These are the projections for the 4A East bracket for the 2025 NCHSAA softball playoffs.

The projections are not official and can change when the official brackets are released by the N.C. High School Athletic Association. However, these projections are accurate as of the time stamp below. Subscribe to email alerts to be notified when projections are updated. We also recommend bookmarking this page.

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4A East Softball Projection

Time of last update — Wedesday, Apr. 9 at 1:22 p.m.

Automatic bids

• Note: Where there is a currently-unbreakable tie for an automatic bid, we are using RPI (which is how the NCHSAA breaks ties that cannot be done by head-to-head or “best win”). If projections are updated before conference play begins, we use RPI to project the conference champion.
• Conference champs are in bold. Conference champs who would not be seeded as conference champs if the playoffs began today are in bold italics.

*All American 1-seed: Pine Forest
*Big Carolina 1-seed: D.H. Conley
Cap-6 champ: Enloe
Cap-6 2nd place: Cardinal Gibbons
DC-VI champ: Jordan
DC-VI 2nd place: Riverside-Durham
Greater Neuse River champ: Cleveland
Greater Neuse River 2nd place: Corinth Holders
*Mideastern 1-seed: Laney
Northern Athletic champ: Wake Forest
Northern Athletic 2nd place: Wakefield
*Sandhills 1-seed: Hoke County
Southwest Wake champ: Apex Friendship
Southwest Wake 2nd place: Holly Springs
*United 8 1-seed: Gray’s Creek

*-Split conference with 3A schools — 1-seeds must have an overall win percentage of .500 or better OR finish in the top three in the conference standings to be seeded with the 1-seeds, or else be seeded with the 2s and wild-cards.

Last five in, first five out

• Note: We will start to implement the “no leapfrogging” stipulation two weeks before official brackets come out. This rule prevents a team from making the playoffs over a team that it finished behind in the final conference standings. Once this process is implemented, there could be changes towards the bottom of the field.

In:

28. Jack Britt
29. Lumberton
30. Green Hope
31. Purnell Swett
32. Panther Creek

Out:

33. Rolesville
34. Richmond
35. Millbrook
36. Green Level
37. Chapel Hill

Projected seeds, matchups

(1) Wake Forest vs. (32) Panther Creek
(16) New Bern vs. (17) South View
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(8) Hoke County vs. (25) Topsail
(9) Enloe vs. (24) Leesville Road
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(5) Apex Friendship vs. (28) Jack Britt
(12) Corinth Holders vs. (21) Willow Spring
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(13) Holly Springs vs. (20) Cardinal Gibbons
(4) Cleveland vs. (29) Lumberton
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(3) D.H. Conley vs. (30) Green Hope
(14) Fuquay – Varina vs. (19) Hoggard
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(6) Gray’s Creek vs. (27) Middle Creek
(11) Wakefield vs. (22) Clayton
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(7) Jordan vs. (26) Riverside-Durham
(10) Pine Forest vs. (23) Apex
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(15) Heritage vs. (18) Garner
(2) Laney vs. (31) Purnell Swett

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