4A South baseball, softball playoffs continue

In baseball, sixth-seeded Parkdale will visit third-seeded Laurel at 2:30 p.m. The winner will move on to Friday's semifinals against the winner of today's game between No. 7 Oxon Hill and No. 2 Bowie (4:30 p.m. at Bowie High). In the other half of the bracket, fifth-seeded Northwestern visits fourth-seeded High Point at 3 p.m. and No. 9 Flowers travels to No. 1 Roosevelt at 4:30 p.m. The semifinal games will be at 4:30 p.m. Friday at the site of the higher-seeded team. The regional final is set for Saturday at a time to be determined.

On Wednesday, the top-seeded Bowie softball team rolled to a 25-1 victory against Laurel after the Spartans had advanced with a 19-5 victory against Suitland earlier in the day. The Spartans end their season at 8-11.

The Bulldogs (1701) now face Northwestern, which knocked out fourth-seeded Parkdale, 15-4, on Wednesday. Flowers held off Oxon Hill, 13-9, and will visit Roosevelt, after the Raiders shut out High Point, 16-0, on Wednesday.

Crossland bowed out of the 3A South Region softball playoffs after a 19-0 loss to fourth-seeded Calvert.

In the 2A South Region softball playoffs, top-seeded Gwynn Park lost a 5-0 decision in the quarterfinals against Patuxent. The Yellow Jackets trailed 2-0 after six innings before Patuxent added three runs in the top of the seventh. Fairmont Heights lost to McDonough, 27-0, in another 2A South quarterfinal on Wednesday.

Forestville lost its 1A South Region softball quarterfinal, 11-0, to South Carroll. Surrattsville's baseball team lost its 1A South Region quarterfinal game to Harford Tech on Wednesday, 15-0.