Welcome to my DC Area Prep Baseball Tourney coverage for 2018.<\/p>\n
Here’s the rough schedule of posting and what we’ll cover:<\/p>\n
Lets see where we stand now\u00a0with Virginia having completed their regional tournaments and setup state semi finals’ matchups.<\/p>\n
All Virginia regional finals were played on 6\/1\/18.\u00a0 District and Regional Winners in all cases highlighted in\u00a0bold red<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n Northern Virginia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Virginia district tournaments\u00a0start up on 5\/16\/18 and Regionals started up on 5\/23\/18.\u00a0 All\u00a0local district playoff brackets<\/a>\u00a0are well kept at NovaBaseballmagazine.com.<\/p>\n A reminder that there was some\u00a0major\u00a0re-alignment from last year<\/a>; regional powerhouse Madison was moved out of the Liberty district for the first time in decades, now joins the strong Concorde division with some bigger schools.\u00a0\u00a0There are now mixed conferences, splitting teams up that were formerly 4A, 5A and 6A.\u00a0 \u00a0Northern Va districts are pretty consistent; mostly consisting of all 6A or 5A teams … but other districts around the state are a mess, having teams spanning in some cases 4 class sizes.\u00a0 In 6A, we’ll have 6-A Region A and B from the Richmond\/Va Beach areas and Regions C & D from the Northern Virginia areas.\u00a0 New district to region alignment table here<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a first in my memory, nearly a week of rain forced organizers to literally abandon playoff games and just hand out district titles.\u00a0 See below.<\/p>\n Regional brackets<\/a>\u00a0are here at NovaBaseball and here at VHSL’s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n Class 6 Region C “Occoquan Region”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In the Regional tournament (draw here<\/a>), the District winners were seeded West Potomac, Forest Park, Lake Braddock and at-large Woodbridge.\u00a0 In the quarters on 5\/25\/18,\u00a0 WT Woodson upset West Potomac, West Springfield beat Robinson, Lake Braddock beat Colgan, and Forest Park\u00a0 held off Stuart.\u00a0 The expected\u00a0top seeds Lake Braddock and West Springfield advanced to the final\/qualified for states and\u00a0West Springfield<\/strong><\/span> springs the upset over perhaps NoVa’s top team to win the regional title.<\/p>\n Class 6 Region D “Northern Region”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In the Regional tournament (draw here<\/a>), the District winners were seeded Yorktown, Battlefield, Madison and at-large Marshall (who competes in a weird 6a\/5a district).\u00a0 I probably would have seeded it so that Madison\/Battlefield was a final but Marshall may be favored to beat the upstart Yorktown.\u00a0 Quick prediction: Battlefield over Marshall in the final.\u00a0 In the Quarters on 5\/25\/18, Centreville upset Yorktown, Chantilly upset Marshall, South Lakes upset Madison and only Battlefield held serve in an upset-laden regional, so my predictions were way off.\u00a0 I still sense Battlefield is the power of the region.\u00a0 In the semis, Chantilly beat their neighborhood rivals Centreville and Battlefield held off the upstart South Lakes to make the Regional final\/qualify for states.\u00a0 In the Northern Region final,\u00a0Battlefield<\/strong> <\/span>turned a 4-1 deficit quickly into a 7-4 lead and made it stick, beating Chantilly for the region crown.<\/p>\n Southern Virginia Class 6 Regions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Class 6 Region A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In the Regionals (draw here<\/a>)… Grandby, Western Branch (your defending state champ), Ocean Lakes and First Colonial are the seeds.\u00a0 Oscar Smith beat Ocean Lakes in the 1st round; other seeds held.\u00a0 First Colonial upset Grandby while Western Branch advanced to the regional final\/qualified for states.\u00a0 In the final, First Colonial<\/strong><\/span> continued their upsetting ways, topping one of the best teams in the state after nearly squandering an 8 run lead<\/a> to win the Region title.<\/p>\n Class 6 Region B<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In the Regionals (draw here<\/a>), Manchester, James River, Thomas Dale and Cosby are the top 4 seeds in order.\u00a0 Manchester was upset in the first round by Roanoke power Franklin County; other seeds went through to the semis.\u00a0 Cosby and Thomas Dale advanced to the final\/qualified for states.\u00a0 \u00a0There, Cosby<\/strong><\/span> beat Thomas Dale 8-1 to win the region.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Northern Virginia Class 5 Regions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Class 5 Region C<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In the Regional tournament (draw here<\/a>),\u00a0the top 3 teams from National (not including the 6A teams) and the top 5 teams from Potomac made for an 8-team regional.\u00a0 Top seeds are Freedom-South Riding and Edison.\u00a0 \u00a0Edison was upset in the first round en route to all the National district teams being defeated by stronger Potomac district rivals.\u00a0 Freedom-South Riding and defending state champ Briar Woods to the regional final\/state qualification, where Freedom-South Riding<\/strong><\/span> easily beat Briar Woods 9-3 to win the region.<\/p>\n Class 5 Region D<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Seven districts to send 12 teams to regionals.<\/p>\n In the regional tournament (draw here<\/a>), Potomac, and Halifax were the two top seeds, split by “north” and “south” areas of this region.\u00a0 They played out essentially two mini regional tourneys, with the winners meeting at the end but both going to states.\u00a0\u00a0Potomac and Halifax held serve and made the regional final\/qualified for states.\u00a0\u00a0Potomac<\/strong> <\/span>beat their southern Virginia rivals for the region title 4-2, their first regional title since their awesome run in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n Southern Virginia Class 5 Regions:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Class 5 Region A<\/strong><\/span> (mostly Tidewater area teams)<\/p>\n In the regional tournament (draw here<\/a>),\u00a0Mencheville and\u00a0 Maury the top seeds.\u00a0 Both advanced to the regional final\/qualified for the state tournament, though Maury was beaten on the field by Hickory, who then had to forfeit<\/a> due to their starter throwing 118 pitches\u00a0(the limit is 110).\u00a0\u00a0In the final, Menchville<\/strong><\/span> won 6-3.<\/p>\n Class 5 Region B<\/strong> <\/span>(mostly Richmond teams)<\/p>\n In the regional tournament (draw here<\/a>), Godwin and Prince George the top seeds.\u00a0 #8 Regional seed Deep Run upset #1 seeded Godwin then destroyed Freeman to make the regional final against #2 seed Prince George.\u00a0 There, the #8 seed continued its run, topping one of the best teams in the state to win the region title.\u00a0 Deep Run<\/strong><\/span> over Prince George.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Class 4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Class 4A Region A<\/strong><\/span> (Tidewater): Draw here<\/a>: Grafton and\u00a0 traditional power Great Bridge the top seeds, but Great Bridge upset early.\u00a0 Grafton easily advanced over Deep Creek and Jamestown to the Region final\/qualify for the State tournament.\u00a0 Grafton<\/strong><\/span> beat Jamestown to win the region.<\/p>\n Class 4A Region B<\/strong><\/span> (Richmond): Draw here<\/a>: Louisa and Powhatan the top seeds.\u00a0 2017 State runner-up and traditional power\u00a0Hanover #6 seed.\u00a0 Dinwiddie upset Louisia and Powhatan got by Hanover to make the Region final and qualify for the State tournament.\u00a0 Dinwiddie<\/strong><\/span> beat Powhatan 11-5 for the Regional title.<\/p>\n Class 4A Region C<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(Northern Virginia):<\/p>\n Regional draw here<\/a>: Woodgrove and Fauquier upset the district winners to advance to the regional final\/qualify for state tournament.\u00a0 There, Fauquier<\/strong> <\/span>beat Woodgrove for the regional title.<\/p>\n Class 4A Region D<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(Lynchburg\/Roanoke): Draw here<\/a>: defending state champ Liberty Christian and\u00a0 Salem the top seeds.\u00a0 In a massive upset, LCA was beaten in the first round by William Byrd, giving them their first loss of the season and ending it at the same time.\u00a0 MaxPreps #1 ranked Virginia team is out early.\u00a0 \u00a0Salem and Amherst County advance to regional final\/qualify for state tournament and Salem<\/strong><\/span> wins 3-2 to take the regional title.<\/p>\n Virginia 3A, 2A, 1A<\/span><\/strong>: see vhsl site for draws and results<\/a>\u00a0for these smaller classifications of mostly non-DC area schools.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maryland<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n At this point, the Maryland State tournament is complete.\u00a0 Full Brackets here at the\u00a0MPSAA website<\/a>\u00a0and direct links to the four State-wide brackets are linked directly below.<\/p>\n A quick list of\u00a0past Maryland State champions by division<\/a>:<\/p>\n DC Past DC Winners:<\/p>\n Private Leagues: WCAC\/MAC\/IAC and VISAA\/Maryland Private<\/strong><\/p>\n
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