6 p.m. Thursday at Churchland High School

The winner gets: A spot in Monday’s 6 p.m. championship game against either Princess Anne or Lake Taylor and a berth in the Group AAA state tournament.

Credentials: Wilson shared the Eastern District regular-season championship with Lake Taylor and won the district tournament; Heritage swept through the Peninsula District regular-season and tournament.

Leading scorers: Wilson’s JoNiquia Guilford (20.5 ppg); Heritage’s Bonae Holston (15 ppg).

Key match-up: Holston and Sonia Johnson vs. Wilson’s post players. Holston, who has signed with N.C. State, and Johnson, who has signed with Delaware State, present a challenge inside, and it’ll likely be up to the Presidents’ Kendra Powell and Eulandra Forrest to stop them. Powell, a junior, scored 10 points in the region quarterfinals, while Forest – a sophomore transfer from Oscar Smith – has played well defensively.

Last region trip: Both teams made it last season. Wilson lost to Hampton in the semifinals; Heritage lost in the final to the Crabbers and reached the Group AAA semifinals.

Wilson will win if: The Presidents put the clamps on Heritage’s inside game and control the tempo with guards Shakiyla Finney and Brittany Ellis. And if Guilford gets hot from outside, look out ...

Heritage will win if: The Hurricanes pound it inside and stay out of foul trouble, and if they don't get caught too often in Wilson's harassing, trapping defense.

Did you know: Before Wilson played King’s Fork in Tuesday’s quarterfinals, officials from both schools said they ordered a man in the stands to stop filming after he said he was doing so for Heritage. The man put his camera away but stayed to watch the game.