I got to thinking about the Covington Catholic/Beechwood rivalry, and I started wondering how many other big non-district rivalries there are around the state.

 

Cov Cath and Beechwood have played a total of 36 times since the late 70s. How many time have other non-district rivalries around the state gone head to head?

For Belfry:

Historically it would have to be Pikeville

 

In the recent past (Past decade) it would be Johnson Central.

 

Louisville Central is a rival that is hard to quantify. When you have played them six times in the past 10 years in the state Finals it has to count for something.

For Franklin-Simpson it would be Russellville. They have played every year since I think 1944 when FS was formed. It used to be Bowling Green but FS stopped playing them a few years ago.

CAL and Eastern. Just due to location. These two schools are less than 3 miles apart.

For Boyle it's Danville.

St. X

Depends

 

Historically St. X of course, but when all is said and done that tends to be a fairly amicable rivalry.

 

From a dislike for each other standpoint it would have to be Male assuming it continues when the current contract is up.

 

Trinity really doesn't have many out of district rivals because not many teams out of their district will play them long enough to get a real rivalry started.

For Fleming County it is Mason County. I hope that they are reunited in the same district the next time they realign.

I would say for Bowling Green it would be Owensboro. BG has played the Red Devils more times than any other team and are now even in the series at 38-38-2.

I'm with AllTell. It used to be X, but it just doesn't have that feel anymore. A decade ago it was normal to see 35,000 at that game. Not anymore. The Male now, those are rowdy and have the feel of a good rivalry.

For ST. X it's Trinity.

Garrard County/Lincoln County. Goes back over 100 years when it was Lancaster/Stanford.

 

It isn't district in football but it is in all other sports. The towns are close, kids know each other, many have married folks from the other school. Almost always play Labor Day weekend so you get something like a homecoming crowd.

For Russell I would say Ashland. Raceland is up there as well.Russell leads the Raceland series 28-21-7

 

Ashland leads the series 40-22

Fleming County.

Butler. Doss has not beat Butler since 1996. We have lost the last three games by a combine 16 points. 14-18 in 2016