By Terry Boehmker
NKyTribune sports activities reporter
Scoring binges by Campbell County sophomore ahead Austin Davie and Lloyd senior guard Anthony Blaackar have put them forward of the pack in the race for the Northern Kentucky boys basketball scoring title with two weeks left in the common season.
Davie scored 27 factors or extra in the Camels’ final 5 video games to lift his season common to 24.7. Blaackar is true behind him with a 24.5 common after netting 127 factors in the Juggernauts’ final 4 video games.
The three gamers behind them are Conner senior Finn Louden (24.1), Scott freshman Benjamin Brown (23.7) and Covington Catholic senior Athens Gillis (23.3).
Brown is a switch pupil who has performed in solely 9 varsity video games since gaining eligibility.
Blaackar set a Lloyd college file when he netted 51 factors throughout a win over Mason County on Saturday at Bracken County. He was 20-of-26 from the sphere general, 4-of-5 from behind the 3-point arc and 7-of-11 on the free throw line. Two days later, he scored 23 factors in a 69-68 win at Highlands.
Lloyd has received six in a row going into Thursday’s recreation at Dixie Heights that may determine the highest seed in the thirty fourth District match. The Juggernauts will finish the common season with a recreation at Conner that may characteristic a matchup between scoring leaders Blaackar and Louden.
In Campbell County’s final 5 video games, Davie’s scoring totals had been 34, 35, 27, 40 and 30 factors. The 6-foot-5 sophomore had 11 or extra rebounds in three of these video games to publish a double-double. He’s taking pictures 57.2 % (235 of 411) from the sphere going into a house recreation towards Ryle on Wednesday.
Bowlers carry residence boys state runner-up trophies
Louisville Trinity defeated Covington Catholic in the championship match of the boys state bowling match for the second straight 12 months, however it took 5 video games to determine the title.
In Monday’s last at Kingpin Lanes in Louisville, Trinity needed to win the final two video games to tug out a 3-2 victory. Last 12 months, Trinity received the title match with a three-game sweep towards CovCath.
The last scores in Monday’s match had been 182-190, 235-197, 172-205, 224-197, 217-202. Trinity and CovCath had the best pin totals in the qualifying spherical to earn the highest two seeds in the 16-team bracket. CovCath received three-game matches towards Central Hardin and Frederick Douglass to succeed in the ultimate.
In the boys singles match, Blake Ackerman of Trinity defeated Maddox Kuryla of Boone County, 235-184, in the championship match.
Bowlers with the highest 4 pin totals in the qualifying spherical had been seeded in the stepladder bracket. Kuryla upset two greater seeded bowlers to succeed in the ultimate towards top-seeded Ackerman.
CovCath bowlers Mason Bowman and Dylan Davis positioned seventh and ninth in the qualifying spherical. The different native bowlers among the many high 20 scorers had been Simon Kenton teammates Tyler Blume (14th) and Aleck Meredith (twentieth).
The state bowling match will proceed Tuesday with the ladies singles and workforce competitors. Unified groups will compete for state titles on Wednesday.
Notre Dame grad enjoying for undefeated school workforce
Notre Dame Academy graduate Macie Feldman is a beginning guard on the Johns Hopkins University ladies’s basketball workforce that has a 20-0 file and No. 4 rating in NCAA Division III.
Feldman is averaging 8.4 factors, 9.9 rebounds and 4.3 assists for the Blue Jays. The 5-foot-8 senior leads the Continental Conference in assists and ranks fourth in rebounding. Her workforce sits on high of the convention standings with an 11-0 file and ranks first in offensive common (74.2) and defensive common (49.5).
Last 12 months, Feldman was named second-team all-conference and Johns Hopkins made it to the spherical of 16 in the NCAA Division III playoffs. In her workforce’s three NCAA match video games, she averaged 16.6 factors, 4.3 assists and eight.6 rebounds. She at present has profession totals of 889 factors, 806 rebounds and 346 assists.