Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Region shakeup has state powers on the move

The Georgia High School Association’s Reclassification committee proposed the new region alignment yesterday for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years now that the GHSA has moved to six classifications. Schools will have several weeks in which to petition to move regions before the realignment is ratified on January 10, 2012 by the GHSA. One note is that nearly all of the regions are split into sub-regions. Some interesting new regions include Region 7-AAAAAA as Habersham Central moves in with the rest of the old Region 7-AAAAA. Chattahoochee also moves up into the Alpharetta/Centennial Subregion of 6-AAAAAA. Perhaps the most noteworthy though is Region 1-AAAAAA as Camden County now resides in the same region as Colquitt County, Lowndes and Valdosta. ...

Eagle’s Landing Christian Academy battled Landmark Christian last week in the Class A semifinals, and while ELCA likes to run the football, it had no choice against the stout War Eagles defense. ELCA was 0-12 with two interceptions passing the ball as Landmark Christian did not allow the Chargers anything through the air. ELCA was held to under 100 yards of total offense in the 14-7 defeat. Landmark Christian will attempt to become just the second No. 4 seed to ever win a state title and the first to win it outright when the War Eagles face Savannah Christian this Saturday. ...

The Muscogee County School District has decided not to ask some of its eight high schools to play in a higher classification. Gary Gibson, the MCSD athletic director told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer that he and several other school officials had discussed asking all eight to play in the same region but now only five will play in a new class and Kendrick, Jordan and Spencer will remain in Class AA. ...

Finally after 147 straight victories and eight titles, Walton girls tennis coach Robert Manheim has announced she is retiring and Christian Page will take over the program. Manheim never lost as head coach of the program.

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