Central moving up to 5-A

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November 21, 2011

Clint Thompson CNHI The Times Enterprise Mon Nov 21, 2011, 06:16 PM EST

THOMASVILLE — Class AAAA will no longer be the home for Thomas County Central.

Following Monday’s Georgia High School Association reclassification meeting, the Yellow Jackets were reclassified to Class AAAAA in the newly-expanded six-classification system.

Central’s enrollment figures, of current 9th-11th graders, number 1,128 students, just four above the smallest school in the newly-formed Class 5-A, Dunwoody.

The other South Georgia teams in Class 5-A are Bainbridge and Lee County, the teams with Central in the current Class 4-A. Other potential future Region 1 opponents could be the three teams from Warner Robins (Warner Robins, Northside-Warner Robins and Houston County) and three teams from Columbus (Hardaway, Harris County and Northside-Columbus). Schools have two weeks to petition to play up in classification. The GHSA reclassification committee will meet again to discuss regions.

“It’s really going to be interesting to see what they do, how they’re going to put us together to make up regions,” Central football coach Bill Shaver said. “It looks like travel is not going to be eliminated for us.

“It’s going to be a lot of traveling regardless. We were hoping to catch the 4-A numbers to be in there with Cairo, the Albany schools, Worth County, Crisp County, in that kind of deal where our travel would be like it used to be. That’s not going to happen. We’re going to be riding the yellow hounds I guess.”

For full details, see Tuesday's edition of the Times-Enterprise.

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