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He seems to always have a tough schedule to get his team ready for the post season even if it means taking a few Ls. SK also played in a Nike pre-season invitation a few weeks ago against some of the better teams in the Cincinnati area.

Simon Kenton has a scrimmage this Saturday at SK vs defending state champs West Jessamine. JV starts at 530 V should kick off around 7. Should be a great early test for SK and good game between two of the better programs in the state over the last 3-4 years.

I coach in a closed district in Cincinnati meaning you have to live in the district to go to that school, If a player moves in to the district they will be eligible to play the whole season, it is one of many exceptions to the transfer rule in Ohio. OHSAA member schools voted on this change in a lopsided approval. The thought is that it will cut down on Senior transfers chasing a ring since they will miss out on the post season. This would apply to any sport that the kid played the past year.

USA Soccer came out with rules about two-three years ago that no heading is allowed in practice and games at the 10U and under ages, and no heading allowed in games at the 12U ages. At 12U you can practice headers for no more then 5 minutes a practice. All youth soccer leagues must follow these rules.

I think that it would be a great honor for a player that meant a lot to the program to have their jersey retired, just a small way the school can show their appreciation to the former student. However with the limited number of legal numbers I would have to agree with GrantNKY, put up the jersey but still allow others to wear the number. Doesn't Michigan University Football do something where they retired a jersey ever year but a player gets picked to wear that jersey? Kinda a cool honor for both current and past players.

Saw this on thread on different site about a team in Cincinnati, that has 4-6 transfers that moved in to the district, there is no open enrollment at this school, this year due to the new high school coach having a reputation of being a good coach and a former high level D1 player. My question is would you having a child in the district, a district foe/regional foe, rival, or community member have an issue with this? My take is so long as the families move and all state rules are followed in regards to when they are able to play who cares. Yeah it may stink that your team is not top dog anymore but besides that what is the harm. If those families feel that the coach gives their son/daughter the best chance to grow as a player/person or the best chance to get college payed for who cares, so long as all rules are followed.

OHSAA in girls soccer has three classes, they do not have districts, regional ect. like KY does. They play for a conference championship in the regular season that is a mix of all three class. Once the regular season is over the post season is just against your class. All the coaches of a class for a sectional which is like districts and regional combined get together and rank each team in their sectional. Once the rankings are done the 1 seed gets to pick what line they are on, or pass, this goes on till all teams have picked or are slotted in to lines on the bracket. Definitely different then KY but the coaches I know seem to like it.

Understood, thanks for the input and I hope next year I can make a few more games so that I can post some first had things about them not just scores I see on KHSAA.

Just wondering why it seems SK Girls Soccer is not getting any attention this year on the page. They just won their 3rd straight regional title, made the final 4 last year, lost a KY player of the year last year, and have one of the best defenses in the state gave up 12 goals all year. It seems that they play a difficult schedule year after year to make up for not being in the "NKY" region or a difficult district. They even traveled to go play top 20 teams in the country and held their own. Just seems like they are not getting the attention deserved just because they don't play in the 9th. Good luck to the girls in their first round game.

Ryle 1- CCH 0 in OT

I will second what groinpull said about the PK not sure what the call could have been. Keeper was coming out to play a ball, Ryle player was backing up and jumped backed to try and play the ball. Ryle player was the one who caused the contact in my option. With that being said here is my take on the game, pretty evenly matched the score line should have been 1-0 Ryle. My take was that neither team really out possessed or dominated the game. I felt Ryle did create more chances but CCH did have a few good looks. If CCH cant start to find the back of the net i don't think their defense can hold strong offensive teams to just one goal. This was my first game of season and out side of a very questionable PK call I thought it was a good game and either one of these teams could make it out of the 9th.

Just wondering if this is the first NKY player to be drafted or even signed by a pro team?

Does anyone know if either school or the KHSAA is going to be steaming the game live?

Was the GK playing in goal at the time the PK was taken or was he in in the field? Would it have made Beechwood feel any better if say Morgan took the PK and scored 5 on them in one game or the coach let Hegerty take it to get the hat trick. If you don't want someone to take a PK then don't commit the foul.

SK - Cooper Cooper 1-2 Holmes-Latin Holmes 3-0 BB - Ryle 1-2 St. H - CCH 1-2

CCH 1 BB 0

CCH 1 BB 0 final goal came off a CCH corner about mid way through the first half.

CCH 1 BB 0 24 min left in second

I don't know enough about all the teams to do a top 10 so here are what I think the top 5 teams in NKY will be at seasons end. 1-CCH-with senior leadership and talent should be the team to beat in NKY. 2-St. Henry- A well run team with returning talent always a though out once post season starts 3-Scott-With Seay returning as one of the best GK in NKY and all four starting MF coming back by the end of the year they will be one of the top teams in NKY. They have a lot of talent to replace up front and I believe a new style of play would benefit them in the long run. 4-Ryle- Retuning one of the best defenders in NKY along with a good offensive player look for them to stop teams and play kick ball looking for their striker. If the defense can hold up look for them to be there in the post season. 5-NCC- I don't know a lot about this team except they have a new coach, lost some offensive players from last year. but based on bluegrass game reports I have read, If the new coach can get the returning players to buy in to his system a region run is not out of the question. I don't know enough about the other NKY teams to do a top 10 so here are my top 5

With the return of all four of the field players who if I am not mistaken all play MF a run to regionals is not out of the question. Morgan(I think he signed DI) and Hegerty in the middle with Wolf and Trenkamp out side. That the coach is going to have to drastically change how the team plays this year compared to last year. Last year was a lot of kick the ball up the field to Schneider and Tredway which given their talents was not a bad style. With this returning mid field they should be a possession team who out passes and controls the tempo of the game, playing the ball out wide to the mids who look to cross the ball in. Seay is going to be one of if not the best GK in NKY. I know they lost a CB last year that was good not sure of any other defenders that left, but I think a lot of Scott's season is going to be based on can they stop teams before they get to Seay and if someone other then Morgan can put the ball in the net. I feel there will be some early season growing pains with this team.

Not to saying that is true or not but if contact occurs outside the rules of the he game ie shoulder to shoulder arms by their side and the offending play has not got ball before the player it is foul weather the play goes down or not. I do believe that the USA soccer refing rules even state that you don't even have to make contact with a player to commit a foul.

You are spot on on what each team was trying to do last night. I felt that CCH was able to possess the ball with their midfielders and play the ball out wide where Scott had what seemed like no out side mids. If Scott did they were playing back behind the ball and allowing CCH to come to them. I felt Scott played back and gave up the midfield to CCH and tried to play on the counter and get the ball to #9 whom would look to send #34 and #7 in on goal with through balls or balls over the top. I feel that when Scott did play it out wide they had good looks on crosses in to the box, but that didn't happen to often given the lack of any true outside mids for Scott.

This play happened right in front of where I was sitting at the game. Before I go on let me just say I have no horse in this race just a fan of some good high school soccer. The CCH player made contact with the Scott player in a shoulder to shoulder challenge on a 50/50 ball. Once the CCH player felt the contact he raised his shoulder up and caught the Scott player above the shoulder and the Scott player went down. This play happened right on the sideline in front of the AR who immediately signaled the foul and the center went straight to his pocket.