The 2016-18 UIL realignmentwill bring an about-face for the Commerce Tigers football team.
Over the past two years, Commerce High School has been in a district composed mostly of schools from suburban Dallas and others to the west. The next two years will give the Tigers a more rural, mostly eastern set of neighbors.
The new football lineup for Conference 3A Division 1 District 7: Commerce, Farmersville, Grand Saline, Mineola, Mount Vernon, Quitman and Winnsboro.
Here’s how things panned out for other high schools around the region, starting with the larger schools.
In Conference 6A, Rockwall and Rockwall Heath will be in District 11 with Longview, Mesquite, Mesquite Horn, Tyler and Tyler Lee.
In Conference 5A, Greenville and Sulphur Springs will have some familiar foes in District 16: Hallsville, Longview Pine Tree, Marshall, Mount Pleasant and Texarkana Texas. Down the interstate a bit, Royse City will compete in a pretty diverse District 15 with Dallas Highland Park, Forney, Lucas Lovejoy, Mesquite Poteet, North Forney, West Mesquite and Wylie East.
In Conference 4A Division 1, for football, Paris, Paris North Lamar, Princeton and Quinlan Ford will join Anna and Texarkana Liberty-Eylau in District 7.
In Conference 4A Division 2, District 5, also for football, will include Aubrey, Bonham, Caddo Mills, Celina, Melissa and Nevada Community. Emory Rains will be in District 6 along with Canton, Dallas Lincoln, Dallas Roosevelt, Ferris and Wills Point.
Conference 4A’s basketball alignments will be different. That configuration will include this grouping as District 11: Anna, Aubrey, Bonham, Celina, Melissa and Princeton. District 12 will be Caddo Mills, Crandall, Ferris, Kaufman, Nevada Community, Quinlan Ford and Terrell. District 13 will include Brownsboro, canton, Emory Rains, Mabank, Van and Wills Point. District 14 will be composed of Atlanta, Paris, Paris North Lamar, Pittsburg, Texarkana Liberty-Eylau and Texarkana Pleasant Grove.
In Conference 3A Division 2, the Cooper Bulldogs will join Leonard, Paris Chisum and Pattonville Prairiland in a District 6 that also includes Gunter, Sadler S & S Consolidated and Whitewright. District 8 will be composed of Alba-Golden, Como-Pickton, Edgewood and Lone Oak, as well as Big Sandy Harmony and Winona.
For basketball, Conference 3A has the following groupings: District 10: Commerce, Farmersville, Howe, Leonard, Lone oak, Van Alstyne, Whitewright. District 12: Alba-Golden, Edgewood, Eustace, Grand Saline, Kemp, Mineola, Quitman, Scurry-Rosser. District 13: Como-Pickton, Cooper, Mount Pleasant Chapel Hill, Mount Vernon, Paris Chisum, Pattonville Prairiland, Winnsboro.
In Conference 2A Division I, for football, Blue Ridge, Celeste and Trenton will join Bells, Collinsville, Tom Bean and Valley View in District 6. Elsewhere, Bogata Rivercrest, Honey Grove, Quinlan Boles and Wolfe City will compete against Linden-Kildare and Simms Bowie in District 9.
In Conference 2A Division 2, for football, Clarksville, Cumby and Detroit will be in District 9 along with Dallas Gateway and Maud.
Conference 2A’s basketball districts include the following: District 13: Blue Ridge, Celeste, Honey Grove, Merit Bland, Trent, Wolfe City. District 14: Campbell, Cumby, Dallas Gateway, Martins Mill, Quinlan Boles, Sulphur Springs North Hopkins. District 15: Bogata Rivercrest, Clarksville, Detroit, Linden Kildare, Maud, McLeod, Simms Bowie.
For 6-man football, Conference 1A Division I will include Fruitvale, Irving Universal Academy, Ladonia Fannindel, Savoy and Tioga.
Conference 1A basketball districts include: District 23: Cumby Miller Grove, Ladonia Fannindel, Roxton, Saltillo, Sulphur Bluff. District 24: Avinger, Bloomburg, Fruitvale, Gilmer Union Hill, Yantis.
