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DATES TO REMEMBER: Today --- HS football heat acclimatization, HS golf practice begin .... Aug. 7 --- HS golf season begins .... Aug. 11 --- HS football practice begins (full pads) .... HS boys' soccer, girls' soccer, boys' and girls' cross country, girls' volleyball, girls' tennis practice begins .... Aug. 16 --- HS football scrimmages .... Pottsville at Mount Carmel, 10 a.m. .... Exeter Township at Blue Mountain, 10 a.m. .... Halifax at Nativity, 10 a.m. .... Hamburg at Tamaqua, 10 a.m. .... Mahanoy Area at Nanticoke, 10 a.m. .... Marian at Upper Dauphin, 10 a.m. .... Minersville at Northern Lebanon, 10 a.m. .... North Schuylkill at Danville, 10 a.m. .... Northern Lehigh at Jim Thorpe, 10 a.m. .... Palmerton at Panther Valley, 10 a.m. .... Pine Grove at Executive Education, 10 a.m. .... Lehighton at Pocono Mountain East, 10 a.m. .... Shenandoah Valley at Jenkintown, 10:30 a.m. .... Midd-West at Tri-Valley, 11 a.m. .... Newport at Williams Valley, 11 a.m. .... Schuylkill Haven, Central Clarion at Hollidaysburg, 11 a.m.

PIAA Baseball/Softball: 5 teams continue quest in quarterfinals

For five area teams, the journey continues and the dream lives on.

Two Schuylkill League baseball and three Schuylkill League softball teams won PIAA first-round games Monday — the area went 5-1 overall — to advance to Thursday’s quarterfinal round.

Here are the matchups, sites and times for the five games involving local teams as released Tuesday by the PIAA:

PIAA QUARTERFINALS

Thursday’s games

***PIAA Class A Baseball — 11-1 Nativity (11-11) vs. 2-1 MMI Prep (11-11), Robert Wetzel Field, North Schuylkill High School, 1 p.m.

***PIAA Class AA Baseball — 11-1 Tri-Valley (20-6) vs. 6-1 Mount Union (19-4), Big Spring HS, Newville, 4 p.m.

***PIAA Class AA Softball — 11-1 Williams Valley (22-2) vs. 1-1 Bristol (18-1), Exeter Township HS, Reiffton, 4 p.m.

***PIAA Class 3A Softball — 11-1 Pine Grove (24-2) vs. 3-2 Kutztown (23-4), Exeter Township HS, Reiffton, 2 p.m.

***PIAA Class 4A Softball — 11-2 North Schuylkill (18-5) vs. 2-1 Valley View (21-2-1), Wilkes University, 2 p.m.

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