The official pairings and seeds for the fourth annual Hunterdon-Warren-Sussex Baseball Tournament were released Thursday afternoon. Preliminary round games are scheduled for Wednesday, April 24 and the winners advance to first-round action on Saturday, April 27.
Quarterfinals will be played Saturday, May 4 and the semifinals are scheduled for Saturday, May 11. The championship game will be contested at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 18 at Diamond Nation in Flemington.
Phillipsburg, which is the No. 6 seed for Hunterdon-Warren, is the defending champion. The Stateliners beat Hunterdon Central, 2-1, in last year's title game. P'burg will travel to Pope John for a first-round matchup -- a rematch of last year's classic quarterfinal, won by the 'Liners, 6-5, in 12 innings at PJ.
Central has reached the final all three times, winning the first championship in 2010. Pope John beat Central, 8-1, in the 2011 final.
Sparta, a runner-up in 2010, is the top seed for Sussex. The Spartans dropped a 3-1 decision to North Hunterdon, this year's top seed in the H-W bracket, in a quarterfinal game last year.
Here are the pairings and seeds.
A=Hunterdon-Warren
B=Sussex
Preliminary round
9A-South Hunterdon at 8B-Kittatinny
10B-Hopatcong at 7A-Warren Hills
10A-Belvidere at 7B-High Point
9B-Sussex Tech at 8A-Voorhees
First-round games
Kittatinny-South Hunterdon, winner at 1A-North Hunterdon
5A-Delaware Valley at 4B-Lenape Valley
6B-Vernon at 3A-North Warren
Hopatcong-Warren Hills winner at 2B-Newton
Sussex Tech-Voorhees winner at 1B-Sparta
5B-Wallkill Valley at 4A-Hackettstown
6A-Phillipsburg at 3B-Pope John
Belvidere-High Point winner at 2A-Hunterdon Central
Quarterfinals
Kittatinny-South Hunterdon-North Hunterdon winner vs. Delaware Valley-Lenape Valley winner
Vernon-North Warren winner vs. Hopatcong-Warren Hills-Newton winner
Sussex Tech-Voorhees-Sparta winner vs. Wallkill Valley-Hackettstown winner
Phillipsburg-Pope John winner vs. Belvidere-High Point-Hunterdon Central winner
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