IHSA Announcements

September 12, 2008

Fall Bracket Drawing

The blind drawing that determines the state final pairings in bracketed team sports was held at the IHSA Office on Friday, September 12, starting at approximately 9:43 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 25.

Traditionally, the pairings are made by ordering the sites that feed into the state finals in alphabetical order and numbering them from 1 to 4. Then the 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 bracket, and so on.

Boys Class 1A Soccer

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Chillicothe (Illinois Valley Central) Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Edwardsville (Metro-East Lutheran) Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Hinckley (H.-Big Rock) Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Lisle (Sr.) Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Semifinal bracket position #1: pea #4, Lisle (Sr.) Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: pea #2, Edwardsville (Metro-East Lutheran) Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: pea #3, Hinckley (H.-Big Rock) Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: pea #1, Chillicothe (Illinois Valley Central) Sectional

Boys Class 2A Soccer

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Chicago (Loyola U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Jacksonville (Illinois College) Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Lisle (Benedictine U.) Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Morton Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Semifinal bracket position #1: pea #2, Jacksonville (Illinois College) Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: pea #1, Chicago (Loyola U.) Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: pea #4, Morton Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: pea #3, Lisle (Benedictine U.) Sectional

Boys Class 3A Soccer

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Barrington Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Chicago (Loyola U.) Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Lisle (Benedictine U.) Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Normal (Community West) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Semifinal bracket position #1: pea #4, Normal (Community West) Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: pea #1, Barrington Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: pea #3, Lisle (Benedictine U.) Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: pea #2, Chicago (Loyola U.) Super-Sectional

Girls Class 1A Volleyball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Albion (Edwards County) Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Pecatonica Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Peoria Heights Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Warrensburg (W.-Latham) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Semifinal bracket position #1: pea #1, Albion (Edwards County) Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: pea #2, Pecatonica Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: pea #3, Peoria Heights Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: pea #4, Warrensburg (W.-Latham) Super-Sectional

Girls Class 2A Volleyball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Byron Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Pana (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Princeton Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Vandalia Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Semifinal bracket position #1: pea #3, Princeton Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: pea #2, Pana (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: pea #1, Byron Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: pea #4, Vandalia Super-Sectional

Girls Class 3A Volleyball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Chatham (Glenwood) Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Freeport (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Grayslake (Central) Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Oswego (H.S.) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Semifinal bracket position #1: pea #2, Freeport (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: pea #3, Grayslake (Central) Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: pea #1, Chatham (Glenwood) Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: pea #4, Oswego (H.S.) Super-Sectional

Girls Class 4A Volleyball

Starting lineup:
Pea #1 represents winner of Elgin (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Pea #2 represents winner of Mundelein (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Pea #3 represents winner of Normal (Community West) Super-Sectional
Pea #4 represents winner of Palos Heights (Shepard) Super-Sectional

Bracket drawing:
Semifinal bracket position #1: pea #2, Mundelein (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #2: pea #1, Elgin (H.S.) Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #3: pea #3, Normal (Community West) Super-Sectional
Semifinal bracket position #4: pea #4, Palos Heights (Shepard) Super-Sectional

Sectional Pairings

In both boys soccer and girls volleyball, some sectionals are seeded at the regional level. Those champions of those regionals will be paired randomly at the sectional, according to the following system:

1. The names of the four regional sites will be alphabetized according to standard IHSA naming protocol and numbered from 1 to 4.
2. The first sectional match will be pair the winner of Regional #3 and the winner of Regional #2.
3. The second sectional match will be pair the winner of Regional #4 and and the winner of Regional #1.