By Gaylen Duskey
realfang@citlink.net
Calhoun will make a sweeping change to its 2012 football lineup, losing three powerhouses and picking up three winnable games.
Gone will be perennial power Williamstown and playoff teams Moorefield and Ritchie County. They probably will be replaced by Tyler Consolidated, Clay County and Sherman.
Calhoun Athletic Director Tim Davis said the contracts still all need to be signed and everything but that as of right now those teams should replace the three teams that are no longer on the Red Devils' schedule.
When the Little Kanawha Conference changed its rule that all Class A teams (and Class AA teams) had to play each other Calhoun, Gilmer and Doddridge bid fond adieu to Williamstown, which advanced to the state Class A title game. The series has been extremely lopsided for years with the Yellowjackets rolling up wins by the scores of 78-8 last year and 69-6 this year against the Red Devils.
Moorefield, 7-3 last year in the regular season, was a one-year contract and was not renewed.
Ritchie County, a Class AA school looking for rating points in its rebuilding program, dropped the Red Devils. The Rebels made the playoffs last season for the first time in several years.
Among the proposed new foes Clay County (a Class AA school) had the best record last season at 2-8. Tyler Consolidated was 1-9 with its win over Clay with Sherman was 0-10.
The remainder of the schools on Calhoun's schedule includes LKC foes Wirt, Gilmer, Parkersburg Catholic, St. Marys, Doddridge and South Harrison. The Red Devils also play non-LKC opponent Buffalo, which is in the second year of a two-year contract.
The schedule will be firmed up sometime before the end of the school year. | 
