The Northern Kentucky Football Coaches Association (NKFCA) is made up of 22 schools across the Northern Kentucky region. Each year, the head coaches from these schools vote to determine postseason honors. This includes selecting the NKAC Divisional Teams, which are organized by school enrollment, similar to a class-based system, and Overall All-NKY Teams (First and […]
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Five NKY football players sign on for Division I football
Five northern Kentucky high school football players put ink to paper on National Signing Day on Wednesday, the first day for football players to sign their National Letter of Intent to their respective schools in Division I. Highlands’ Max Merz is headed to Louisville, Ryle’s Jacob Savage is going west to Indiana, his teammate Dylan […]
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St. Henry boys cross country wins LINK nky Team of the Season
With the fall high school sports season at its end, the LINK nky Team of the Season winner is the St. Henry boys cross country team. The Crusaders were one of 10 teams during the fall season that won LINK nky Team of the Week and came away as the TOS, after compiling 23,300 votes! […]
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Two yards from Glory: Beechwood’s valiant comeback comes up just short
Trailing 41-27 with under four minutes to play, Beechwood was a play away from doing the unthinkable. The Tigers came up short however on a two-point conversion with time expired, losing Friday’s Class 2A state semifinal matchup with Owensboro Catholic, 41-40 on the campus of Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro. Emmett Queen’s pass fell incomplete […]
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On Thanksgiving Day, Beechwood thankful for football opportunities
It’s an overcast and drizzly Tuesday afternoon in Fort Mitchell. Sunlight pokes through gray clouds as rarely as opponents have scored against the Beechwood High School football team. Two days before Thanksgiving, the sun can only create a muted tapestry of faint light and shadows on wet, leaf-covered grounds. There in this classic autumn scene […]
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Walk-off courage: Verax’s OT conversion sends Ryle to state semifinals
Ryle completed a come-from-behind win with a savage coda in overtime — and without Mr. Football hopeful Jacob Savage on the field. Nathan Verax scored a walk-off 2-point conversion to stun host Frederick Douglass 28-27, securing the Raiders a second straight Class 6A region title and a state-semifinal trip to South Warren next week. Verax […]
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Covington man behind ‘Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town’ also wrote Nat King Cole’s baseball anthem
The holiday season is upon us. Local radio stations are already playing Christmas music. The area has seen its first snowfall, not long after the conclusion of one of the greatest World Series ever played. Seems like a good time to talk about Haven Gillespie. Yes, that Haven Gillespie, the Covington-born lyricist behind “Santa Claus […]
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NKY coaches weigh in with top 10 teams/players
We’re two weeks away from the first tip of the regular season on Dec. 1 and it’s time to dive into basketball preview season. Over the next two weeks, we’ll provide you district by district previews for boys and girls from the 32nd through 37th Districts. Below you’ll see what the coaches feel about Northern […]
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Round 2 playoff scores/roundup
Class A Newport Central Catholic 42, Bishop Brossart 21 The Thoroughbreds (8-4) have now won seven in a row and scored exactly 42 points in their last three games. Now comes a familiar scenario, they head to Campbellsville for the third straight year for a region championship. Eddie Bivens had a night to remember for […]
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NKY football stats leaders
With teams starting to bow out of the postseason and everyone near the same amount of games played this season, we’ll provide you with our final stats leaders for Northern Kentucky (Boone, Campbell and Kenton) players. Here they are: Passing Yards Mason Fields, Dixie Heights — 2,669 Trey Cook, Scott — 2,513 Emmett Queen, Beechwood […]
