If you were to ask a Booneville athlete or coach what schools are in their conference your inquiry will likely get answered with a question. As in what sport, or even for which gender you are seeking that information.
The seven sports in which Bearcat and Lady Bearcat teams are assigned to find them with, at varying degrees, sharing a league with 18 different boys programs and 16 different girls programs and a total of 20 different schools in a given conference grouping.
In boys sports, where Bearcat teams are assigned in football, golf, tennis, cross country, basketball, baseball, and track not a single school is in every school in the conference in which the Bearcats will compete.
Even the assignments are not the same as football is 3A-1 and the rest are 3A-4.
It is that lone difference which keeps north Logan County’s Paris from being in every male conference to feature the Bearcats. Charleston, Lavaca, Mansfield, are also in six leagues, with tennis as the exception.
In girls play Paris is the only school to appear in a league that includes the Lady Bearcats in each of its seven assignments for volleyball, golf, tennis, cross country, basketball, softball, and track.
As is the case with the boys, the girls are also in two different conferences with volleyball a 3A-5 member while the rest are 3A-4.
For the girls Lamar is a league opponent in every sport with the exception of tennis.
In terms of size, it is golf, for both boys and girls, in which they have the most opponents with the boys conference including 11 schools and the girls featuring 10. The exception is the boys only private school of Subiaco.
Subiaco is also, of course, missing from girls conferences for basketball, track, and tennis.
The later makes girls tennis, despite the geography it consumes, the smallest league for a Booneville team with six schools. For boys it is also tennis, featuring seven.
As for footprint within the state for boys it is football extending as far north as Greenland and tennis including Bismarck and Haskell Harmony Grove.
For the girls it is volleyball extending to Conway and Mayflower and tennis also extending to Bismarck and Haskell Harmony Grove.
The tentative, until declaration dates, boys conference are:
Football: Booneville, Cedarville, Charleston, Greenland, Hackett, Lavaca, Mansfield, West Fork
Golf: Atkins, Booneville, Charleston, Dover, Lamar, Lavaca, Mansfield, Paris, Perryville, Subiaco, Two Rivers
Cross Country: Booneville, Cedarville, Charleston, Cossatot River, Lamar, Lavaca, Mansfield, Paris, Subiaco
Tennis: Booneville, Atkins, Bismarck, Harmony Grove Haskell, Jessieville, Paris, Subiaco
Basketball: Booneville, Cedarville, Charleston, Cossatot River, Lamar, Lavaca, Mansfield, Paris, Subiaco
Baseball: Booneville, Cedarville, Charleston, Cossatot River, Lamar, Lavaca, Mansfield, Paris
Track: Booneville, Cedarville, Charleston, Cossatot River, Lamar, Lavaca, Mansfield, Paris, Subiaco
The tentative, until declaration dates, girls conference are:
Volleyball: Booneville, Atkins, Conway Christian, Dover, Lamar, Mayflower, Paris, Perryville
Golf: Atkins, Booneville, Charleston, Dover, Lamar, Lavaca, Mansfield, Paris, Perryville, Two Rivers
Cross Country: Booneville, Cedarville, Charleston, Cossatot River, Lamar, Lavaca, Mansfield, Paris
Tennis: Booneville, Atkins, Bismarck, Harmony Grove Haskell, Jessieville, Paris
Basketball: Booneville, Cedarville, Charleston, Cossatot River, Lamar, Lavaca, Mansfield, Paris
Softball: Booneville, Cedarville, Charleston, Cossatot River, Lamar, Lavaca, Mansfield, Paris
Track: Booneville, Cedarville, Charleston, Cossatot River, Lamar, Lavaca, Mansfield, Paris.
Combined, that is 103 different programs standing in the way of a Bearcat or Lady Bearcat conference title in a given sport.
Besides those sports, Booneville athletes participate in cheer and weightlifting, which are statewide competitions within the classification and or overall, and shooting sports, which is a coed sport separated into regions, roughly a quarter of the state, regardless of classification.
BHS SPORTS SPREAD ACROSS 3 CONFERENCES WITH 20 OPPONENTS
