Baseball, Tennis Sectionals Set

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INDIANAPOLIS and GOSHEN — The Indiana High School Athletic Association has announced the sectional pairings for tennis and baseball within the last 27 hours. The Bruin girls tennis team, entering tonight's match at John Glenn, is 13-2; in order to pick up its first sectional win, Bethany will need to take out Fairfield in a rematch of last year's final Thursday afternoon at Goshen Middle School. NorthWood will play the winner of a Jimtown-Goshen first round match on Thursday as well, with the winners meeting for the championship Friday.

In baseball, Bethany will open sectional play with a rare Wednesday-night contest next week at Fort Wayne Canterbury, facing off against three-time state champion Fort Wayne Blackhawk. The Braves have won nine of the last ten sectionals, with the only break coming in 2009 when Canterbury knocked off Bethany in the final. Other first round games will pit the host Cavaliers against Hamilton and ECA against Lakewood Park on Thursday and Saturday. Bethany or Blackhawk will meet Howe in a semifinal on Memorial Day morning with the other semifinal to follow; the sectional championship game is set for 5 p.m. that afternoon.

Bethany's complete paths to the state tournament follow the jump.

IHSAA 37th Annual Team, 30th Annual Singles, and 21st Annual Doubles State Tournament
Team Tournament
Sectional 25 at Goshen Middle School
Wednesday's First Round
Goshen vs. NorthWood, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday's Semifinals
Bethany vs. Fairfield, 4:30 p.m.
Jimtown vs. Goshen/NorthWood winner, 4:30 p.m.

Friday's Championship
Semifinal winners, 4:30 p.m.

Regional at Northridge
Next Tuesday's Semifinals
Winner at Warsaw vs. winner at Goshen, TBA
Winner at Northridge vs. winner at East Noble, TBA

Next Wednesday's Final
Semifinal winners, TBA

LaPorte Semistate II
Saturday, May 28
Winner at Northridge vs. winner at Portage, TBA

State Tournament
Friday, June 3's Quarterfinals
Winner at North Central II vs. winner at LaPorte I, 3 p.m., Carmel HS
Winner at FW Concordia II vs. winner at Jasper II, 3 p.m., Carmel HS
Winner at LaPorte II vs. winner at North Central II, 3 p.m., Park Tudor HS
Winner at Jasper I vs. winner at Concordia I, 3 p.m., Park Tudor HS

Saturday, June 4's Semifinals
At North Central HS, Indianapolis
Winners at Carmel, 10 a.m.
Winners at Park Tudor, 10 a.m.

Saturday, June 4's Finals
At North Central HS, Indianapolis
Semifinal winners, 2 p.m.

30th Annual Singles and 21st Annual Doubles Tournament
Entrance: Any #1 singles player or #1 doubles team who is undefeated in the tournament when their team's season concludes can enter the individual tournament.
Individual Sectional
Wednesday and Thursday, May 25 and 26, at Northridge
Entrants from East Noble, Goshen, Northridge and Warsaw sectionals and Northridge team regional

Individual Regional
Saturday, June 4 at LaPorte
Winner at Portage vs. winner at St. Joseph's, 10 a.m.
Winner at Highland vs. winner at Northridge, 10 a.m.
Semifinal winners, 2 p.m.

Individual State
Friday-Saturday, June 10-11 at North Central
The four regional winners advance to state along with any qualified entrant whose team advanced at least to semistate. The bracket is drawn as follows: the state champion team's entrant, if applicable, is bracketed first, followed by any entrants from state final teams, followed by entrants from semistate teams and finally the regional champions. If there are multiple entrants at a given level, the entrant with the higher number of games won in team play shall be seeded higher. If this is still tied, a blind draw will be used.

45th Annual IHSAA Baseball State Tournament Series
Sectional 51 at Canterbury
Next Week's First-Round Games
Blackhawk vs. Bethany, Wednesday, 5 p.m.
Canterbury vs. Hamilton, Thursday, 5 p.m.
ECA vs. Lakewood Park, Saturday, 5 p.m.

May 30's Semifinals
Howe vs. Blackhawk/Bethany winner, 10 a.m.
Canterbury/Hamilton winner vs. ECA/Lakewood Park winner, 12:40 p.m.

May 30's Final
Semifinal winners, 5 p.m.

Regional 13 at Caston
Saturday, June 4
Winner at Tri-County vs. winner at South Central (Union Mills), 11 a.m.
Winner at Washington Twp. vs. winner at Canterbury, 1:30 p.m.
Championship, 8 p.m.

Semistate at Kokomo or South Bend Clay
Saturday, June 11
Winner of Lafayette Central Catholic vs. winner at Caston, 1 or 3:30 p.m.

State Finals at Victory Field, Indianapolis
Friday-Saturday, June 17-18
Winner at Plainfield or Jasper vs. winner at Kokomo or South Bend Clay, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 1 p.m.; or Saturday, 4 p.m.