These are the projections for the 4A East bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA baseball playoffs.
The projections are not official and can change when the official brackets are released by the N.C. High School Athletic Association. However, these projections are accurate as of the time stamp below. Subscribe to email alerts to be notified when projections are updated. We also recommend bookmarking this page.
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4A East Baseball Projection
Time of last update -- Thursday, Apr. 18 at 10:26 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 1-seed: Pine Forest
*Big Carolina 1-seed: D.H. Conley
Cap-6 champ: Leesville Road
Cap-6 2nd place: Athens Drive
DAC-VI champ: Jordan
DAC-VI 2nd place: Chapel Hill
Greater Neuse River champ: Corinth Holders
Greater Neuse River 2nd place: Clayton
*Mideastern champ: Topsail
Northern Athletic champ: Wake Forest
Northern Athletic 2nd place: Heritage
*Sandhills champ: Pinecrest
Southwest Wake champ: Green Hope
Southwest Wake 2-seed: Apex
*United 8 1-seed: Gray's Creek
*-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. Cardinal Gibbons
28. Riverside-Durham
29. Fuquay - Varina
30. Richmond
31. Northern Durham
32. Pine Forest
1. Purnell Swett
2. East Chapel Hill
3. Apex Friendship
4. Lumberton
5. Willow Spring
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Pinecrest vs (32) Pine Forest
(16) Broughton vs (17) Middle Creek
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(8) Gray's Creek vs (25) Laney
(9) Green Hope vs (24) Cary
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(5) Leesville Road vs (28) Riverside-Durham
(12) Wakefield vs (21) Athens Drive
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(13) Chapel Hill vs (20) Clayton
(4) D.H. Conley vs (29) Fuquay - Varina
(3) Wake Forest vs (30) Richmond
(14) Heritage vs (19) New Hanover
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(6) Corinth Holders vs (27) Cardinal Gibbons
(11) Ashley vs (22) Cleveland
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(7) Topsail vs (26) Holly Springs
(10) Hoggard vs (23) New Bern
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(15) Millbrook vs (18) Apex
(2) Jordan vs (31) Northern Durham
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