To be the winning team, fan votes play a heavy role, along with consideration from our sports team here at LINK.
Nominations are reader-submitted or recommended by our sports team. Our Team of the Week program honors all local sports at all levels, whether it’s youth or adult-oriented recreation, high school or college, professional or amateur.
The new school year has added to the awards program. OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine and LINK nky are excited to expand in addition to the weekly winners, the program will be including three winners for Team of the Season and one overall winner for Team of the Year for the 2024-25 sports seasons.
New this year for the program is the addition of the Team of the Season (TOTS) and Team of the Year (TOTY) awards. Sports seasons are considered fall, winter and spring for the purpose of this awards program. At the conclusion of each sports season, an overall TOTS winner will be chosen from all previous TOTW winners for that season. Their school will also receive a $500 scholarship to be presented to the athlete of their choice at the end of the school year.
Finally, the program culminates by selecting one TOTY from the three TOTS award winners. Online and print articles will again be published, a large commemorative plaque will be presented and the school will receive an additional $500 scholarship to be presented to the athlete of their choice at the end of the school year.
The call for nominations, voting and winning announcement for each will follow the same format as the TOTW.
This week’s nominated teams are listed below with some information provided by the submitter or LINK nky staff. The poll where you can vote follows at the end of the article.
Voting is open until Friday at 11:59 a.m.
RYLE BOYS LACROSSE
The Raiders picked up a pair of wins last week to get over .500. They defeated Eastern (13-9) and Walton-Verona (18-2) to improve to 6-5 on the season.
Through nine games on the stats report, Jake Bailey leads the team in goals with 23, Lane Rickey has added 14, Bryson White with 12 and Ronin Herbert adding 10. Bailey also has a team-high 14 assists. Carter Alsip has 73 saves in nine games and allows 9.1 goals per game.
BEECHWOOD BASEBALL
The Tigers went 4-0 last week which also included an All “A” state tournament sectional win over Bishop Brossart. The unblemished week improved their record to 12-5 on the season.
They defeated Dixie Heights 4-0, Bishop Brossart 1-0, Bracken County 11-1 and Simon Kenton 12-11. The dominating pitching performances came from Keagan Hutton against Dixie (6 IP, 5H, 2K), Chase Flaherty against Bishop Brossart (7 IP, 0H, BB, 10K) and Branton Stiles against Bracken County (5 IP, H, ER, 3BB, 11K).
The bats helped carry Beechwood to a win over Simon Kenton as they collected 12 hits and 12 runs. Sawyer Carlisle led the way with three hits, Brooks Becker, Keagan Hutton and Chase Flaherty with two hits apiece. Hutton had three RBI, Carlisle and Caleb Arrasmith with two apiece.
SIMON KENTON SOFTBALL
Domination from Simon Kenton’s softball team last week as they outscored the opponent 61-15 in a 4-0 week to improve to 13-4 on the season.
They have now scored at least 14 runs in six straight games as they’ve won nine games in a row. The Pioneers are hitting .465 as a team and averaging 10.8 runs per game. Myka Brown (.683), Alli Fowler (.569), Taylor Jones (.533), Larkin Mitchell (.509), Jayden Jones (.476) and Laney Schuster (.440) are all hitting over .400 with at least 40 at-bats.
VILLA MADONNA SOFTBALL
The Vikings run-ruled both opponents last week in 15-2 and 13-2 victories over Holmes and Cincinnati Country Day to improve their record to 7-4 on the season.
In the win over Holmes, four different batters had at least two hits, Chloe Cotton, Cam Kratzer, Rosemary Rice and Bree Brown all with two hits apiece. Rice led the way with three RBI, Kratzer with two. Kratzer struck out 12 in 4.1 innings of work in the circle, allowing just one hit and a walk.
In the win over CCD, Taylor Witham, Jay Villapando and Krazter had three hits each, Villapando with four RBI, Witham with three and Kratzer two. Kratzer added another win in the circle with five innings of work and allowing five hits, two earned runs and struck out five.
BOONE COUNTY BOYS TRACK AND FIELD
The Rebels tied for first at the Boone County Invitational meet on Saturday with Ryle, both teams scoring 114 points in the meet at Boone County High School.
Standouts for the Rebels in the meet included Mohammed Ngam in the sprints with a first place finish in the 200 meters (22.73) and second in the 100-meter dash (11.31). Caleb Flerlage won the 800 meters (2:10.56) while Ibrahim Ngam was the standout in the hurdles, second in both the 110-meter hurdles (15.72) and the 300-meter hurdles (42.65). The relay teams were strong as well, the 4×800 (9:07.35) and 4×400 (3:50.24) finishing second while the 4×100 (45.31) and 4×200 (1:33.93) finished third.
In the field events, Joel Mazala finished first in the long jump (19-01), second in the high jump (5-06), and third in the triple jump (37-7.5). Nicholas Hundley won the adaptive boys shot put (54-0)
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