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Regional soccer pairings

Posted by: Patrick Schmiedt on May 4, 2008 at 12:22AM EST

Yes, there are still a few games remaining in the regular season. But the 4A East and West regional soccer tournaments are close to being set.

Here are the projected brackets as we have them:

BOYS
4A East
At Gillette, South Campus
Thursday
(3) Cheyenne Central or Cheyenne East vs. (6) Sheridan, 3 p.m.
(4) Riverton vs. (5) Gillette, 5:30 p.m.
Friday
(2) Cheyenne Central, Cheyenne East or Laramie vs. (3-6) winner, 3 p.m.
(1) Cheyenne Central or Laramie vs. Riverton-Gillette winner, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday
Semifinal losers, 11 a.m.
Semifinal winners, 1:30 p.m.

4A West
At Evanston
Thursday
(4) Green River vs. (5) Evanston, 3 p.m.
(3) Rock Springs vs. (6) Star Valley, 5 p.m.
Friday
(1) Kelly Walsh vs Green River-Evanston winner, 3 p.m.
(2) Natrona County vs. Rock Springs-Star Valley winner, 5 p.m.
Saturday
Semifinal losers, 11 a.m.
Semifinal winners, 1 p.m.

GIRLS
4A East
At Cheyenne East
Thursday
(3) Cheyenne East vs. (6) Sheridan, 3 p.m.
(4) Riverton vs. (5) Gillette, 5 p.m.
Friday
(2) Cheyenne Central vs. Cheyenne East-Sheridan winner, 3 p.m.
(1) Laramie vs. Gillette-Riverton winner, 5 p.m.
Saturday
Semifinal losers, 10 a.m.
Semifinal winners, noon

4A West
At Rock Springs, Crossroads Complex
Thursday
(3) Rock Springs vs. (6) Evanston or Star Valley, 3 p.m.
(4) Green River vs. (5) Evanston or Star Valley, 5:30 p.m.
Friday
(2) Natrona County vs. Rock Springs-Evanston/Star Valley winner, 10 a.m.
(1) Kelly Walsh vs. Green River-Evanston/Star Valley winner, 12:30 p.m.
Saturday
Semifinal losers, 10 a.m.
Semifinal winners, 12:30 p.m.

Right now, there are three games remaining in the regular season for 4A teams, and they're all scheduled for Monday. The first is Buffalo at Natrona County girls, which obviously won't affect conference seeding. The second is Cheyenne East-Gillette girls (they're playing at the North Casper Soccer Complex in, duh, Casper), which won't affect seeding either despite being a 4A East game. No matter what, East is locked in as the three seed, and Gillette is locked in as the five seed in that conference.

The third and final game is the Central-Laramie boys game in Laramie. This one has huge implications for the top three spots in the 4A East. If Laramie wins, the top three seeds will go Laramie-East-Central. If Central wins, the top three seeds will go Central-Laramie-East. If they tie, Laramie would earn the top seed and Central and East would tie for the second spot. That's where it gets fun.... If this happens, they'd have to go down to the fourth tiebreaking criteria, which is goals allowed in conference play. Central has given up 11 so far, East has given up 13. So if Central and Laramie tie 0-0 or 1-1, Central is the second seed, East is third. If Central and Laramie tie 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, etc., then East is second and Central is third. If Central and Laramie tie 2-2, then East and Central have to flip a coin to see who gets the second seed and who gets the third seed.

What can I say? You're welcome. Aren't you glad I went and figured all that out?

Oh, and the only other thing we're not sure about is the seeding for the fifth and sixth spots in the 4A West girls. We haven't heard a score from Friday's Rock Springs-Star Valley game in Rock Springs, and that's key because Star Valley is in limbo right now for that 5-6 spot. If you happen to know that final score, e-mail me at patrick.schmiedt@trib.com or post the score in a comment below.

Whew. I'm going on break.

Posted by patrick.schmiedt@trib.com

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(6) Comments

Posted by: HS Sports Fan on May 5, 2008 11:29PM EST

How many 3A soccer teams are there? Do all teams qualify for the state tournament? Just curious as I didn't see a regional soccer on our schools sports calendar.

Posted by: OSP on May 6, 2008 10:17AM EST

Watched the Natrona-Buffalo girls game yesterday. NC won 1-0 but Buffalo has several chances to score themselves. I think Natrona's overall speed was the difference as they had to make up for the crisp Buffalo ball movement and passing. I think the Buffalo girls should win the 3-A. They are a fine team.
This from a Natrona fan.

Posted by: SportsLlama on May 6, 2008 1:21PM EST

Thanks for the hard work Patrick!

Sorry to be johnny come lately, but the 4A West girls on Friday saw SV win 2-0. It should be a fun weekend of regionals, thanks again for your efforts in decoding the standings

Posted by: Grayson on May 7, 2008 7:38PM EST

HS Sports Fan: You must be referring to the 3A Black hole on the outer rim of the Wyoming sports galaxy. Yes it is lonesome out there. Although some say, and I think it is physically impossible, you can be spit back out into the 4A universe to even up the number of Nebula in the galaxy (to some aribitrary number of fourteen), most likely leading the way to an equally forgettable, but infinitely more painful life of anonymity.

Posted by: HS Sports Fan on May 7, 2008 10:31PM EST

Grayson - What the *&^%? How in the heck does that answer my question? I guess I need to apologize for asking an ignorant question????

Posted by: Grayson on May 11, 2008 8:06PM EST

HS Sports Fan: Your question was not ignorant at all. In fact it was quite pertinent. I was just messing around and unfortunately being a jerk. I apologize. My comment had nothing to do with your question or anything else for that matter.

Hopefully I can try to be more on topic. For a while I thought that cancellations for snow and other weather might have caused a delay in the pairing of 3A teams for their tournament. But, I am not sure that is correct. I believe HS Sports Fan may be right. I think that it is possible that all the 3A teams do qualify for State. At least that is what I have heard. Maybe no one wants to hurt the feelings of any the 3A teams by not allowing them to qualify for the tournment (I do not know). Or, maybe there are just not enough 3A teams to provide adequate competition at the tounament level. The unfortunate part is, that the top four teams in 3A could stand toe to toe with anyone in 4A. Lamentably the state soccer champ may reign in name only. The real stength in Wyoming state soccer lies in both 4A & 3A. Regrettably some 3A teams will be beaten badly and unnecessarily in an atttempt to prove wyoming has a viable 3A soccer division when they do not.

Once again HS Sports Fan I apologize. I hope this time I was at least close to the mark. Feel free to let me know if I missed. I did not intend to disrespect anyone with my current comments.