Covington Catholic won the game 14-13 against Johnson Central after a fourth-down touchdown pass from Cash Harney to Oliver Link, and the Colonels’ defense held the Golden Eagles to just 227 rushing yards.
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NKY prep sports news from CovCath, Cooper, Ludlow, St. Henry and Notre Dame Academy
Covington Catholic football players are piling up yardage on the quick. A Cooper football player is fast becoming an award magnet. A running back is swiftly climbing the leaderboard at Ludlow. Notre Dame Academy athletes are college-bound. It’s all here in the fastest 1,000 words in sports. COVCATH BACKS RUSHING INTO HISTORY BOOKS The Covington […]
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Week 2 playoff football matchups in NKY: How to watch/listen, what to know
Things are starting to get serious. There’s some serious matchups this week in high school football and it will only get better from here on out. There’s eight games with 10 northern Kentucky teams still in the running for a shot at a state title. When it’s all said and done after Friday night, I […]
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Friday playoff football roundup/scores:
Class 6A Ryle 39, Pleasure Ridge Park 0 Ryle earns their fifth straight running clock victory as they take care of the visitors from Louisville. The Raiders victory sets up a top five showdown with St. Xavier in the second round. Ryle (9-2) is ranked No. 5 in 6A, St. Xavier (7-4) is No. 4. […]
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KFCA names District Player, Coach of the Year awards
The Kentucky Football Coaches Association have weighed in with their District Player and Coach of the Year awards. These selections are voted on by the KFCA, with only KFCA members able to cast a vote. Northern Kentucky has at least one team in the six classes in the state and teams from Boone, Campbell and […]
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Let’s have some fun: forecasting region championship matchups in football
Let’s preface this by saying these aren’t predictions or picks. It’s just simply taking the top seed in the first two rounds of the KHSAA football playoffs and having them advance to the region championship round on Nov. 22 (we all know that won’t happen). The way the KHSAA postseason works in football, once the […]
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Final Kentucky High School Football Media Poll
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 10th and final edition of the media poll, you’ll […]
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Vote for the LINK nky Team of the Week for Oct. 27-Nov. 2
The LINK nky Team of the Week program honors local sports at all levels, and will now include three winners for Team of the Season and one overall winner for Team of the Year for the 2024-25 sports seasons, with the winners receiving scholarships for the end of the school year.
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LINK nky Top 10: Final edition
First, a big thanks to Crown Pointe Remodeling for sponsoring the top 10 again this year. We’ll fire this back up once high school hoops season rolls around in December. Now things get real. The KHSAA football postseason is here in northern Kentucky and around the state. A total of 192 teams make the postseason […]
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Covington Catholic claims back-to-back Class 2A state cross country titles
It’s almost as if Covington Catholic is bored with being in Class 2A. Will Sheets and Joe Mayer were certainly lobbying to get back up with the big boys. “Let’s hope we get back to 3A next year,” Sheets said. “That’s the goal. We think we belong in 3A, we think we belong with the […]