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.