The local big-school baseball heavyweights, ASH and Pineville, square off in a three-game LHSAA Selection Division I quarterfinal series beginning Thursday evening.
Six Rapides Parish teams are alive in postseason. Four play each other. Along with ASH-Pineville, third-seeded Grace Christian meets No. 6 Oak Hill in a single-elimination Select Division V contest Friday evening at 6:30 at Merrill Brinkman Field in England Air Park.
ASH, the third seed in Division I, hosts Pineville. Game 1 of the series is Thursday at 7, followed by the second game Friday at 7. If necessary, Game 3 goes off at 1 on Saturday afternoon.
The other two remaining parish teams are Alexandria Country Day and Menard, both on the road playing the No. 2 seeds in their divisions.
Menard has a three-game series at Pope John Paul II beginning Thursday at 6, with Game 2 Friday at 6 and a third game at noon Saturday if needed in Division III.
Country Day goes to Family Community Thursday at 5:30 in a single-elimination Select Division V game.
In Select Division I last weekend, ASH advanced by stopping Holy Cross, recovering from a 5-4 loss in the opener to prevail 9-0 and 6-5 in the decisive game.
Pineville also was pushed to three games last weekend by Acadiana, taking the first one 9-3, falling 8-5 in Game 2 and taking the series with a 5-4 victory in the rubber match.
Also in Division I, Tioga was eliminated last weekend at fifth-seeded Northwood. After the Indians won the first contest 6-0, the Falcons prevailed 8-2 and 4-3.
Buckeye and Bolton bowed out of the Select Division II bracket. Kenner Discovery Health Science rallied from a 5-3 Panthers win in Game 1 5-3, posting a 10-2 second game victory and rolling 12-3 in Game 3. Bolton ran aground against No. 2 E.D. White, swept 20-0 and 10-0 on the road.
Glenmora was bounced out in Select Division III by Pope John Paul II by a pair of 10-0 decisions.
