These are the projections for the 2A West bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA baseball playoffs.
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2A West Baseball Projection
Time of last update -- Thursday, Apr. 18 at 11:21 a.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: Lincoln Charter
Catawba Valley champ: Bandys
Catawba Valley 2nd place: Maiden
*Central Carolina champ: West Davidson
Foothills champ: Forbush
Foothills 2nd place: North Surry
Mid-State champ: Morehead
Mid-State 2nd place: West Stokes
*Mountain Foothills champ: R-S Central
*Mountain Foothills 2nd place: East Rutherford
*PAC-7 champ: Randleman
**Rocky River 1-seed: West Stanly
*Southern Piedmont champ: Burns
*Western Highlands 1-seed: Madison
*Yadkin Valley champ: North Stanly
*-Split conference with 1A 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 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
27. CHASE
28. Brevard
29. Providence Grove
30. Mount Pleasant
31. Walkertown
32. Madison
1. East Burke
2. Southwestern Randolph
3. Trinity
4. T.W. Andrews
5. Bunker Hill
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Morehead vs (32) Madison
(16) Wheatmore vs (17) Community School of Davidson
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(8) Bandys vs (25) Surry Central
(9) West Davidson vs (24) Reidsville
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(5) R-S Central vs (28) Brevard
(12) West Stokes vs (21) East Gaston
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(13) West Wilkes vs (20) Pine Lake Prep
(4) Forbush vs (29) Providence Grove
(3) North Stanly vs (30) Mount Pleasant
(14) North Surry vs (19) East Surry
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(6) Randleman vs (27) CHASE
(11) East Rutherford vs (22) East Davidson
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(7) West Stanly vs (26) Patton
(10) Lincoln Charter vs (23) West Lincoln
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(15) McMichael vs (18) Maiden
(2) Burns vs (31) Walkertown
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