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The Clifton Record
Friday, Feb. 6, 2004
DISTRICT 21-AA-Region III
• Clifton
•Troy
PERIOD .«
Football &
Basketball
(Effective Fall 2004)
Youth Soccer League Organizational
Meeting Planned Feb. 16th In Clifton
UIL Realignment
Clifton Finds Itself In New
District, Region For 2004-2006
CLIFTON — An organizational
meeting for the Spring 2004 sea-
son of the Clifton Soccer League
will be held at 7 p.m Monday, Feb.
16, in the Clifton Civic Center. All
parents of children ages four to
five who are interested in partici-
pating in a local recreational soc-
cer league are encouraged to
attend. All practices and games
will be held in Clifton.
Items to be discussed include
registration, sponsorship, coach-
ing, and other issues important to
the league.
“Everyone is asked to come
ready with any suggestions or
comments to improve upon from
last season,” said spokesman
Mary Burk. “We hope to see every-
one there. Let’s continue to help
this league grow for our children
and our community,” Burk added.
For more information, contact
Burk at at (254) 386-2307 or by e-
mail (burkmh(« yahoo.com).
By David Andkrson
SPORTS EDITOR
' CLIFTON - The biennial Uni-
versity Interscholastic League re-
alignment is here, and Clifton once
again finds itself in an almost en-
tirely new district, heading in an
opposite direction from the cur-
rent alignment. Effective this fall,
gone will be Dublin, DeLeon, Hico,
and Hamilton, and added to the
mix will be McGregor, Moody, Troy,
and Bruceville-Eddy. Clifton and
Crawford are the only two schools
from 10-AA to move to the new 21-
AA. The Cubs will also see a move
from AA-Region II to
Region III
Four years ago, the
UIL sent Clifton to the
east. Two years ago,
Clifton began traveling
basically west for dis-
trict' play. Now, the
Cubs and Lady Cubs
will be heading in a
southerly direction.
“It’s kind of funny.
Six years ago, we were
going to a regional track meet in
Odessa. Now, we ll be going to Pal-
estine, so we’ve pretty much had
Texas covered from one side of the
state to the other,” Athletic Direc-
tor/Head Football Coach Scott
Barnett told The Ci.ifton Record
Tuesday morning.
Texas schools are split into four
regions, no matter what the clas-
sification. Region I is basically
west Texas, Region II is mainly
north, Region III heads into east
Texas, and Region IV contains the
southern portions of the state.
“The UIL, when it sets up its
playoff brackets, needs eight dis-
tricts in each region,” said Bar-
nett. The first three regions seem
to converge in Central Texas, de-
pending on the classification.
“I was a little surprised that we
went into the East Region,” the
coach noted. “One thing you'll no-
tice about our districts is that
we’re always on the outside edge.
No matter what direction we go,
we’re never in the middle. I guess
that just has to do with where,
we’re located.”
Clifton’s new district is reminis-
cent of the old District 16-AA in
effect from 1994 through 1996.
That district was comprised of
Clifton, Axtell, Bruceville-Eddy,
McGregor, Moody, and Valley
Mills. In 1994, the Cubs went 10-0
in the regular season, including a
5-0 district title, eventually bowing
out to Hubbard in Area playoffs. In
1995, the Cubs were District Tri-
Champs, but sat out of the playoffs.
Barnett said if the UIL had
wished to do so, 10-AA could have
remained intact. DeLeon turned
in 190 students, and the new bot-
tom cutoff for Class AA was raised
to 190, making DeLeon the small-
est AA school in the state. That
meant all six schools in the cur-
rent district remained in their cur-
rent classification.
“The natural assumption would be
that we’d keep the same district, but
it just didn’t work out that way. It
probably had something to do with
some schools dropping down from
AAA to AA a,little bit west of here,
pulling some schools in that direc-
tion, and they had to have a place to
put us,” Coach Barnett reported.
Barnett said most of the teams
Clifton will be in the new district
with weren’t really that much of a
surprise, with possibly the excep-
tion of Troy
“We had tentatively scheduled a
pre-district game with them (TVoy)
like we’ve played the past few years.
Neither I or Coach (Mike) McMurtry
thought we’d end up in the same dis-
trict," Barnett explained.
One of the ru-
mors swirling
around the area
concerning realign-
ment was that
Crawford would
move down to Class
A, but that did not
pan out. Coach Bar-
nett said he has
also heard those
rumors, and was
mildly surprised
the Pirates remained in AA.
“I expected them to go down,
but I only based that on the fact
that Crawford turned in 192 stu-
dents, and I thought the new cut-
off would be around 195 to 200. It
wasn’t shocking that they’re still
AA, but I thought there was a good
chance, and I think Crawford
thought there was a good chance,
that they would be moving down,”
Barnett told The Record.
Clifton and Crawford have built
a healthy rivalry the past four years
as district mates, and now an old
rivalry will be renewed as Clifton
and McGregor share a district for
the first time since 1995-96.
“One goodthing about changing
districts is you get to play some new
people. The negative is that you
have a hard time building up those
year-in, year-out rivalries. We’ve
been with Crawford for a while now
so we’ve been able to develop that.
We had been developing that with
McGregor, then all of a sudden
you’re in different districts.
“On the other hand, we have had
some pretty good competitions
developing with the Hicos and
Hamiltons, and we’re going to
miss that. You get to know their
kids, and they get to know you, and
it makes it kind of fun,” Barnett
continued.
“The real interesting thing, I
think, is what will happen with
Crawford and McGregor. They’re
seven miles apart, and hardly ever
played each other, and now the
UIL says they’re going to,” Bar-
nett added.
As for underclassmen sched-
ules, Barnett said the new district
may provide more of those oppor-
tunities but probably not a lot
more than the old district.
Meridian, Valley Mills
Bosque County’s two Class A
schools, Meridian and Valley Mills,
saw the least changes on their re-
alignment. Remaining in the same
football league with the Yellowjack-
ets and Eagles are Bosqueville,
Chilton, and Riesel. Gone is Evant,
and new additions include Axtell
and Bremond. The former District
23-A is now 25-A, and moves from
Region III to Region IV.
Six-Man Fbotball
In the same football district the
past two years, the five six-man
schools in Bosque County sud
denly find themselves headed in
different directions.
The last two seasons saw Cran-
fills Gap, Iredell, Kopperl, Morgan,
and Walnut Springs in the seven-
team District 14 along with Jones-
boro and Oglesby.
This fall, the Lions, Dragons,
and Hornets join Gordon, Jones-
boro, and Strawn, forming District
13. District 15 will be comprised of
Kopperl and Morgan, along with
Abbott, Aquilla, Bynum, Coolidge,
and Penelope.
Basketball
Clifton’s District 21-AA will re-
main the same in basketball as
well as football, but the other
seven schools will see slight differ-
ences in their roundball leagues.
District 11 - A < Div. I) will be com-
prised of Meridian, Valley Mills,
Evant, and Goldthwaite.
District 22-A (Div. II) will contain
Cranfills Gap, Jonesboro, Lometa,
Oglesby, and Star.
District 23-A (Div. II) will include
Iredell, Kopperl, Morgan, and Wal-
nut Springs, along with Abbott,
Aquilla, and Blum.
General Info
In total, there were many
changes in the five classifications
as the UIL announced its realign-
ments last Monday, Feb. 1.
Class AAAAA increased by 20
schools to 245 total, with enroll-
ment levels rising to 1,925 and
above from 1,865 and above in the
previous realignment. One brand-
new school — Garland Sachse —
joined the AAAAA ranks, while 27
rose from AAAA.
AAAAs ranks changed little,
from 218 to 222 schools, with en-
rollment levels rising from 845 to
1,864 in 2002-03 to 900 to 1,924 in
2004-05. One new school comes in
as a AAAA campus, Mansfield
Timberview. Ten schools dropped
from AAAAA to AAAAA, while 14
rise from AAA to AAAA.
In Class AAA, there will be just
187 schools, down from the previ-
ous 215. Enrollment levels rose
from 345 to 844 previously to a cur-
rent 390 to $99.
Carrollton Ranchview is the
only new school to join the UIL at
the AAA-level. Seven schools drop
from AAAA to AAA, while the UIL
reports no schools rising from the
AA-ranks.
At the AA level, there will be just
one more school (226) even though
enrollment levels jumped to 190 to
389 from the previous 170-344.
One new AA school joins the
UIL rosters — Donna Idea Acad
emy. A total of 22 schools fall to AA
from AAA, while a half-dozen rise
from the Class A level.
In Class A11-man football, there
will be 153 schools this fall, while
six-man football will have 112.
New Class A schools include
Austin Texas Empowerment, Dal
las Gateway Charter, El Paso School
of Excellence, Melissa, and New
Braunfels Ney Charter. A total of 22
schools drop from Class AA to this
level this year, as the top-level en-
rollment rises from 169 in 2002-03 to
189 in the new alignments.
The realignments are not final
until appeals are heard by the UIL.
A school can request an appeal of
its district assignment, but must do
so no later than Thursday, Feb. 12
A meeting will be held Thursday,
Feb. 19, to hear such appeals. After
that, schools will be free to set their
pre-district football schedules, most
of which are tentative at this time.
Baseball, softball, and volleyball
districts will be announced by the
UIL later this spring.
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR/Head
Football Coach Scott Barnett said
while changing districts every two
years lets you see different oppo-
nents, it also makes it difficult to
build up good “year-in, year-out
rivalries. -Clifton Record File Photo
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