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Hilltoppers suspend 3 players for season opener

Western Kentucky announced Tuesday that sophomore running back Quinton Baker, redshirt freshman wide receiver Xavier Lane and redshirt freshman linebacker Tyler Obee have been suspended for the the Hilltoppers' season-opening football game Sept. 2 against visiting Eastern Kentucky.

Baker, Lane and Obee pleaded guilty Monday along with former WKU football player Cecil Stallings to misdemeanor offenses stemmming from a physical confrontation outside the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house.

Each pleaded guilty in Warren Circuit Court to complicity to second-degree wanton endangerment and complicity to fourth-degree assault under extreme emotional disturbance.

A total of seven men were charged in the March 5 incident outside the fraternity house.