By Terry Boehmker
NKyTribune sports reporter
Tyler Fryman missed a couple of apply periods with the Beechwood soccer staff as a result of he was chosen to play in the Area Code Games, a showcase for the nation’s prime highschool baseball gamers in Long Beach, California.
After an analysis session for college recruiters and main league scouts on the primary day, eight regional teams competed in underclassmen video games Aug. 2-5. Fryman was certainly one of 5 outfielders on the White Sox staff that included gamers from 12 states.
After going hitless in the staff’s first two video games, Fryman went 2-for-3 with a stolen base and run scored in the third sport. In the ultimate sport, he was 1-for-2 with a double and run scored.
Fryman enters his junior 12 months at Beechwood with college scholarship offers in each baseball and soccer. He made a verbal dedication with the University of Louisville baseball staff in the early spring earlier than attending college soccer camps the place the speedy 6-foot-1, 180-pound defensive again and large receiver obtained offers from Notre Dame, Louisville, Miami of Ohio and Toledo.
“I talked to a few colleges about trying to play both and they were pretty onboard with it,” Fryman mentioned final week. “Definitely, the Louisville (football) coach was for it. I’d still have to talk to the Notre Dame coach about it though.”
An harm restricted Fryman to 6 video games final soccer season. He did play in the Class 2A state championship sport and helped his Beeechwood staff defeat Owensboro Catholic, 50-34, by making a team-high 10 tackles and scoring on a 35-yard run.
In baseball final spring, Fryman led the 25-11-1 Beechwood staff in batting common (.436), RBI (36), doubles (19) dwelling runs (4) and stolen bases (34).
After the season, he was chosen to play in the Kentucky Baseball Coaches Association statewide sophomore showcase.
It’s grow to be extremely unlikely for college athletes to play a couple of sport, however one former Northern Kentucky highschool standout did it.
Frank Jacobs, a 1987 Newport Central Catholic graduate, performed each soccer and baseball at Notre Dame. He was a decent finish on the soccer staff that received the 1989 nationwide championship and was voted most dear participant on the 1991 baseball staff.
Football nonetheless being performed at historic stadium
For the final 90 years, Dayton High School soccer teams practiced and performed dwelling video games at O.W. Davis Field that was constructed in the early Nineteen Thirties as a federal authorities work mission through the Great Depression.
It regarded just like the historic stadium would not be wanted when the Greendevils started preseason apply on the artificial turf area that’s a part of an athletic complicated nearing completion adjoining to the highschool. But their previous soccer area remains to be alive and kicking.
Newport Central Catholic’s soccer staff is conducting apply periods at O.W. Davis Field whereas building on their college’s on-campus athletic complicated is occurring.
“We really appreciate them letting us do that,” mentioned NewCath head coach Steve Lickert. “This is like a homecoming for me. My first job as head coach was at Dayton and my first-ever win was on Davis Field.”
Lickert turned Dayton’s head coach in 2004. After an 0-2 begin, the Greendevils defeated Owen County, 28-15, for his first profession win. He enters the 2025 season with a 134-112 document in 21 seasons at three faculties.
“It’s been cool being back there,” Lickert mentioned of Davis Field. “It really does feel like home to me, and it’s close enough to (NewCath). Last year, we had to drive out to St. Joe’s (in Cold Spring) to practice. This is a really good fit for us.”
Former women coach in cost of Bellevue boys staff
The record of basketball coaches employed by Northern Kentucky teams for the reason that finish of final season was accomplished earlier this week when Tommy Sorrell was named boys head coach at Bellevue.
Sorrell was head coach of the Bellevue women staff the final 17 seasons and compiled a 247-243 document. Over the final 4 seasons, his teams had a 64-49 document and he turned the winningest coach in the historical past of the Bellevue women program.
Jim Hicks was head coach of the Bellevue boys basketball staff the final 14 seasons. He resigned with a 160-251 document and stays the college’s athletic director.
Last season, the Bellevue boys received eight of their final 14 video games and posted a 10-20 document with three juniors because the staff leaders in scoring and rebounding.
Other boys basketball teams that may have new head coaches subsequent season embody Cooper (Justin Holthaus), St. Henry (Tim Sullivan) and Ludlow (Dan Sullivan). The teams with new women head coaches embody Cooper (Christian Prohaska), Notre Dame (George Stoll), Brossart (Aaron Stamm) and Ludlow (Justin Wade).