Red Devils Baseball, Softball Each Snag Third Seed

There's a common trend in the North Division 2 baseball and softball playoff brackets. Burlington High School is among the favorites.

The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association released its postseason pairings on Tuesday, and the Red Devils earned the No. 3 seed in each of their respective brackets.

Burlington's 17-3 mark in the softball regular season was behind only top seed Danvers and second ranked Amesbury, which suffered one and two losses respectively.

On the baseball diamond the locals were 14-4, only outdone by unbeaten Boston English and No. 2 Danvers, which enters the tournament at 18-2.

Burlington opens first round softball play on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. with a home game versus No. 14 Swampscott. The winner takes on either Dracut or Arlington in the quarterfinal round.

The baseball team takes on No. 14 Wayland in the first round on the same day, taking to the diamond at 4 p.m. at Franis Wyman. With a win, the Red Devils would advance to take on either Beverly or Belmont in the next round.