Covington Catholic 53 Cooper 49 (9th Region Semifinals)

Final per update thread from BB&T Arena. Cov. Cath will take on Dixie Heights Monday night for the 9th Region Championship

Final

Sounded like what it what it was supposed to be 2 great teams going at it. Thanks for the great updates @Randy Parker!

Aiden Ruthsatz had 18 for CovCath & C.J. Fredrick had 16.

Adam Kunkel led Cooper with 18.

How about the technical on AK what a joke.

Congrats Covcath and good luck the rest of the way.

My take after tonight. Covcath is the slightly better team this year, like Cooper was the slightly better team last year.

As for the Kunkel and Fredrick debate. Both great players. However tonight sealed it for me in believing Kunkel is the slightly better player.

What happened? @Letsgetit

Hung on the rim so he wouldn’t land on AJ and they called the T. It cost us 4 points and momentum

He was t'd up for hanging on the rim.

Can we stop this nonsense? They're both great HS players & they're both going to have a great opportunity for the next couple years. CJ has another game on Monday & I'm sure that's all that matters to both kids.

Too many people are dying to compare the two. Hell, half of the people picking one or the other haven't even seen both play.

Congrats to Adam Kunkel on an awesome career at Cooper & best wishes next year. You're the type of kid that all of NKY can cheer for.

Cooper had no answer for the box and 1

Amen.

Coach Ruthsatz out coached Coach Sullivan when he went to the Box and 1. Cooper had no answer for it!

I would disagree that Cooper had no answer. Cooper got quite a few open 3’s against it, they just didn’t hit them. I can think of at least two Houston missed and one Runyan missed. They got high quality looks against it, just didn’t hit them.

100% agree ... they had open looks, just didn’t knock them down