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In the latest plan to overhaul North Dakota high school basketball and volleyball, Hillsboro will remain a Class B school.
But the landscape for the two winter sports played in the Red River Valley and across the state will most certainly be changed if the latest proposal by the state’s Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association is given the stamp of approval at a NDIAAA spring meeting and in a vote of all North Dakota High School Activities Association member schools this fall.
If accepted by a majority of schools in the state, the plan for a three-class system in basketball and volleyball will be implemented at the start of the 2009-2010 school year. (more…)

Sports fans in Hillsboro aren’t giving the three-class system proposed by the state athletic directors association much of a chance of making it to the gym on time, let alone getting to the three state tournaments the NDIAAA wants to see staged and played.
Scheduled to begin during the 2009-2010 school year, the three classes planned for basketball and volleyball are designed to give all schools the opportunity to play in a state tournament.
Which they have now, say detractors to the NDIAAA plan that will be addressed again at an April meeting of the state association. The plan, if still on the table as the year progresses, will be put to a vote of all schools in October. (more…)