Strong team effort carries Cooper girls to final four showdown with Sacred Heart in state tournament
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Over the last three seasons, Louisville Sacred Heart has won 71 consecutive girls basketball…
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Cooper girls pull out two-point win over small-school team making debut in state basketball tournament
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter A little-known player from one of Kentucky’s smallest high schools nearly ended Cooper’s season…
Prep Sports Report: Cooper defensive standout will face challenge in girls state tournament opener
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Bella Deere became a starting forward on the Cooper girls basketball team this season…
Playing at home has been sweet for Kentucky freshman, fan favorite Reed Sheppard
By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today Time flies when you’re having fun and Reed Sheppard has enjoyed every minute of his…
Newport’s Wildcats return to Sweet 16 but not before surviving slugfest with the no-quit Cooper’s Jaguars
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter They used to call them cagers, those early basketball players who competed on a…
Last-second shot gives Campbell County boys 10th Region title; Simon Kenton falters in 8th Region final
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Campbell County coach Brent Sowder called a timeout with 6.3 seconds left in overtime…
NKU hits the wall in 2nd-half 82-75 season-ending Horizon Tournament loss to Milwaukee
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter For NKU Coach Darrin Horn, Monday at the Indiana Famers Coliseum in the Horizon…
Simon Kenton, Campbell County upset highly ranked opponents in boys region semifinal games
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Two local coaches at different stages in their careers watched their boys basketball teams…
Four CovCath connections bring a bit of Northern Kentucky to Cincinnati Bearcat basketball
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Moving on to new challenges in a new territory is never easy. Take the…
Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard named SEC Freshman of the Year, four Cats honored by league
By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today Reed Sheppard was named Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year by the league’s coaches on…
Cooper’s defense squeezes CovCath until Colonels pop, next it’s on to Newport in Ninth Region finals
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Ernest Hemingway was talking about bankruptcy not basketball. But in “The Sun Also Rises,”…
Newport returns to 9th Region championship game with dominating performance in 60-29 win over Lloyd
By Terry Boehmmker NKyTribune sports reporter More than 7,000 fans showed up for a 9th Region boys basketball double-feature on…
Cooper makes it clear Lady Jags own Ninth Region with defensive shutdown of rival Ryle’s Lady Raiders
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter They said all the right things after the game, the Cooper Lady Jaguars did,…
Campbell County’s young team was no match for perennial power in 10th Region girls title game
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Campbell County won 22 games and made it to the championship game of the…
Wildcats stun Volunteers in Knoxville to earn No. 2 seed, double-bye in SEC Tournament
By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today Kentucky had its back to the wall and came out fighting and spoiled Tennessee’s Senior…
Cooper-Holy Cross collision worthy of Sweet 16 semis happens here in the Ninth Region semis
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Here’s the problem when two of the state’s top four teams, teams that haven’t…
TMU REPORT: Saints men win way into the GMAC championship game, women eliminated in semis
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter In its first season in the NCAA’s Division II and the Great Midwest Athletic…
Senior veterans lead Ryle back to 9th Region girls championship game with 49-43 win over Highlands
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter This is the sixth season that Sarah Baker and Quinn Eubank have been on…
Late scoring run puts Campbell County girls in 10th Region championship game for first time since 2020
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Campbell County scored nine straight points at the end of the fourth quarter to…
Injured NKU survives Horizon playoff, upsetting Wright State on road in OT to advance to Indy semis
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Down 17 points – and two starters – NKU’s Norse pulled off the improbable…
Walton-Verona, Campbell County advance to semifinals in boys region basketball tournaments
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Walton-Verona used a 12-2 scoring run in the third quarter to take a double-digit…
New-generation Cooper flies by Highlands into Sunday’s Ninth Region semifinals
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter And then there were four. The four you expected would be there for Sunday’s…