| Show Uintah to Join Class A Ranks Next Season Se son Uintah high School will join Class A ranks next fall This decision has been made by the Legislative Council of Utah High School Activities Association meet meet- meeting ing recently at the State Cap Cap- Capitol itol ALSO HEADING for Class ClassA A status are Judge Memorial ial American Fork Pleasant I Grove and likely Lehi The larger high schools generally with more than students are usually rated Class A Uintah has about students Geographical con con- considerations considerations also are some some- sometimes times Involved The Class A schools of the state were realigned into four regions REGION ONE One divis- divis divisI division division ion will have Bear River I Box Elder Logan and the Cache County schools now North Cache and South Cache while the other division divi- divi division sion will have Ben Lomond Bonneville Ogden Weber and the new Roy High School Region Two One division will have Bountiful Clear Clear- Clearfield field Davis and the sECond Bountiful high school when it is completed The other division will be composed of West South East and High High- Highland Highland land REGION THREE One divi- divi division division sion will have Cyprus Gran Gran- Granger Skyline gel ger Granite Olympus Sky Sky- line and the new school at Kearns while the other will have Bingham Hillcrest Jor Jordan dan Murray and Tooele Region four One division will have Judge Memorial American Fork Pleasant Grove Uintah and Lehi if it accepts a Class A designation tion The other dIvision will have Carbon Orem Payson Provo Spanish Fork and Springville IT HAS BEEN recommend ed cd but not voted upon that each school will play all oJ of I the other schools in its own divIsion in football and as many In the other dIvision of its region as possible It was recommended that two preseason and seven con con- conference ference games would be the limIt for football Basketball would be limited according to the recommendation to four preseason and 12 con con- conference ference games Right at this moment all of these recommendations are just that they'll be voted on later Also to be decided is whether ther the Class A basketball tournament will be an eight team two from each region or a 16 team four from each region tournament It also has been recommended recommended mended that each region pro pro- produce produce duce a football semifinalist I but some sentiment has been I developed into having the eighth division winners playa play a I quarterfinal round The Class B setup wasn't drastically changed Reassignment of BY High and Union and perhaps Lehi became necessary when Re- Re Region Region gion Seven lost American Fork ork Pleasant Grove and Uintah IT WAS decided to put BY High in Region Nine for football and in a league con con- consisting consisting of BY High Tintic Grantsville Dugway St Jo- Jo Joseph Joseph seph St Francis and St Marks Mark's for basketball Union will play in Region Six for football stay in Region Eight E for basketball Legislative Most members of the Leg Leg- Council believed that Lehi will decide to go Class A Abut Abut but if it doesn't a spot must be found for it in a football and basketball league One loophole was left for any dIssatisfied school I The council approved this statement Any school which feels its placement accord accord- according according ing to the above classification classification tion will cause undue hard hard- hardship hardship ship because of excessive travel or lack of facilities may apply to the Legislative Council ot of the Utah High School Activities for reclassification Deadline for such application tion was set at next Dec 1 However the Class A re- re regrouping re- re regrouping grouping was voted upon and will begin with next falls fall's football season And unless the complaints gain favorable consideration after tile the Dec 1 deadline the Class B assign assign- will stick |
