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Hitting the Jackpot: North wins big in soccer realignment
By Andrew Snyder, asnyder@starlocalnews.com
After a lengthy stint sharing a district, the McKinney and McKinney North soccer teams will be leagues apart next year.
The UIL's biennial athletic redistricting has split the teams into separate districts for the 2012-2013 season, with North staying in the friendly confines of 17-4A and McKinney moving up in classification to face a much more difficult set of opponents.
But the Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs situation gets even better. They get to both stay in a relatively weak soccer district and lose two of their top competitors, Little Elm and McKinney.
The Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs were a combined 15-1 against their new district competition this season. The Lady Bulldogs, who finished second to McKinney a year after winning the district title, only lost to Little Elm and McKinney and racked up a +33 scoring differential while allowing no goals against the rest of the district.
McKinney's new district, in contrast, is a significant rise in difficulty. In a mirror image of their other athletic districts, the Lions and Lionettes will join Allen, Plano, Plano East, Plano West and McKinney Boyd in District 10-5A for the next two seasons.
That field features the 2010-2011 state champion, Boyd, and a Plano West squad that advanced to the state finals this season by beating Flower Mound Marcus, a nationally-ranked opponent, 3-2 in the regional finals and Klein Oak, 2-0, in the state semis.
Fresh off district-title runs in boys and girls soccer, McKinney will be by far the smallest school in the new-look 10-5A. The school's student population is about three times smaller than that of Plano East, which ranks as the state's largest high school, followed by Allen, Plano and Plano West.
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