Section VI announced postseason seeding and schedules for boys and girls high school soccer Saturday afternoon.
Dunkirk’s boys will be the first local team to get underway when the 17th-seeded Marauders travel to No. 16 Cheektowaga for a 6 pm qualifier in Class B1 on Monday. The winner of that game will travel to No. 1 Lewiston-Porter for a 3:30 p.m. prequarterfinal Tuesday.
Tuesday will also be the first day of Class B2 boys prequarterfinals and five local teams will be involved. At 3:30 pm, no. 9 Falconer/Cassadaga Valley will visit No. 8 Akron. No. 15 Silver Creek/Forestville will travel to No. 2 Royalton-Hartland for a 6:30 pm start. No. 5 Southwestern will host no. 12 Medina, no. 7 Fredonia will host No. 10 Springville at SUNY Fredonia and No. 14 Salamanca/Cattaraugus-Little Valley will travel to No. 3 Alden for 7 pm starts.
Winners of Tuesday’s prequarterfinals will advance to Thursday’s quarterfinals.
On Wednesday, no. 8 Jamestown will travel to No. 9 West Seneca for a Class AA boys prequarterfinal at 6 pm The winner of that game will visit No. 1 Clarence on Saturday at 2 pm
Also Wednesday, several local girls teams will get their postseason underway.
In Class B1, No. 12 Dunkirk will travel to No. 5 East Aurora for a 6 p.m. prequarterfinal. The winner will visit No. 4 Iroquois on Friday in a quarterfinal.
In Class B2, there will be three 6 pm start times for local teams in the prequarterfinals. No. 8 Falconer/Cassadaga Valley will host No. 9 Southwestern at Bill Race Field in Falconer, No. 3 Fredonia will host No. 14 Silver Creek/Forestville at SUNY Fredonia and No. 12 Salamanca will travel to No. 5 Allegany-Limestone.
Also Wednesday, a pair of Class C girls prequarterfinals will be played at 3:30 pm No. 9 Pine Valley/Gowanda will travel to No. 8 Cattaraugus-Little Valley while no. 7 Westfield/Brocton will host No. 10 JFK at the NorthLake Family Recreation Complex.
On Thursday, the boys Class C quarterfinals will take place. No. 8 Pine Valley/Gowanda will travel to Holland to take on No. 1 Holland/Franklinville/West Valley, No. 5 Frewsburg will visit No. 4 Westfield at the NorthLake Family Recreation Complex and no. 7 Randolph will travel to No. 2 Portville for 3:30 pm starts. At 6 pm, no. 3 Wilson will host no. 6 Chautauqua Lake.
Jamestown’s girls will get their postseason underway Friday with a Class AA quarterfinal at 3:30 pm at No. 4 Frontier.
Also Friday, in Class C girls quarterfinal action, the Pine Valley/Gowanda vs. Cattaraugus-Little Valley winner will travel to No. 1 Wilson at 6 pm, no. 4 Chautauqua Lake will host No. 5 Holland/West Valley at 3:30 pm, the JFK vs. Westfield/Brocton winner will travel to No. 2 Portville and No. 3 Frewsburg will host no. 6 Randolph.
Class D teams will be the final ones to open their playoffs.
On Monday, Oct. 24, No. 4 Franklinville will take on No. 1 Ellicottville at 7 pm and no. 3 Maple Grove will take on No. 2 North Collins at 5 pm in the girls semifinals at Dunkirk’s Karl Hoeppner Field. The winners will meet for the final back in Dunkirk at 1 pm on Saturday, Oct. 29.
On Wednesday, Oct. 26, No. 3 North Collins and no. 2 Ellicottville will meet in a boys 5 pm semifinal at West Seneca West. The winner of that game will take on No. 1 Maple Grove for the Class D title on Monday, Oct. 31 at 5 pm at West Seneca East.
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