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Former WKU baseball star finding success in independent league

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SAINT PAUL, Minn. -- Kes Carter’s baseball talents are now being put to use in the Twin Cities.

Due up with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning and the scoreboard knotted at 5-5 for the St. Paul Saints on Friday night, Carter, the former Western Kentucky centerfielder, swung at a fastball down the middle and sent it over the right field wall to give his new team a 6-5 walk-off victory in its series opener against the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks at CHS Field.

Kes Carter smacks a walkoff solo homerun over the right field wall to give the St.