CINCINNATI — The Friday night lights are back on for Week 8 of the high school football season here in the Tri-State.
Our WCPO 9 Friday Football Game of the Week was a showdown between Batavia and New Richmond. Both teams needed to win to keep pace in the Southern Buckeye Athletic and Academic Conference's American division, with Bulldogs head coach Wayne Stacy saying earlier in the week, "If we have any chance to win the conference title we need to win Friday night."
Good news for Batavia — they did win! The Bulldogs blanked New Richmond 38-0.
The King of the Road Trophy stays with St. Xavier this year (as it has every year since 2019) after the Bombers won 9-0 in a low-scoring affair against La Salle. The score was 3-0 until just around 2 minutes left in the game.
In a Greater Miami Conference match-up in Liberty Township, Lakota East went up by five touchdowns before halftime, blowing out Sycamore 56-12.
The Rockets were, pardon our pun, rocking at McNick Friday night. They put up 35 to Bishop Fenwick's 7 for the win.
Winton Woods' squad is very much a state title contender, but West Clermont played them to a one-score game last year. This one was just as close, with the Warriors winning 12-7. Per Joe Eitel, Winton Woods has unofficially clinched a home playoff game in Division I, Region 4.
Simon Kenton took a road trip down I-75 to face off against Great Crossing. In a shoot-out, the Pioneers came up short in Central Kentucky, falling 45-35.
It felt like there were a lot of blowouts tonight — and this is another one. Bellevue got whatever they wanted against river-town rival Dayton, winning 42-0 in the Battle for the Paddle.
Newport Central Catholic's Kaleb Cole had himself a game, scoring multiple TDs for the Thoroughbreds in their 35-7 win over Newport.
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