This game showed it’s not always the team that starts the strongest leading most of the way, but the team that finishes the strongest that sometimes wins. The Highlands Bluebirds baseball team (9-7) found itself down 3-0 early. But while the Bluebirds pitching and defense held things down the rest of the way, the Highlands […]
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Former Saint David Justice heads home to throw out first pitch
It was only fitting David Justice was facing out to right field when he was addressing fans and alumni of Thomas More at their new ballpark Thomas More Stadium and home of the Florence Y’alls. When Justice was at Thomas More in the mid 1980’s, there was no right field fence at the then known […]
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Friday NKY HS roundup: Conner baseball bests Highlands for second time this year
The two games that the Conner Cougars (14-2 overall) and Highlands Bluebirds (7-7) baseball teams have played this year have been tight one-run games. Conner edged the Bluebirds for the second time this year, 4-3 in the Doc Morris Invitational at Simon Kenton. The Bluebirds had runners at first and second with two out in […]
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Beechwood bats continue to punish opponents in win over Ryle
The scary thing about Beechwood’s offense is head coach Kevin Gray still thinks improvements need to be made. After their 14-6 victory over Ryle on Thursday night in their first of three games in the Doc Morris Invitational at Beechwood, they’re averaging a shade under 10 runs per game through their first 12 games of […]
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Florence Y’alls hosts exhibition games to benefit local food bank
The Florence Y’alls will be playing two exhibition games to help prepare for the 2023 season and the team is using the games to help those in need. For the games on May 2 and 5, the organization will be accepting canned food items or monetary donations to benefit the Cincinnati Free Store Food Bank […]
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Uhl stays cool, delivers walk-off hit as Simon Kenton rallies past Covington Catholic
The comeback even had Simon Kenton baseball coach Troy Roberts at a loss of words. “To tell you the truth I don’t know,” Roberts said after his Pioneers rallied from a 6-0 deficit to beat Covington Catholic 10-9 on Wednesday night. Early on, it looked as if CovCath was going to end this one early, […]
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Wednesday NKY HS roundup: Ryle takes control of 33rd District seed play with sweep of Cooper
The Ryle Raiders baseball team (10-3) is in control of its destiny in terms of the top seed in the 33rd District Tournament after sweeping the host Cooper Jaguars 8-4, to move to 4-0 in district seed play. “We talk about how tough this district is from top to bottom,” said Joe Aylor, Ryle head […]
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Morris’ legacy still strong decades later
Chris Maxwell likes to tell the story about what longtime umpire and referee Doc Morris would do if he saw a football field lacking large patches of grass. “People wouldn’t know this, but if he was doing a football game and he’d see a field that was kind of bare, he would go out and […]
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Monday NKY HS roundup: Scott Baseball wins third in four games for Goins’ 100th career victory
The Scott Eagles baseball team (4-6) has a chance to put some momentum together with a big 37th District seed game on the horizon in a week. The host Eagles knocked off the Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds, 10-4 for their third win in four games. This marked the 100th win for fourth-year head coach Kevin […]
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Schweitzer, Camels rely on competitive arrogance
About 20 minutes after Friday’s 10-0, six-inning shutout of Bellevue, Campbell County baseball coach Scott Schweitzer praised the value of arrogance, greed and selfishness on the diamond. “When you’re arrogant, you start to believe you’re better and you show up and things go,” Schweitzer said. A few minutes later, Schweitzer took back what he said […]