King City and Braymer’s school boards have voted to switch to Eight Man effective 2016-2017. They will join the rest of the GRC schools in the Small School Division in Eight Man Football. The Western Division will include Albany, Braymer, King City, North Andrew, Pattonsburg, St. Joseph Christian, Stanberry, and Worth County. These schools will also compete with each other in softball and basketball. Mike Adkins of the GRC said that there were plans to have a conference championship game at the end of the conference season for both basketball and softball for both the east and west divisions. The conference champion for golf, track, and wrestling will be decided by one conference meet involving all schools participating in those sports.
Since Worth County will have a seven-game conference schedule in football, the Tigers will have three holes to fill in their schedule; however, it could well be filled by games with 275 schools that are nearby. South Nodaway has also been a district foe in the past. Worth County will have two games to fill in both softball and basketball with the move. The move means that there will be 21 schools playing eight man football, five more than the MSHSAA threshold of 16 to sanction the sport.
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