Dixie Heights baseball coach Chris Maxwell wishes junior pitcher Kyle Flynn would not smile on the mound. Flynn nevertheless is making the Colonels grin and opponents grimace. He’s 2-1 with a 0.78 earned run average to start the 2025 season, 22 strikeouts, eight walks and only two earned runs in 18 innings pitched, and he […]
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Morris’ legacy still strong decades later
Chris Maxwell likes to tell the story about what longtime umpire and referee Doc Morris would do if he saw a football field lacking large patches of grass. “People wouldn’t know this, but if he was doing a football game and he’d see a field that was kind of bare, he would go out and […]
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Friday NKY HS sports round-up: Dixie Heights baseball wins twice; softball records victory against 14th-ranked Madison Central
The first two baseball rounds in the Battle of the Dixie Highway belonged to the blue Colonels in Park Hills. It initially appeared the third round could be headed the same direction. But the host Dixie Heights red Colonels (14-7) exploded for five runs in the bottom of the fifth inning on their way to […]
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Saturday sports round-Up: Dixie Heights, Newport Central Catholic go 1-1 in Doc Morris Invitational
The Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds (10-6) and Dixie Heights Colonels (11-6) baseball teams met for the second of two games in the Doc Morris Invitational in the scorching heat in Crestview Hills. The teams wound up experiencing the thrill of victory and agony of defeat going 1-1 on the day. The second game for both […]
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Monday NKY HS sports round-up: Dixie Heights baseball handles host Ryle
The weather warmed up and so did the bats of the Dixie Heights Colonels. Dixie Heights pounded out 12 hits out of 27 at-bats for a .444 average in defeating the Ryle Raiders, 7-3 to open the season in 9th Region action. Ryle is 0-2 to start the season. “We had just scrimmaged Ryle and […]