District play is over, the weather is turning and November playoff football is right at our doorstep. With just one week left in the regular season, all playoff matchups in northern Kentucky have been defined, regular season district championships have been claimed, so have home playoff games and postseason positioning. Good news for high school […]
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NKBBC releases preseason top 10 teams, players
The northern Kentucky boys basketball coaches have voted on their top 10 teams and players leading into the 2024-25 season. The regular season gets underway Dec. 2. Top 10 teams: Top 10 players:
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NKY Coaches Association releases preseason girls basketball top 10 teams, players
The northern Kentucky girls basketball coaches have voted on their top 10 teams and players leading into the 2024-25 season. The regular season gets underway Dec. 2. Here’s the top 10 preseason teams: Here’s top 10 preseason players: The 9th Region girls basketball coaches have a slightly different view on things. In their poll […]
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Kentucky High School Football Media Poll: Cooper unanimous No. 1 in 5A, Ludlow enters top 10 in 1A
The Kentucky High School Football Media Poll is conducted by 16 sports journalists throughout the state, with one representative for each of the 16 basketball regions in order to provide geographical balance. The poll will be released each Wednesday morning throughout the regular season. In the eighth edition of the media poll, very limited movement […]
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NKY football playoff scenarios
Week 10 of the regular season in northern Kentucky will determine the first round playoff opponents and postseason path for all teams, with the last week of district play featuring several matchups with playoff implications.
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LINK nky Top 10: Playoff scenarios abound this week
Keeping it short and sweet this week since I have to go cover state tournament games in soccer. Just two weeks of the regular season remain and this coming week can be treated as virtually a playoff week. Teams can clinch district titles, home playoff games, a playoff spot and district positional seeding. We’ll break […]
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Surprise, surprise…Highlands the 9th Region girls soccer champion
Nevermind having to replace 13 seniors, their top three goal scorers, top defenders, keeper and their head coach. Highlands girls soccer team is back on top of the 9th Region. After a hard fought battle between both sides, Highlands punched their ticket to the state tournament after defeating Conner 1-0 in the 9th Region Championship […]
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Bluebirds fire on all cylinders in win over Conner
It was a homecoming four weeks in the waiting thanks to Hurricane Helene, unfortunately for Conner, the reschedule opponent was Highlands. The Bluebirds dampened the parade, clicking on all cylinders in a 42-14 win over the Cougars. The victory clinched a home playoff game for the Bluebirds, earning the No. 2 seed in the Class […]
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Boys soccer 9th Region semis: CovCath knocks off the two-time champs, Highlands grinds past Conner
The 9th Region boys soccer tournament semifinals took place at Dixie Heights on Thursday with Covington Catholic taking on two-time defending champ Ryle, then Highlands battling with Conner. Here’s how it went down: Covington Catholic 4, Ryle 2 Ryle entered on a seven-game region tournament winning streak in their quest for a three-peat. CovCath had […]
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Conner’s ‘brick wall’ downs Notre Dame, has a chance to make history
When Conner’s girls soccer team defeated South Oldham and Notre Dame in a span of three days in the preseason, Cougars coach Mike Hughes had a feeling he might have something special this year. His notion is correct, the Cougars (22-2-1) now one win away from the first region championship in program history after taking […]