Major Changes Coming for BHS Athletics as New Regional, Sectional Alignments Announced
By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on April 05, 2024
The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission has released the sectional and regional alignment that will be in place at the start of the 2024-25 school year and run through the 2027-28 school year and there are big changes coming for Bridgeport High School.
Also starting in the fall of 2024, the four-class format will be in place for football, volleyball, baseball, softball and cheer in addition to boys and girls basketball, which have been four classes since 2020.
The Indians were in Class AAAA for basketball the past four seasons but will drop down to Class AAA, for which they will also be classified in football, volleyball, baseball, softball and cheer.
For volleyball, boys basketball, girls basketball, baseball and softball, BHS will be in Class AAA Region I, Section 2 along with Lincoln, Robert C. Byrd and Lewis County. The other side of the region in Section 1 will consist of Berkeley Springs, Hampshire, Keyser and Frankfort.
There is no sectional breakdown for cheer so the Indians will be in Class AAA Region II along with Lincoln, Robert C. Byrd, Lewis County, Berkeley Springs, Hampshire, Keyser and Frankfort.
The football postseason does not have a sectional or regional format and is determined by the WVSSAC football playoff ratings system.
Sports not changing to four classes are golf, cross country, boys soccer, girls soccer, wrestling, tennis and swimming.
BHS golf, cross country and track and field will be in Class AAA Region I along with Brooke, Buckhannon-Upshur, John Marshall, Morgantown, Preston, University, Wheeling Park and Fairmont Senior.
BHS boys and girls soccer will be in Class AAA Region I, Section 2 along with Fairmont Senior, Buckhannon-Upshur, Preston and University. The other side of the region in Section 1 will consist of Brooke, John Marshall, Morgantown and Wheeling Park.
BHS wrestling and tennis will in Class AAA Region I with Brooke, John Marshall, Morgantown, Wheeling Park, Fairmont Senior, Buckhannon-Upshur, Preston and University.
Swimming remains the only one-class sport in the state and Bridgeport remains in Region III along with Buckhannon-Upshur, Capital, Charleston Catholic, Doddridge County, Elkins, Grafton, Herbert Hoover, Liberty, Lincoln, Notre Dame, Philip Barbour, PikeView, Riverside, Robert C. Byrd, Shady Spring, South Harrison and Woodrow Wilson.
The complete regional and sectional breakdown for the entire state can be viewed HERE
Editor's Note: Photo of the BHS boys basketball team by Joe LaRocca.
