These are the projections for the 4A East bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA baseball playoffs.
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4A East Baseball Projection
Time of last update -- Tuesday, Apr. 23 at 12:49 p.m.
- 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.
*All American 1-seed: Overhills
*Big Carolina 1-seed: D.H. Conley
Cap-6 champ: Leesville Road
Cap-6 2nd place: Broughton
DAC-VI champ: Jordan
DAC-VI 2nd place: Chapel Hill
Greater Neuse River champ: Clayton
Greater Neuse River 2nd place: Corinth Holders
*Mideastern champ: Topsail
Northern Athletic champ: Wake Forest
Northern Athletic 2nd place: Heritage
*Sandhills champ: Pinecrest
Southwest Wake champ: Apex
Southwest Wake 2-seed: Green Hope
*United 8 1-seed: Purnell Swett
*-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
27. Richmond
28. Gray's Creek
29. New Bern
30. Riverside-Durham
31. Apex Friendship
32. Green Hope (autobid)
1. Cary
2. Northern Durham
3. East Chapel Hill
4. South View
5. Lumberton
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Jordan vs (32) Green Hope
(16) Wakefield vs (17) Millbrook
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(8) Clayton vs (25) Fuquay - Varina
(9) Purnell Swett vs (24) Holly Springs
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(5) Leesville Road vs (28) Gray's Creek
(12) Hoggard vs (21) Cleveland
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(13) Chapel Hill vs (20) Middle Creek
(4) Wake Forest vs (29) New Bern
(3) D.H. Conley vs (30) Riverside-Durham
(14) Heritage vs (19) New Hanover
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(6) Topsail vs (27) Richmond
(11) Ashley vs (22) Laney
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(7) Apex vs (26) Cardinal Gibbons
(10) Overhills vs (23) Athens Drive
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(15) Broughton vs (18) Corinth Holders
(2) Pinecrest vs (31) Apex Friendship
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