Week 10 points to the most important week of the season to date. Sure, some have already taken care of business and clinched their district titles (looking at you Beechwood, Newport Central Catholic and Highlands), but Friday sets up to be one important night of football as multiple district championships, home playoff games and postseason […]
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6th edition of statewide media football polls
Each week, 24 media members across the state will vote on the top 10 KHSAA football teams in the state in their respective classes. The members are represented from each region in the state, including three members from Northern Kentucky. The polls will run all the way until the end of the regular season and […]
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Highlands rallies from two-goal deficit to stun CovCath
Down two goals 10 minutes into the game, Highlands boys soccer coach Suli Kayed took a seat and pondered what was going wrong. It took Kayed about two minutes to hop up, feeling much better about his team’s ability to pull off a comeback. “After that second goal I chose to sit down in my […]
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LINK nky Top 10: Season winding down, cream rising to the crop
Real football weather is coming. Fall said hello in the latter part of last week and over the weekend and colder Friday nights are coming. We’ve been blessed in seven out of the eight weeks so far with near perfect weather, so regression to the mean is likely. Things are heating up in district play, […]
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Collins, Hertsenberg, Meyers, named NFHS Coach of the Year
Three Northern Kentucky coaches earned National Federation of High Schools Coach of the Year honors on Friday. Ryle boys soccer coach Stephen Collins, Covington Catholic tennis coach Al Hertsenberg and Beechwood girls track and field coach David Meyers earned their distinctions. Collins has led Ryle to seven 9th Region titles since the start of his […]
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Covington Catholic soccer team appears to be on schedule after a rugged slate
This story originally appeared in the Sept. 29 edition of the weekly LINK Reader. To get these stories first, subscribe here. The win-loss record isn’t gaudy. Statistics aren’t exactly eye-popping. With no new records in the books and milestones in short supply, there hasn’t been much in terms of recent news for the Covington Catholic High […]
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35th District boys soccer semifinals: Holy Cross breaks through against Beechwood, CovCath blanks Holmes
Holy Cross will head to their first district title game since 2020 while Covington Catholic will go for their fourth straight 35th District championship on Thursday night. Here’s how the action played out in the 35th on Tuesday night at Covington Catholic: Holy Cross 2, Beechwood 1 The Indians (12-8-2) snapped a five-game losing streak […]
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5th edition of statewide media polls
Each week, 24 media members across the state will vote on the top 10 KHSAA football teams in the state in their respective classes. The members are represented from each region in the state, including three members from Northern Kentucky. The polls will run all the way until the end of the regular season and […]
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LINK nky Top 10: Top dogs flex their muscles
One of the heavier bye weeks for Northern Kentucky took place on Friday with six teams out of action to rest up, heal and get ready for the final four weeks of the regular season. Meanwhile, it was a ho-hum week for the teams at the top of the list of the top 10 as […]
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NKY showing out in statewide polls in volleyball, girls soccer
As the regular season hits its final stretch, programs in Northern Kentucky are getting recognized statewide. In the most recent Kentucky Volleyball Coaches Association poll, six Northern Kentucky teams found themselves in the latest KVCA statewide poll. Notre Dame was the highest-ranked team among the six, coming in at No. 2 with three first-place votes […]