These are the projections for the 3A East bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA softball playoffs.
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3A East Softball Projection
Time of last update -- Thursday, Apr. 11 at 12:19 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.
**All American champ: Triton
**All American 2nd place: Harnett Central
**Big Carolina champ: South Central
*Big East 1-seed: Southern Nash
Central champ: Orange
Central 2nd place: Southern Alamance
Coastal champ: Dixon
Coastal 2nd place: Croatan
**Mideastern 1-seed: South Brunswick
*Northeastern Coastal 1-seed: First Flight
*Northern Lakes champ: Vance County
Quad County champ: South Johnston
Quad County 2nd place: C.B. Aycock
**Sandhills 1-seed: Scotland
**United 8 1-seed: Cape Fear
*-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.
**-Split conference with 4A 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
28. East Wake
29. North Brunswick
30. West Brunswick
31. Hunt
32. Person
1. West Johnston
2. West Carteret
3. J.H. Rose
4. Jacksonville
5. Northern Nash
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Southern Nash vs (32) Person
(16) Croatan vs (17) Eastern Alamance
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(8) Cape Fear vs (25) Franklinton
(9) First Flight vs (24) Harnett Central
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(5) South Brunswick vs (28) East Wake
(12) Southern Alamance vs (21) Southern Lee
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(13) Richlands vs (20) Western Harnett
(4) Dixon vs (29) North Brunswick
(3) Orange vs (30) West Brunswick
(14) Union Pines vs (19) Cedar Ridge
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(6) South Johnston vs (27) Lee County
(11) Vance County vs (22) Western Alamance
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(7) South Central vs (26) Swansboro
(10) Triton vs (23) Currituck County
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(15) Havelock vs (18) C.B. Aycock
(2) Scotland vs (31) Hunt
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