Local soccer teams earn top seeds at districts

Several local teams seemed primed to make deep postseason runs. That’s partly because they earned top seeds in their district tournaments.
Saxony Lutheran, St. Vincent, and Perryville each earned the top seed in their respective districts when the brackets were released.
Saxony Lutheran has seen a gradual improvement over the last two seasons, going from four wins in 2021 to eight in 2022 and now the Crusaders are 9-7. That is good enough for the Crusaders to earn the top seed in Class 1, District 1. Saxony will play the winner of Kelly and Hancock on May 17 at Kelly High School. The other schools in the district include Gateway Science Charter and Collegiate School of Med-Bio Science.
St. Vincent is the top seed in Class 3, District 1. The Indians will try to go one step farther this season after falling to Notre Dame-St. Louis in the district championship game last season. St. Vincent will take on Sikeston in the first round May 13 at 11 a.m. at Windsor High School.
Notre Dame-St. Louis is the second seed this season, as part of the eight-team bracket.
Other teams include: Windsor, Cape Central, Festus, Farmington, and Hillsboro.
Perryville is the number one seed in Class 2, District 1, hoping to have a deep postseason run like last season, when the Pirates finished fourth at state.
The Pirates claimed the top seed by virtue of defeating St. Pius 1-0 in overtime during the regular season. Perryville will be in the tournament with Affton, Bayless, Bishop DeBourg, DeSoto, Fredericktown, and North County.

Perryville will take on North County in the first round of the tournament on May 13 at 3:30 p.m. Perryville defeated North County 12-0 on April 18.
The winner of that game will move on to play the winner of Aftton/Fredericktown. Perryville did not play Affton during the regular season, but defeated Fredericktown on March 30.
While none of the local baseball teams earned a top seed in their district tournament, they can still make a deep postseason run.
St. Vincent and Saxony Lutheran will possibly have to go through each other to do so. Saxony earned the two seed and St. Vincent the three seed in the Class 2, District 3 tournament in Chaffee. Saxony will take on Puxico in the first round at 11 a.m., while St. Vincent will take on Bloomfield at 1:15 p.m. that same day.
Should both teams win their first round matchups, they will face each other. Chaffee is the top seed in the district.
Perryville baseball has seen a big improvement this season and hopefully that continues into the postseason.
Perryville is the number four seed and will take on fifth seed Herculaneum at noon on May 13 in Ste. Genevieve.
The winner of that matchup will take on top seed Park Hills on May 15.