The teams know they will meet again with a region tournament berth on the line at Cooper. But aside from earning the second seed in the 33rd District Tournament, the host Ryle Raiders (16-5, 2-1) and Conner Cougars (11-6, 1-2) took the court seeing how they matched up with each other that night and what […]
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Cougars on the prowl, knock off CovCath
Maybe a couple of early season losses and not at full strength kept Conner under the radar as they started 2-3. They’ve now put the target squarely on their back. The Cougars went into Park Hills on Tuesday night and came away with a 74-68 victory over Covington Catholic, defeating the state’s No. 2 team […]
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Monday NKY HS hoops roundup: Season-low good enough for NewCath girls victory
For all the struggles in this game offensively, the Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds girls basketball team made the most of their lone bucket in the final 6:55. The Thoroughbreds (9-5) watched a 32-23 lead against the host St. Henry Crusaders (8-6) evaporate over that time. But down 33-32 with less than a minute remaining, NewCath […]
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Conner stays hot, shoots past Holy Cross
For a while Tuesday, if Conner wasn’t knocking down 3-pointers from seemingly somewhere near Ritte’s Corner, the Cougars were hitting field goals while slipping and falling. Whether far or near, most of Conner’s shots went in against Holy Cross. That and a 17-3 first-quarter run led to a happy trip on Interstate 275 – an […]
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Scott Winter Classic Day 1 action
The Scott Winter Classic began play on Wednesday with four games at Scott High School. The tournament was originally scheduled to run Wednesday-Friday, but with the expected winter storm coming late Thursday, Friday’s games were postponed with hopes of making the final day up on January 14. All eight of the teams participating have an […]
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Sunday NKY HS hoops round-up: Notre Dame edges Male to advance in LexCath Tournament
The Notre Dame Pandas (7-0) stayed undefeated with a 48-47 win over the Male Bulldogs (3-4) in the second round of the White, Greer and Maggard Orthodontics Holiday Classic at Lexington Catholic. Senior Noelle Hubert led Notre Dame with 27 points and eight rebounds and 6-foot-4 sophomore Sophia Gibson had 10 points, six rebounds and […]
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Conner has yet to beat Moeller but Cougars hope to make this loss work for them
They play each other every year – or they have since Brad Arlinghaus took the baseball head coaching job at Conner in 2014. Not that Conner shares all that much of a tradition with the storied eight-time state titlist Archbishop Moeller, the best baseball program in Cincinnati in recent years, and the best in all […]
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Dan Weber: CovCath ‘not used to’ early deficit against Conner, but still pulls off 76-56 win
Dan Weber writes a sports column for LINK nky. Contact him at dweber3440@aol.com. No surprise that Covington Catholic, of all the No. 1 teams in the state’s 16 regions, has had the fewest regional opponents willing to play. Going into Tuesday night’s matchup at Conner, CovCath had beaten its five Ninth Region foes by an […]
