A potential third baseball City Showdown this season could determine which Lawrence high school makes the trip to the Class 6A state tournament.

Free State and Lawrence High will play in the same regional Wednesday at FSHS and could play each other in the regional final.

First, however, No. 5 LHS (8-12) would need to upend No. 4 Olathe Northwest (10-10) at 2 p.m. Wednesday, and top-seeded FSHS (16-4) must get past No. 8 Topeka (4-16).

First-round winners will meet in the 6 p.m. regional championship for a trip to state, which runs May 26-27 at Kansas University’s Hoglund Ballpark.

Softball on road

Both city high schools will hit the road for softball regionals.

No. 4-seeded Free State (11-9) will face No. 5 Manhattan (11-9) at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the College Boulevard Activity Center in Olathe. The winner of that game will face the winner between No. 1 Olathe Northwest (19-1) and No. 8 Junction City/St. Xavier (5-15) at 6 p.m. for the regional championship.

Sixth-seeded Lawrence High (9-11) will face No. 3 Olathe North (13-7) at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Washburn Rural. No. 2 Washburn Rural (18-2) and No. 7 Topeka (9-11) meet in the other regional opener, with the first-round winners paired in the regional championship at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Soccer squads travel

FSHS and LHS soccer teams, too, are taking to the road for their regional openers.

No. 12-seeded Lawrence (7-9-0) will face No. 5 seed Olathe East (10-5-1) at 7 p.m. Tuesday at CBAC.

No. 11 seed Free State (5-8-3) will meet No. 6 Garden City (9-5-1) at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Garden City.

Bishop Seabury (3-5), seeded No. 14 in 4-1A, will play No. 3 seed De Soto (11-3-2) at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at De Soto.