Baseball, softball sectional assignments released

The Patriots can see a pair of new opponents in the spring sports sectionals.

The IHSAA released the new baseball and softball sectional alignments for the 2025 and 2026 seasons on Tuesday.

The Jay County High School baseball and softball teams will both remain in Class 3A Sectional 24. Staying with them are Delta, New Castle and Yorktown.

Both sectionals now mirror each other with the same six teams after some shake up in the final two spots.

After two years in Sectional 24, Centerville got swapped out of both sports and replaced by Connorsville. The Bulldogs never made it out of the opening round for baseball over the past two seasons, while they fell in the semifinal (both times to Yorktown) in softball.

After an announcement earlier this year that saw the Hamilton Heights Huskies removed from the basketball sectional, they will join in both baseball and softball. For the baseball sectional, they just fill in an open spot on the bracket and replace Mississinewa for softball.

The Indians made the sectional championship game in 2023 before falling to Yorktown and got taken down by Jay County in 2024’s semifinal game.

Hamilton Heights competed in Sectional 24 as recently as 2022. It claimed a sectional championship in baseball in 2021 and softball in 2016.