By Dan Weber

NKyTribune sports reporter

They are 9-0 now. With the school’s first-ever district championship in football.

Wait a minute, you say, didn’t the Holy Cross Indians win a state football championship?

Indeed, the small parochial school from Latonia did. But in a year when the Indians were not district champions, only earning their state title – and a regional crown – with a postseason-ending rush.

So this one mattered, at two-time Class 1A District champion Ludlow at the Panthers’ Rigney Stadium down by the Ohio River where it seemed much colder than the 47 degrees on the thermometer.

Never fear, the still-unbeaten Indians – and now first-time-ever district champs – rattled off their ninth straight win to go 3-0 in the district with a 43-6 romp over the Panthers after a 36-

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