Pitching and defense controlled both 9th Region softball tournament semifinal games on Monday. Highlands (25-14) and Dixie Heights (23-6) managed to advance by finding ways to put runners on base. The Bluebirds and Colonels will face off at 5 p.m. at Notre Dame Academy in the regional final Tuesday. The title game marks the return […]
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9th Region softball tournament sees four routs in opening round
All four opening round games of the Ninth Region softball tournament were called early due to the “run rule” in which the winning team runs away with the game. Cooper (25-10), the 33rd District runner-up, blasted seven runs in the top of the fourth inning and rolled to a 15-o win over 35th District champion […]
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Saturday NKY HS Sports Round-Up: Campbell County baseball captures another 10th Region crown
The Campbell County Camels baseball team (23-10) may have fallen behind early, but once they came back to tie the George Rogers Clark Cardinals (21-14) in the top of the fourth, it seemed as though they had control of the game. Campbell Co. scored twice with two out in the top of the sixth on […]
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9th Region Baseball finals won’t be exactly what you’d have expected
And now we know. The two teams who made it through Saturday, who will face one another Sunday afternoon at 3 to decide the Ninth Region Baseball champion are . . . ta da . . . two teams who last week lost their district title games. Two teams who came into this week as […]
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10th Region Baseball Semifinals: Walton-Verona, Simon Kenton eliminated
The 32nd District rivals Simon Kenton (20-12-1) and Walton-Verona (22-10-1) baseball teams both advanced to the semifinals one year after each lost in the 8th Region quarterfinals. But the post-season trip to this year’s semis at the University of Louisville on Friday ended in defeat for both. The Woodford County Yellow Jackets (23-13) and North […]
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Pairings set for 9th, 10th Region softball tournaments
The 9th and 10th Regions held their region softball tournament draws Thursday. The 37th District champion Campbell County Camels (16-10) and runner-up Bishop Brossart Lady ‘Stangs (12-17) play their quarterfinal games Saturday at Montgomery County. Campbell County drew 40th District runner-up George Rogers Clark (14-12) at Noon. Campbell County edged GRC, 6-5 on April 22 […]
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Wednesday NKY HS Sports Round-Up: Campbell Co. baseball back in 10th Region title game
The Campbell County Camels had been to the 10th Region Title game three years in a row entering the semifinal game against the 40th District champion Montgomery County Indians not counting the 2020 season wiped out by the pandemic. The Camels (22-10) made it four straight and five of the past six seasons with a […]
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Meinken bracket the big surprise in Ninth Region baseball that has NewCath up, Conner down
If you had Newport Central Catholic to be the only one of the four Meinken bracket teams to advance to Saturday’s regional baseball semifinals after Wednesday’s first round, you would be correct, as preposterous as that might sound. And if you had high-flying Covington Catholic losing for the third time to St. Henry, which advances […]
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Doctors told him he wouldn’t play baseball. He defied the odds and saved his team’s season
Written by Caleb Noe, WCPO sports anchor BROOKSVILLE, Ky. — Players on the Bracken County High School baseball team dedicated their season to a teammate facing life-threatening challenges. They never imagined that same teammate would later save their season. In February, Clayton Thompson noticed his feet were numb. “Clayton came home and said my feet […]
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Tuesday NKY HS Sports Round-Up: Riley’s bomb lifts Camels to 10th Region baseball semifinals
The Campbell County Camels baseball team (21-10) knew it could not have been any tougher of a draw facing the tradition-rich host Harrison County (25-9) and legendary Head Coach Mac Whitaker on the Thorobreds’ home field. Campbell County senior designated hitter Zack Riley stepped to the plate with the Camels trailing 4-3 with two out […]
