To be the winning team, fan votes play a heavy role, along with consideration from our sports team here at LINK.
Nominations are reader-submitted or recommended by our sports team. Our Team of the Week program honors all local sports at all levels, whether it’s youth or adult-oriented recreation, high school or college, professional or amateur.
The new school year has added to the awards program. OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine and LINK nky are excited to expand in addition to the weekly winners, the program will be including three winners for Team of the Season and one overall winner for Team of the Year for the 2024-25 sports seasons.
New this year for the program is the addition of the Team of the Season (TOTS) and Team of the Year (TOTY) awards. Sports seasons are considered fall, winter and spring for the purpose of this awards program. At the conclusion of each sports season, an overall TOTS winner will be chosen from all previous TOTW winners for that season. Their school will also receive a $500 scholarship to be presented to the athlete of their choice at the end of the school year.
Finally, the program culminates by selecting one TOTY from the three TOTS award winners. Online and print articles will again be published, a large commemorative plaque will be presented and the school will receive an additional $500 scholarship to be presented to the athlete of their choice at the end of the school year.
The call for nominations, voting and winning announcement for each will follow the same format as the TOTW.
This week’s nominated teams are listed below with some information provided by the submitter or LINK nky staff. The poll where you can vote follows at the end of the article.
Voting is open until Friday at 11:59 a.m.
BEECHWOOD BOYS SOCCER
Beechwood is picking up steam at the right time.
The Tigers have won four straight, outscoring their opponents 21-0 during the stretch, including an 8-0 win over district opponent, Holmes.
Breaden Trejo leads the team in two categories, with nine goals and eight assists. Gavin Warren and Isaac Cardosi have four goals on the season apiece while Gavin Ginter and Joey Yeager have collected two assists each.
The Tigers have used three goalkeepers in at least half of their games, Wyet Rechtin leading with 31 saves and just five allowed all season. Warner Platt has 27 saves and two goals allowed and Everett Pohlgeers has 12 saves, without giving up a goal. The Tigers have surrendered more than one goal in just two of 12 games this season.
With four games remaining on their schedule, they have Calvary Christian, a district game against Holy Cross, Dixie Heights, and Cooper coming up.
WALTON-VERONA GIRLS SOCCER
Walton-Verona is looking sharp with a 13-2-1 record.
Last week, they landed wins over Pendleton County (3-0), Grant County (3-1) and Frankfort (5-0). With the victories, they now lead the 8th Region in wins and are just one of three teams with two losses.
Campbell Christy leads all of northern Kentucky with 30 goals and Ava Fuller leads the area with 11 assists. Christy recently set the program record for most goals and assists in her high school career.
Brynn Willis has 61 saves and eight shutouts, three in the month of September. Her number of shutouts puts her at sixth in the state. She also recently set a program record, recording her 22nd career shutout.
The Bearcats final five regular season games are at home, starting with Campbell County on Monday.
ST. HENRY VOLLEYBALL
St. Henry didn’t drop a set on their way to a eighth All “A” state title in program history. They won all six matches in Elizabethtown by 2-0 results in the best of three format, winning three pool play games before winning three games in the single elimination tournament. It improves their record to 53-1 all-time in the All “A” tournament.
Kenadi Sieg, Violet Main, Corrine Blackburn and Lizzie Casey were named to the All-tournament team, Casey taking home Tournament MVP honors. The Crusaders defeated Holy Cross (Louisville) (25-16, 25-20), Somerset Christian (25-17, 25-11) and Bishop Brossart (25-12, 25-17) in pool play and then Knott County Central (25-12, 25-14) in the quarterfinals, Shelby Valley (25-14, 25-15) in the semifinals and Holy Cross (25-12, 25-22) again in the championship.
The 6-0 weekend improves their record to 22-2 on the season and return to action on Monday with a district matchup at Villa Madonna.
CONNER FOOTBALL
The Cougars are running all over everybody.
With a 393-yard performance in the ground game, Conner toppled Simon Kenton 42-19 on Friday. The Cougars were led by Wyatt Hatfield in the backfield with 238 rushing yards and four touchdowns, his second straight game of four rushing touchdowns. Cordion Abernathy complemented Hatfield in the backfield with 128 rushing yards and a touchdown. The big boys up front are moving people and creating the holes.
The win improved Conner to 4-1 on the season and also got solid defensive performances from Chase Caplinger (11 tackles), Travis Keen (8 tackles), Cordion Abernathy (7 tackles) and Shepherd Dozier (interception) among many others. Andrew Herron was again sound in the kicking game, hitting on all six of his extra points.
Conner looks to continue to run wild this week when they face Scott in their first district game of the season.
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