NCHSAA 4A West Softball Playoff Projection - 2024
These are the projections for the 4A 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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4A West Softball Projection
Time of last update -- Monday, May 6 at 2:40 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.
Central Piedmont champ: Reagan
Central Piedmont 2nd place: West Forsyth
Greater Metro champ: Mooresville
Greater Metro 2-seed: Hickory Ridge
Metro champ: Northwest Guilford
Metro 2nd place: Southwest Guilford
*Mountain Athletic champ: McDowell
*Northwestern champ: South Caldwell
*Queen City Athletic champ: Hough
Southwestern champ: Independence
Southwestern 2-seed: Butler
So. Meck champ: Myers Park
So. Meck 2nd place: South Mecklenburg
Southern Carolina champ: Weddington
*-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. Watauga
29. South Iredell
30. Southeast Guilford
31. North Mecklenburg
32. Cox Mill
Out:
1. Glenn
2. Sun Valley
3. T.C. Roberson
4. Palisades
5. A.L. Brown
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) South Caldwell vs (32) Cox Mill
(16) Davie vs (17) Cuthbertson
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(8) McDowell vs (25) Northern Guilford
(9) Myers Park vs (24) Hopewell
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(5) Reagan vs (28) Watauga
(12) Porter Ridge vs (21) Mallard Creek
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(13) West Forsyth vs (20) East Forsyth
(4) Northwest Guilford vs (29) South Iredell
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(3) Weddington vs (30) Southeast Guilford
(14) Hickory Ridge vs (19) Butler
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(6) Hough vs (27) Charlotte Catholic
(11) Marvin Ridge vs (22) South Mecklenburg
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(7) Independence vs (26) Providence
(10) Alexander Central vs (23) Ardrey Kell
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(15) Lake Norman vs (18) Southwest Guilford
(2) Mooresville vs (31) North Mecklenburg
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