Covington Catholic High School celebrated its 100th anniversary with a football game, skydiving, and a centennial year of events, reflecting on the values of faith, service, and community that have guided the school since its founding in 1925.
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Young CovCath getting better, but can’t quite get to Beechwood
It was “Senior Day” for Covington Catholic baseball Wednesday when Beechwood came a-calling. Although that almost seemed a contradiction in terms for a Colonel club that legendary CovCath coach Bill Krumpelbeck describes without hesitation as “the youngest team I’ve ever had.” And that gets your attention when Krumpelbeck says it. He’s been at this long […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Tough slog for young Villa Madonna, Walton-Verona softball in All ‘A’ Classic
It’s the “classic” weekend that Kentucky’s All “A” teams look forward to every spring. Eight boys’ baseball teams meet up in Richmond at EKU to decide who has the best small school baseball program. Meanwhile in Owensboro, 16 girls’ softball teams do the same in a different format. But one of these means more if […]
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Monday NKY HS sports round-up: Covington Catholic baseball holds off Campbell County
It has been tough in recent weeks when the skies became cloudy. Teams did not know whether they would be playing or not. The Covington Catholic Colonels (5-6) and Campbell County Camels (6-4) baseball teams played. But it came at a different site. The game moved to Park Hills since it did not rain as […]
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Kentucky All-Stars split with Ohio as CovCath’s Rylee leads with his defense, rebounding
It would have been the perfect lede (as we spell it in the news business). How nothing would have better told the story of the Ohio-Kentucky All-Star Basketball doubleheader than this one single play. How Thomas More-bound Jenna Lillard, the Ludlow High 2000-point scorer, on a head-down dive into the stands to chase down the […]
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Dan Weber: When it’s CovCath and Holy Cross in the 35th and the score doesn’t matter
They don’t get much weirder than the 35th District Basketball Championship between visiting Covington Catholic and host Holy Cross. They certainly played it in the right place Friday night, the place Holy Cross folks call “the Finn” – more properly the Msgr. Thomas B. Finn Activity Center in the heart of Latonia. “The Finn” was […]
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Dan Weber: Big night at District 35 in Latonia
Kentucky’s commitment to a one-class basketball tournament with all schools in a single postseason playoff regardless of enrollment ending in the Sweet 16 at Rupp Arena is never more obvious than in the district games. Which is why Wednesday evening’s District 35 opening doubleheader is at Holy Cross’ cozy George Schneider Gym, capacity 900. And […]
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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 […]