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The sixteeen team, double elimination playoff schedule has been set for the teams in Allegheny County.  Each of the leagues sends representatives into the tournament.  The first round is scheduled to begin Saturday at several sites.  Here are the matchups:

CIT vs. Pleasant Hills

Bethel Park vs. Plum

Keystone Oaks vs. Elizabeth Forward

Shaler vs. Baldwin

Monroeville vs. Penn Hills

Peters Township vs. Swissvale

West Mifflin vs. Upper St. Clair

Moon vs. Springdale

Second round matchups are currently scheduled for Sunday.

Berks County has a built in off day/rain date tonight, so the third round of competition will continue tomorrow afternoon at Bear Stadium in Boyertown.

Day 2 results:

Winner's Bracket

(1) Boyertown 13, (5) West Lawn 1  (7 innings)

(3) Twin Valley 6, (7) Gregg Post 4

Loser's Bracket

(2) Conrad Weiser 11, (6) Daniel Boone 1

(8) Exeter 6, (4) Shillington 5

Boyertown was able to slow West Lawn's hot bats and invoked the ten-run, 7 inning, mercy rule for the second straight game against the Owls.  The big surprise this season is Shillington, who as the league's second most prolific team of the last few decades, was unable to get a league playoff win.

Saturday's Games

Loser's Bracket

(2) Conrad Weiser vs. (5) West Lawn, noon

(7) Gregg Post vs. (8) Exeter, 3:30

Winner's Bracket

(1) Boyertown vs. (3) Twin Valley, 7

Region 2

Schuylkill-Berks

Loser's Bracket

Valley View 16, Pottsville 11

Pine Grove 7, Schuylkill Valley North 2

Winner's Bracket

Tamaqua 11, Southern Area 4

Loser's Bracket

Fleetwood 10, Schuylkill Valley South 5

Hamburg 5, Oley Valley 3

Winner's Bracket

Kutztown 4, Muhlenberg 0

Friday's Games

North Division

Pine Grove @ Southern Area – 5:30

Valley View @ Tamaqua – 5:30

South Division

Hamburg @ Muhlenberg – 6:30

Fleetwood @ Kutztown – 7:00

Tamaqua & Kutztown are undefeated, so those are their throw away games.

Bux-Mont

Perkiomen 2, Nor-Gwyn 1

Doylestown 2, Pottstown 0

Quakertown 7, Pennridge 3

Hatfield 6, Warrington 4

Loser's

Pottstown @ Nor-Gwyn

Warrington @ Pennridge

Winner's

Perkiomen @ Doylestown

Quakertown @ Hatfield

Lehigh Valley

Loser's

Salisbury 12, Lower Macungie 5

Coplay 8, Fullerton 7

Winner's

North Parkland 9, Northern Valley 8

South Parkland 14, Lehighton 2

Friday's Games

Loser's

Coplay @ Lehighton

Northern Valley @ Salisbury

Winner's

South Parkland @ North Parkland

Northampton

Best of 3 Semis

Game 1

Freemansburg 5, Northampton 4 (1-0)

Region 3

Philadelphia

Best of 3 Semis

Wed., Game 1

Ivy Ridge 9, Loudenslager 3

Bustleton 12, Olney 5

Thursday, Game 2

Ivy Ridge 19, Loudenslager 4 (2-0)

Olney 14, Bustleton 10 (1-1)

Friday

Olney @ Bustleton, Arch. Ryan HS

Champ. Series starts Saturday

Chester County

Wednesday

Game 1 (8) West Chester -1 @ (1) Norchester -26 5 P.M.

Game 3 (5) Spring City -7 @ (4) Kennett -2 5 P.M.

Game 2 (6) Exton-10 @ (3) Downingtown -16 5 P.M.

Game 4 (7) Westtown -15 @ (2) Caln -16 5 P.M.

Thursday July 8

Game 6 Westtown @ Exton 5 P.M.

Game 5 West Chester @ Kennett 5 P.M.

Game 7 Spring City @ Norchester 5 P.M.

Game 8 Downingtown @ Caln 5 P.M.

Region 4

Lebanon County

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Winner's

Campbelltown 20, Annville 3

Myerstown 9, Fredericksburg 6

Loser's Bracket

Friday

Richland @ Fredericksburg (Richland will be the home team)

Saturday

5th Ward @ Annville

Winner's, Saturday

Myerstown @ Campbelltown

The Berks County League, in PA's Region 2, began their postseason double elimination tournament last evening.  Four games were held at the higher seed.  Tonight's matchups will also take place at the higher seeded team, with all action moving to Bear Stadium in Boyertown beginning on Friday.

The results are:

(1) Boyertown 13, (8) Exeter 2

(5) West Lawn 27, (4) Shillington 13

(3) Twin Valley 12, (6) Daniel Boone 2

(7) Gregg Post 15, (2) Conrad Weiser 10

Thursday's matchups

Winners Bracket

(1) Boyertown vs. (5) West Lawn

(3) Twin Valley vs. (7) Gregg Post

Loser's Bracket

(4) Shillington vs. (8) Exeter

(2) Conrad Weiser vs. (6) Daniel Boone

Stay tuned throughout the week for more updates!

District 31

Greensburg 14, Kiski Valley 12 in the deciding game three of their matchup

Cambria County

Ebensburg 10, Portage 2

Bedford 10, St. Michael 7

Somerset 16, Patton 6

Ebensburg forced a game three with the win.  The winner of that matchup will take on the second seed Somerset in the next round.  Bedford has advanced to play Claysburg.  

The Fayette County League will begin their playoffs this week with a double elimination tournament.

The first round matchups are:

(1) Uniontown vs. (8) Farmington

(4) Connellsville vs. (5) California

(3) Colonial vs. (6) Charleroi

(2) Belle Vernon vs (7) Point Marion

Stay tuned for updates on this league, as well as many others from around the state.

District 15

Semifinals, best of 3

In game 1, Hawley defeated Honesdale 9-4.

We'll be posting a series of round up posts throughout the coming days as we get scores from around the state.  Some leagues have no published information, so results from every team may not be available... but we're working on it.

Lebanon County

First round, double elimination

Annville 6, Richland 5

Myerstown 7, 5th Ward 3

Thursday's Winner's Bracket

Annville at Campbellstown

Myerstown at Fredericksburg

The losers from Tuesdays games will match up against the losers from Wednesday's games on Friday evening.

The Lehigh Valley League in PA's Region 2 began their annual double-elimination postseason tournament this evening.

The results are as follows:

(1) North Parkland 11, (8) Lower Macungie 1

(2) South Parkland 13, (7) Fullerton 0

(6) Northern Valley 16, (3) Salisbury 7

(4) Lehighton 7, (5) Coplay 1

Please note that the league does not utilize predetermined brackets.  Re-seeding is done to ensure that the top seed places the lowest remaining team left, and so on.

Thursday's games will be:

Winner's Bracket

(1) North Parkland vs. (6) Northern Valley

(2) South Parkland vs. (4) Lehighton

Loser's Bracket

(3) Salisbury vs. (8) Lower Macungie

(5) Coplay vs. (7) Fullerton

Cambria County's four best of three quarterfinal playoff series began on Monday.  Somerset defeated Patton 12-2, Claysburg topped Westmont 10-6, Bedford beat St. Michael 12-2, and Portage beat Ebensburg 9-5.

Stay tuned for updates on these playoffs, as well as results from around the state.

A full page dedicated to all the playoff contests in Region 2 is now available at the top of the drop-down menu under the main Region 2 link.  Simply scroll over Region 2 at the top of the page and click the desired link from the drop-down.

This page has up to date information for the postseason in each of Region 2's five leagues, including schedules, seedings, and results.  We'll be updating the page frequently to reflect the newest information we have, so check back often!

We're hoping to add similar pages for the rest of the regions, though we could use your help gathering information.  Like information on the regular season, information on the postseason tournaments seems to be rather scarce in some of the more rural parts of the state.  If you have any information that you could send our way to help us out, please don't hesitate to comment on this post, send me a private message, or email us at [email protected]

Thanks!

The District 31 League in PA's Region 7 has begun its playoffs.  The top eight teams began best of three series the other day, with some somewhat surprising results so far.

On July 3rd:

(8) Bushy Run 6, (1) Hempfield East 5  (Bushy Run leads 1-0)

(4) Murraysville 9, (5) Irwin 3  (Murraysville leads 1-0)

(6) Greensburg 18, (3) Kiski Valley 7  (Greensburg leads 1-0)

(2) Latrobe 15, (7) West Hempfield 3  (Latrobe leads 1-0)

July 4th:

(8) Bushy Run 15, (1) Hempfield East 8  (Bushy run wins series 2-0)

(5) Irwin 7, (4) Murraysville 5  (series tied 1-1)

(3) Kiski Valley 6, (6) Greensburg 3  (series tied 1-1)

(7) West Hempfield 11, (2) Latrobe 8  (series tied 1-1)

The remaining games were played last night, we'll update you as soon as we get the results.

Be sure to check back later!

The District 11 League of northeastern PA's Region 5 has finalized their representatives for the upcoming state regional tournament.  The two teams are determined by the regular season champion in each of the league's two divisions.

By virtue of a 10-3 record in the Kay Division, Dunmore has advanced to state play.  Valley View gets the league's other bid, after winning the Sebastianelli Division, with a record of 9-4.  Both divisions were hotly contested, with South Scranton and Carbondale/Lakeland just missing out on the top seeds.

The District 11 League has one of the most unique postseason formats in the state, as they'll continue playing games through the next several weeks, sans the two division winners.  The remaining teams aren't eligible for state postseason play, but do get many more weeks of games in the area.  This format allows for every team to keep playing a while longer, whereas with a tournament scenario most of the teams would be done for the summer in early July.

In other Region 5 news, the Wyoming Valley League's playoff picture will become much clearer on Thursday night.  The final teams and seedings will be determined then, with the tournament commencing on Saturday.

Be sure to check back often for up to date playoff results from around the state!

The eight teams of southeastern PA's Berks County League begin their respective playoff games on Wednesday evening.  Tournament is double elimination, nine inning games.

Games are hosted by the higher seed for the first two days, before heading over to Bear Stadium for the remainder of the tournament.  

First round games are as follows:

Exeter (8 seed) at Boyertown (1), 7pm

West Lawn (5) at Shillington (4), 7pm

Gregg Post (7) at Conrad Weiser (2), 5pm

Daniel Boone (6) at Twin Valley (3), 7pm

Since West Lawn is hosting the PA Region 2 Tournament in a few weeks, only the postseason champion (or runner-up if West Lawn wins) will advance to state regional play.

The Northampton County League kicked off their playoffs last night in Region 2 with four first round matchups that were all closely contested games.  Each matchup was the first in a best of three series between the teams. 

The results are as follows:

Wind Gap defeated Bath 8 to 7  (Wind Gap leads 1-0)

Northampton defeated Roseto 7 to 6 (Northampton leads 1-0)

Freemansburg beat the Wanderers 5 to 4 (Freemansburg leads 1-0)

Nazareth beat Kemp 8 to 5 (Nazareth leads 1-0)

The Schuylkill-Berks League has completed its regular season and set the matchups for the league-wide playoffs.  There will be separate playoff tournaments for the North and South Divisions, with the division winners meeting in the championship game for the right to move on to the state regional tournament.  The first round is slated for Tuesday and the matchups are listed below.

North Division

Schuylkill Valley Falcons at Southern Area – 5:30

Northern Schuylkill at Pottsville – 7:00

Minersville at Pine Grove – 7:00

Valley View at Tamaqua – 5:30

South Division

Bethel at Kutztown – 7:00

Hamburg at Fleetwood – 5:30

Schuylkill Valley at Oley Valley – 5:30

Wyomissing at Muhlenberg – 6:30

More details are available at the Schuylkill-Berks League website.

Here is the playoff preview for the Elk County League courtesy of site member Elk County Fan1:

Playoffs start in full force next week with Fox taking on Bradford and St. Mary's facing the winner of the Smethport/Kane vs Ridgway game in the best of three series. Both series should be very interesting as Fox Twp and Ridgway have been playing some great baseball as of late. Fox after a 1-4 start to the season has rattled off nine wins in their final 10 games. They enter the playoffs as the hottest team in the league and disposed of Ridgway 10-0 in six innings this past week. Ridgway on the other hand has beaten Bradford two out of three games and has battled St. Mary's on even terms dispite losing two of three games to the St. Mary's squad. St. Mary's has been steady all season long as expected. Bradford has shown signs of a team slowly slipping away. They finished the season with three straight losses to Ridgway, Smethport and St. Mary's. Although they have beaten Fox three times in the regular season they just don't look like the team of the past couple of years. St. Mary's is no doubt the favorite to win the Elk County League with a very deep and talented roster. Bradford is the reigning two year champion and they won't go down easily, but keep your eye on Fox Twp and Ridgway. It wouldn't come as a shock to those close to this league if these two end up in the finals. Best of luck to all teams!

The playoff picture in Region Two has begun to come into focus.  North Parkland has clinched a spot in the regional tournament at West Lawn by virtue of its Lehigh Valley League regular season championship.  The Buffaloes won the title by defeating rival South Parkland 9-5 on Saturday night.  North Parkland will participate in the league's playoffs as the number one seed.  If North Parkland wins the league tournament, then the league runner up will claim the league's second regional berth.  Final pairings have yet to been set.

For more info, visit the Lehigh Valley League's site:  http://www.eteamz.com/lvlegion/

Regular season play has finished in Philadelphia, and the playoff schedule is set.  The six playoff qualifiers are Ivy Ridge, Bustleton, Olney, Loudenslager, Del Val, and Chestnut Hill.  As division winners, Ivy Ridge and Bustleton have been given a bye to the semifinals.  Chestnut Hill will play Olney in one first round matchup, while Del Val faces Loudenslager in the other.  These games are scheduled for Tuesday, July 6th.  The survivors of these single-elimination matchups will face the division winners in Best-of-Three series beginning on Wednesday.  A Best-of-Three championship series will follow, with the winner advancing to the Region Three Tournament later in the month.

For more information about the Philadelphia County playoffs, check out the league's website:  www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?cmenuid=1&url=philalegion&sid=206936678

Things have gotten a little hectic, but we promise a bunch of standing updates are coming tonight!  Be sure to check out the league pages for the most up to date information we have.

If you can help us get some of the standings that are outdated, please send a message to [email protected]!