SLIDE SHOW: Hilltoppers drubbed 52-12 by Jax State in CUSA title game

Published 3:08 am Saturday, December 7, 2024

By Joe Imel

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Western Kentucky Hilltoppers offensive lineman Stacey Wilkins (71) walks off the field after a turnover with Jacksonville State Gamecocks safety Zechariah Poyser (18) and Jacksonville State Gamecocks cornerback Jabari Mack (4) celebrating in the background during the CUSA football conference championship game at AmFirst Stadium in Jacksonville, Al., Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (Daily News photo by Joe Imel)

The Hilltoppers fell 52-12 to the Jacksonville State Gamecocks in the CUSA football championship Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 in Jacksonville, Al.

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About Joe Imel

Joe Imel is the Regional Publisher of the Bowling Green Daily News, as well as seven other CMG newspapers in Kentucky and Tn. The Daily News has been publishing for more than 169 years in Southcentral Kentucky. Imel began his journalism career 37 years ago as a reporter for the McLean County News, later the Hardin County Independent and finally arrived at the Daily News as a photojournalist in 1991. He rose through the newsroom ranks as chief photographer, photo editor, assistant managing editor, director of digital operations, general manager of WDNZ-TV, a low-power TV station owned by the paper, and later promoted to general manager for the Gaines family. He continues in that role with CMG. Imel studied photojournalism at Western Kentucky University. He is an award-winning photographer that continues to pick up his cameras when he is not listening to the police scanner and tweeting to more than 80,000 followers. He and his wife, Tracy, reside in Bowling Green. They have a son that works in politics in Washington, D.C.

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