Some call it a sweet science. Others equate it to throwing a dart on a map.

Anyway you slice it, high school coaches across the area Thursday discovered how the University Interscholastic League’s biennial realignment and reclassification process will affect their programs.

For Hays CISD, road trips to Cedar Park and Leander will become a thing of the past.

According to the new alignment, Hays and Lehman athletics were placed in a nine-team 25-6A district that features a handful of central...