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The NCHSAA announced the brackets and first-round pairings for the 2022 volleyball playoffs, and several Times readership area teams are headed to the postseason. All first-round matchups will take place Saturday, Oct. 22, and be hosted by the higher seeds.
In the 3-A field, Hunt High’s reward for another stellar regular season is the No. 3 seed in the East Region. The Warriors are coming off a 20-4 overall finish and 14-0 mark in the 3-A Quad County Conference, giving them another league title. Hunt will look to improve on last year’s finish, when the Warriors fell to Person in the third round.
The Warriors’ first-round opponent will be another Times area team and familiar foe in 30th-seeded Southern Nash. The Ladybirds finished the regular season 9-12 overall, and third sixth in the 2-A/3-A Big East Conference with a 5-10 league mark. The Warriors and Ladybirds will tip off at 11 a.m. Saturday. Also in the 3-A field, Fike, coming off a 12-10 regular season and fifth-place Quad County finish, grabs a No. 18 seed and will face 15-seed Orange (11-2) of the Central Conference.
No. 17-seed C.B. Aycock (14-9, fourth Quad County) will visit 16-seed Rocky Mount (12-5, third Big East).
In 1-A, Wilson Prep, 9-7 in the regular season with a fifth-place finish in the Tar-Roanoke Athletic Conference, will take on 10-seed East Columbus (11-8) of the 1-A/2-A Waccamaw Conference.
In the 2-A field, No. 27 North Johnston (12-8), second from the Neuse 6 Conference, will visit sixth-seeded and East Central Conference champion South Lenoir (14-5) and 31-seed Greene Central (10-11), fourth in the Eastern Plains Conference, will face East No. 2 Camden County (20-2), the Northeastern Coastal Conference winner.