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I am going to say Highlands by at least 48 points. They played the worst game of the history of Highlands football against Ashland. It was cold. Baker had an ordinary game outside of two extremely long touchdown runs. If Ashland had not caused a couple of red zone fumbles, Highlands would have scored at least 44 points and would have probably put a running clock on Ashland in the second quarter.

Meanwhile, Covington Catholic struggled to beat a team that played the weakest schedule any Kentucky team has ever played in a season. It all points to a huge rout by the 'Birds.

(Highlands trolls making their annual pilgrimage from the NKY Bluegrass website, please feel free to copy, paste, and sign this prediction. I just thought I would save you some typing.)

I know that is sarcasm, but you are not too far off. I would predict the game to be closer than last meeting, around 17-21 point win.
HHS did play probably worst game of season (Campbell game was close), and yes HHS could have been up comfortably if they did not play like crap inside 5 yard line twice (first time terrible play calling and give Ashland credit for stopping them, second time unforced turnover on terrible snap), and no points on last drive of half with poor clock management. Say what you want about Baker, he was not impressive except for 2 runs (160 of his yards where on those runs). On the 96 yard run HHS had D tight to line of scrimmage and the O line opened a nice hole and he used his god given speed and no one could catch up to him (I credit the O line on that TD, nice blocking). Second long run basically same thing. Rest of game he did very little, yes it was ordinary at best rest of game. With HHS offense they will be happy to give up two long runs if that is the whole offense; need to score more than that to beat them.
As for the CCH/JC game, we played them at full strength and blasted them, JC played them very banged up without starting QB and got beat. How come HHS is only team that is not allowed to have a bad game? If HHS fans state after a game that they played bad, it is always taken as an excuse. No, Ashland played tough and Highlands won despite playing poorly. Take the win and move on. I am sure they will play better with Cov Cath coming to town next week.