Ryle tops Dixie Heights, will host first-round playoff game

Congratulations to the Raider football team!  Their win against Dixie clinches 2nd place in the district standings and a home playoff game in two weeks.  It appears that the Raiders will host George Rogers Clark HS of Winchester on November 4th at Borland Stadium.  Go Raiders!

By Marc Hardin, NKY Enquirer contributor

Quarterbacks were wild Friday night during Ryle’s 38-28 road victory over Dixie Heights at Rice Mountjoy Stadium. But it was a Raiders ace in the hole who upstaged the starters in a game replete with big plays that keyed the win for Ryle, which earned a first-round home game in the Class 6A playoffs.

"We got ourselves a home playoff game, and I couldn’t be happier for our players," Ryle coach Bryson Warner said. "We had some adversity, but nothing mattered. We kept competing."

Ryle (6-3), ranked fifth in the Enquirer Northern Kentucky coaches’ poll, improved to 3-1 in the district. Dixie (3-6), ranked ninth, finished 2-2.

"It’s huge getting a home playoff game in the first round," Ryle receiver Ryan Smith said. "That’s what we wanted."

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Ryle Takes Down Dixie Heights

By Terry Boehmker

CRESTVIEW HILLS, Ky. - Ryan Hill has been the starting quarterback on the Ryle junior varsity football team all season, but head coach Bryson Warner pulled him out of the lineup for Friday’s game.

Hill didn’t do anything wrong. He was actually being rewarded for providing the spark the Ryle varsity team needed to defeat Dixie Heights, 38-28, in a Class 6A district game on Friday night.
After Ryle starting quarterback Nathan Davis injured his left ankle early in the second quarter, Hill took charge of the Raiders’ offensive unit and ended up rushing for 254 yards, scoring three touchdowns and passing for another TD.

The 5-foot-5, 155-pound sophomore played so well that Warner decided to give him today off instead of having him suit up for the junior varsity game.

“I feel like I’m on cloud nine right now,” Hill said after Friday’s victory. “At first, I was a little jittery and then I just got comfortable. I tried to think of it as just another JV game – get out there and have fun.”

It was an important win for the Raiders because it clinched second place in the local Class 6A district and gives them a home game in the first round of the postseason.

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