By CHRIS HOBBS
HobbsDailyReport.com
MAIDEN – The new South Fork Athletic 2A Conference, which begins playing in August, announced Tuesday the admission cost for all sports – varsity and junior varsity – will be $6.
In a conference meeting of athletic directors at the Brookwood Café and Catering in Maiden, league officials also said football games in the conference will kick off at 7:30 p.m.
Conference teams will play a 14-game schedule – a home and away schedule – in most team sports.
The eight-team conference is Bandys, East Lincoln, Lake Norman Charter, Lincolnton, Maiden, Newton-Conover, North Lincoln and West Lincoln.
In statewide realignment, six schools currently in the Southern District 7 Athletic 2A will welcome North Lincoln and Lake Norman Charter into a new league.
North Lincoln is moving from 3A to 2A and leaving the North Piedmont 3A-4A, while Lake Norman Charter is now 2A and playing in the Big South 2A/3A.
Butch Parker — a retired teacher, coach and assistant athletic director at Maiden — is the South Fork 2A’s executive secretary.
The conference also indicated:
- These league championships will be played this school year at Maiden – volleyball (semifinals, finals), girls’ tennis, wrestling, softball and boys’ tennis.
- The basketball tournament will be played at Catawba Valley Community College (semifinals, finals).
- The baseball tournament will be played at the Legions Fairground Field in Newton.
- The cross country championships are scheduled at Southside Park in Newton.
- North Lincoln will play host to the track and field championships.
- A site for the conference swimming championships hasn’t yet been finalized.
Here are the first playing dates for conference events in schedules that are set: Junior varsity football, Sept. 21; varsity football, Sept. 22; volleyball, Aug. 29; boys’ soccer, Sept. 11; cross country, Sept. 6; basketball, boys and girls, Dec. 12; wrestling, Dec. 19; girls’ golf, Sept. 5.