Swampscott Baseball and Softball Tourney Action Thursday

The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association's tournament brackets have been released for baseball and softball.

Baseball

In baseball, 17th seed Swampscott plays 16th seed Watertown in the preliminary round on Thursday at 4 p.m. at Victory Field in Watertown.

The winner will draw top seed North Reading, 18-2, at a time and place to be announced. The Hornets were last year's Div. 3 North champs and defeated Swampscott in the quartefinals, 2-1.

Baseball Seedings

1. North Reading (18-2)

2. Bishop Fenwick (16-4)

3. Greater Lawrence (14-4)

4. Arlington Catholic (15-5)

5. Whittier (14-6)

6. St. Mary's (14-6)

7. Stoneham (13-7)

8. Newburyport (13-7)

9. Charlestown (10-6)

10. Lynnfield (12-8)

11. Greater Lowell (11-8)

12. Saugus (11-9)

13. Amesbury (11-9)

14. East Boston (10-9)

15. Shawsheen (9-9)

16. Watertown (9-11)

17. Swampscott (9-11)

18. Bedford (8-11)

19. Weston (8-12)

Softball 

In softball 14th seed Swampscott plays 3rd seed Burlington, 17-3, in the opening round on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Burlington.

The winner plays the winner of the Dracut and Arlington match-up, the time an dplace to be announced.

Softball Seedings

1. Danvers (19-1) .950
2. Amesbury (18-2) .900
3. Burlington (17-3) .850
4. North Reading (16-5) .762
5. Arlington Catholic (15-5) .750
6. Dracut (13-5) .722
7. Marblehead (14-6) .700
8. Tewksbury (14-6) .700
9. Wakefield (14-6) .700
10. Newburyport (13-6) .684
11. Arlington (12-6) .667
12. Winchester (11-7) .611
13. Reading (11-9) .550
14. Swampscott (10-10) .500