NCHSAA 2A West Baseball Playoff Projection - 2024
These are the projections for the 2A West bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA baseball playoffs.
The projections are not official and can change when the official brackets are released by the N.C. High School Athletic Association. However, these projections are accurate as of the time stamp below. Subscribe to email alerts to be notified when projections are updated. We also recommend bookmarking this page.
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2A West Baseball Projection
Time of last update -- Monday, May 6 at 9:30 a.m.
Automatic bids
- Note: Where there is a currently-unbreakable tie for an automatic bid, we are using RPI (which is how the NCHSAA breaks ties that cannot be done by head-to-head or "best win").
- Conference champs are in bold. Conference champs who would not be seeded as conference champs if the playoffs began today are in bold italics.
*Catawba Shores 1-seed: Lincoln Charter
Catawba Valley champ: Bandys
Catawba Valley 2nd place: Maiden
*Central Carolina champ: East Davidson
Foothills champ: Forbush
Foothills 2nd place: North Surry
Mid-State champ: Morehead
Mid-State 2nd place: West Stokes
*Mountain Foothills champ: East Rutherford
*Mountain Foothills 2nd place: R-S Central
*PAC-7 champ: Randleman
**Rocky River 1-seed: West Stanly
*Southern Piedmont champ: Burns
*Western Highlands 1-seed: Madison
*Yadkin Valley champ: North Stanly
*-Split conference with 1A schools — 1-seeds must have an overall win percentage of .500 or better OR finish in the top three in the conference standings to be seeded with the 1-seeds, or else be seeded with the 2s and wild-cards.
**-Split conference with 3A schools — 1-seeds must have an overall win percentage of .500 or better OR finish in the top three in the conference standings to be seeded with the 1-seeds, or else be seeded with the 2s and wild-cards.
Last five in, first five out
In:
28. CHASE
29. Surry Central
30. Southwestern Randolph
31. Hendersonville
32. East Burke
Out:
1. Trinity
2. Providence Grove
3. Salisbury
4. Newton-Conover
5. Patton
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Burns vs (32) East Burke
(16) McMichael vs (17) East Surry
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(8) Lincoln Charter vs (25) Brevard
(9) Bandys vs (24) East Gaston
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(5) North Stanly vs (28) CHASE
(12) R-S Central vs (21) Community School of Davidson
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(13) West Stokes vs (20) Pine Lake Prep
(4) Forbush vs (29) Surry Central
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(3) Morehead vs (30) Southwestern Randolph
(14) North Surry vs (19) Maiden
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(6) Randleman vs (27) West Lincoln
(11) Madison vs (22) Wheatmore
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(7) West Stanly vs (26) Mount Pleasant
(10) East Davidson vs (23) Reidsville
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(15) West Wilkes vs (18) West Davidson
(2) East Rutherford vs (31) Hendersonville
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