High School changes boost regional hopes

High School changes boost regional hopes

With the 2009 spring travel soccer season now a memory, thoughts are turning to the fall high school campaign.

There will be some 288 member schools offering boys' soccer in Indiana and this year's alignment will see just one minor change in the sectional championship.

However, the most significant change as far as teams in Floyd and Clark county are concerned is the fact that the regional championships will not feature reigning champion Columbus North, even if it does win its sectional again. That’s because the Bulldogs will now host a sectional in which its winner will move forward to the East Central regional instead of the one hosted here by Floyd Central.

Sectional 60 will feature Floyd Central, New Albany, North Harrison, Corydon Central and Silver Creek. Salem, which reached last year's final against champion New Albany, will now be in Sectional 57 with Seymour, Trinity Lutheran, Austin and Brown County.

Sectional 59, which includes Jeffersonville, Rock Creek Academy, Providence, Charlestown and Christian Academy of Indiana, doesn't change.

The sectional tournament will take place on October 8 and 10, with the regional competition being played on October 14 and 17.

Meanwhile, the area's girls' teams will play in the eight team Sectional 28, which will include defending champion Floyd Central, New Albany, Providence, Jeffersonville, North Harrison, Corydon, Silver Creek and newcomers Charlestown. Games will be played on October 12, 13, 15, and 17.

A record 249 member schools look like offering women's soccer this fall (245 entered the state tournament last year). It is just seven short of the 256 schools needed to consider class soccer.