IHSA Announcements

September 20, 2006

Fall Bracket Drawing

The blind drawing that determines the state final pairings in bracketed team sports was held at the IHSA Office on Wednesday, September 20, starting at approximately 10:00 a.m. This drawing covered the fall sports of boys soccer and girls volleyball.  Boys football, which operates under a different system, will be paired on Football Pairings Night, October 21.

Members of the IHSA Media Advisory Committee made the drawings. Traditionally, the pairings are made by ordering the 8 sites that feed into the quarterfinals in alphabetical order and numbering them from 1 to 8. Then 8 numbered peas are drawn from a bottle. The number on the first pea drawn represents the site whose winner will occupy the first position on the quarterfinal bracket, and so on.

Boys Class A Soccer

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Columbia Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of TBA Sectional (Chicago area)
Pea #3 represents winner of Hinckley (H.-Big Rock) Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Monticello Sectional
Pea #5 represents winner of Peotone Sectional
Pea #6 represents winner of Princeton Sectional
Pea #7 represents winner of Raymond (Lincolnwood) Sectional
Pea #8 represents winner of Rockford (Wedgbury Soccer Complex) Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #1, Columbia Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #8, Rockford (Wedgbury Soccer Complex) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #4, Monticello Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #2, TBA Sectional (Chicago area)
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #6, Princeton Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #7, Raymond (Lincolnwood) Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #5, Peotone Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #3, Hinckley (H.-Big Rock) Sectiona

Boys Class AA Soccer

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Bridgeview (Toyota Park) 1 Super-Sectional (near southwest)
Pea #2 represents winner of Bridgeview (Toyota Park) 2 Super-Sectional (far south & southwest)
Pea #3 represents winner of Edwardsville (SIU-E) Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Lake Zurich Super-Sectional
Pea #5 represents winner of Lisle (Benedictine Univ.) 1 Super-Sectional (west suburbs)
Pea #6 represents winner of TBA Super-Sectional (north side & suburbs)
Pea #7 represents winner of Morton Super-Sectional
Pea #8 represents winner of Rockford (Wedgbury Soccer Complex) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #3, Edwardsville (SIU-E) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #4, Lake Zurich Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #5, Lisle (Benedictine Univ.) 1 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #8, Rockford (Wedgbury Soccer Complex) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #1, Bridgeview (Toyota Park) 1 Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #7, Morton Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #6, TBA Super-Sectional (north side & suburbs)
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #2, Bridgeview (Toyota Park) 2 Super-Sectional

Girls Class A Volleyball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Arcola Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Carrollton Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Chicago (St. Gregory) Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Mendota Super-Sectional
Pea #5 represents winner of Monmouth (M.-Roseville) Super-Sectional
Pea #6 represents winner of Mt. Pulaski Super-Sectional
Pea #7 represents winner of Nashville Super-Sectional
Pea #8 represents winner of Oregon Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #4, Mendota Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #5, Monmouth (M.-Roseville) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #2, Carrollton Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #3, Chicago (St. Gregory) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #1, Arcola Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #6, Mt. Pulaski Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #8, Oregon Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #7, Nashville Super-Sectional

Girls Class AA Volleyball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Edwardsville (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Evanston (Twp.) Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Freeport (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Gurnee (Warren) Super-Sectional
Pea #5 represents winner of LaGrange (Lyons) Super-Sectional
Pea #6 represents winner of Midlothian (Bremen) Super-Sectional
Pea #7 represents winner of Oswego (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Pea #8 represents winner of Pekin Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Quarterfinal bracket position #1: pea #7, Oswego (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #2: pea #2, Evanston (Twp.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #3: pea #8, Pekin Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #4: pea #5, LaGrange (Lyons) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #5: pea #4, Gurnee (Warren) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #6: pea #6, Midlothian (Bremen) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #7: pea #1, Edwardsville (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Quarterfinal bracket position #8: pea #3, Freeport (H.S.) Super-Sectional