In lieu of recent news of Jay Volker accepting a teaching position in Ohio, Beechwood has decided to transition the head football coaching duties to former coach Noel Rash. Volker replaced Rash after he stepped down in 2023, guiding the Tigers to a 37-5 record and a state title in 2024. Online rumors started circulating […]
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Reed all about it: Scott walks off Brossart in 37th District tournament
Scott junior Andy Reed entered the postseason still chasing the kind of moment every baseball player imagines at some point in their career. A walk-off. He didn’t have one…until Monday night. In a win-or-go-home setting, the 37th District baseball semifinals delivered the perfect stage, and Reed delivered the finish, a walk-off hit to lift Scott […]
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District tournament softball roundup: Ryle walks it off in the 7th over Cooper
The KHSAA softball postseason got underway in Northern Kentucky on Sunday with seven games played in three districts. Here’s how the action unfolded: 33rd District at Boone County Ryle 2, Cooper 1 Spare the slugfest in this one. When these two met twice in the regular season, 49 runs were scored in the two games, […]
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NKY baseball stat leaders
The KHSAA baseball regular season ends on May 15 with the postseason set to begin on Saturday, May 16. Here are the stat leaders in Northern Kentucky for Boone, Campbell and Kenton County. BATTING AVERAGE (Minimum 50 at-bats) Tyler Fryman, Beechwood — .554 Tyler Schumacher, Campbell County — .500 Parker Trenkamp, Ludlow — .494 Henry […]
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Kes Murphy returns to sideline as St. Henry girls basketball coach
Former Notre Dame Academy and Holy Cross High School girls basketball coach Kes Murphy is back in the game. Murphy was announced Thursday as the new head coach of the St. Henry District High School girls basketball program, bringing more than a decade of success and championship experience with him. Murphy compiled 309 wins over […]
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Covington Catholic sweeps 9th Region tennis titles once again
Tradition never graduates. Covington Catholic once again won the boys singles and doubles titles in the 9th Region tournament on Wednesday at Covington Catholic High School. It was the Colonels sixth straight season doing so. Blake Hussey, already a doubles champion last year and a last name that has claimed many tennis titles from Park […]
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Class 3A, Region 5 track and field: Camels, Jaguars take team titles
Campbell County’s girls track and field team spent much of Monday evening checking their phones for the latest updates. Cooper’s boys coach Jeff Wurtz, meanwhile, hoped his first season would end with a Class 3A, Region 5 team title. Both the Camels and Jaguars got what they wanted at Scott High School. Campbell County defeated […]
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Cooper promotes Begley to lead football program
For the first time in program history, Cooper football is undergoing a head coaching change. After Randy Borchers resigned in April, the lone coach in the 18-year history of the program, Cooper announced the hiring of Adam Begley to head football coach on Friday. Begley was the freshman coach for the Jaguars and the assistant […]
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Girls flag football, pickleball to become KHSAA sports
The days of powder puff football being the closest thing many Kentucky girls had to the gridiron are coming to an end. The Kentucky High School Athletic Association took a major step toward expanding opportunities for female athletes Wednesday, approving girls flag football and pickleball as sanctioned state championship sports beginning with the 2027-28 school […]
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Walton-Verona wins the night, and the No. 1 seed, over Simon Kenton
The atmosphere in Independence felt more like late May than early May, but that’s the expectation whenever Walton-Verona and Simon Kenton face off, no matter the sport. Fueled by the energy of the rivalry and with the top seed in the 32nd District Tournament on the line, Wednesday night carried the feel of a postseason […]