2025 Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

Aug 7 at Ludlow (Scrimmage)
Aug 15 at Covington Catholic (Scrimmage)
Aug 22 at Lloyd Memorial
Aug 29 vs. Beechwood
Sep 5 vs. Boone County
Sep 12 at Conner
Sep 19 at Raceland
Sep 26 - BYE
Oct 3 at Campbell County
Oct 10 vs. Newport (District)
Oct 17 vs. Dayton (District)
Oct 24 at Bellevue (District)
Oct 31 vs. Mason County

[Voice of Reason]

Will the new stadium be ready on August 29? That sets Beechwood as NCC's choice to open their new home field. A great choice with the long history and rivalry. Hopefully the stadium is ready.

[Breds82]

The field won't be ready until the 2026 season for football I believe.

[cincyswords]

Like the Mason County game in the last week.

[Bac2369]

I really like the beefed up schedule compared to the last two years. I agree VOR on that be a huge opening home game in a new stadium against a rival such as beechwood.

[Voice of Reason]

23 hours ago, Bac2369 said:

I really like the beefed up schedule compared to the last two years. I agree VOR on that be a huge opening home game in a new stadium against a rival such as beechwood.

Would have been fun but looking like the stadium won't be ready yet. 

[theguru]

23 hours ago, Bac2369 said:

I really like the beefed up schedule compared to the last two years. I agree VOR on that be a huge opening home game in a new stadium against a rival such as beechwood.

Same on the schedule and I am hoping this means the NCC powers that be think they are going to be very good in 2025.

Is it August yet?

[happ]

On 3/4/2025 at 8:55 AM, Voice of Reason said:

Will the new stadium be ready on August 29? That sets Beechwood as NCC's choice to open their new home field. A great choice with the long history and rivalry. Hopefully the stadium is ready.

I asked one of the admins when the new stadium would be ready, and they said if they are lucky, it would be by the playoffs. The students are saying the same thing. That was last week. 

[Bac2369]

22 hours ago, happ said:

I asked one of the admins when the new stadium would be ready, and they said if they are lucky, it would be by the playoffs. The students are saying the same thing. That was last week. 

Now if that is true it could be huge. I'm just still in shock that they’ve not had a home field. It’s mine blowing with all the success they’ve had. 

[Breds82]

Back in the original days of the school the diocese owned all the land that now has a shopping center. Could’ve had it all there back in the 1950’s. 

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

1 hour ago, Breds82 said:

Back in the original days of the school the diocese owned all the land that now has a shopping center. Could’ve had it all there back in the 1950’s. 

I was the project manager that built the Kroger store down at the Newport Pavilion shopping center back in the late 2000's. That was a holy mess of a project with everything that took place with the developer, Bear Creek Capital, going belly-up, but I got a pretty good history on The Hill in the process.

Basically everything south of 10th Street from the west side of Park Avenue, west to Monmouth was part of Wiedemann Hill when Charles Wiedemann bought the property in 1894 and had architect Samuel Hannaford (Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati City Hall) design his 9500 sqft, 28-room mansion and the adjacent 3500 sqft carriage house. Charles was the son of Wiedemann Brewery founder George Wiedemann, Sr. The small neighborhood to the east of the mansion - Park Avenue, Vine Street, Center Street and a few alleys - was already developed. The sides of the hill fronting 10th Street and Monmouth were originally a vineyard, and most of the remaining property was still wooded aside from a small-ish section basically where the PNC bank sits now that was a horse stable.

In 1951 the diocese acquired the Wiedemann Mansion along with the rest the Wiedemann property with the plan was to have the Weidemann Mansion to serve as the bishop's residence and then they would to subdivide a chunk of the property off to build New Cath's current building up top. Carothers road actually didn't exist at the time, and the woods on the hill continued down to the south into what much of the original Newport Shopping Center is now.  New Cath's building was constructed at the same time as they built Cov Cath's original Park Hills school building beginning in 1953. They used the same architect for the two buildings, which were more or less mirror images of one another.

Bishop Mulloy, who was bishop from 1944–1959, always had a reputation for his expensive taste, and was spending a lot of money trying to upkeep and improve the Mansion, which had extremely out-of-date electric and heat, and no air conditioning. There was a constant laundry list of major repairs needed, so in the mid-1970's Bishop Ackerman purchased the R.A. Jones house at 422 Wallace Avenue in Covington and moved into it. The Wiedemann Mansion sat vacant and pretty quickly began deteriorating without having anyone in it and it was eventually sold along with the remainder of the property to a dentist from Cincinnati. The dentist subdivided the property, keeping the Mansion, and separating the carriage house as its own private residence on a new road that was develop as part of the subdivision agreement called Camryn Court. There were a handful of ther million dollar homes built on the rest of Camryn Court for the 2002 Citirama. The Mansion was sold again in 2004 to a retired 5/3 Bank exec who renovated it into the private event space that it is now.

The area surrounded in red is roughly the original Weidemann estate property. Carothers Road was built in 1956.