Using just six players with injuries up and down the lineup, the Northern Kentucky University women’s basketball team earned their first win of the season over Marshall. Out were starters Kailee Davis and Kennedy Igo while Khamari Mitchell-Steen, Macey Blevins and Noelle Hubert logged all 40 minutes in the contest. Carter McCray was the difference […]
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35th District boys basketball preview: CovCath once again team to beat
The Covington Catholic Colonels have come into the season as not only 35th District favorites, but also 9th Region favorites a good bit since 2014. That may not be the case this year. But the Colonels still plan on having a say in that by the end of the season. Since head coach Scott Ruthsatz […]
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Second quarter hurts NKU women in road loss to EKU
The Northern Kentucky University women’s basketball team hit the road for the first time Saturday against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels. They came back home with an 86-75 loss to drop to 0-2 on the young season. NKU trailed 24-22 after the first quarter, but a rough second quarter put them in a 47-34 halftime deficit. […]
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Thomas More concludes first Division II season with convincing win
Coming into the season as the unknown in its first year in NCAA Division II, the coaches picked the Thomas More Saints to finish dead last in the 10-team Great Midwest Athletic Conference in the preseason poll. But the Saints ended up in sixth after concluding the regular season with a convincing 44-6 win Saturday […]
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Highlands dominates trenches in convincing home playoff win over Dixie Heights
It took the Highlands Bluebirds just three plays and 31 seconds to score the game’s first touchdown and the freight train rolled on from there. Highlands built a 40-0 halftime lead over Dixie Heights on the way to a 40-7 Class 5A playoff win at David Cecil Memorial Stadium on Friday. Highlands has outscored its […]
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NKU women show promise in season-opening loss
The Northern Kentucky University women’s basketball team may not have earned the desired result, but the Norse showed a lot of promise in a 85-82 overtime loss to Indiana State in the season opener at Truist Arena. “I thought that we played hard. We were facing a ton of adversity right now,” said Camryn Whitaker-Volz, […]
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NKU women enter season with eight new players, three new assistant coaches
When fans head to Truist Arena to see the Northern Kentucky University women’s basketball team this year, they will notice plenty of new faces on the floor and on the bench. Camryn Whitaker-Volz, who got married in the offseason, returns for her eighth season guiding the Norse. She welcomes back just five players off last […]
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Newport explodes in second half for first playoff win in four years
The Newport Wildcats football team has moved the ball consistently through the air all season averaging an even 198 yards per game in the regular season. But when the Wildcats have added in some balance with the run, they’ve been even more successful. Newport had that and more scoring 40 unanswered points in a convincing […]
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Notre Dame solves Hart, McCracken County in latest state quarterfinal win
Notre Dame co-head coach Jenna Leistner stood up after another Addison Hart kill and made it clear what needed to happen. “You have to find a way to stop her,” Leistner said. Shortly after that, juniors Ella Goetz and Riley McCloskey blocked the McCracken County junior outside hitter to put the Pandas up 15-14 in […]
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Notre Dame rhythm too much for Campbell County in opening round of state volleyball tournament
The first round of the state volleyball tournament in recent years has taken the Notre Dame Pandas to Wolfe County, Paintsville and this year, to a much-closer Campbell County. But the common denominator has not changed. Notre Dame brought the intensity and dominated the Camels, 3-0 (25-11, 25-18, 25-7) on their way to a third […]
