District play is over, the weather is turning and November playoff football is right at our doorstep. With just one week left in the regular season, all playoff matchups in northern Kentucky have been defined, regular season district championships have been claimed, so have home playoff games and postseason positioning. Good news for high school […]
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NKY Coaches Association releases preseason girls basketball top 10 teams, players
The northern Kentucky girls basketball coaches have voted on their top 10 teams and players leading into the 2024-25 season. The regular season gets underway Dec. 2. Here’s the top 10 preseason teams: Here’s top 10 preseason players: The 9th Region girls basketball coaches have a slightly different view on things. In their poll […]
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NKY football playoff scenarios
Week 10 of the regular season in northern Kentucky will determine the first round playoff opponents and postseason path for all teams, with the last week of district play featuring several matchups with playoff implications.
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LINK nky Top 10: Playoff scenarios abound this week
Keeping it short and sweet this week since I have to go cover state tournament games in soccer. Just two weeks of the regular season remain and this coming week can be treated as virtually a playoff week. Teams can clinch district titles, home playoff games, a playoff spot and district positional seeding. We’ll break […]
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Simon says…Highlands is headed to the region championship
Highlands defeated Dixie Heights 2-1 in the girls soccer 9th Region tournament semifinals, with Gabby Simon scoring the game-winning goal in the 69th minute.
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Boys region soccer tournament roundup: Ryle wins 7th straight region tourney game, Conner gets first region tourney win since 2008
The Ryle Raiders defeated Dixie Heights 5-2 in the 9th Region tournament quarterfinals Tuesday night to win their seventh straight region tournament game. An early goal five minutes in from the Colonels Trevor Bolte certainly woke the Raiders up. “Dixie was able to get that early goal which forced us to really dig in early,” […]
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Six new members set for NKY Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday
The Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame will induct six new members on Wednesday, including John Fortner, Darrell Newton, Daryl Landrum, David Meier II, Robert Herbst and Barry Long.
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Region soccer tournament roundup: Dixie Heights girls take down Holy Cross in PKs
With four 9th Region girls soccer teams moving to play another day, the other four going home for good, it made for a manic Monday. The thriller came from Edgewood, Dixie Heights taking down Holy Cross 4-3 in a penalty kick shootout after a 1-1 tie wasn’t decided after regulation or extra time. Down to […]
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LINK nky Top 10: District play, playoff implications heat up
The next two weeks on the football field will determine a lot of things. Who gets the No. 1 seeds? Who gets a home playoff game? Who gets left out of the playoffs? There’s a lot to be determined in the final two weekends in October, a fun time of year for football as the […]
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Conner holds off Dixie Heights’ comeback on the road
Conner’s dominant run game helped them to a 35-31 victory over Dixie Heights, spoiling the Colonels’ homecoming game.