Check out Junior "Spencer Wells" in a video that that will air on 5/19 on Fox Sports Midwest at 11am as part of a Cardinal's Kids TV show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcgDepnhmzI

 Link to magazine story for above video

http://www.glennon.org/spencer-wells

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MSHSAA releases football assignemnts

Area football coaches got their first glimpse at the realigned classifications and district groupings Saturday morning.

The moves are sure to have coaches, players and fans talking.

“It’s crazy, isn’t it?” CBC coach Scott Pingel said.

The Cadets, who finished second in Class 6 last fall, are part of a monster Class 6 District 2 group that includes fellow power programs De Smet, Hazelwood Central and St. Louis University High — all schools that qualified for the Class 6 playoffs in the fall — along with Francis Howell North, Hazelwood West, Pattonville and Ritenour.

“It looks to me like they just put everybody as close geographically as they could,” De Smet coach Pat Mahoney said. “It looks like it’s pretty well laid out. … You’ve got a lot of tradition there, a lot of teams that are traditionally decent.”

CBC was the runner-up in Class 6 last season. SLUH advanced to the semifinals, De Smet to the quarterfinals.

“All the games matter,” Pingel said. “I’m excited to see how this shakes out.”

The MSHSAA biennial realignment takes place every two years. It separates schools into competition classes based upon shifting enrollment numbers. Schools that are all-boys or all-girls have their actual enrollments doubled in order to balance the number of available athletes with co-ed schools. Then for schools that are non-boundaried, the enrollments are multiplied by 1.35. The result is an “official” enrollment number that determines where schools are bracketed.

This year’s realignment became more intriguing because the state is shifting to a new playoff format beginning in the fall. Rather than four-team districts that advance two teams to the playoffs, schools now will be in six-, seven- or eight-team geographic districts that are seeded based upon a regular-season points system. The new playoff process shrinks the regular season from 10 to nine games but puts every team into district playoffs, at which point a single-elimination tournament begins until a champion emerges.

“It will make the playoffs more exciting, and I think everybody’s got a fair shot,” Webster Groves coach Cliff Ice said. “That’s what we were looking for.”

Saturday’s release also included basketball classification breakdowns. As expected (story here), the area’s biggest news involved Incarnate Word, which in the last decade has been the most dominant largest class girls team in the state. Beginning next winter, the Red Knights will compete in the second-to-largest class for at least the next two seasons.

A Class 5 final four program in seven of the last nine seasons -- and a state champion three times in that period -- Incarnate Word will compete in Class 4. IWA's chief rival, St. Joseph's, remains in Class 5, as do MWAA White conference opponents Ursuline, Nerinx Hall and Cor Jesu.

The MSHSAA will release basketball district pairings in September

In football, Francis Howell and Fort Zumwalt West, schools that advanced to the quarterfinals last fall and have been on the rise in recent seasons, will be grouped in Class 6 District 3 along with central Missouri power programs Jefferson City, Columbia Rock Bridge and Columbia Hickman.

Class 5 District 2 also is loaded. It includes Kirkwood, McCluer North, Webster Groves, Hazelwood East, Chaminade, McCluer and Riverview Gardens.

McCluer North, which drops from Class 6, was a quarterfinalist in the fall. The Stars have qualified for the playoffs the last eight seasons — the past four seasons in Class 6 and the previous four in Class 5.

“It’s a little bit like a yo-yo,” McCluer North coach Jim Schottmueller said. “I’ve been up and down so many times I don’t know what it up and what is down anymore. … The only thing I don’t like about it is we have a possibility of playing three teams twice (being in the same district and conference) with Riverview, (Hazelwood) East and McCluer. But that’s life.”

Kirkwood finished second in Class 5, and Hazelwood East advanced to the quarterfinals. Webster Groves, which won the Class 5 title in 2009 and finished second in 2010, advanced to the second round in 2011.

“If you’re going to make a run in the playoffs you’ll have to play good teams sooner or later,” Kirkwood coach Matt Irvin said. “This looks like it will be sooner.”

“It’s going to be a tough playoff,” said Ice, the Webster Groves coach. “I kind of anticipated that we would go up North. With us and Kirkwood, it’s going to be fun.”

The Turkey Day rivalry between Webster Groves and Kirkwood should not be in any danger, though the possibility exists that those schools could meet in districts. Like in past years, if one of those teams advances to the state championship game, the Turkey Day game would be a junior varsity contest.

Class 6 District 1 looks tough as well with Eureka, Lafayette, Lindbergh, Marquette, Mehlville, Northwest, Oakville and Parkway South. Eureka, Oakville and Lafayette earned playoff berths in 2011, but each of those teams lost in the first round to squads now in the more imposing District 2.

Class 5 District 3 should be difficult, also, with Fort Zumwalt East, Fort Zumwalt North, Fort Zumwalt South, Holt, Parkway Central, Parkway North and Parkway West. Parkway Central advanced to the quarterfinals in the fall.

On the flip side, Class 5 District 1 — which includes Fox, Jackson, Poplar Bluff, Summit, Seckman and Vianney — looks much weaker than Districts 2 and 3. Summit went 7-4 and advanced to the playoffs in 2011, but none of the other five teams had a winning record. Vianney, Seckman, Jackson, Poplar Bluff and Fox combined to go 12-38.

MICDS, which was the runner-up in Class 4 in the fall, is in Class 4 District 5 with Clayton, Gateway Tech, Jennings, Normandy, St. Charles, St. Charles West and University City. Gateway Tech advanced to the quarterfinals in 2011, and St. Charles West advanced to the second round.

Class 3 runner-up John Burroughs is now in Class 3 District 2 with DuBourg, Cardinal Ritter, Confluence Prep, Kennedy, Owensville, Soldan and St. James. Soldan dropped down from Class 4.

Crystal City, which moved down to Class 1, will now be the only area squad in Class 1. The Hornets, who went 8-4 last fall and advanced to the second round of the playoffs, will be District 1 with Cabool, Chaffee, Hayti, Portageville, St. Vincent, Thayer and Valle Catholic.

SCHOOLS MOVING UP, DOWN

• Timberland moves up to Class 6, while McCluer North and Fox drop to Class 5.

• Imagine and Lutheran South moves up to Class 4. Normandy drops to Class 4. Beaumont, which was a Class 4 school, will join Northwest Academy in a cooperative sponsorship and compete in Class 2.

• Lift for Life moves up to Class 3. Soldan and Sumner drop to Class 3.

• Cleveland moves up to Class 2. Lutheran North drops to Class 2.

• Crystal City moves down to Class 1.

NEW MEMBERS

MSHSAA also announced the following area schools as new members: Block Yeshiva, Christian Academy of Greater St. Louis, Logos (Olivette), North County Christian (Florissant), St. Louis Christian Academy, Thomas Jefferson and Tower Grove Christian.

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