The LINK nky Top 10 is back! Each week throughout the regular season we’ll provide rankings throughout the football season. The first list will be a top 10 of the 21 area football schools in Boone, Campbell and Kenton County with a top five below it for the bigger and smaller schools. Adding more to […]
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Friday Night Lights are back! Storylines to look for this prep football season
This story originally appeared in the August 11 edition of the weekly LINK Reader. To get these stories first, subscribe at linknky.com/subscribe. Friday Night Lights are upon us. Cue up the band, the rowdy student sections, mom, dad, grandma and grandpa pulling out their seats with a backrest – and those cotton candy skies. Not much […]
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Thursday NKY round-up: NewCath boys soccer holds off pesky Walton-Verona
The Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds hit their home Morscher Field for the first time and held off the Walton-Verona Bearcats, 3-2. NewCath led 2-1 at halftime and scored the game-winner with around 20 minutes left. Brady Diedenhofer scored twice for NewCath and Ryan Desmond scored the other one. “This was a short rest period for […]
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35th District boys soccer preview: CovCath looks to continue its dominance
Holy Cross is the only team to be able to unseat Covington Catholic in the 35th District since it was formed in 2012, doing so in 2019 when they were able to claim the district title. But since 2012, it’s been all Colonels for 10 out of the 11 years when it aligned with the […]
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35th District girls soccer preview: Notre Dame enters with 42-game win streak against district foes
Since the 35th District formed in 2012, Notre Dame has been the last team standing with 11 straight district crowns. For a program with four state championships, two of them during that span, that really shouldn’t come as a surprise. The closest the Pandas came to defeat since the district aligned was when Beechwood took […]
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KHSAA state cross country site moved back to Kentucky Horse Park
After a three-year run at the Bourbon County Cross Country Course in Paris, the KHSAA state cross country championships heads back to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington starting in the fall. The 2020 KHSAA Cross Country State Championships marked the first time in more than four decades that a cross country state championship was […]
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Local boys high school golf preview: CovCath, Highlands, Ryle, St. Henry lead the pack
The Ammerman family welcomed a first child last week. Mrs. Ammerman delivered a baby girl. Mr. Ammerman would merely like to deliver another boys championship for the Covington Catholic High School golf team. “My life just flipped upside down,” Alex Ammerman said. “Just glad the little girl joined us before golf season officially starts.” Ammerman’s […]
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A week-by-week look at the top HS football games in NKY to look for this fall
Time to circle the calendars. The dead period is over and the prep work for the 2023 football season has begun. While the start of the regular season is still a little over a month away, let’s get the juices flowing a little bit with what will be the or one of the top games […]
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On the mend, Beechwood’s Berger ready to ascend
This story originally appeared in the June 16 edition of the weekly LINK Reader. To get these stories first, subscribe at linknky.com/subscribe. Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, will always be a day Mitchell Berger looks back on with a range of emotions as wide as the running lanes he burst through for the Beechwood High School football […]
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Boyd’s improved glove helped him land D-1 scholarship
Everyone in the region and most across the state knew about Beechwood High School senior Cameron Boyd’s bat. But what was met with marked improvement in his senior season was his glove in right field. Boyd transitioned to the outfield in his sophomore year and with anything that comes new, an adjustment period was needed. […]