INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana High School Athletic Association announced Monday afternoon its layout for the new sectional alignment for eight of the 20 sanctioned team sports.

The most noticeable change is in football, which adds a sixth class to the state tournament and reshapes the competitive landscape.

Here is a breakdown of the local schools and what the new realignments will look like for each school:

WARSAW

Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, Girls Basketball and Boys Basketball – 4A Sectional 4 with Concord, Elkhart Memorial, Elkhart Central, Goshen and Northridge. This group did not change from the most recent series of sectionals for the five sports.

Football – 6A Sectional 3 with Fort Wayne Carroll, Fort Wayne Northrop and Homestead. This is one of the major changes in the state with the addition of the sixth class, and Warsaw gets one break not having to face the likes of Penn in round one, but has to deal with the Fort Wayne schools, including a Homestead program that has had Warsaw’s number in recent years.

Boys and Girls Soccer – 2A Sectional 7 with Culver Academy, NorthWood, Plymouth and Wawasee. This group did not change any of the team order in either sport.

WAWASEE

Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, Girls Basketball and Boys Basketball – 3A Sectional 21 with Fairfield, Lakeland, NorthWood, Tippecanoe Valley, West Noble and Whitko. The only change here is the regrouping of Whitko to what had been just a six-team sectional when Whitko was moved east. Whitko now makes the alignment a seven-team spread as it had been for a good part of the last decade when Columbia City took Fairfield’s place in the 3A grid.

Football – 4A Sectional 19 with Angola, DeKalb, East Noble, Fort Wayne Dwenger, Leo, Northridge and NorthWood. Plymouth and Concord leave this group, Plymouth heading west in 4A while Concord moves up to 5A. There were no favors made as state powerhouse Dwenger moves back into the fold along with a very strong Leo team from the Fort Wayne area.

Boys and Girls Soccer – 2A Sectional 7 with Culver Academy, NorthWood, Plymouth and Warsaw. No changes here, just a perennially tough pairing with any of the other four teams in what has been a sectional loaded with ranked teams in both sports.

TIPPECANOE VALLEY

Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, Girls Basketball and Boys Basketball – 3A Sectional 21 with Fairfield, Lakeland, NorthWood, Wawasee, West Noble and Whitko. Again, Whitko moves in to reunite with Three Rivers Conference rival Tippecanoe Valley.

Football – 3A Sectional 26 with Culver Academy, Fairfield, Jimtown, Maconaquah, Peru, Rochester and Twin Lakes. This sectional received a facelift as part of a large group of schools that bordered near cut lines for sectional sizes. Only Jimtown is a familiar face for Valley from recent sectionals, while Fairfield and Rochester jump up from 2A. This also places Fairfield and Jimtown together again after several fantastic battles in recent years when both schools were offensive juggernauts in Class 2A.

WHITKO

Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, Girls Basketball and Boys Basketball – 3A Sectional 21 with Fairfield, Lakeland, NorthWood, Tippecanoe Valley, Wawasee and West Noble.

Football – 3A Sectional 27 with Bellmont, Fort Wayne Concordia, Fort Wayne Luers, Garrett, Heritage, Lakeland and West Noble. No real cupcakes in this newly aligned sectional. Luers is the four-time defending state champion from Class 2A, now making the jump to 3A. Lakeland have lost just four games in the past two seasons and Heritage knocked Jimtown from the state tournament last year in convincing fashion to claim a sectional championship.

Boys Soccer – 1A Sectional 40 with Fort Wayne Blackhawk, Fort Wayne Concordia and Manchester. Exit Fort Wayne Canterbury, enter Fort Wayne Blackhawk into this sectional. Canterbury has been to the state finals in each of the past two years, but its exit to 2A and Blackhawk taking its place doesn’t make life any easier for a Whitko team still trying to get its feet wet in just two years of existence.

Girls Soccer – 1A Sectional 37 with Fort Wayne Blackhawk, Fort Wayne Canterbury, Fort Wayne Concordia, Fort Wayne Luers, Heritage, South Adams and Woodlan. Whitko moves from the Blackford Sectional it won in its first year of existence to the established Fort Wayne area sectional that has the potential to spit out a state representative each year.

TRITON

Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, Girls Basketball and Boys Basketball – 1A Sectional 51 with Argos, Culver Community, LaCrosse, Oregon-Davis and South Central (Union Mills). The major moves here have Michigan City Marquette and Westville move out and LaCrosse move in. This will most impact boys basketball, where Marquette has a state-ranked team that gave Triton all sorts of fits in the sectional championship game. LaCrosse comes in from the old Sectional 49 from the northwest corner of the state.

Football – 1A Sectional 41 with Culver Community, Lake Station Edison, LaVille, South Central (Union Mills), West Central, Whiting and Winamac. This sectional is the bones of the old 1A Sectional 33 with tenants Culver, South Central, West Central, Whiting and Winamac sticking together. Lake Station move down from 2A to 1A and LaVille move in from the old 1A Sectional 35.

LAKELAND CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

Boys and Girls Basketball – 1A Sectional 52 with Bethany Christian, Elkhart Christian Academy, Fort Wayne Blackhawk, Hamilton, Howe and Lakewood Park Christian. The only real change here is perennial power Fort Wayne Canterbury moves out and up to 2A based on the success curve.

Boys Soccer – 1A Sectional 41 with Argos, Bremen, Culver Community and Winamac. No changes to the members of the sectional here. Argos remains the team to beat, having reached the semi-state a year ago.

For a complete listing of all the sectional realignments in the eight sports, visit ihsaa.org.