The Kinston Arendell Parrott Academy boys and Cary Christian girls each won Eastern Plains Independent Conference swim titles on Tuesday at Triangle Aquatic Center.

The final standings are below.

Boys standings

1. Kinston Parrott, 145
2. St. David's, 106
3. Cary Christian, 99
4. Rocky Mount Academy, 63
5. Halifax Academy, 53

Girls standings

1. Cary Christian, 130
2. Kinston Parrott, 119
3. Rocky Mount Academy, 97
4. St. David's, 87
5. Halifax Academy, 72

FINAL: The Cary Christian girls and Rocky Mount Academy boys each claimed Eastern Plains Independent Schools tournament titles on Saturday.

Here are the regular season standings plus all-conference teams and awards for the Eastern Plains Independent Conference boys and girls basketball seasons.

Here are the conference basketball tournament brackets for the Eastern Plains Independent Conference.

I just got through filling out all our local teams' conference
tournament brackets on bracketmaker.com. Now you can get into March
Madness mode and fill out your predictions for this year's tournaments
by simply clicking on "Predict It!" at the top of each page.

While our area men's teams are losing a ton of seniors, almost every area girls team returns just about everybody. In fact, only two of the 12 players named to the Tri-Eight All-Conference teams will graduate (Cary's Kelsey Campbell and Athens Drive's Alyx Ingram). In some ways, next year's girls basketball teams will resemble the competition that we saw this year from the boys. There's one clear frontrunner (Apex) but a number of talented squads with a chance to go deep next postseason.

Real quickly, here is how I think our teams will finish next season. You never know what will happen with high schools though. Kids move in, kids move away, kids get reassigned or they just quit the sport altogether. But let's just say for sake of conversation that everything remains the same. Here is how I think they'll finish in their respective conferences:

Some writers rag on themselves for not being good at predicting brackets, but Sports Editor J. Mike Blake has nothing to be ashamed of after getting 20 of 25 possible conference tournament games correct last week. He looks back at his "home runs," "foul tips" and of course, the five games where he "swung on and missed."

Sports Editor J. Mike Blake looks at the other boys' and girls' basketball teams playing conference tournaments this week, and gives his predictions on how Cary Christian, Cary Academy and Holly Springs will do in their brackets.