Five of the six public high schools in East Cobb will be competing in the same region next year in varsity sports.
That’s after the Georgia High School Association granted an appeal by Kell High School on Tuesday to move up to Class 6A.
The Longhorns have been competing in Class 5A, and were assigned to stay in place. But the reclassification process includes the right to appeal to move up or move down.
For the next two seasons, Region 6 of Class 6A will be all Cobb County high schools, and includes Kell, Lassiter, Pope, Sprayberry and Wheeler.
The other schools in the proposed new region will be Allatoona, Kennesaw Mountain, Osborne and South Cobb.
When GHSA made reclassification assignments last week, it moved Lassiter and Wheeler down from Class 7A. Pope and Sprayberry remain in Class 6A.
Walton remains in Class 7A, but will have different region foes. Instead of competing against Roswell, Etowah, Cherokee and Woodstock, the Raiders will be in a Region 3 field that includes Harrison, Hillgrove, Marietta, North Cobb and North Paulding.
For the last few years, only Lassiter and Walton were in the same region. Wheeler has been in a far flung region in Class 7A that includes Pebblebrook, Campbell, Westlake of Atlanta, Newnan and East Coweta.
Pope and Sprayberry were in different regions in Class 6A, and Kell’s region rivals in 5A also were spread out, from Cartersville to Rome to Carrollton.
On Friday, four East Cobb schools will compete in the GHSA football playoffs: Sprayberry at Lanier (Gwinnett County), Wheeler at Roswell, Kell at Columbia and Newnan at Walton.
The only ranked East Cobb team heading into the post-season is Kell, at No. 8 in Class 5A.
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