Football alignment approved
The KHSAA Board of Control approved a final football alignment for the 2011-14 seasons today that does not change the districts in which the six Advocate-area teams were placed but does change a couple of their opponents.
Only the districts including Danville and Garrard County were affected by the changes, and only seven teams in all were moved from where they were placed in the KHSAA draft. Here are the particulars affecting Danville and Garrard:
- In District 2A-7, Leslie County was removed, leaving Danville with a four-team district that includes Lexington Christian, Middlesboro and Somerset. Leslie was moved to District 8 to give that district four teams after Russell was moved up to Class 3A.
- In District 3A-5, Western Hills was added to give Garrard a six-team district that also includes Bath, Bourbon, Estill and Powell counties. Western Hills was originally placed in District 3 but asked to be moved to comply with a school district policy requiring that its athletic teams travel 75 miles or less. (The most distant opponent in its new district, Powell, is 69 miles away.)
Elsewhere, the proposed Class 6A super-district of duPont Manual, Male, St. Xavier and Trinity was left intact, and Russell was the only team moved up in class, from 2A to 3A.
Here is the final alignment, with changes from the original proposal noted in italics:
CLASS 1A
District 1 — Fulton City, Fulton County, Mayfield, Russellville
District 2 — Bethlehem, Caverna, Kentucky Country Day, Louisville Holy Cross
District 3 — Bracken County, Eminence, Frankfort, Paris
District 4 — Beechwood, Bellevue, Dayton, Ludlow
District 5 — Berea, Campbellsville, Lynn Camp, Williamsburg
District 6 — Harlan, Hazard, Jenkins, Pineville
District 7 — Fairview, Nicholas County, Paintsville, Raceland
District 8 — Allen Central, Phelps, Pikeville, South Floyd
CLASS 2A
District 1 — Ballard Memorial, Caldwell County, Crittenden County, Murray, Reidland
District 2 — Butler County, Hancock County, McLean County, Owensboro Catholic, Todd County Central, Union County
District 3 — Clinton County, Glasgow, Green County, Metcalfe County
District 4 — Bardstown, DeSales, Fort Knox, Louisville Christian, Shawnee, Washington County
District 5 — Carroll County, Gallatin County, Owen County, Trimble County, Walton-Verona
District 6 — Bishop Brossart, Covington Holy Cross, Lloyd Memorial, Newport, Newport Central Catholic
District 7 — Danville, Lexington Christian, Middlesboro, Somerset
District 8 — Betsy Layne, Leslie County, Prestonsburg, Shelby Valley
CLASS 3A
District 1 — Fort Campbell, Heath, Paducah Tilghman, Trigg County, Webster County,
District 2 — Adair County, Edmonson County, Hart County, Monroe County, South Warren
District 3 — Central, Elizabethtown, Henry County, LaRue County
District 4 — Bell County, Casey County, Corbin, McCreary Central, Wayne County
District 5 — Bath County, Bourbon County, Estill County, Garrard County, Powell County, Western Hills
District 6 — East Carter, Fleming County, Lewis County, Mason County, Russell, West Carter
District 7 — Breathitt County, Jackson County, Knott County Central, Magoffin County, Morgan County
District 8 — Belfry, East Ridge, Lawrence County, Pike County Central, Sheldon Clark
CLASS 4A
District 1 — Calloway County, Hopkins County Central, Lone Oak, Madisonville-North Hopkins, Owensboro
District 2 — Allen County-Scottsville, Breckinridge County, Franklin-Simpson, Warren East
District 3 — Atherton, Collins, North Oldham, Spencer County, Waggener
District 4 — Doss, Fairdale, Moore, Valley, Western
District 5 — Boyle County, Lexington Catholic, Marion County, Mercer County, Taylor County
District 6 — Clay County, Knox Central, Rockcastle County, Russell County
District 7 — Covington Catholic, Harrison County, Highlands, Holmes, Pendleton County
District 8 — Ashland Blazer, Boyd County, Greenup County, Johnson Central, Rowan County
CLASS 5A
District 1 — Apollo, Christian County, Graves County, Hopkinsville, Ohio County
District 2 — Barren County, Bowling Green, Greenwood, Logan County, Warren Central
District 3 — Grayson County, Iroquois, Jeffersontown, John Hardin, North Hardin
District 4 — Bullitt Central, Bullitt East, North Bullitt, Shelby County
District 5 — Conner, Cooper, Grant County, Scott, South Oldham
District 6 — Anderson County, East Jessamine, Franklin County, Montgomery County, West Jessamine, Woodford County
District 7 — Lincoln County, Madison Southern, North Laurel, Pulaski County, South Laurel, Southwestern
District 8 — Harlan County, Letcher County Central, Perry County Central, Whitley County
CLASS 6A
District 1 — Daviess County, Henderson County, Marshall County, Muhlenberg County
District 2 — Central Hardin, Meade County, Nelson County
District 3 — Butler, Pleasure Ridge Park, Seneca, Southern
District 4 — DuPont Manual, Male, St. Xavier, Trinity
District 5 — Ballard, Eastern, Fern Creek, Oldham County
District 6 — Boone County, Campbell County, Dixie Heights, Ryle, Simon Kenton
District 7 — Bryan Station, Henry Clay, Paul Dunbar, Scott County, Simon Kenton
District 8 — George Rogers Clark, Lafayette, Madison Central, Tates Creek
(NOTE: The fifth-place team in District 6A-6 will qualify for the playoffs as the fourth-place team in District 6A-2 in 2011-12.)
