Don’t ever let them tell you sports is about anything other than winning. In the end, it isn’t. That’s why it’s so wonderful – and cruel. Why the Beechwood players were hugging one another, telling their coaches they loved them, pulling up their jerseys as they hugged injured Mitchell Berger so they could show him […]
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Another Beechwood bounce, another Beechwood state title as Tigers 3-peat
LEXINGTON — It’s just something about the uprights at Kroger Field at the University of Kentucky that are fond of Beechwood. Voodoo? “I don’t know, maybe some voodoo,” Beechwood coach Noel Rash said. For the third straight year, Beechwood was on the right end of a special teams play as they defeated Mayfield 14-13 for […]
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State championship scouting report: Beechwood vs. Mayfield
Here we go, folks. For the third straight year, the only Northern Kentucky team standing this final weekend of the KHSAA football playoffs is Beechwood. And the familiar opponent, a team Beechwood has faced eight times now in the two teams’ playoff history, is none other than Mayfield. Between them, the Class 2A powers have […]
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Mayfield, Beechwood line up with – and against – one another again
Every day, Joe Morris drives from his home to Mayfield High School on the other side of town where he – and his father before him – became legendary Kentucky high school football coaches with 12 state championships to their credit. But “at least once a week,” Joe said, he tears up as he crosses […]