Due to their hot starts on the baseball diamond, Simon Kenton and Covington Catholic are high up on the initial statewide RPI baseball rankings.
Simon Kenton showed up at No. 3 on the initial rankings, Covington Catholic at No. 4.
The Pioneers are off to a 11-1 start to the season. They’ve allowed less than three runs per game and hit .288 as a team with nearly eight runs per game scored.
The Colonels also sit at 11-1 and were off to a 10-0 start before a weekend loss to Conner in the Knucks Tourney. They’ve allowed 16 runs in 12 games while putting up 7.6 runs per game.
The two go head-to-head on Wednesday at Covington Catholic at 5:30 p.m.
Simon Kenton’s rating has them atop the 8th Region and are 3-0 in region play, including a 4-2 victory over last year’s state runner-up Shelby County.
Covington Catholic ranks atop the 9th Region with Beechwood, Highlands, Conner and Ryle rounding out the top five.
In softball, Highlands is the top ranked team in Boone, Campbell and Kenton County, 18th in the rankings with a 9-3 record. The Bluebirds recently went 3-1 at the Cal Ripken Experience in Pigeon Forge, TN and won two games at the Montgomery County Triangle, defeating the host Indians 3-0. Montgomery County is ranked 9th in the RPI and the loss to Highlands was their first of the season (12-1).
Highlands is the two-time reigning champ in the 9th Region and are the favorites to 3-peat.
From the KHSAA: RPI is a tool developed for all team sports using the official KHSAA/Riherds Scoreboard data, modeled after, but not identical to, similar measurement tools. It is provided for a variety of reasons, including district tiebreaking and football bracketing, and as a means to increase publicity, interest and promotion of interscholastic athletics. RPI is also used as a tiebreaking/contest-result mechanism to decide seeded district games that are not played by the deadline. RPI rankings are updated on an hourly basis but are not calculated for teams with missing scores from the previous day. Therefore, it is essential for results to remain comprehensive for accuracy.