WKU signees Creech, Frank, Price named Kentucky All-Stars

Western Kentucky’s three Class of 2016 signees will get a chance to play on the same team before they all join the Lady Topper program this summer.

WKU signees Whitney Creech (Jenkins High School), Malaka Frank (Franklin County) and Sarah Price (Bath County) were all named Thursday to the Kentucky All-Star Team.

Those three were among the 13 girls’ basketball seniors from across the state picked for the team. Also making the roster were Glasgow’s Bree Glover and Bowling Green’s Oneisha Turner.

The Kentucky All-Stars will face the Indiana All-Stars in their annual matchups Saturday, June 11 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis and Sunday, June 12 at Bellarmine University’s Knights Hall in Louisville.

Mike Harper of Muhlenberg County will coach the team, which also features Miss Basketball winner and Notre Dame signee Erin Boley of Elizabethtown.

Creech said the all-star series will mark the first time she, Frank and Price have played together.

“It’ll be very exciting just to get acquainted with some of your future teammates,” Creech – the top scoring player in Kentucky high school basketball history – told the Daily News. “It’ll be good to get familiar with them and know how they play.”

Creech, Frank and Price give WKU its most all-stars in a single season since future Lady Toppers Micah Jones, Kendall Noble and LeAsia Wright made the Kentucky All-Star team in 2012.

Current WKU players Ivy Brown (2014) and Dee Givens (2015) have also earned the honor.

Creech and Frank won Region Player of the Year awards for Region 14 and Region 11, respectively. Both were on the ballot for Miss Basketball.

Glover, a Mississippi signee, was also on the Miss Basketball ballot and was named the Region 4 Player of the Year.

Turner was one of the key players on a Bowling Green team that won the Region 4 Tournament title and went to the state tournament.

No locals were named as boys’ Kentucky All-Stars. Highlighting that squad are Mr. Basketball winner Carson Williams (Owen County) and Xavier signee and former top WKU target Quentin Goodin (Taylor County).

Tickets for the games June 12 in Louisville are $12 and are on sale now at bluegrasssports.org. The girls’ game will start at 1 p.m., with the boys’ game to follow.

Rosters:

Boys – Trey Blevins (Wayne County), Alex Cook (Male), Tyrik Edwards (Christian County), Mason Faulkner (Caverna), Quentin Goodin (Taylor County), Connor McKim (St. Xavier), Tyler Sharpe (Bullitt East), Caleb Taylor (South Laurel), Isaiah Tisdale (Henry Clay), Ben Weyer (Newport Central Catholic), Carson Williams (Owen County), Darius Williams (Paul Dunbar), Matt Wilson (Campbell County).

Girls – Mikayla Berry (Owensboro Catholic), Erin Boley (Elizabethtown), Kaylee Cotton (McCreary Central), Whitney Creech (Jenkins), Samantha Fitzgerald (Southwestern), Malaka Frank (Franklin County), Bree Glover (Glasgow), I’Liyah Green (Male), Justus Martin (Shelby County), Dajah McClendon (Covington Holy Cross), Sarah Price (Bath County), Oneisha Turner (Bowling Green), Emma Young (East Jessamine).

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