The three Posey County girls’ basketball teams know they each have rough roads ahead, but they also know one other thing as Sectional play begins tonight.

They‘re all on a relatively level playing field.

Mount Vernon will be the first county school to see action, as the Lady Wildcats travel to Bosse for a Class 3A battle with Heritage Hills. The Lady Cats and Lady Patriots square off at approximately 7:30 p.m., following the opener between Mater Dei and Boonville.

North Posey gets into the act Wednesday, as the Lady Vikings make another long trek, this time to Forest Park, for a Class 2A contest against the host Lady Rangers, and New Harmony opens its Sectional Friday night against Cannelton in the 1A tourney at Wood Memorial.

New Harmony coach Larry Kahle is ready for the postseason to start.

"When you go into Sectionals, the whole season starts over," Kahle said. "You’ve got a brand new season starting over. Cannelton’s 0-0, we’re 0-0, Wood Memorial and Tecumseh are 0-0."

Kahle thinks that the Lady Rappites have a good chance against Cannelton, if they can continue to keep their heads up, and if they play hard, they have a good chance of winning the opener.

"The team has to be aware of the Lady Bulldogs on the court, and they have to be patient with the ball and hit some open shots," Kahle said.

The Lady Rappites are in a four-team Sectional at Wood Memorial with the host Lady Trojans facing Tecumseh in the other bracket.

The Lady Vikings will have to work on its free throw shooting, ball-handling and rebounding against a taller Forest Park team in a very difficult Sectional, according to coach Charles Mair.

"In the Sectional that we’re in, you cannot have a good draw," Mair said "Because there are too many good teams in there. You can’t have a good draw in that Sectional."

Even with that, Mair wasn’t too happy about having to draw the Lady Rangers, while no North Posey team has ever played a home Sectional game.

How tough is the Forest Park Sectional?

So tough a state-ranked team will check out in tonight’s opener, which pits Crawford County against Southridge.

"This is the toughest Class 2A Sectional in the state of Indiana," Mair said. "There is going to be one extremely good team that is going to get beat and go home the first night."

Perry Central awaits the Crawford County-Southridge winner, while the North Posey-Forest Park winner takes on the winner of Wednesday’s first game between Tell City and South Spencer.

At Bosse, Mount Vernon will face a Lady Patriots team that got away from them earlier in the season.

The Lady Wildcat coaches are hoping that this team has improved to where they can overcome Heritage Hills and that the team will be ready.

The Mount Vernon-Heritage Hills winner will take on either Mater Dei or Boonville in Friday’s semifinals while Memorial and Bosse will square off in the bye game Friday.

Champions in all three Sectionals will be crowned on Saturday, February 10.