These are the projections for the 1A West bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA baseball playoffs.
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1A West Baseball Projection
Time of last update -- Monday, Apr. 8 at 2:56 p.m.
- 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.
*Catawba Shores 1-seed: Christ the King
*Central Carolina 1-seed: Thomasville
Metro 8 champ: Piedmont Community Charter
#Mountain Foothills 1-seed: Polk County
Northwest champ: Mount Airy
Northwest 2-seed: Starmount
NW Piedmont champ: Cornerstone Charter
NW Piedmont 2nd place: Bishop McGuinness
*PAC-7 1-seed: Uwharrie Charter
Smoky Mountain champ: Hayesville
Smoky Mountain 2-seed: Murphy
*Southern Piedmont 1-seed: Cherryville
*Western Highlands 1-seed: Draughn
*Yadkin Valley 1-seed: South Stanly
*-Split conference with 2A 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.
#-Polk County is the only 2A in a split conference with 1A schools and therefore must finish in the top two to be seeded with 1-seeds.
Last five in, first five out
28. Albemarle
29. Thomas Jefferson
30. Leadership Academy
31. Avery County
32. Mitchell
1. Sugar Creek
2. Langtree Charter
3. Gray Stone Day
4. Murphy
5. South Davidson
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Mount Airy vs (32) Mitchell
(16) Mountain Island Charter vs (17) Corvian Community
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(8) Cherryville vs (25) Bethany
(9) Polk County vs (24) Mountain Heritage
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(5) Christ the King vs (28) Albemarle
(12) Union Academy vs (21) Hiwassee Dam
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(13) Starmountvs (20) East Wilkes
(4) Hayesville vs (29) Thomas Jefferson
(3) Uwharrie Charter vs (30) Leadership Academy
(14) Bishop McGuinness vs (19) Swain County
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(6) Cornerstone Charter vs (27) Bessemer City
(11) Thomasville vs (22) Eastern Randolph
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(7) South Stanly vs (26) Robbinsville
(10) Piedmont Community Charter vs (23) South Stokes
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(15) North Stokes vs (18) Highland Tech
(2) Draughn vs (31) Avery County
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