Last season, the Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds edged the Highlands Bluebirds, 51-48 at Bellevue’s Ben Flora Gymnasium to take back the district crown after the Bluebirds had won it the previous seven years. The two could battle for the district title again this year. The last time neither team won the district title came in […]
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Thomas More men, women win at Wilberforce; NKU men lose second straight game in Florida
TMU wins twice at Wilberforce Thomas More’s nationally ranked Saints won a double dip at Wilberforce Tuesday. The #1 NAIA women started things off with a 92-41 romp to improve to 6-0 on the season. The #2 NAIA men followed with a 74-58 Mid-South Conference win in the second game to improve to 6-0 overall […]
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9th Region, 35th District girls hoops preview: Holy Cross, Notre Dame expect to battle for crown
Here is our pre-season preview of the 9th Region, 35th District girls basketball teams: Notre Dame Pandas The Notre Dame Pandas have won four consecutive district championships since Kes Murphy took the job in 2018, after leading Holy Cross to the 2015 state championship. Last year, the Pandas had their eyes on a regional title […]
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9th Region, 33rd District girls hoops preview: Another tight battle for a title expected
The four teams that make up the 9th Region’s 33rd District in girls basketball are all part of Boone County Schools, and it’s one of the toughest districts in the state. It produced a 2019 state title for Ryle, and a 2022 state semifinal showing from Cooper. Ryle, Cooper, Conner, and Boone County will tough […]
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NKU’s roller-coaster season on the downside in Florida tourney
The feast or famine season continued for Northern Kentucky University’s men’s basketball team Monday at the Gulf Coast Showcase in Ft. Myers. Host Florida Gulf Coast, a former conference member with NKU in the Atlantic Sun Conference, clobbered the Norse, 82-61. The big loss in the tourney opener, just five days after NKU’s historic 64-51 […]
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9th Region, 34th District girls hoops preview: Dixie hopes again to be team to beat
Here is how the 9th Region’s 34th District breaks down ahead of the girls basketball season: Dixie Heights Colonels The Dixie Heights Colonels have won the last eight 34th District crowns and has appeared in the 9th Region tournament 11 straight years, second only to Highlands’s twelve in a row. Last year, the Colonels had […]
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Thomas More men’s and women’s basketball teams stay perfect
Big men’s/women’s road doubleheader win for Thomas More Saturday at Georgetown. The NAIA’s No. 2-ranked TMU men shut down a No. 8 Georgetown team, 61-38, behind another double-double by junior Reid Jolly to improve to 5-0 on the season, 2-0 in the Mid-South Conference. The Saints women, ranked No. 1 in the NAIA, defeated the […]
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Women’s basketball: NKU routs Tennessee Tech
The Northern Kentucky women’s basketball team (3-1 overall) scored the game’s first 19 points and never looked back in a 75-53 win over the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles (3-2) on Sunday at Truist Arena. Tennessee Tech could not stop the duo of graduate student guard Lindsey Duvall and senior guard Ivy Turner, who scored 16 […]
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Big crowd, even bigger moment for NKU basketball in beating UC Bearcats in cross-river rivalry
The band kept playing until the very end. Just the way the Norse men’s basketball team did. And the fans, almost every one of the record Truist Arena crowd of 8,305 — just 100 below a sellout — stayed well past the end. Who could blame them? The students, who turned out in record numbers, […]
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8th Region/32nd District girls basketball preview: Simon Kenton, Walton-Verona seek deeper postseason runs
The Anderson County Bearcats led by last year’s Kentucky Miss Basketball Amyia Jenkins have won the last three 8th Region titles. But now that Jenkins graduated and took her talents to the University of Kentucky, consensus is the region is wide open. The Simon Kenton Pioneers and Walton-Verona Bearcats hope to make it back to […]
