By Kevin Price For GCS Athletics The Brunswick High and Glynn Academy baseball teams are set to hit the road for the second round of the Class AAAAAA state tournament. Both will be away from home Wednesday in the Sweet 16, but the Red Terrors have the longer trip. Glynn will play at Marist in metro Atlanta in its best-of-3 series while Brunswick will go to Tifton to take on Tift County. Both local teams are scheduled to play two games tomorrow with the third games in each series slated for Thursday if those are needed. GA and Marist are set for a 4 p.m. first-pitch on Wednesday. Brunswick and Tift will play at 4:30. The third game for GA-Marist is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Thursday while a deciding game for BHS-Tift is down for a 5 p.m. start. The Pirates are the No. 2 seed from Region 2-AAAAAA. Brunswick advanced to the second round last Thursday with victories over Mundy’s Mill at home. BHS won the opener 2-1 before also taking the second game by a 7-1 final. The Blue Devils won the first two games of their first-round series last week, also. They toppled Dunwoody 4-3 and 12-3. BHS is 21-10 overall. The Pirates are 9-5 away from home this spring. The Blue Devils sport a 25-6 record and are 13-4 on their home field this season. The Pirates and Blue Devils share one common opponent. Both teams lost to Woodstock here in Brunswick in the Baseball at the Beach tournament. Brunswick lost to the perennial power 2-1 at Bud Couch Field on Feb. 23. The Blue Devils fell to Woodstock 5-2 the next day at Adam Wainwright Field. The Blue Devils are ranked 13th in the Power 25 rankings for Georgia by prepbaseballreport.com and are ranked fourth in the Class AAAAAA poll. They won Region 1 this spring. BHS is just outside the top-10 in the website’s Class AAAAAA rankings. The Brunswick-Tift winner will advance to the quarterfinals to play the winner of the Habersham Central-Etowah winner. The Pirates would have to play on the road against Etowah, a No. 1 seed, but would be at home against Habersham Central, a No. 3 seed. For what it’s worth, Tift would be at home as long as it wins. The Blue Devils are seeded higher than Habersham Central, but the universal coin toss by the Georgia High School Association gave the home-field advantage to teams on the bottom of the bracket for the quarterfinals in the event they are like seeds which is the case with Tift and Etowah. Last week in the first round, Glynn rocked Rockdale County in two games, outscoring the Bulldogs 29-2 in 10 innings as the Terrors won both games in five innings by the run-rule. GA took the opener 17-0 before also taking the nightcap 12-2. Marist also won the opening two games in its first-round series against Lee County at home, defeating the Trojans 7-6 and 2-1 to sweep the series. The Terrors are 21-9 overall while Marist is 26-5. Glynn is 11-4 away from the Waino in 2024 while the War Hawks own an 11-2 home worksheet for the season. Glynn is ranked eighth in the classification rankings by prepbaseballreport while Marist is ranked fifth. The War Hawks are also 14th in the Power 25 rankings for the state. They won Region 4 this season. The Glynn-Marist winner advances to the quarterfinals to face the North Forsyth-Blessed Trinity winner. Glynn would be on the road against either team. North Forsyth is a No. 2 seed and Blessed Trinity is a No. 1. For what it’s worth, Marist would play again at home against North Forsyth as a higher seed and also against Blessed Trinity since it is the bottom team in the brackets. Also for those wondering, Brunswick and Glynn would not meet until the state semifinals.