NCHSAA 2A West Softball Playoff Projection - 2024
These are the projections for the 2A West bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA softball 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 Softball Projection
Time of last update -- Monday, May 6 at 3:15 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: Maiden
Catawba Valley 2nd place: Bunker Hill
*Central Carolina champ: East Davidson
Foothills champ: West Wilkes
Foothills 2nd place: Forbush
Mid-State champ: West Stokes
Mid-State 2nd place: McMichael
*Mountain Foothills champ: R-S Central
*Mountain Foothills 2nd place: East Rutherford
*PAC-7 champ: Southwestern Randolph
**Rocky River 1-seed: West Stanly
*Southern Piedmont champ: East Gaston
*Western Highlands 1-seed: Owen
*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. Burns
29. Walkertown
30. Wheatmore
31. East Burke
32. North Wilkes
Out:
1. East Surry
2. Shelby
3. Patton
4. Salisbury
5. Hendersonville
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) West Wilkes vs (32) North Wilkes
(16) West Lincoln vs (17) East Rutherford
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(8) Brevard vs (25) East Davidson
(9) Lincoln Charter vs (24) West Caldwell
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(5) Owen vs (28) Burns
(12) Bunker Hill vs (21) Morehead
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(13) McMichael vs (20) R-S Central
(4) Southwestern Randolph vs (29) Walkertown
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(3) Maiden vs (30) Wheatmore
(14) Mount Pleasant vs (19) Randleman
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(6) West Stokes vs (27) Providence Grove
(11) East Gaston vs (22) CHASE
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(7) West Stanly vs (26) Pine Lake Prep
(10) West Davidson vs (23) Madison
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(15) Bandys vs (18) Forbush
(2) North Stanly vs (31) East Burke
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