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Sports Brief: Woodbury Officially Part of New Section For Football

The Royals will compete in the new Section 4AAAAAA.

The new Class 6A football sections set to take begin for the 2012 season have been released, according to the Minnesota State High School League’s website.

will be part of the new Section 4AAAAAA.

The MSHSL announced this spring that it would expand to a six-class, 11-man football playoff system beginning in 2012. The expansion called for a 32-team Class 6A tournament, which will be broken into four, eight-team sections: Section 3, 4, 5 and 6.

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Section 4AAAAAA will include Roseville Area, Stillwater Area, Woodbury, White Bear Lake, North, Mounds View, Forest Lake and Cretin-Derham Hall. The eight teams will compete in section play, with one team advancing to the new four-team Class 6A state tournament.

Section 6AAAAAA will be a powerhouse section, with three teams—Eden Prairie, Minnetonka and Wayzata—winning six of the past seven Class 5A state titles. Cretin-Derham Hall is the lone team to win the state title in that span, which happened in 2009.

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A call to Woodbury athletic director Jason Schultz was not returned.

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