By Terry Boehmker
NKyTribune sports activities reporter
Highlands and Covington Catholic can be district rivals in soccer as soon as once more underneath the statewide soccer realignment authorised by the Kentucky Excessive College Athletic Affiliation on Wednesday.
Highlands defensive gamers converge on a Cooper ball service throughout a playoff recreation final season. (Picture by Dale Daybreak)
The realignment can be for the 2025 and 2026 seasons with highschool groups divided into six lessons based mostly on enrollments. Highlands will drop from Class 5A to 4A and be a part of a district with CovCath, Holmes, Harrison County and Mason County.
Groups remaining within the Class 5A district can be Cooper, Conner, Boone County, Dixie Heights and Scott. Final season, Cooper was state runner-up in Class 5A and CovCath was state runner-up in Class 4A.
St. Henry will play its first varsity season in 2025 as a member of a realigned Class 2A district that will even embody Beechwood, Walton-Verona, Bracken County, Gallatin County and Owen County.
The Class 1A and Class 6A districts that embody Northern Kentucky groups will stay the identical. However Lloyd will transfer to a brand new Class 3A district with Bourbon County, Carroll County, Pendleton County and Henry County.
Here’s a rundown of district alignments authorised for the 2025 and 2026 seasons:
CLASS 1A
District 3 — Bellevue, Dayton, Newport, Newport Central Catholic.
District 4 — Brossart, Holy Cross, Ludlow, Trimble County.
CLASS 2A
District 5 — Beechwood, Bracken County, Gallatin County, Owen County, St. Henry, Walton-Verona.
CLASS 3A
District 5 — Bourbon County, Carroll County, Henry County, Lloyd, Pendleton County.
CLASS 4A
District 5 — Covington Catholic, Harrison County, Highlands, Holmes, Mason County.
CLASS 5A
District 5 — Boone County, Conner, Cooper, Dixie Heights, Scott.
CLASS 6A
District 6 — Campbell County, Nice Crossing, Ryle, Simon Kenton
Ludlow’s new ladies head basketball coach can be resuming his profession
Ryan Bowman
Ryan Bowman will resume his ladies basketball head teaching profession subsequent season at Ludlow Excessive College.
Bowman, 42, spent 4 seasons in command of the Boone County ladies program from 2017 to 2021 when his groups compiled a 45-67 document. Earlier than that, he was on the boys basketball teaching staffs at Cooper, Conner and Ryle for a complete of 11 years.
He’s taking cost of a Ludlow ladies group that posted a 17-14 document and completed first within the Division III convention standings underneath Blake Clary, who resigned as head coach after two seasons.
The Panthers had principally seniors within the beginning lineup final season. The group’s prime returning participant is Addy Garrett, a sophomore guard who averaged 15.3 factors and three.9 rebounds per recreation.
Bellevue baseball program inducts first group into Wall of Honor
The primary group of inductees into the Bellevue Baseball Wall of Honor included gamers from 9 earlier a long time who had been honored throughout a ceremony on Friday.
The listing included 1929 graduate John “Bus” Clark and 1938 graduate Bob “Moose” Himmler. They each performed earlier than the Kentucky Excessive College Athletic Affiliation made baseball a sanctioned sport in 1940.
Himmler later turned Bellevue’s head coach and took the 1947 group to the state championship recreation. Two gamers on that group had been 1948 graduates Bernie “Sonny” Rechtin and Hershel Hisle, who had been additionally among the many inaugural Wall of Honor inductees.
The opposite inductees and their commencement years are Bob Jones (1958), Mike Swauger (1965), Grant Cofojohn (1974), Doak Schulte (1974), Doug Miller (1983), Lenny Bays (1998), Alex Hegge (2010) and Briley Seiter (2016).
