The fifth-place team from District 1 is one of the final eight Class AAAA baseball teams alive in the state tournament.
And that team, Methacton, beat a District champion to get there.
Such is life in big-school Pennsylvania baseball.
Annually, District 1 flexes its collective muscle in June.
This year, four of the five qualifiers won their state opener and the other team, third-place Council Rock North, lost to a Nazareth team that has a legitimate chance to win it all.
Last season, the suburban Philadelphia district placed three teams in the state semifinals and two in the championship game. West Chester Henderson, the second-place team, beat third-place finisher Owen J. Roberts, 7-0, for state gold.
Something similar could happen this year.
Two quarterfinals are all-District 1 affairs, but the winners won't be guaranteed a spot in the state finals.
Then again, if history is any indication, at least one of those teams will make it to State College. In the six years of Class AAAA baseball, only two title games have been played without a District 1 team.
In 2009, North Penn won the state title as the district's fifth-place team.
We don't think Methacton has the tools to make a run quite that long, but one of the four remaining teams no doubt will.
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