Monday's schedule for the Johnston County Easter Invitational prep baseball tournament at South Johnston High School's Bruce Coats Field…
Consolation Games
Cleveland vs. Rocky Mount, noon
Corinth Holders vs. South Johnston, 2:30
Semifinals
Middle Creek vs. Clayton, 5
Smithfield-Selma vs. West Johnston, 7:30

The prep baseball tournaments that highlight the Spring break and Easter run of school breaks begin this Thursday. Below are the schedules for teams in the Johnston County and Garner area over the next three weeks.

Super Tuesday in the presidential election is behind us, but today brings another kind of super Tuesday in the world of high school sports. Conference play in baseball and softball for the Northern Carolina 2A, Eastern Carolina 3A and Greater Neuse River 4A all begin today and there are solid match ups all around.
In the GNRC, the highlight game on the baseball side is a meeting of undefeated squads as Smithfield-Selma hosts West Johnston at 7 p.m.

The annual Johnston County Easter Invitational baseball tournament is back to its traditional eight-team format after plans were announced to go with just seven teams last week. Corinth Holders has joined the tournament field. The event runs March 31 - April 3 at South Johnston High School's Bruce Coats Field.

The field includes Johnston County schools Smithfield-Selma, Clayton, Cleveland, West Johnston, Corinth Holders and South Johnston along with Middle Creek and Rocky Mount.

The tournament schedule:

Seventy-two high school girls soccer games are on tap in late March for The Brittany Willis Memorial Scholarship Showcase, held at the J. Burt Gillette Soccer Complex in Wilson.

Among the area teams competing are: Broughton, Millbrook, Wakefield, East Wake, Clayton, North Johnston, East Chapel Hill, Cardinal Gibbons and Franklinton.

The full schedule is below:

Updates on the annual Four Oaks Bank Cup girls soccer tournament - featuring all eight Johnston County girls soccer sqauds - this week. All of the remaining matches are being played at Princeton High School.

UPDATED AFTER THURSDAY'S RESULTS

Seventeen area prep softball teams will have a final tune up for the 2012 season Friday and Saturday in the Miracle League Softball Jamboree at Smithfield Community Park.
Scrimmages will be held Friday from 4:30 until 8 p.m. featuring Clayton, Harnett Central, North Johnston and Cleveland.
Saturday's scrimmages start at 9 a.m. and feature 13 teams: West Johnston, Garner, Hope Mills South View, South Johnston, Fayetteville Cape Fear, Princeton, Triton, Fayetteville Pine Forest, Southern Pines Pinecrest, Corinth Holders, Athens Drive and event host Smithfield-Selma.

1A Boys
Rocky Mount Prep at Princeton, 7
2A Boys
Corinth Holders at Reidsville, 7
4A Boys
Wakefield at Garner, 7
Wilmington Hoggard at Clayton, 7
1A Girls
Princeton at Lakewood, 6:30
3A Girls
Nash Central at Cleveland, 6
4A Girls
Southern Durham at Southeast Raleigh, 7

4A Boys
Garner 80, Sanderson 58
Wilmington Hoggard 59, Southeast Raleigh 57
Clayton 73, Athens Drive 52
4A Girls
Southeast Raleigh 68, Enloe 56
Wakefield 70, Clayton 58

Here are tonight's first round games for the state playoffs. Winners advance to Wednesday's sectional semifinals.

Prep Basketball: Girls State Playoffs - Sectionals

Red Springs at Princeton, 6

North Johnston at Bunn, 6

Cleveland at West Brunswick, 6