Analysis: Postseason picture is jammed in Class A high school baseball
May 8—MITCHELL — The regular season is winding down in the South Dakota High School Baseball Association's Class A schedule, and a critical final weekend awaits. The top-five teams in the seed-point standings are separated by 1. 1 points, nearly all of them with 13 or 14 wins and only a handful of losses.
That makes every game count, with the regular season ending on Sunday, May 10, and the postseason beginning on Friday, May 15, to begin the sprint to the Class A state tournament. Brandon Valley is the No. 1 team in the standings entering play on Friday, May 8.
The Lynx have won six of their last eight games, including a pair of wins over Yankton on May 1 that were valuable in the standings. Brandon Valley holds a . 037-point difference over Harrisburg in the standings heading into the final weekend, and those teams have already traded the top-two spots this week.
Harrisburg is 9-3 and in the No. 2 position, and the Lynx and Tigers are likely secure in holding those positions into the postseason. Brandon Valley plays two-win Huron to close the regular season on Saturday, while Harrisburg closes with the matchup against Mitchell on Friday.
The close nature of the standings is apparent with No. 3 Sioux Falls Jefferson (14-5), No. 4 Yankton (14-4) and No.