Newport football coach Roy Lucas Sr. has resigned after five seasons.

        Lucas, 59, has been coaching football 35 years. He is 180-120 in 29 years as a head coach, including 44-25 at Newport. He made a career of rebuilding programs, including Newport, an 0-10 program the year before he arrived in 1996.

        This year's Wildcats were 2-8, but Lucas said his mind was made up before the season started.

        “I told (Newport Superintendent Dan) Sullivan this summer this was it,” Lucas said.

        Lucas will remain as coordinator of Newport High's Youth Services Center.

        POHLGEERS COMMITS: Katie Pohlgeers, a 5-foot-11 senior forward for the Beechwood girls basketball team, has verbally commited to Bellarmine College, a NCAA Division II school in Louisville.

        As a junior, Pohlgeers averaged 18 points and nine rebounds for the Tigers. She also passed the 1,000-point career scoring mark.

        HIGH SCHOOL HEISMAN: Villa Madonna senior Kate O'Toole has been named the Kentucky female winner of the Wendy's High School Heisman Program. She is a candidate for the national award, to be announced Dec. 8. O'Toole, a tennis and volleyball player, has a 4.19 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) while also tutoring and doing community service work.

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