By Terry Boehmker

NKyTribune sports reporter

Three football teams that made it to last year’s state championship finals — Beechwood, Cooper and Ryle — posted lopsided victories on Friday to finish first in the current district standings and earned home games in the first round of the state playoffs that begin in two weeks.

Beechwood, last year’s Class 2A state champion, buried Bracken County, 49-6, to take the District 5 title. In the games involving 2024 state runner-up teams, Cooper beat Boone County, 49-3, in Class 5A, District 5 and Ryle rolled to a 41-13 win over Simon Kenton in Class 6A, District 6.

The other local teams that have won district titles are Newport Central Catholic and Holy Cross in Class 1A, Lloyd in Class 3A and Highlands in Class 4A.

Local teams will face each o

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