The O-K Gold Conference may be losing Hastings in its lineup, beginning with the 2016-17 academic-athletic year.
Hastings this week was announced as the top preference for admission into the Interstate-8 Conference, to bring that league to eight schools. The Interstate-8 will be losing Charlotte, which wants to go back to the Capital Area Activities Conference.
Wayland has been a member of the O-K Gold Conference for nearly 30 years. The league now includes, besides Wayland and Hastings, Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills, Grand Rapids South Christian, Grand Rapids Catholic Central and Middleville Thornapple Kellogg.
The league will lose Ottawa Hills and Catholic Central beginning next fall and gain East Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Christian and Forest Hills Eastern, for a total of seven.
However, that will be reduced to six if Hastings indeed joins the Interstate-8, which now includes Jackson Northwest, Jackson County (Parma) Western, Battle Creek Harper Creek, Battle Creek Pennfield, Coldwater, Jackson Lumen Christi and Marshall. All are Class B except Parma and Northwest, which are Class A.
All schools in the O-K Gold next fall will be Class B.
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