These are the projections for the 3A East bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA baseball playoffs.
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3A East Baseball Projection
Time of last update -- Thursday, Apr. 18 at 10:36 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.
**All American champ: Terry Sanford
**All American 2nd place: Harnett Central
**Big Carolina champ: J.H. Rose
*Big East 1-seed: Northern Nash
Central champ: Orange
Central 2nd place: Southern Alamance
Coastal champ: Dixon
Coastal 2nd place: Swansboro
**Mideastern 1-seed: South Brunswick
*Northeastern Coastal 1-seed: Currituck County
*Northern Lakes champ: Carrboro
Quad County champ: West Johnston
Quad County 2nd place: C.B. Aycock
**Sandhills 1-seed: Lee County
**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
27. Eastern Alamance
28. Western Alamance
29. Scotland
30. Havelock
31. Swansboro (autobid)
32. East Wake
1. Fike
2. Southern Nash
3. Franklinton
4. Southern Lee
5. Union Pines
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) J.H. Rose vs (32) East Wake
(16) South Central vs (17) Hunt
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(8) Lee County vs (25) Triton
(9) Croatan vs (24) South Johnston
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(5) West Johnston vs (28) Western Alamance
(12) C.B. Aycock vs (21) Harnett Central
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(13) First Flight vs (20) North Brunswick
(4) Currituck County vs (29) Scotland
(3) Terry Sanford vs (30) Havelock
(14) Williams vs (19) West Brunswick
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(6) South Brunswick vs (27) Eastern Alamance
(11) Carrboro vs (22) Cedar Ridge
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(7) Cape Fear vs (26) West Carteret
(10) Northern Nash vs (23) Southern Wayne
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(15) Person vs (18) Southern Alamance
(2) Orange vs (31) Swansboro
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