Matt Vines

North DeSoto and Logansport now know their first-round opponent while Stanley still has some waiting to do find out its first playoff opponent.

North DeSoto climbed in the past week to No. 9 in the Division II Non-Select power rankings, with Logansport holding steady at No. 12 in Division IV.

Stanley picked up a Division V first-round bye as the No. 4 seed.

North DeSoto (20-7) will face off against No. 24 Kaplan (13-15) in a best-of-three series in the first round that starts Thursday. The Griffins will host the first game at 6 p.m. with Friday’s game at 4 p.m. with an if-necessary contest later that day.

North DeSoto won its final two regular season games against Minden (No. 14 in Division II Non-Select) and against Weston to boost itself into the top 10.

The first three rounds consist of best-of-three series with the semifinals and finals being single-elimination games.

Logansport (12-13) will host district foe No. 21 LaSalle (9-12) on Friday at 5 p.m. in the Division IV Non-Select first round (single-elimination).

The Tigers hammered LaSalle in their head-to-head series with wins of 11-1 and 15-2 in late March.

Logansport will have to shrug off a four-game losing skid to end the season, which included losses to Northwood-Shreveport and Northwood-Lena and a series loss to St. Mary’s. The Tigers allowed at least 10 runs in all four of those losses.

Stanley (20-6) kicks back this week as they await the winner of No. 13 Bell City (10-8) and No. 20 Calvin (9-13) in the Division V Non-Select first round.

The Panthers wrapped up the District 3-B title and ended the regular season with eight wins in their last 10.

All Division IV and Division V rounds are single-elimination.