St. Patrick senior Gabe Sammons will run in the Kentucky Beef Council KHSAA Cross Country State Championships on Saturday at Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.
Sammons is an individual qualifier in the boys' Class A meet which is scheduled to start at 3 p.m.
Mason County scored two touchdowns in the second quarter. Lennie Avery rushed for the first touchdown and Camden Gregory, playing for the first time since suffering an injury on October 3, threw a touchdown pass to Micah Payne.
Newport Central Catholic (6-4) led 28-14 at halftime and extended the lead to 42-14 before Gregory ran three yards for Mason County's third touchdown.
Mason County (3-7) will play the Ashland Tomcats in the first round of the Class AAAA playoffs on November 7 in Ashland.
(Game statistics courtesy of JT Teegarden and Drew Spangler of WFTM radio.)
Ten Mason County runners will compete in the Kentucky Beef Council KHSAA Cross Country State Championships on Saturday at Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.
Runners for the Lady Royals include Ellen Clarke, Lily Dean, Sophie Dean, Kolby Galloway, Calleigh Passmore and Ava Winter.
Four Royals—Daniel Klump, Shawn Hardin, Parker Mead and John Yazell— were individual qualifiers.
The boys' race is scheduled at 12:30 p.m. followed by the girls' race at 1:15 p.m.
This is the final week of the regular season for Kentucky high school football season.
The Mason County Royals will play the Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds on Thursday at 7 p.m. at Covington Catholic in Park Hills.
Newport Central Catholic's new stadium is still under construction.
Mason County has a 3-6 record. Newport Central Catholic has won four straight games to run its record to 5-4.
The two football programs have not played each other since 1990.
Here is the link to purchase tickets.
The Mason County Lady Royals volleyball team's season came to an end with a 3-0 loss to the George Rogers Clark Lady Cardinals on Monday night in the quarterfinal round of the 10th Region Tournament at GRC Arena in Winchester.
The set scores were 25-6, 25-14 and 25-10.
The Lady Royals finished the season with a 22-13 record.
Chris Lofton has been named one of the color commentators who will rotate on the University of Tennessee men's basketball radio broadcasts via the Vol Network.
Here is a link to the press release.
Introducing the 2025-26 Tennessee Basketball @VolNetwork broadcast team:
— Tennessee Basketball (@Vol_Hoops) October 23, 2025
• Mike Keith
• John Wilkerson
• Chris Lofton
• Steve Hamer
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The Mason County Lady Royals finished fourth at the Class AA Region 6 cross country meet on Saturday in Ashland to earn a spot in the state meet.
Junior Kolby Galloway led the Lady Royals with a ninth place finish in a time of 21:56.30.
Junior Calleigh Passmore had a top 20 finish, taking 15th place in a time of 22:29.94.
Mason County senior Daniel Klump finished seventh in the boys' meet in a time of 17:73.53 and qualified for the state meet.
The Royals finished fifth in the team standings and failed to qualify for the state meet.
