Knock on wood, but April has been fairly dry compared to recent years which means spring sports action has been full go.
While it was a heavy spring break week for a lot of schools last week, plenty took in some action whether it be locally or out of town or even out of state.
To be the winning team, fan votes play a heavy role, along with consideration from our sports team here at LINK.
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 2025-26 sports seasons.
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 receive a commemorative plaque and 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.
WALTON-VERONA BASEBALL
After dropping their first game of the week to Beechwood, the Bearcats had quite the week with a Green County Wooden Bat championship and then a win over St. Henry.
In the Green County Wooden Bat tourney championship, they picked up wins over Christian Educational Consortium School out of Louisville, previously unbeaten Bowling Green and Logan County for the championship. They then defeated St. Henry to win four games in four days.
The win over Bowling Green, one of the biggest in program history, went 10 innings in the 3-1 victory. Bronson Corpus pitched seven innings of three-hit baseball while striking out six. Oliver Pfeffer pitched 2.2 innings of relief, striking out two and Samuel Griffin got the final out.
William Hurles collected two RBI, Tanner Watkins with the other while Corpus had two hits and a run scored at the plate. Miles Lehmkuhl scored the other two runs.
The 4-1 week improved the Bearcats to 10-6 on the season as they host Grant County on Monday in a key district battle.
RYLE BASEBALL
The Raiders also posted a 4-1 week with wins over Covington Catholic, Beechwood, West Clermont (Ohio) and Simon Kenton.
It improves them to 10-6 on the year as the bats came alive, scoring 38 runs in the five games last week. They had scored 40 runs in their first 11 games of the season.
DIXIE HEIGHTS BOYS LACROSSE
The Colonels picked up a win over Moeller (Ohio) last week to improve to 5-4 and snap a three-game losing streak. They were led by Eli Lawson’s seven goals in the victory. Brayden Bryzgot added four goals and three assists.
BEECHWOOD SOFTBALL
Beechwood went 3-0 last week and defeated Dixie Heights for the first time this century in the process. They had lost nine straight to the Colonels dating back to 2000, all via run-rule.
The Tigers also defeated Ludlow and Newport Central Catholic to improve to 7-6 on the season. They started the year 0-2, won four in a row, lost four in a row and have now won three in a row. They’ve got a big district matchup next with Notre Dame on Tuesday at home.
They’ve been led at the plate with three hitting over .400 on the season. Brooke Moore is hitting .500, Taryn Frazier .438 and Anna Hartridge .406. Annette Cento has been the workhorse in the circle, logging 61 innings in the 13 games played, a starter in 12 of them. She has a 7-4 record with a 5.16 ERA and 52 strikeouts.
CAMPBELL COUNTY SOFTBALL
Sixteen was the number for the Camels last week. They scored 16 runs in each of their three victories as they went 3-0 with wins over Seton (Ohio), Dixie Heights and Bracken County.
Hope Hamilton, Samantha Perry, Faith Whitford and Josie Feebeck provided the power. Hamilton cranked two home runs, Feebeck with one while Perry and Hamilton had nine RBI apiece, Feebeck with eight and Whitford with six.
The Camels are now 7-2 with a game at Pendleton County on Tuesday.
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