Area soccer teams prepare for districts

Brackets are set in all four classes of boys' soccer as area teams prepare for postseason action beginning Saturday.Class 4 District 6The Class 4 District 6 tourney gets underway Saturday at Lee's Summit West High School with three local teams looking to extend their seasons.The Joplin Eagles (11-9) enter the tourney as the number-seven seed. They have one regular season match left, on Thursday at home against Ozark. They open district play against host and second-seed Lee's Summit West (11-7) at noon Saturday. Four of the Eagles' nine losses have come in their last four matches.The winner will advance to a semifinal against the winner of third-seeded Raymore-Peculiar (8-11) and sixth-seeded Smith-Cotton (9-4). That semifinal will be at 5 p.m. Tuesday.The Carthage Tigers (13-9) are the highest-seeded local team after completing their regular season with seven straight wins. They earned a four seed and will face fifth-seeded Lee's Summit North (5-12-1) at 10 a.m. Saturday.Webb City is the eighth seed and will pay top-seeded Lee's Summit at noon Saturday. Webb City finished its regular season 3-16 and will face a 10-5 Lee's Summit team. The winner of that match will advance to play the winner of the Carthage/Lee's Summit North match. That semifinal is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday.Class 3 District 6The Class 3 District 6 tourney begins Tuesday at Logan-Rogersville High School with sixth-seeded McDonald County (9-5) taking on third-seeded Springfield Central (16-7). That match is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.Carl Junction (8-10) is the seventh seed and will battle second-seeded Logan-Rogersville (17-5) at 4:30 p.m. If McDonald County and Carl Junction both upset their opponents, they will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5 in the semifinals.CJ fell 8-0 earlier this season to LRHS and McDonald County lost a close 2-1 match to Central.The rest of the bracket includes top-seeded Springfield Catholic (18-6) facing eight-seeded Hillcrest (3-15) at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and fourth-seeded Parkview (11-9) facing fifth-seeded Willard (10-13-1) at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The two winners will battle at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5.There are no Joplin-area schools competing in Class 2 districts.Class 1 District 6The five-team Class 1 District 6 first-round matchup pits two local teams against each other as fourth-seeded New Heights/McAuley faces fifth-seeded Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School at 6 p.m. Monday at Springfield's Cooper Soccer Complex.New Heights (6-11) logged a 5-0 win over Thomas Jefferson (5-5) earlier this season. The winner will advance to a Tuesday semifinal against top-seeded Greenwood (11-6). Greenwood faced New Heights early this season and walked away with a 3-0 win.The other C1D6 semifinal is second-seeded Fair Grove (15-5-1) against third-seeded New Covenant Academy (7-13-1). That match will be at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.