
NCHSAA 4A East Softball Playoff Projection - 2024

These are the projections for the 4A East bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA girls soccer playoffs.
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4A East Softball Projection
Time of last update -- Wednesday, Apr. 17 at 10:02 a.m.
Automatic bids
- 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 1-seed: Pine Forest
*Big Carolina 1-seed: D.H. Conley
Cap-6 champ: Cardinal Gibbons
Cap-6 2nd place: Leesville Road
DAC-VI champ: Jordan
DAC-VI 2nd place: East Chapel Hill
Greater Neuse River champ: Garner
Greater Neuse River 2nd place: Willow Spring
*Mideastern champ: Laney
Northern Athletic champ: Wakefield
Northern Athletic 2nd place: Wake Forest
*Sandhills champ: Richmond
Southwest Wake champ: Apex Friendship
Southwest Wake 2-seed: Panther Creek
*United 8 1-seed: Lumberton
*-Split conference with 3A 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
In:
26. South Garner
27. Athens Drive
28. Sanderson
29. Richmond
30. Middle Creek
31. East Chapel Hill (autobid)
32. Pine Forest
Out:
1. Gray's Creek
2. Enloe
3. Purnell Swett
4. Riverside-Durham
5. Overhills
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Garner vs (32) Pine Forest
(16) New Bern vs (17) Fuquay - Varina
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(8) Jordan vs (25) Hoke County
(9) Willow Spring vs (24) Rolesville
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(5) Lumberton vs (28) Sanderson
(12) Corinth Holders vs (21) Leesville Road
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(13) Wake Forest vs (20) Clayton
(4) Laney vs (29) Richmond
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(3) D.H. Conley vs (30) Middle Creek
(14) Hoggard vs (19) Apex
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(6) Cardinal Gibbons vs (27) Athens Drive
(11) Cleveland vs (22) Heritage
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(7) Apex Friendship vs (26) South Garner
(10) Topsail vs (23) Panther Creek
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(15) South View vs (18) Holly Springs
(2) Wakefield vs (31) East Chapel Hill
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