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With the new alignment, Hazard and Pikeville would meet in the SEMI-FINALS. Just so it is noted, Pikeville technically is playing in REGION 3 DISTRICT 8 this particular season, they would meet the winner of 1A District 5, which is LCA's district.

Now stick with me cause it gets tricky:
REGIONAL FINAL
REGION 3: The ODD district/region is in control this year. as long as Pikeville plays LCA, they will have to go on the road for the regional finals. if any other team (seed 2-4) advances then Pikeville would host the regional final as they are the higher seed.

REGION 4: Hazard is in District 7... thus they will play District 8's winner (Lynn Camp, Williamsburg, etc). Hazard as the 1 seed in the odd district, will host the regional final regardless of which seeded team advances.

STATE SEMI'S:

The Odd numbered region will host the State Semi-Finals this season REGARDLESS OF SEED AND/OR District Number. Thus, if Pikeville advances to the state semi-finals they would HOST Hazard, despite being in an even numebred district whereas Hazard is in an odd number district. If LCA is victorious,or Raceland, or Paintsville, or whoever.... they will host Hazard.

Next year, Pikeville will return to Region 4 under the current alignment, they will be matched in the regional finals with District 6 (Lynn Camp), thus meaning that due to it being an even year (2008), the even numberd region would host the semi-finals. Hazard will go to Region 3 and will be paired up with District 5 (LCA district).

Here are the links to where this info comes from:

http://www.khsaa.org/football/2007/district.html
http://www.khsaa.org/football/playoffpairings.pdf

Hope this helps the confusion some.