Post Season Assignments Out For IHSA Volleyball, Salem & South Central Host Regionals

The Salem Lady Wildcats will host their 2a regional that will feed into the Breese Mater Dei Sectional.  Salem is the 8 seed and will open up Monday night at 7pm against 11^th seed Flora.  It will be the 2^nd match of the night following Lawrenceville and Greenville at 6pm.  The Salem/Flora winner advances to take on 4^th seed Pana with the other opening night winner getting top-seed Newton.

At Shelbyville, 5^th seed Vandalia will open with the 3^rd seeded hosts.  At Hillsboro, 2^nd seed Breese Central will play the Litchfield v. Carlinville winner and at Wesclin top-seed Mater Dei will open with the winner of Marquette and Piasa.  4^th seed Wesclin gets either Roxana or Wood River.

Regionals feeding into the Pinckneyville Sectional include at Chester where Nashville is the sectional’s top-seed and will play the winner of DuQuoin and Chester.  At Sparta, 2^nd seed Freeburg plays either Althoff or Sparta and 3^rd seed Columbia gets either Pinckneyville or Red Bud.

In Class 1a, South Central is the sectional’s #2 seed and will host a regional that will begin on October 24^th when the Lady Cougars take on Mulberry Grove followed by St Elmo against CHBC.  The other opening round games will be played the following night with 3^rd seed North Clay taking on Clay City and #5 Patoka taking on Altamont.  The Regional champion will advance to the Webber Sectional.

Woodlawn will open as the 2 seed against either Crab Orchard or Pope County at Gallatin County with that regional also feeding into Webber.

Christ Our Rock is the 8 seed and will open up against Marissa.  12^th seed Sandoval will open against #4 Okawville with that regional winner advancing to the Trico Sectional.

The 3a Centralia Sectional will include the champion from Herrin.  Centralia is the 2 seed and will open up against arch rival and 8 seed Mt Vernon.  3^rd seed Herrin and Effingham play in the other semifinal.

At Olney, the hosts are the 7 seed and open up with Charleston with the winner rewarded with a match against top-seed Marion.

And in large school 4a feeding to the Normal Sectional.  The Belleville East Regional will see East opening with Collinsville in the rare 3-team regional with the winner playing for the title against top-seed O’Fallon.  At Edwardsville its 2-seed Edwardsville against Granite City and 4 seed Belleville West takes on Alton.