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Are You Ready for 5-AAAAAA?

Here's what you need to know to start the day May 11.

1. For the second time this week, we're under a Code Orange air-quality alert, the National Weather Service says, so if you're sensitive to shifts in air quality, try to stay indoors. For everyone else, it should be a beautiful, sunny day, if a bit on the warm side. The high will be about 88 degrees and the overnight low about 62.

2. Congratulations to the , who to the state A-AAAA lacrosse championship game on a goal with less than 11 second left to play against . The news wasn’t so good for , whose girls soccer and lacrosse teams lost semifinal games in the state playoffs. The Walton boys lacrosse team will play at tonight at 7 in the GHSA semifinals, and the boys soccer team will play at home against Parkview at 8 for a championship berth.

3. Not all of the high school sports news happened on the field Tuesday. The Georgia High School Association decided that five classifications just weren’t enough. After rejecting a proposal to revert to four classifications but crown two state champions in each classification, the GHSA executive committee voted 26-24 to switch to a six-classification system for the 2012-13 school year. Walton’s athletic director, Christian Suttle, was among those who voted no on the 4/8 plan and , which succeeded on the strength of its Atlanta-area support. The largest 15 percent of high schools, based on enrollment, will be in AAAAAA, the next 15 percent in AAAAA and the next 16 percent in AAAA. We’re confused already, but according to a preliminary alignment list the GHSA provided to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the new Region 5-AAAAAA would look a lot like the current 5-AAAAA, including , and , just with the addition of as an eighth team. , and would be part of the same AAAAA region.

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4. The Cobb County Board of Education is meeting in its regular work session at 8:30 this morning at the Central Office in Marietta, and East Cobb/Northeast Cobb board member David Banks told the Marietta Daily Journal that the board will hear from the head of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools about a possible inquiry by the accrediting agency. on the agenda today. You can watch all the action live online or on Comcast Cable Channel 24.

5. Cobb County put out an alert for a missing 12-year-old Smyrna boy with diabetes just after 1 a.m. today, so you may have received a phone call or an email in the middle of the night from the county alert system. Good news: The child has been found. He had last been seen about 2 p.m. at .

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