The Ryle Raiders knocked off both Indian Hill (Ohio) and McCracken County to conclude the regular season at home Saturday. Ryle (21-12) bested McCracken County, 2-0 (25-17, 27-25). The Raiders had 28 kills, 28 assists, 34 digs, four aces and one block. Kiana Dinn led the Raiders with 11 kills and nine assists with Lucy […]
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Notre Dame displays Tradition of Dominance in St. Elizabeth Game of Month
Whenever the Notre Dame Pandas take the court, the defending state champions put a lot of little things together for one big performance. Notre Dame’s latest display of that Tradition of Dominance came at Thomas More University’s Connor Convocation Center on Senior Night on Thursday in a 3-0 (25-9, 25-19, 25-16) win over the Ryle […]
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Tuesday NKY HS round-up: Ryle volleyball wins ninth straight
The Ryle Raiders volleyball team has been on a tear lately with nine straight wins. Host Ryle (18-9) took down Holy Cross, 3-0 (25-17, 25-22, 25-16) to keep the streak going and move to 7-0 in 9th Region play. Ryle had 33 kills, 36 digs and nine aces in the win. Alexis Woolf recorded 11 […]
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Weekend NKY HS Round-up: All “A” Queens, St. Henry wins seventh All “A” state title
A pretty dominant performance for the St. Henry volleyball team this weekend down in Richmond on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University. This is how dominant the St. Henry Crusaders played winning their seventh All “A” State championship at Eastern Kentucky University. The Crusaders (21-7) won their seventh All “A” state title and didn’t drop […]
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Tuesday NKY HS round-up: Dinn earns 1000th career assist helping Ryle volleyball fend off rival Cooper
The Ryle Raiders volleyball team made the most of the next player up mentality while Kiana Dinn could not play nursing an injury. But the University of Pittsburgh commit returned last Thursday against Great Crossing and every bit of her helped the Raiders (7-8) fend off the Cooper Jaguars, 3-1 (25-22, 21-25, 25-13, 25-12) to […]
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Woolf breaks career digs record as Ryle volleyball extends win streak to 35 over Conner
The streak lives on. Ryle’s last loss to Conner came in 2003. It’s a streak so long that Ryle senior Alexis Woolf’s mother Jen was the head coach at Conner at the time. Not only did the Raiders win convincingly on Thursday night in Union, 3-0 (25-18, 25-17, 25-23), but it was a special night […]
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Tuesday NKY HS round-up: Dixie Heights boys soccer pulls off road victory over Montgomery County
The Dixie Heights Colonels have not had an easy time scoring goals early in the season. They may have hit a turning point as the Colonels (2-3-1) ventured to Mount Sterling and knocked off the Montgomery County Indians, 2-1. The Indians (4-3) have won four 10th Region crowns over the last five years. “It was […]
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Eight local seniors make state preseason Top 25 volleyball rankings
Tasha Lovins could not recall it ever happening before. Ryle’s volleyball coach talked about the eight seniors from Northern Kentucky being among the state’s 25 best in the PrepDig.com rankings. “There were some years that we definitely had some really good athletes come out of Northern Kentucky,” Lovins said. “I definitely don’t remember there being […]
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NKY regional volleyball round-up: Ryle, Holy Cross, Scott, Simon Kenton move on
Regional volleyball tournaments continued on Tuesday. Here are the results: 9th Region at Ryle Ryle 3, Dixie Heights 1 The 33rd District champion Raiders (23-15 overall) took care of the 34th District runner-up Colonels (15-10) in three straight by 25-19, 25-21, 25-17 scores after Dixie Heights won the first game 25-22. “Dixie Heights played a […]
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Wednesday NKY volleyball round-up: Highlands coaches resign; district titles claimed
The Ryle Raiders volleyball team (22-15 overall) has been a fixture in the region tournament during Tasha Lovins’s 21-year tenure as head coach, missing it just one time in her second season in 2003. Ryle won its 14th district championship Wednesday with a 3-1 victory over the host Conner Cougars (21-12) by scores of 25-18, […]