NCHSAA 4A East Baseball Playoff Projection - 2024
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 -- Monday, May 6 at 11:05 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.
*All American 1-seed: Pine Forest
*Big Carolina 1-seed: D.H. Conley
Cap-6 champ: Broughton
Cap-6 2nd place: Leesville Road
DAC-VI champ: Jordan
DAC-VI 2nd place: Chapel Hill
Greater Neuse River champ: Corinth Holders
Greater Neuse River 2nd place: Fuquay-Varina
*Mideastern champ: Ashley
Northern Athletic champ: Wake Forest
Northern Athletic 2nd place: Heritage
*Sandhills champ: Pinecrest
Southwest Wake champ: Holly Springs
Southwest Wake 2-seed: Apex Friendship
*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
In:
27. Athens Drive
28. East Chapel Hill
29. Clayton
30. Green Hope
31. Cary
32. Pine Forest
Out:
1. Garner
2. Cleveland
3. Willow Spring
4. South View
5. Northern Durham
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Ashley vs (32) Pine Forest
(16) New Hanover vs (17) Millbrook
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(8) Holly Springs vs (25) Gray's Creek
(9) Purnell Swett vs (24) Richmond
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(5) Jordan vs (28) East Chapel Hill
(12) Wakefield vs (21) Laney
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(13) Topsail vs (20) Fuquay - Varina
(4) Pinecrest vs (29) Clayton
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(3) D.H. Conley vs (30) Green Hope
(14) Heritage vs (19) Apex
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(6) Broughton vs (27) Athens Drive
(11) Leesville Road vs (22) Cardinal Gibbons
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(7) Corinth Holders vs (26) Apex Friendship
(10) Hoggard vs (23) New Bern
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(15) Chapel Hill vs (18) Middle Creek
(2) Wake Forest vs (31) Cary
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