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District 1 Playoffs Begin This Week In Softball and Baseball

A number of local Patch-area schools have qualified in this year's playoffs.

This is the time of season every softball and baseball team in the area has been waiting for—the PIAA District 1 playoffs. It’s the first step to the larger path, the PIAA state playoffs. The tricky part is surviving the district playoffs to make it to the state round.

A number of area teams in baseball and softball have qualified. In baseball Class AAAA (large schools), is the No. 1 seed and Conestoga the No. 3 in District 1 South, both with first-round byes, while in softball Class AAA, Springfield is the No. 3 seed and Radnor the No. 4.

The top five teams in Class AAAA qualify for the state playoffs in baseball and softball. In baseball, only the Class AAA district champion advances to the state playoffs. Class AA is a subregion that incorporates Philadelphia Public and Catholic League area schools and only the district tournament champion advances to the state playoffs in Class A.

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In softball, two teams, the district finalists, advance to the state playoffs in Class AAA, while only the district tournament champion qualifies for the state playoffs in Class AA and Class A.

All games will begin at 4 p.m.

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In Class AAAA baseball, Penncrest received a No. 12 seed in District 1 South, with the Lions opening up at O.J. Roberts, the District 1 North No. 5 seed. The winner travels to District 1 South No. 4 seed, West Chester Henderson.

Marple Newtown will host the winner of North Penn (North No. 8 seed)-Kennett (South No. 9 seed) on Wednesday at 4 p.m., while Conestoga will host the winner of Boyertown (North No. 6) and Great Valley (South No. 11).

No local Patch-area teams qualified in Class AAA and Class AA, though made it as the No. 8 and last seed in Class A, opening up against the defending Class A state champion Christopher Dock.

In softball, Haverford is the No. 9 seed in Class AAAA and will host No. 24 seed Interboro, while in Class AAA, Springfield grabbed the No. 3 slot and a first-round bye, hosting No. 6 seed Sun Valley in a second-round game on Friday. Radnor is the No. 4 seed in Class AAA, and will host No. 5 seed St. Basil, also on Friday.

“We won it four years ago as the seventh seed, when we went to the state championship that year,” Springfield coach Todd Odgers said. “We’ll take the same approach into the playoffs that we always have. There are certainly some great teams in there. St. Basil is always a good team, Sun Valley, Nazareth, the No. 1 seed, is very good. There is a good balance, and some really strong teams. Nazareth is 19-1. You have teams of that caliber. The goal is to win it and I’m very confident we have as good a chance as anyone.”

There are no local Patch-area schools in Class AA softball, but Delco Christian earned the No. 2 in the four-team district tournament, opening with No. 3 seed Friends Select next Tuesday, May 31.

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