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Playoff brackets: Trojans draw Panthers
Fairfield hosts Mt. Pleasant in Round 1 of substate baseball
Andy Krutsinger
Jun. 25, 2025 3:32 pm
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The Iowa High School Athletic Union released its postseason matchups for the 2025 baseball season this week, and now everybody knows their path to the state tournament this summer.
The area gets two All-Union matchups in the first round. Fairfield will host Mt. Pleasant in Class 3A Substate 6, and Van Buren County will take on Pekin in Moravia in Class 1A Substate 5.
The postseason begins on July 5, with Class 1A and 2A openers.
Listed below are all first round matchups for the area teams, by district. Full brackets can be found on gobound.com.
CLASS 3A
Substate 5
Washington at Davenport Assumption
Substate 6
Mt. Pleasant at Fairfield
CLASS 2A
Substate 5
Winfield-Mount Union/Columbus at Wilton
Cardinal BYE (plays winner of Davis County vs. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont in quarterfinals)
Substate 6
Mid-Prairie BYE (plays winner of Davis County vs. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont in quarterfinals)
CLASS 1A
English Valleys at Highland
HLV at Hillcrest Academy
Van Buren County vs. Pekin (at Moravia)
New London vs. Wapello
Notre Dame vs. Keota (in New London)