Local teams ready for playoffs
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May 9, 2024

Local teams ready for playoffs

By Jeremy Sellew

By JEREMY SELLEW
jsellew@yourmvi.com

Over the next two afternoons, local baseball and softball teams will learn where they fall in the WPIAL championships.

Softball brackets will be released today at 2 p.m., with baseball brackets being released Friday.

Locally, seven teams find themselves in the baseball playoffs out of the 77 that qualified.

Belle Vernon, Ringgold, Thomas Jefferson and Elizabeth Forward will be in the Class 4A bracket.

South Allegheny will represent the Valley in Class 3A.

In 2A, Ser...

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