{"id":206482,"date":"2026-05-31T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206482"},"modified":"2026-05-31T07:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:59:04","slug":"ohsaa-softball-state-tournament-pairings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/31\/ohsaa-softball-state-tournament-pairings\/","title":{"rendered":"OHSAA softball state tournament pairings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent sports\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COLUMBUS \u2013\u00a0The Ohio High School Athletic Association has announced the pairings and schedule for this week\u2019s softball state tournament at Firestone Stadium in Akron. The 48th annual softball state tournament begins Wednesday morning and will crown seven state champions. Lincolnview is one of four teams remaining in Division VI. The Lancers will face West Jefferson in the state semifinals at 3 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets are available at www.OHSAA.org\/tickets<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2026 OHSAA Softball State Tournament Pairings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Home team listed first<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All games at Firestone Stadium, Akron<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rankings from final OHSFCA state poll<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, June 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division I Semifinal #1 (10 a.m.): No. 1 Austintown-Fitch vs. Lancaster<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division I Semifinal #2 (12:30 p.m.): No. 3 Centerville vs. No. 2 Hilliard Bradley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division VI Semifinal #1 (3 p.m.): West Jefferson vs. No. 6 Van Wert Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division VI Semifinal #2 (5:30 p.m.): No. 5 Danville vs. Dalton<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Thursday, June 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division VII Semifinal #1 (10 a.m.): Cortland Maplewood vs. No. 6 South Charleston Southeastern<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division VII Semifinal #2 (12:30 p.m.): No. 2 Sycamore Mohawk vs. No. 3 Portsmouth Notre Dame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division I Championship (3 p.m.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division VI Championship (5:30 p.m.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, June 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division III Semifinal #1 (10 a.m.): Mansfield Madison Comprehensive vs. Louisville<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division III Semifinal #2 (12:30 p.m.): No. 5 Carroll Bloom-Carroll vs. No. 2 Greenville<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division IV Semifinal #1 (3 p.m.): No. 1 Springfield Kenton Ridge vs. Mogadore Field<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division IV Semifinal #2 (5:30 p.m.): No. 3 Bryan vs. No. 2 Newark Licking Valley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division VII Championship (8 p.m.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, June 6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division V Semifinal #1 (10 a.m.): No. 4 Casstown Miami East vs. No. 2 Wheelersburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division V Semifinal #2 (12:30 p.m.): No. 1 Baltimore Liberty-Union vs. No. 10 Canfield South Range<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division II Semifinal #1 (3 p.m.): No. 7 Kings Mills Kings vs. No. 3 Painesville Riverside<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division II Semifinal #2 (5:30 p.m.): No. 6 Westerville Central vs. No. 2 Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division III Championship (8 p.m.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, June 7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division IV Championship (11 a.m.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division V Championship (1:30 p.m.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division II Championship (4 p.m.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent sports\/submitted information COLUMBUS \u2013\u00a0The Ohio High School Athletic Association has announced the pairings and schedule for this week\u2019s softball state tournament at Firestone Stadium in Akron. The 48th annual softball state tournament begins Wednesday morning and will crown seven state champions. Lincolnview is one of four teams remaining in Division VI. The Lancers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 15:05:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206483,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206482\/revisions\/206483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}