Covington Catholic is ranked second in the first high school basketball poll of the season by the Kentucky Associated Press.
The Colonels are 12-2 as they return home to play 35th District foe Beechwood Friday night.
CovCath is coming off its first-ever championship in the prestigious King of the Bluegrass Tournament in Louisville. CovCath beat fourth-ranked North Laurel and fifth-ranked Male in that tournament. Then the Colonels went 3-1 in a tourney last week at the Villages complex in Florida, with the loss coming by three to a team from Orlando with multiple Division I prospects.
CovCath earned two first-place votes from the 12 AP voters and averaged third-place among the other 10 voters. George Rogers Clark (11-1), the reigning 10th Region champion, is No. 1 with nine first-place votes.
Three Northern Kentucky teams are ranked in the first girls basketball poll.
Notre Dame is fourth, Ryle eighth and reigning Ninth Region champion Dixie Heights tied for ninth. Dixie and Ryle will meet at 6 p.m. Friday at Ryle.
Boys
Rank-School FPV Rcd TP
1. George Rogers Clark (9) 11-1 117
2. Covington Catholic (2) 12-2 101
3. Ballard - 10-4 86
4. North Laurel - 10-3 68
5. Male - 8-3 54
6. Pulaski Co. (1) 15-0 48
7. Lexington Catholic - 11-3 32
8. Ashland Blazer - 9-4 28
9. Bowling Green - 10-2 27
10. Warren Central - 9-1 24
Others receiving votes: Woodford Co. 17. DuPont Manual 12. Perry Co. Central 7. Murray 6. McCracken County 6. Lincoln Co. 5. Madison Central 5. Pikeville 5, Jeffersontown 4. Boyle Co. 3. Cooper 2. Greenwood 1. Madisonville-North Hopkins 1. North Oldham 1.
Girls
Rank-School FPV Rcd TP
1. Sacred Heart (12) 13-1 120
2. Bullitt East - 13-1 94
3. George Rogers Clark - 11-1 93
4. Notre Dame - 9-1 75
5. Anderson Co. - 12-1 66
6. McCracken County - 12-1 53
7. Franklin Co. - 11-1 38
8. Ryle - 10-2 23
9. Pikeville - 11-1 12
(tie) Bowling Green - 8-3 12
(tie) Dixie Heights - 11-2 12
Others receiving votes: Russell 10. Marshall Co. 9. Corbin 9. North Laurel 6. Mercy 6. Pulaski Southwestern 4. Berea 3. Henderson Co. 3. Male 3. Danville 3. Breckinridge Co. 3. Owensboro Catholic 2. Pulaski Co. 1.
All AP subscribers are eligible to vote in the poll. Here are this week's voters: Daily News, Bowling Green; Kentucky Enquirer, Cincinnati; Times-Tribune, Corbin; The News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown; The Gleaner, Henderson; Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington; Courier-Journal, Louisville; The Ledger Independent, Maysville; Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro; The Commonwealth-Journal, Somerset; WSON, Henderson.
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