Every two years, the WPIAL Board of Control realigns the football conferences, and like most years, all three local teams will be affected by the results, which were released Tuesday night.

The Quad South Conference, which includes both Norwin and Penn-Trafford again this year, will feature familiar foes Connellsville, Hempfield and Latrobe.

Defending conference champion Pittsburgh Central Catholic will move to the Quad East Conference, and the two local teams now will be joined in the Quad South by 2007 WPIAL runner-up Gateway from the Quad East and 2007 WPIAL semifinalist McKeesport Area from the Quad West.

In all, WPIAL Quad A added two teams to the classification in Pine-Richland and Peters Township, which both moved up from Class AAA. With 25 teams, the top four teams from the four conferences will advance to the playoffs, and there will be no wild card team.

In Class AAA, Franklin Regional won't battle two-time defending Greater Allegheny Conference champion Pine-Richland for the next two seasons because the Rams moved up to the Quad North.

The Panthers still will take on Hampton, Highlands, Indiana and Knoch, but Greensburg Salem now is in the Keystone Conference and was replaced in the GAC by Mars. The Planets were the conference champs last season in the Class AA Tri-County North.

Class AAA also will welcome Southmoreland and Yough, which both will make the jump from Class AA. Keystone Oaks and Mt. Pleasant, however, will leave AAA and drop down to Class AA.

There will not be any changes in the playoff format for AAA as the classification has four conferences with seven teams, with the exception of the GAC, which has six.