The WVSSAC Softball Sectional Tournaments released updated start times after this past week’s inclement weather.
The Preston Knights have a No. 4 seed in the Class AAA Region I Section 2 bracket and traveled to face No. 1 University on Thursday (May 4).
The full Class AAA Region I sectional brackets can be found below.
Region I, Section 1
Thursday, May 4
Game 1 — No. 4 Brooke at No. 1 John Marshall
Game 2 — No. 3 Morgantown at No. 2 Wheeling Park
Friday, May 5
Game 3 — Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner
Game 4 — Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser
Saturday, May 6
Game 5 — Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 winner
Monday, May 8
Game 6 — Championship
Region I, Section 2
Thursday, May 4
Game 1 — No. 4 Preston at No. 1 University
Game 2 — No. 3 Buckhannon-Upshur at No. 2 Bridgeport
Friday, May 5
Game 3 — Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner
Game 4 — Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser
Saturday, May 6
Game 5 — Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 winner
Monday, May 8
Game 6 — Championship
The Knights were featured in latest batch of the team and individual rankings on RunWV.com which were released earlier this week.
As a team, Preston remained at the No. 7 spot in the Class AAA Girls Power Rankings. The top 10 includes Jefferson at the top, followed by Morgantown, Huntington, Woodrow Wilson, Hurricane, Bridgeport, Preston, Parkersburg, Wheeling Park and Spring Mills.
Individual rankings go by the best mark achieved this season through meets held by April 29 and received by May 1. Members of the Preston girls’ squad are featured in six different events while the boys are represented in one event.
Sierra Davis holds the No. 1 ranking in the discus (122’ 03”) and is at the No. 5 spot in the shot put (35’ 02”). Ella White is No. 2 in the 400m dash with a mark of 58.41 and No. 6 in the 800m (2:22.07). Finally, the girls have two different relay teams in the rankings with the 4x400 group (4:18.05) ranked No. 6 and the 4x800 team (10:15.79) ranked No. 2.
On the boys’ side, Preston junior Jaxon Saucer is ranked No. 9 in the long jump with a mark of 20’ 8.25”.
Preston will now prepare to participate in the Big 10 Championships held at 1 p.m. on Friday at Liberty High School.
Last year, the Knights placed second in the girls’ Big 10 Championship meet while the boys placed eighth.
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