See which 17 Lafayette-area baseball/softball teams still competing in LHSAA playoffs

The march to Sulphur is reaching its peak as baseball enters the quarterfinals this week and over in softball, tickets have already been punched to the semifinals.

After 28 baseball and softball Lafayette Parish and its surrounding area teams enter the LHSAA playoffs each with the hopes and dreams of surviving and advancing.

With a couple of postseason rounds in the book, only three area softball teams and 13 area baseball teams remain on the journey to Sulpur. Here’s a roundup of the baseball and softball matchups happening across Louisiana in the quarterfinals and semifinals of the LHSAA playoffs.

(Listed in order by division)

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Baseball

Non-Select: Division II

• No. 7 Rayne at No. 2 North DeSoto
• No. 9 Iota at No. 1 Brusly

Division III

• No. 5 Erath at No. 4 South Beauregard

Division IV

• No. 11 Delcambre at No. 6 DeQuincy

Select

Division I

• No. 5 Archbishop Rummel at No. 4 St. Thomas More

Division II

• No. 5 Loyola Prep at No. 4 Acadiana Renaissance Charter
• No. 6 Loranger at No. 3 Teurlings Catholic

Division III

• No. 5 Catholic-N.I. at No. 4 Rosepine
• No. 10 Notre Dame at No. 2 Isidore Newman

Division IV

• No. 9 St. Mary’s at No. 8 Vermilion Catholic
• No. 10 Sacred Heart at No. 7 St. Edmund
• No. 13 Ascension Episcopal at No. 4 St. Martin’s Episcopal
• No. 16 Central Catholic at No. 1 Opelousas Catholic

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Softball

Non-Select: Division II

• No. 5 Iota vs No. 1 North DeSoto

Division III

• No. 3 French Settlement vs No. 2 Kaplan

Select

Division III

• No. 3 Notre Dame vs No. 2 Parkview Baptist

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