By WILLIAM WILKERSON

SPECIAL TO THE STAR-TELEGRAM

Looking ahead at this week’s boys and girls high school sports action:

Boys soccer

March 20-22: 4A Bi-District round

March 24-25: 5A Bi-District round and 4A area round.

Playoff picture

4-5A: Mansfield has one match left but has secured the title with a 15-0-0 record. Legacy (11-4-0) and Paschal (11-4-0) are battling for the second seed. Legacy faces Burleson (8-7-0), who is tied with Granbury for the fourth seed. Paschal faces Mansfield on March 18. Summit is still in it at 7-8-0. They play Granbury on March 18.

5-5A: Keller (11-1-1) has won district with one match left. Carroll (8-2-3) is in second and will face Richland on March 18. Grapevine and Keller Central are tied at 7-3-3. Grapevine will face Heritage (7-5-1) on March 18. Central faces Northwest (3-8-2) on March 17.

7-5A: Dallas Jesuit (12-0-0) wins district with Euless Trinity (7-2-3) finishing second.

8-5A: Arlington (13-0-1) won the district with Duncanville (9-1-4), Sam Houston (9-3-2) and DeSoto (6-4-4) rounding out the playoff seeds.

5-4A: Denton Guyer finished at 14-0-0. Birdville and Fossil Ridge each ended district play with 9-3-2 records.

6-4A: Polytechnic (11-3-0) won district just ahead of Southwest and South Hills, who each finished 10-4-0. Trimble Tech and Carter-Riverside just missed out at 9-5-0.

7-4A: Aledo (14-0-1) is district champs with one match remaining. They’ll host second-place Arlington Heights (11-2-2) on March 17. North Side has wrapped up the No. 3 seed with a 9-1-4 record.

9-4A: Midlothian (13-1-0) won district. Arlington Seguin (11-2-1) finished second ahead of Crowley (10-4-0).

Girls soccer

March 20-22: 4A Bi-District round

March 24-25: 5A Bi-District round and 4A area round.

Playoff picture

5-5A: The playoff teams are locked, but each team still has one match to play. Colleyville Heritage sits in first at 10-0-3. They’ll play second-place Grapevine (10-3-0) on March 18 at 8 p.m. Southlake Carroll (8-3-2) is in third followed by Keller (6-1-6).

7-5A: Hurst L.D. Bell (19-2-0) and Euless Trinity (18-6-1) finished tied for the district title with 11-1-0 records and also because they gave up the same amount of goals during district season. L.D. Bell gets the first seed.

8-5A: Arlington Martin (21-3-0) won district with a 14-0-0 clip. Cedar Hill is second (9-2-3), just ahead of Arlington Lamar (9-3-2). Duncanville is the fourth seed at 7-3-4.

6-4A: Southwest (16-2-2) won district at 12-0-0.

7-4A: Aledo (22-1-1) has wrapped up the district title with a 15-0-0 record. It will face second place Arlington Heights (14-5-2, 13-2-0) on Monday. Azle slips in as the third seed with an 11-3-1 record with one game left.

9-4A: Midlothian (18-1-3) finished at 14-0-0. Crowley (18-3-1) was second at 12-2-0. Arlington Seguin rounded out the playoff spots with a 7-4-2 mark.

Softball

Cleburne in control. To stay in striking distance of favorite Aledo (17-1, 4-0 in District 8-4A), Cleburne is going to have to win the games it’s supposed to and do well in the head-to-head with the Ladycats. That’s been the case so far, though the Lady Yellow Jackets have yet to face Aledo. Cleburne (10-8, 4-0) has dominated district foes thus far with three shutouts, two double-digit scoring games and a close 1-0 victory over Joshua. Cleburne should always go into every game with a chance if Katie Cowan is on the mound. Cowan (8-5) struck out six and allowed four hits to earn the win against Joshua. Jessie Richardson (2-3, 1-0) is another option on the mound. The Lady Yellow Jackets will tune up for their March 25 game against Aledo with a March 18 date at Mineral Wells and then a home game against Crowley (7-9, 3-1) on March 21.

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