Claysburg-Kimmel softball, fresh off completing a 20-0 regular season, earned the only top seed in the Altoona Mirror’s core coverage area for softball or baseball teams.

The brackets were released Tuesday afternoon after Monday’s games signaled the end of the points accumulation period for District 6.

The Lady Bulldogs, who will compete in the Inter-County Conference playoffs today, will open the District 6 playoffs on Monday against either ninth-seeded Glendale or eighth-seeded Homer-Center, which play a first-round game on Thursday.

Juniata Valley, the No. 6 seed in Class 1A, will host Portage, the No. 11 seed, on Thursday for the right to play third-seeded Ferndale on Monday.

Four other area softball teams qualified for the postseason, one each in 2A, 3A, 5A and 6A.

Fourth-seeded Central Cambria will host Bedford in a rematch of a game it lost 8-7 to Bedford on Monday in the Class 3A quarterfinals with the winner playing either Philipsburg-Osceola (9), Huntingdon (8) or top-seeded Forest Hills in the semifinals.

Bellwood-Antis is on the other side of the four-five quarterfinal matchup in Class 2A and thus must travel to Richland on Thursday. Those teams met on May 1, and the Lady Blue Devils came away with an 8-7 win in 11 innings. The winner will get top-seeded Southern Huntingdon in the semifinals.

Hollidaysburg and Altoona will both be the No. 2 seeds in a Class 5A and 6A championship-game doubleheader at Mount Aloysius on Wednesday, May 21.

The Lady Tigers will take on Central Mountain in the 5A opener at 2 p.m., and Altoona will take on State College in the 6A final at 5 p.m. State College beat Altoona in both regular-season matchups by a combined total of 25 runs.

Baseball playoffs

Central is the highest local seed in the District 6 baseball playoffs in the bracket with the most local flavor.

In a bracket where the top eight seeds are all 11-7 or better, the second-seeded Scarlet Dragons will host seventh-seeded Penn Cambria in the Class 3A quarterfinals on Monday. Central recently beat the Panthers, 4-2, on May 7.

The winner of that game will play either sixth-seeded Central Cambria — the defending District 6 champions — or Huntingdon, which is the third seed, in the semifinals on May 23.

On the other side of that bracket, No. 4 seed Tyrone will host fifth-seeded Philipsburg-Osceola in a quarterfinal game on Monday. The Golden Eagles have won nine of their last 10 games, including an 11-1 win over P-O, going into the postseason. The winner of that game will take on Richland (9), West Shamokin (8) or top-seeded Forest Hills in the semifinals on May 23.

In Class 2A, Cambria Heights is the only team from the Mirror’s core coverage area in the bracket and earned the No. 3 seed. The Highlanders will host sixth-seeded Westmont Hilltop in the quarterfinals on Friday, and the winner will travel to second-seeded Bishop McCort for a semifinal game on May 22.

In Class 1A, five teams from the Mirror’s coverage area made it, but will have some work to do as they enter with lower seeds.

In first round games on Thursday, Portage (10) travels to Claysburg-Kimmel (7), and Bishop Guilfoyle Academy (9) will travel to Purchase Line (8) on Thursday.

Fourth-seeded Juniata Valley and fifth-seeded Williamsburg got byes into the quarterfinals and will play each other in Alexandria on Monday for the right to play either BG, Purchase Line or top-seeded Northern Cambria in the semifinals on May 23.

Both Altoona and Hollidaysburg earned No. 2 seeds in their respective classifications and will host semifinal games before playing the top seed, which received a bye in both brackets.

The Golden Tigers will host Shikellamy in a District 4-6 Class 5A semifinal game on Tuesday, and the winner will play Central Mountain at Bald Eagle Area on May 47 at 4 p.m. for the championship.

The Mountain Lions will host Mifflin County at 1 p.m. Thursday at Mansion Park — prior to the 5 p.m. District 6 track meet’s second day — in the 6A semifinals for the right to take on State College for the championship at Mount Aloysius at 4 p.m. on May 21.

Altoona lost two one-run games to State College this season and split a pair of games against Mifflin County.