Sherman and Denison are heading east. Van Alstyne is staying put, while Pilot Point moves up. And Honey Grove, after years of life at the bottom of Class 2A, finally gets its long-sought demotion.
The Bearcats and Yellow Jackets were placed in a district consisting of Northeast Texas teams on Monday morning in the University Interscholastic League realignment, which is in effect for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years.
Other members of the new District 13-4A are Greenville, Mount Pleasant, Royse City, Sulphur Springs, and Texarkana Texas High.
These schools will be paired up in the opening round of the playoffs with District 14-4A members Hallsville, Jacksonville, Kilgore, Longview Pine Tree, Marshall, Nacogdoches, Tyler, and Whitehouse.
In Class 3A, area teams are generally staying put, with Aubrey moving to 3A for the first time and Pilot Point rejoining the class after two seasons in 2A. Van Alstyne and Commerce, two other teams who were close to the projected cutoff, came in above the 430 enrollment number set by the UIL, the same as in the last realignment.
The district lineup in 3A looks like this: Argyle, Aubrey, Gainesville, Pilot Point, Sanger and Whitesboro in 9-3A; Anna, Bonham, Celina, Commerce and Van Alstyne in 10-3A; and Farmersville, Frisco Lone Star, Lucas Lovejoy, Nevada Community, Princeton and Prosper in 11-3A.
The biggest change in area alignments are in Class 2A and 1A, which for the first time will be aligned into Divisions I and II.
District 5-2A (I) consists of Callisburg, Howe, and Pottsboro joining Boyd, Paradise and football newcomer Ponder; while Melissa has been sent to 7-2A (I) and will face Caddo Mills, Grand Saline, Mineola, Quitman and Winnsboro.
District 5-2A in Division II has a familiar look, with Bells, Gunter, Leonard, S&S Consolidated, Tom Bean and Whitewright.
In Class A, the majority of local teams are Division I, and they are divided between two districts. Familiar rivals Collinsville, Lindsay, Muenster, and Valley View — dropping from 2A — will meet Chico and Petrolia in 5-A (I), and Blue Ridge, Celeste, Honey Grove and Wolfe City will go east to play Quinlan Boles and Clarksville in 6-A (I). Clarksville is dropping from 2A.
Savoy, which will return to varsity football for the first time since 2002, is the area’s only 1A Division II representative. The Cardinals join District 11-A (II) along with Cumby, Dallas Gateway, Detroit and Era.
Texomaland’s only six-man school, Fannindel, is once again in Division II and will travel east and south to meet Karnack, Milford and Trinidad.
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