{"id":9023,"date":"2014-06-08T09:59:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T13:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2014-06-08T09:59:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T13:59:06","slug":"prep-baseball-update-virginia-regionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9023","title":{"rendered":"Prep Baseball Update: Virginia Regionals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the next big update on the state of High School baseball in the area. \u00a0We previously talked about Maryland Regionals and Virginia regular season play wrapping up<\/a>, then we posted after Maryland states and Virginia conference play<\/a> had mostly finished up. \u00a0In these posts we also covered some private school tournaments and the DC tourneys as much as we could.<\/p>\n

Now we’re through the Virginia regional tournaments and its time to check in.\u00a0 The state semi-finals are set in all six divisions.\u00a0 Lets recap the regionals.<\/p>\n

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Virginia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There’s been little national recognition of any of Northern Virginia’s powerhouses (Madison, Stone Bridge, Hylton, Osbourn Park or Battlefield) in any of the national high school rankings this year, but schools in Richmond and Norfolk have taken turns cycling in and out of the various top 25\/top 50 lists.<\/p>\n

At some point or another, Cosby HS (Midlothian, in the western Richmond suburbs), Woodside (Newport News), Douglas Freeman (Richmond), Western Branch (Chesapeake), Hickory (Chesapeake) and Great Bridge (Chesapeake) have all gotten national attention from the various national ranking lists in 2014. \u00a0It will be interesting to see how the Northern Virginia powers match up with these southern schools in the state tournament. \u00a0But, thanks to the re-classifications of schools we aren’t going to get the big-time match-ups we wanted to see in states. \u00a0Cosby, Western Branch, and Woodside are 6-A schools, while Freeman, Great Bridge, and Hickory are 5-A schools. \u00a0Last year’s AAA state champ Hanover is a 4-A school now and will face pretty light competition while returning its ace Derek Casey<\/strong>\u00a0(UVA commit) from last year’s state champ. All these aformentioned teams have\u00a0qualified for the regional tournaments, so we may get some juicy match-ups between northern Virginia powerhouses and the nationally-recognized southern Virginia schools in the State playoffs. \u00a0Only the regional champ and finalist qualify to the state final four.<\/span><\/p>\n

With apologies to the smaller schools, we’re going to mostly focus on the 6-A and 5-A playoffs here.\u00a0 All conference, regional and state brackets<\/a> here at VHSL’s site.\u00a0 Records listed for teams are as they were heading INTO the game being described, not afterwards.<\/p>\n

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6-A North Regionals<\/strong><\/span> Playoff Bracket is here<\/a>. \u00a0Here were your qualifiers:<\/p>\n