament

David Quintanilla, Sports Reporter
May 20, 2025
Arthur H. Trickett-Wile
WKU Hilltoppers celebrate a run by redshirt junior outfielder Ty Crittenberger (3) during the first round of a double-header against the NIU Huskies Saturday, March. 4, 2023 at Nick Denes Field. WKU won the first match 9-8.

WKU Baseball will face the New Mexico State University Aggies Wednesday, kicking off the Hilltoppers’ Conference USA tournament campaign.

The Hilltoppers swept the Aggies during regular-season play on the road May 9-11, outscoring NMSU 41-8, including a seven-inning run-rule game two. 

WKU dropped two of three games in its last series of the season against Jax State. The Hilltoppers outhit Jax State but also left 32 on base. 

NMSU also dropped two of three games in their last regular season series at LA Tech. The Aggies were outscored 25-18. 

The Hilltoppers finished the regular season with a conference-high .316 team average and a conference-low 3.28 team ERA. 

The Aggies ended the season with a .289 team average, the third highest in CUSA, and a 7.85 team ERA, the second highest in CUSA. 

The first pitch is set for 11:30 a.m. CT at Lynchburg, Virginia. Fans can watch the game on ESPN+

Sports Reporter David Quintanilla can be reached at [email protected].

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David Quintanilla
David Quintanilla, Sports Reporter
David Quintanilla is a sports reporter for the Herald. He is in his first year at WKU majoring in English for Secondary Teachers and has lived in Bowling Green his whole life. He is fascinated by the local culture of Bowling Green.
Arthur H. Trickett-Wile
Arthur H. Trickett-Wile, Staff Photographer

Arthur is a photojournalist local to San Antonio, Texas with a B.A. in Studio Art (Concentration—Photo) from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with departmental honors in 2021.

Currently, he is pursuing a bachelors in Photojournalism at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his is a staff photographer for The College Heights Herald (WKU’s student newspaper) and (formerly) Talisman (a campus life-and-culture magazine). He was a still-photography participant in WKU’s Mountain Workshop 2021, and a video-storytelling participant in 2022.

He has experience in still photography across both analog and digital platforms. As of 2022, he is an FAA-certified commercial drone pilot, and has experience in arial photography. He is also comfortable as a DSLR videographer.

Arthur spent summer of 2022 as a photojournalism intern for the Charlotte Observer and the summer of 2021 as a freelance photojournalist working for the San Antonio Express News. His  short-documentary video work has also been published in the Bowling Green Daily News.

Arthur was named Collegiate Press Association’s 2021 Sports Photographer of the Year. He also placed 12th nationally in 2022 Hearst awards for still photography.