The Indiana High School Athletic Association’s Executive Committee recently met and approved the spring sports postseason tournaments and host sites.
BASEBALL
Shelbyville has not won a baseball sectional title since 2005 but with a strong pitching staff returning, the Golden Bears could celebrate in late May on its home field.
Shelbyville’s Barnett Field will host Sectional 14 from May 22-27. Traveling to the Class 4A sectional will be Columbus East, Columbus North, East Central, Franklin and Whiteland.
The sectional champion will advance to a pre-determined regional site and face the Bloomington North Sectional champion on June 1.
Triton Central has been assigned to Class 2A, Sectional 42 hosted by Park Tudor. The five-team sectional also includes Heritage Christian, Indianapolis Scecina and Irvington Prep.
The Sectional 42 champion will face the Shenandoah Sectional champion in the regional on June 1.
Shelby County’s three Class A baseball programs will compete at two different locations.
In Sectional 59 at Morristown, Edinburgh, Eminence, Greenwood Christian, Indianapolis Lutheran and Indianapolis Metropolitan will vie with the host Yellow Jackets for the championship.
Southwestern and Waldron will travel to the Jac-Cen-Del Sectional along with North Decatur, Oldenburg Academy and South Decatur.
The Morristown and Jac-Cen-Del Sectional champions will meet in the regional on June 1.
Semistate championship games will be contested on June 8 and the State Finals will return to Victory Field in Indianapolis on June 14-15.
SOFTBALL
Shelbyville won a sectional title in Columbus in 2023. The Golden Bears will look to repeat the feat in the same city in 2024.
Columbus East will serve as the host school for Sectional 14, being held between May 20-25. Shelbyville defeated Columbus North on its home field to capture its fourth sectional championship last season. Both return to Sectional 14 along with East Central, Franklin and Whiteland.
The sectional champion will host the Center Grove Sectional champion in a one-game regional on May 28.
Triton Central won the program’s first regional championship in 2023 and will look to repeat the feat in 2024. That starts with winning the Class 2A, Sectional 42 championship at Heritage Christian. The six-team sectional also includes Christel House, Indianapolis Scecina, Irvington Prep and Park Tudor.
The Heritage Christian Sectional champion will host the Knightstown Sectional champion for a May 28 regional championship game.
Morristown will travel to Indianapolis Lutheran for the Class A, Sectional 59 tournament. The Yellow Jackets and Saints will be joined by Edinburgh, Eminence, Greenwood Christian and Providence Cristo Rey.
Sectional 60 at North Decatur features Jac-Cen-Del, Oldenburg Academy, South Decatur, Southwestern and Waldron.
The North Decatur Sectional champion will host the Lutheran Sectional champion in the regional championship round.
Semistate championship games will be played on June 1.
The Softball State Finals will be played at Purdue University’s Bittinger Stadium on June 7-8.
BOYS GOLF
The golf programs from Morristown and Triton Central will vie for a sectional title at Hawk’s Tail of Greenfield in the Greenfield-Central Sectional along with Blue River Valley, Eastern Hancock, Greenfield-Central, Knightstown, Mt. Vernon, New Castle, New Palestine, Shenandoah, Tri and Union (Modoc).
Advancing teams and individual golfers will play in the Muncie Central Regional.
Shelbyville, Southwestern and Waldron will navigate the Greensburg Country Club course in the Greensburg Sectional. They will face off against golfers from Batesville, Columbus East, Columbus North, East Central, Greensburg, Hauser, Jac-Cen-Del, Milan, North Decatur, South Decatur and South Ripley.
Those moving on from the sectional will compete in the Providence Regional.
The golf sectionals will be played on May 31, June 1 and June 3.
Golf regionals are scheduled for June 6-7.
The Golf State Finals will be played at Prairie View Golf Club in Carmel on June 11-12.
GIRLS TENNIS
Shelbyville will again be the host site for Sectional 24 that features all five Shelby County programs.
Morristown, Shelbyville, Southwestern, Triton Central and Waldron will vie for a spot in the Center Grove Regional.
Center Grove also will host the semistate round and serve as one of four host sites for the first round of the team state finals.
BOYS TRACK & FIELD
Greenfield-Central and Columbus North are the sectional host sites for Shelby County’s boys track and field programs.
On May 16, Morristown, Shelbyville and Triton Central will compete in the G-C Sectional along with Beech Grove, Christel House, Franklin Central, Greenfield-Central, Irvington Prep, Indianapolis Lutheran, Indianapolis Scecina, New Palestine, Roncalli, Victory College Prep and Warren Central.
Southwestern and Waldron are assigned to the Columbus North Sectional along with Center Grove, Columbus East, Columbus North, Edinburgh, Franklin, Greenwood Christian, Greenwood, Hauser, Indian Creek and Whiteland.
Greenfield-Central also will serve as the regional site on May 23 for those advancing from the sectionals at Columbus North, Connersville, East Central and Greenfield-Central.
The Boys Track and Field State Finals are on June 1 at the Robert C. Haugh Track and Field Complex on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington.
GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD
On May 14, girls track and field sectionals will be held across the state.
Morristown, Shelbyville and Triton Central will compete in the Warren Central Sectional while Southwestern and Waldron head to the Franklin Sectional. The school assignments are the same as the boys sectionals.
Shelbyville High School’s recently renovated J.M. McKeand Stadium will be the regional site on May 21 for those qualifying from sectionals at Connersville, East Central, Franklin and Warren Central.
The Girls Track and Field State Finals are May 31 at Indiana University.
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