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I wanted to take a moment to congratulate a great group of players from Northern Kentucky that finished a fantastic summer. This group of girls had an amazing season and I hope it carries over into their high school season.

54 wins and 6 losses. They won 90% of their games.

Back to back top ten finishes at AAU Nationals.

Elite 8 Super Showcase

Back to back Kentucky State Champions.

6 wins and 1 loss at the Deep South Tournament.

6 tournament championships.

2 runner up finishes

The Shining Star Sports roster (sophomore to be):

Nikki Kiernan of Newport Central Catholic

Allysa Maier of Newport Central Catholic

Katey Pittman of Cooper

Savannah Brinneman of Cooper

Tasha Arnett of Cooper

Elly Ogle of Notre Dame

Paige Kellam of Notre Dame

Carlee Clemons of Notre Dame

Sami Hare of Boone County

Anna Matchinga of Covington Latin

Sarah Reilly of Ursaline

Rebecca Whitaker of Georgetown

Congrats to these young ladies. I really look forward to seeing you during your high school season.

Doesn't Jeff Davis teach Special Ed? That guy should be a head coach somewhere.

Jeff is one of the top assistants in the state. He would be a fantastic hire for Beechwood. They would be getting the new trimmer version of Coach Davis!! LOL

If I was making the decision, I would be all over David McFarland. He will be a very good head coach someday soon.

David would be a fantastic choice. He is mature beyond his age. I don't know if he would be interested but it would be a very good hire for Beechwood.

Can you give a roster for the Kentucky Premier team?

The girls won the Blue Chip Cardinal Memorial Day Classic this past weekend. It was played at the University of Louisville. The girls went a perfect 5 wins and 0 losses and defeated the host team Blue Chip All Stars in the championship game. Big weekend for a lot of the Northern Kentucky girls!

The girls also won the AAU state championship as 8th graders last year.

Paige Kellam of Notre Dame

Katey Pittman of Cooper

Car lee Clemons of Notre Dame

Sarah Reilly of Ursaline

Nikki Kiernan of NCC

Rebecca Whitaker of Georgetown

Savannah Brinneman of Cooper

Anna Matchinga of Cov Latin

Allysa Maier of NCC

Tasha Arnett of Cooper

Sami Hare of Boone County

Elle Ogle of Notre Dame

Cooper wins the championship over NCC. Cooper finishes the year 20wins and 2 losses. Nice season ladies!!

Emily Conner, Brooke Smith are named to the all tournament team and Katey Pittman is named MVP of the tournament.

NCC moves on with a forfeit from Simon Kenton and Cooper beats Ryle. Championship is on Saturday at 1030am at Notre Dame.

Both Ryle and Cooper played their original freshman teams. No additions to their rosters.

Nikki Kiernan is a freshman at NCC. She is having an amazing start to her high school career. Very proud of her and what she has accomplished so far. Good luck Nikki!!

Jones really gets after the primary ballhandlers. She does a great job pressuring the basketball and forcing turnovers and fatigue. Jones really pushes the ball out on the floor and makes it hard for teams to run good offense. I really like her effort and toughness.

I am guessing that she attempted less than 10. She didn't miss many of her 3's. She shot a very high percentage. She fouled out with about 4 minutes to go in the game.

In their second meeting of the season Holy Cross won their second straight close game. Holy Cross won by 1 in the first meeting and won by 3 in the second.

Cooper had a 4 point lead with about a minute to go but could not hold on to win.

Holy Cross 62, Cooper 59

Holy Cross (3-3) - Turner 7 3 19, Frye 1 0 2, Beal 4 6 15, Childers 1 1 3, Ronney 11 1 23. Totals: 24 11 62.

Cooper (3-4) - Sandlin 4 0 9, Smith 5 0 11, Sams 5 1 16, Thompson 6 2 15, King 1 2 4, Brinneman 1 1 3, Restiano 0 1 1. Totals: 22 7

Holy Cross 13 16 14 19 -62

Cooper 21 15 13 10 -59

3-pointers: H 3 (Turner 2, Beal); H 8 (Sandlin, Smith, Sams 5, Thompson).

Ludlow (0-2) - Fraiser 1 0 2, Maley 1 2 4, King 5 0 12, Stansberry 1 0 2, Wofford 2 0 4, Hollingsworth 1 0 2, Ritchie 1 1 4, Kroger 3 7 13, Huffman 1 2 5. Totals: 16 12 48.

Cooper (2-2) - Sandlin 1 5 7, C. Smith 5 0 10, Sams 5 0 14, Creekmore 2 0 4, Schafer 1 0 2, Thompson 5 2 12, King 3 1 7, Ross 0 1 1, Arnett 0 1 1, Hannah 1 0 2, B. Smith 1 0 2. Totals: 24 10 62.

Ludlow 7 11 12 18 -48

Cooper 29 8 12 13 -62

3-pointers: L 4 (King 2, Ritchie, Huffman); C 4 (Sams 4).

Holmes beat Cooper at the Dixie Heights Invitational Tournament and finished 3rd overall.

Cooper (1-2) - Sandlin 1 2 4, Smith 3 4 12, Cheer 1 1 2, Thompson 2 3 7, King 2 0 4, Brinneman 2 0 5, Pittman 1 3 5, Ross 2 0 4, Conner 0 1 1. Totals: 14 14 45.

Holmes (2-1) - Holder 3 3 10, F. Housley 0 2 2, Solomon 2 0 4, Williams 4 0 8, Mayes 4 8 16, Johnson 3 0 6, Wear 3 0 7. Totals: 19 13 53.

Cooper 9 19 7 10 -45

Holmes 11 17 7 18 -53

3-pointers: C 3 (Smith 2, Brinneman 1); H 2 (Holder 1, Wear 1).

Holy Cross defeated Cooper at the Dixie Heights Invitational Tournament by a score of 64 to 63.

Freshman Emily Conner of Cooper was at the line with 1.7 seconds left and Cooper trailing by 2. She made the first of two and rimmed out the second. A very exciting and enjoyable game.

Good luck to both of these teams in their final games on Friday and Saturday.

Holy Cross (1-0) - Turner 2 0 5, Staubitz 2 0 4, Beal 7 8 22, Nienaber 2 0 2, Schneider 1 0 2, Ronney 12 5 29. Totals: 23 15 64.

Cooper (1-1) - Sandlin 3 2 8, Smith 1 0 3, Sams 2 2 8, Cheek 1 0 2, Thompson 3 0 7, King 0 1 1, Brennaman 4 2 11, Pittman 2 2 8, Conner 3 4 11, Arnett 4 0 4. Totals: 19 17 63.

Holy Cross 14 16 13 21 -64

Cooper 15 12 10 26 -63

3-pointers: H (Turner); (Sams 2, Pittman 2, Thompson, Smith, Brennaman, Conner).

Cooper wins their first game of the season and the first game of the Dixie Heights Invitational Tournament.

Coioper was lead by Carly Smith with 18 points, Racheal King with 11 and Katey Pittman with 8.

Beechwood was lead by McCarthy with 25 points, Emily Pawsat with 11 points and Raquel Barry with 9 points.

Cooper will play Holy Cross on Thursday in the second round of the tournament.

Just spoke with Kellen Smith's father. He informed me that Kellen will be attending Saginaw Valley State to play basketball next year.

Congrats to Kellen and his family.

Did Turner move to Holy Cross?

My daughter will be a freshman at Cooper this year. I am looking forward to getting an opportunity to see some of the girls teams in Kentucky play. I have not followed to much girls basketball in the past but that will change with my daughter playing. Trying to educate myself on some of the better incoming players.

My girls team from last year was based out of Northern Kentucky. 3 girls at Cooper (Pittman, Brinneman and Arnett), 1 at Boone (Hare), 3 at Notre Dame (Kellam, Reis, Clemons), 2 at NCC (Kiernan, Maier), 1 at Cov Latin (Matchinga).

I haven't had a chance to see to many of the incoming freshman outside of Northern Kentucky. Would love to know who some of the better freshman are throughout Kentucky. I hope to get an opportunity to see a lot of these young ladies play this upcoming season.

I haven't seen any rankings for this age group. What are your thoughts?

Who are going to be some of the better incoming freshman this year? What freshman will have the biggest impact at the varsity level?

Coach Davis just informed me that Timmy Knipp has committed to EKU to play basketball.

Congratulations to Timmy and his family!!

This has been the rule in Ohio for as long as I can remember. You can only have two players from one school on each team until June 1st. After June 1st you can have as many players from the same school as you want.

Shining Star Davis put the final nail I'm the D-One and Quincy Miller coffin with a 89-76 thumping.

Jody Demling reported that by his count 58 college coaches watching this game.

The Shining Star Sports-Davis team has played very well and gotten a lot of attention from the college coaches at the tournament.

How about the coaching ability from Davis? Takes a team that some said they were not overly impressed with, short handed and sick players, getting beat two weeks ago by one of the favorites, and comes into the state tourney and goes 6-0 to claim the title? On Saturday scoring an amazing 335 points in 3 games!

Coach Davis did an amazing job. I got the opportunity to sit on his bench all weekend and was very impressed with his approach and how the kids responded to him. Those kids were TIRED!! He did a great job keeping them focused and getting them to give everything they had.