Butch Parker, South Fork 2A’s leader,
will be conference administrator for new league
By CHRIS HOBBS
HobbsDailyReport.com
The new eight-team 2A conference that begins in August will be named the Catawba Valley 2A Athletic Conference.
In an e-mail from Butch Parker — currently conference administrator for the South Fork 2A — he said he has accepted the same role for the new conference and revealed the league’s name.
PARKER
Conference officials met Tuesday.
In statewide realignments, five schools currently in the South Fork 2A – Bandys, Lincolnton, Maiden, Newton-Conover and West Lincoln – join with Bunker Hill, East Burke and West Caldwell, all currently in the Northwestern Foothills 2A to form the new conference.
Brandon Harbinson, athletic director at Bandys, is the CVAC 2A’s president and his school will serve as the host school for coaches’ meetings and Bandys will play host to any on-campus league tournaments it selects to.
Some of the conference tournaments (to be announced) will be played at neutral sites to be determined later.
The conference also decided to select an order to play using an alphabetical system — Bandys, Bunker Hill, East Burke, Lincolnton, Maiden, Newton-Conover, West Caldwell and West Lincoln.
Parker said the league has already met one of its scheduling goals that will have season-ending games – whenever possible – be games between traditional rivals – Bandys versus Bunker Hill, East Burke versus West Caldwell, Maiden versus Newton-Conover and Lincolnton versus West Lincoln.
The league will have schools from five Local Education Administrations (LEAs).
Official names for conferences involving teams from the Greater Hickory area have not been released (see leagues below).
Finalized conferences with average number of students
CONFERENCE NO. 42 (1A/2A)
Black Mountain Owen (2A) 748
Madison (2A) 712
Draughn 630
Mountain Heritage 614
Avery County 539
Mitchell County 489
Rosman 299
CONFERENCE NO. 41 (2A)
R-S Central 845
Patton 834
Brevard 791
E. Rutherford 766
Hendersonville 745
Chase 722
Polk County 614
CONFERENCE NO. 51 (2A)
W. Caldwell 876
E. Burke 865
Maiden 840
Bunker Hill 838
W. Lincoln 827
Bandys 818
Newton-Conover 816
Lincolnton 788
CONFERENCE NO. 51 (3A)
Hickory 1,204
Statesville 1,193
St. Stephens 1,163
N. Iredell 1,133
N. Lincoln 996
Fred T. Foard 890
E. Lincoln 877
W. Iredell 861
CONFERENCE NO. 48 (3A)
Carson 1,238
Central Cabarrus 1,192
W. Rowan 1,092
NW Cabarrus 1,048
Concord 974
S. Rowan 942
E. Rowan 939
Lake Norman Charter 801
CONFERENCE No. 52 (3A-4A)
S. Caldwell (4A) 1,630
Watauga (4A) 1,462
Alexander Central (4A) 1,432
Freedom 1,275
Hibriten 1,001
Ashe County 907
CONFERENCE NO. 53 (3A/4A)
McDowell (4A) 1,638
Asheville Roberson (4A) 1,484
Asheville (4A) 1,376
A.C. Reynolds (4A) 1,296
Asheville Erwin 1,257
Enka 1,124
N. Buncombe 1,110
