With April winding down, high school baseball and softball seasons across the state are coming to an end, and North Pike headlines a list of regional public schools that are looking to manufacture lengthy playoff runs in their respective MHSAA brackets.<\/p>\n
The third-seeded Jaguar baseball team (17-8-3, 7-3) will battle second-seeded Purvis (20-7, 11-4) in a best-of-three series over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Game One is slated for a 7 p.m. first pitch Friday in Purvis, while Game Two takes place at the same time Saturday in Summit. If needed, Game Three is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday, with the potential rubber match being played back at Purvis.<\/p>\n
With a series win, Dustin Lott’s team would face the victor of the No. 1 Sumrall vs. No. 4 Stone series in the 5A quarterfinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the third-seeded Lady Jaguars (12-16, 7-3) will clash with second-seeded Vancleave (14-14, 6-4) for their best-of-three series.<\/p>\n Game One is slated for a 5 p.m. first pitch Friday in Vancleave, while Game Two takes place at 2 p.m. on Saturday in Summit. If needed, Game Three is scheduled for 5 p.m. on Monday, with the potential rubber match being played back at Vancleave.<\/p>\n A series win would see Sonya Wallace’s squad battle the victor of the No. 1 Sumrall vs. No. 4 Northeast Jones series in the 5A quarterfinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition, Salem and Bogue Chitto’s softball teams are both still alive in the 1A bracket<\/a> after securing first-round sweeps. The second-seeded Lady Wildcats (18-6-2, 5-1) will battle No. 1 Sebastpool (21-9, 10-0) in a best-of-three series this weekend, while the third-seeded Lady Bobcats (9-19, 2-4) take on No. 4 Noxapater (17-11, 6-5).<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Tylertown’s softball team (10-3, 3-0) has reached the second round of the 3A playoffs<\/a>, and the top-seeded Lady Chiefs will look for another sweep when they face No. 2 Pisgah (16-8, 6-2) in a series.<\/p>\n And lastly, Bogue Chitto’s top-seeded baseball team (11-11-1, 6-0) has split with Lumberton up to this point, setting up a decisive third bout Monday at 7 p.m., with the game being played at Bo. Chitto. Awaiting in the next round is No. 2 Nanih Waiya (17-6, 8-2) from within the 1A bracket.<\/a><\/p>\n *Images of the brackets are linked within the article. All matchups are three-game series, with the higher seed hosting the first and third contests.*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With April winding down, high school baseball and softball seasons across the state are coming to an end,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":{"0":"post-679445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","10":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-playoffs","13":"tag-mlb-postseason"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116433872706578404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}