[Leaping Lee]

Any team from Eastern Kentucky always has a hard time winning against Northern Kentucky schools and this will be no different but the Tomcats may keep it close. NCC 27 Ashland 19.

That's a misconception. I would say that every team from anywhere in Kentucky has trouble against Cov Cath and Highlands but Ashland, Johnson Central, Belfry and Russell have faired pretty well against the rest of the Northern Kentucky region. As mentoined in another thread Ashland destroyed a Holmes team last year that beat NCC earlier in the year.