ST. BERNARD – There’s a special never-ending bond between twins.
It’s a link that endures. Twins Chris and Harmonie Kugele know how unbreakable that bond is.
The Roger Bacon High School seniors have accomplished many things in the last four years. Harmonie’s played volleyball, basketball and softball, while Chris competed in football, basketball and baseball.
What they accomplished together, though, means the most, even if Harmonie had to carry her younger (by five minutes) brother to get there.
“The record that we have, she has 96 percent of that,” laughed Chris, who’s committed to play football next season at Urbana University.
According to the school, no other brother-sister duo has hit more home runs than the Kugeles in Roger Bacon history.
Harmonie, who’s headed to the University of Cincinnati, broke two school records this season. First, she belted her 20th career home run, which broke the school’s all-time career home run record. Then in the regular-season finale she hit her 10th long ball, which broke the single-season home run record, bringing her career total to 22.
Chris, who hit his first and only career home run this season to give them 23 together, was in attendance when his sister became the all-time home run leader.
“I didn’t know at the beginning of the year and then she started talking to me about it … and then it just came out of nowhere,” said Chris. “Then I went to her Senior Night and that’s when she did it.
Chris and Harmonie have always been together. Growing up, Harmonie played basketball on her brother’s team until about the sixth grade. Wherever one went, the other seemed to follow. It’s a special partnership.
So when Chris leaves for college in early July, things are going to be very different.
“She’s more emotional about it,” Chris said.
They graduate on June 1.
No matter how much space is between Chris and Harmonie, that won’t change how close they are, or how they got to spend the first 18 years of their lives together, making memories.