The Northern Kentucky Norsemen have won state high school hockey titles before. The team of local skaters have been to national tournaments, including the Division II portion of the Chipotle USA Hockey Championships beginning Thursday in Plymouth, Minnesota. What the Norsemen have never done: finish in the top two in pool play and advance to […]
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‘Heartbroken’ Wildcats fall in Sweet 16
Kim Snapp had few words, Thursday. Snapp, the wife of Newport boys basketball coach Rod Snapp, leaned against a pillar near Section 24 of Rupp Arena. As the seconds of Lyon County’s 61-46 win at the UK HealthCare Sweet 16® ticked away, she didn’t have much to say. “Heartbroken,” she said of the defeat. “Just […]
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Newport’s father-son duo prefers substance over style
Newport boys basketball coach Rod Snapp doesn’t patrol the sidelines in a $1,295 burgundy Fiore dinner jacket by Sebastian Cruz. His son, assistant Ethan Snapp, doesn’t plead with referees in a $3,995 Bruno Cuccinelli single-breasted two-piece suit. No, the Snapps and their assistants will likely be more casually attired – like the gray heather t-shirts with “Make ‘Em Believe” they wore in the […]
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NKU men draw Houston in Midwest Region
Ally Bodde thinks Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball team will win four games and reach the Final Four. “’Cause they’re good,” the 11-year-old Hebron girl said Sunday of the 16-seed Norse, who take on top-seed Houston in the Midwest Region of the NCAA Men’s Division I tournament Thursday at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. (Tip […]
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Cooper’s season ends in sadness
Ryleigh Sholler and Adelaide Thomas were decidedly dejected. Thomas, a 2020 Cooper alumna and University of Kentucky junior, and Sholler, a freshman at Cooper, were among the Jaguar fans who watched the Lady Jaguars’ 70-64 loss to Louisville Mercy in Thursday’s first round of the Mingua Beef Jerky Sweet 16® at Rupp Arena. “It’s kind […]
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Stowers – and Stowers – lead Simon Kenton to Sweet 16
Brenden Stowers told few, if any, he wanted to coach girls basketball – until he became Simon Kenton’s bench boss last April. Not even his father, Jeff Stowers, who led the Lady Pioneers to five Eighth Region titles (2008, ’09, ’15, ’17 and ’18), knew. Regardless of the reason, it’s been a great year in […]
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GRC flies past Scott in girls 10th Region semifinal
Things couldn’t have looked better for Scott’s girls basketball team Saturday. The Eagles took an 18-17 lead over George Rogers Clark, the No. 4 team in the state according to MaxPreps.com, a little more than three minutes into the second quarter in their 10th Region semifinal at Mason County’s Fieldhouse. Then … a whole lot of […]
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Montgomery County ousts Brossart in 10th Region semifinals
There was less than a minute to go when Elaine Purvis pointed her right index finger and smiled at her Montgomery County teammates. Purvis and friends were rightly overjoyed. The Lady Indians escaped with a 52-48 win over Bishop Brossart in Saturday’s girls 10th Region semifinals in The Fieldhouse at Mason County. Brossart finished at 22-12. […]
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Camels thump Greyhounds, Mason County awaits
Aric Russell hadn’t seen the statistics from Wednesday’s boys 10th Region quarterfinal game for at least 10 minutes after the final buzzer. When Campbell County’s coach finally took a gander, he was happy. There it was – an 83-50 running-clock win over Paris at the Mason County Fieldhouse. “We were talking in there about (how) our […]
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Kramer, Planeaux lead Brossart to girls 10th Region win
St. Patrick sophomore Emma Gallenstein’s 3-pointer had just given the Lady Saints a 30-28 lead over Bishop Brossart three minutes into the third quarter of Monday’s girls 10th Region quarterfinal game when Lady ‘Stangs coach Steve Brown called a full timeout. “We challenged them a little bit to get out and to guard,” Brown remembered. “We […]