State championship baseball pairings announced

  The pairings and the schedules are set for the 96th annual North Carolina High School Athletic Association state baseball championships.

This year the 1-A and 4-A best-of-three championship series will be held at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, and the 2-A and 3-A finals will be played at Five County Stadium in Zebulon, home of the Carolina Mudcats.  Doak Field at N.C. State has hosted a couple of championship series annually for a number of years, but this year N.C. State is hosting an NCAA baseball regional and the facility is not available.

Play is scheduled to get underway on Friday in all four series.


NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
2012 STATE BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES—96th ANNUAL
all series best of three games

CLASS 4-A:  DURHAM BULLS ATHLETIC PARK, DURHAM
CORNELIUS W.A. HOUGH (23-10) vs. APEX MIDDLE CREEK (24-7)
Game 1: Friday, June 1 at 8 p.m.; Game 2: Saturday, June 2 at 2 pm; Game 3: if necessary, Saturday, June 2 at 8 pm (5 pm if no third game in 1-A)

CLASS 3-A: FIVE COUNTY STADIUM, ZEBULON
PIKEVILLE CHARLES B. AYCOCK (21-9) vs. WEDDINGTON (26-6)
Game 1: Friday, June 1, 5 pm.; Game 2: Saturday, June 2, 11 am; Game 3: if necessary, Saturday, June 2 at 5 pm 

CLASS 2-A: FIVE COUNTY STADIUM, ZEBULON
RANDLEMAN (29-4) vs. WHITEVILLE (24-5)
Game 1: Friday, June 1, 8 pm; Game 2: Saturday, June 2, 2 pm; Game 3: if necessary, Saturday, June 2, 8 pm (5 pm if no third game in 3-A)

CLASS 1-A: DURHAM BULLS ATHLETIC PARK, DURHAM
DURHAM VOYAGER ACADEMY (20-6) vs. SOUTH STANLY (27-4)
Game 1: Friday, June 1 at 5 pm.; Game 2: Saturday, June 2 at 11 am; Game 3: if necessary, Saturday, June 2 at 5 pm