First round matchups for Class AAAA football

The Mason County Royals will travel to Ashland on Friday to play the Ashland Tomcats in the first round of the Class AAAA football playoffs.

Here are all of the first round matchups in Class AAAA:

Taylor County at Paducah Tilghman 

Franklin-Simpson at John Hardin

Calloway County at Elizabethtown

Marion County at Logan County

Grant County at North Oldham 

Breckinridge County at Spencer County

Waggener at Franklin County

Western Hills at Valley

Greenup County at Highlands

Mason County at Ashland

Harrison County at Johnson Central

Boyd County at Covington Catholic

Whitley County at Boyle County 

Wayne County at Harlan County

Russell County at Corbin

Perry County Central at Lincoln County

The winners of the two games grouped together will meet in the second round. 

For the third round and semifinals, the matchups will be determined by the end of the regular season Ratings Performance Index.

Local results for the XC state championships

The Mason County Lady Royals finished 25th at the Kentucky Beef Council KHSAA Class AA State Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.

Junior Kolby Galloway led the Lady Royals with a time of 22:31.19.

The other five Lady Royals and their times include: 

Lily Dean 24:25.02

Ava Winter 25:55.56

Calleigh Passmore 26:02.60

Sophie Dean 26:16.27

Ellen Clarke 33:19.73

Four Royals were individual qualifiers for the boys' race:

Daniel Klump 18:17.22

John Yazell 19:48.69

Parker Mead 20:58.08

Shawn Hardin 21:01.12

St. Patrick senior Gabe Sammons was an individual qualifier for the boys' Class A meet and finished with a time of 19:08.84

Gabe Sammons will run in the Class A state cross country meet

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.

Royals fall to Newport Central Catholic 42-21

The Mason County Royals fell behind 21-0 in the first quarter and lost to the Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds 42-21 in the final game of the regular season on Thursday night at Covington Catholic.

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.

Newport Central Catholic running back Eddie Bivens rushed for 173 yards and three touchdowns and caught a touchdown pass.

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.)

Class AA Kentucky Beef Council KHSAA Cross Country State Championships are Saturday

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.

Royals will play Newport Central Catholic at CovCath on Thursday night

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.

Lady Royals fall to GRC 3-0 in 10th Region volleyball tournament

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.