You can call it ‘summer’ basketball but when it’s Newport-CovCath, rivalry doesn’t take a vacation
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Must be a game tonight, folks had to be thinking as they drove by…
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: How we doing in high school sports? OK, with some catching up to do
We were sitting in the press box at the start of the Beechwood game in the state baseball tournament at…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Baseball finishing up here, basketball recruiting just getting going in a big way
Not to be outdone by the summer college offers for the young guys from Newport, Lloyd Memorial’s 6-foot-8 junior-to-be EJ…
Northern Kentucky high school baseball all-stars split in season finale full of twists and turns
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Play ball! Next up! Have fun! See you next season! As they always seem…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Tough times for All-Star games right now with defections, weather
Northern Kentucky’s all-time leading boys’ basketball scorer Jacob Meyer of Holy Cross, the nation’s leading high school scorer the last…
Beechwood can’t get big hit against an Apollo team that did as Tigers fall in first round of state baseball
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter LEXINGTON – It was the kind of game where Beechwood’s opponents look up at…
CovCath’s improbable doubles comeback gives Colonels first team tennis state championship
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter NICHOLASVILLE – They’d already lost the first set 6-2 and were down 5-1 in…
Tough luck for young Highlands’ team in state tourney softball for second straight year
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter LEXINGTON – A young Highlands Bluebirds’ team could not halt the Ninth Region’s six-year…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Big news on 9th Region hoops, NKU’s historic spring, track by the numbers
OK, they haven’t played the state tournaments or finished the state tournaments in baseball, softball or tennis or the state…
Beechwood holds on for 4th straight regional baseball title over a Highlands team that won’t quit
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter For the first time all week, we heard the magic word: “Four-peat.” But only…
Beechwood does it again, coming from behind in 7th on pinch-hitter Landon Johnson’s last chance blast
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Was it possible? Could there really be back-to-back 1-0 upsets in the Ninth Region…
Forget regular season, it’s tournament time with Highlands ready and Conner going home in a thriller
Jack Hendrix knew he was going to get his chance in the semifinal game against Conner. He knew he was…
Tough-luck Highlands gets its act together against St. Henry — just in time — in extra innings
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter There were more huddles than in your average football game. And not just because…
It wasn’t pretty but Dixie Heights took just enough advantage of NewCath miscues to move on
By Dan Weber NKyTribune reporter All Chris Maxwell wanted was for his Dixie Heights pitchers “to throw strikes.” He said…
No tears this year for Conner’s Cougars as big inning, big arm saves them against CovCath
By Dan Weber NKyTribune reporter Conner’s Cougars had been there, done that and didn’t want to go back there again….
Top two 9th Region teams – Beechwood and Ryle – battle just the way you knew they would in first round
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Just the way you thought it would go. Beechwood and Ryle, the Ninth Region’s…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Lots of history in May inductees’ stories for the N. Ky. Sports Hall of Fame
The final monthly induction before the Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame’s annual summer hiatus gave attendees a good sendoff…
Top 4 in 9th Region baseball play one another right off the bat Sunday, coaches calling it ‘wide open’
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Sometimes it happens like this. In the eight-team Ninth Region baseball tournament draw Thursday…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: All-Star surprise, UK defection, TMU’s AD promotion and Y’alls’ preview
Northern Kentucky basketball fans will get a local all-guard combo for the annual Kentucky-Indiana All-Star Series next month, just not…
Northern Kentucky’s Norse turn transfer portal their way with three much-needed incoming veterans
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter You knew it had to happen, after three veterans moved on through graduation and…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame April inductees have lots to say
It was VIP turnout day at the April induction of the Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame this week. Hall…
Ryle grad Jake Chisholm continues his ‘passion’ for football at Bengals’ local players’ workout
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Jake Chisholm had a couple of goals after graduating from Ryle High School. “Football…