Martin County West is seeded sixth for the Section 2A softball tournament and will be at home for a first-round game at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Fox Lake Area Sports Complex.
The Mavericks, 10-7, will host 11th-seeded Red Rock Central/Westbrook-Walnut Grove (6-11). The teams did not meet during the regular season.
The winner advances to play Thursday against the winner of the game between third-seeded Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s and 14th-seeded Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop at the site of the higher seeded team.
Play in the tournament shifts to Caswell Park in North Mankato on Saturday, May 28.
Here are Tuesday’s first-round pairings:
SECTION 2A
Number in parenthesis indicates seed number
Nicollet (1) has bye
Martin Luther/Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Truman (9) at Sleepy Eye (8)
Madelia (12) at Cleveland (5)
Minnesota Valley Lutheran (13) at Springfield (4)
Heron Lake-Okabena/Fulda (15) at New Ulm Cathedral (2)
Mountain Lake Area/Comfrey (10) at Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart (7)
Red Rock Central/Westbrook-Walnut Grove (11) at Martin County West (6)
Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop (14) at Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s (3)