Alamance County teams open regional playoff runs in multiple sports

Southern Alamance baseball and Southeast Alamance softball carried Alamance County into regional play Tuesday, with the Patriots headed to Southern Lee in Sanford for Game 1 at 7 p.m. and Game 2 at Southern Alamance High School on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Game 3 was set for Friday at 7 p.m. if needed. Southeast Alamance’s softball bracket listed a neutral-site best-of-three against West Carteret, with the dates still to be set.

Southern Alamance came in with momentum that reached beyond one hot week. The Patriots had already won at least a share of the Mid-Carolina Conference title, their 20th baseball championship in program history, and the 2025 postseason showed how high the ceiling can be for Alamance teams: Southern beat Triton 7-1 in the third round at Burlington Athletic Stadium before falling 6-2 at Fayetteville Sanford in the East Region fourth round. That same spring, the Triton game was moved because of field conditions, a reminder that playoff routes can turn on weather as much as on seed lines.

Southeast Alamance softball also entered the week with a county spotlight of its own. The Stallions were 26-1 after a 1-0 win over Rockingham County on May 15, and the bracket paired them with West Carteret in the regional round. Around Alamance County, that kind of postseason depth has become familiar: Eastern Alamance softball beat Harnett Central 2-0 in a 2025 second-round game before losing to Southern Nash, and Southern Alamance softball’s 2025 season ended at Cape Fear.

The countywide stakes go beyond one bracket sheet. As of the 2025-26 alignment, all seven Alamance-Burlington School System high schools were placed in the new Mid-Carolina Conference with Roxboro Person, after work led by ABSS athletics director Todd Davis and with Graham athletics director Kyle Ward emphasizing the business side of scheduling and gate revenue. For Alamance readers, that means more familiar opponents, more local crowds, and more postseason nights with Burlington, Graham, Haw River, Elon and Mebane all tied to the same run.