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.
CAMPBELL COUNTY BOYS BASKETBALL
The Camels went 4-0 last week with a win over Pendleton County (79-42) and followed it up with three wins at the City Between the Lakes Christmas Classic at Paintsville with victories over Floyd Central (81-63), Paintsville (66-60) and Johnson Central (82-72).
In the win over Pendleton, Xavier Fancher and Zach Franzen hit six 3-pointers apiece while Austin Davie had 15 points and nine rebounds.
In the three-game classic at Paintsville, Garyn Jackson posted a triple-double against Floyd Central with 16 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. Fancher, Franzen and Davie combined for 50 points, Fancher with 21, Franzen 16 and Davie 14. Jackson put up 27 points in the win over Paintsville, Davie with a double-double of 22 points and 10 rebounds. In the finale, Jackson posted 16 points and 13 assists, Davie with 20 points, Jayden Augsback adding 19 points on five 3-pointers and Franzen chipping in 12 points.
Campbell County (8-2) has now won five in a row as they’ll head to the Mason County Invitational Tournament this weekend, starting off with WEB Dubois on Friday at 4:30 p.m.
CONNER BOYS BASKETBALL
The Cougars posted a 4-0 week with wins over Dixie Heights (68-64), Beechwood (70-66), Whitehall (OH) (93-61) and Mason County (81-57) to turn a 1-3 start of the season into 5-3 really quick.
Three different Conner players hit double figures in the win over Dixie, Brady Bushman and Chase Huff leading the way with 19 points while Finn Louden put up 12.
In the win over Beechwood, Louden exploded for 34 points, Huff adding 14.
Stats were unavailable in the Cougars wins over Whitehall and Mason County.
DIXIE HEIGHTS GIRLS BASKETBALL
Dixie Heights went down to Lexington and came back with three wins and some hardware in winning the Greer, White and Maggard Holiday Classic at Lexington Catholic.
The Colonels defeated Rockcastle County (62-47), Knox Central (73-50) and Ryle (68-52) on their way to the title.
Coralee Pelfrey was named Tournament MVP.
Dixie Height is now 5-4 on the season.
COOPER ARCHERY
Cooper won the Dixie Heights Winter Solstice Shootout over the weekend with a team score of 3,336, nearly 200 points clear of runner-up Dixie Heights.
Eight teams competed in the shootout. Cooper was led by Colton Lancaster and Kayson Stone with 286’s, Lancaster hit 18 tens, Stone with 17. Jaguars teammate Brayden Nevels was right behind with a 285 and 16 tens, Joannah Hibbett with a 284 and Johanna Heinze also with a 284, Hibbett with 16 tens, Heinze with 15.
All five finished in the top three of their respective divisions, high school boys and girls.
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