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Thursday, May 12, 2011

12 area football teams to change divisions next season

By Kyle Nagel | Thursday, May 12, 2011, 12:57 PM

Twelve area high school football teams will change divisions next season, according to new division standards passed by the Ohio High School Athletic Association Board of Directors today.

The most significant of that group is Alter, which went 50-6 with two state championships in the past four seasons in Division IV. The Knights will move up to D-III, where they most recently played from 2003-06, including a loss in the state championship game in ‘06 to Steubenville.

Enrollment figures and division standards are changed every two years.

Area teams changing divisions

Franklin (up from III to II)

Bellbrook (up from III to II)

Tippecanoe (up from III to II)

Thurgood Marshall (up from IV to III)

Alter (up from IV to III)

Ponitz Tech (up from VI to IV)

Greeneview (up from V to IV)

Covington (up from VI to V)

Carroll (down from II to III)

Meadowdale (down from II to III)

Chaminade Julienne (down from III to IV)

St. Henry (down from V to VI)

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Alter to move up to Division III in football this fall

By Kyle Nagel | Thursday, May 12, 2011, 11:26 AM

The Alter High School football team, one of the area’s most successful of the past decade, will move up from Division IV to D-III next season based on new enrollment figures.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association Tweeted about Alter’s move today, the day the Board of Directors approved the new enrollment levels for fall sports divisions.

The OHSAA updates enrollment figures from grades 9-11 every two years. The updated enrollment, released two weeks ago, showed Alter’s boys enrollment number increased from 236 to 255. The Knights were one of the state’s largest D-IV schools.

The Knights won consecutive D-IV state titles in 2008 and ‘09 and finished in the state semifinals last season. Alter was last Division III in 2006, when the team lost the state championship game 34-33 to Steubenville.

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