Brian Dube is one of those coaches who worries about today and will worry about tomorrow when it comes.

That’s why Dube isn’t taking any chances when he makes out his lineup for today’s Western Class C baseball preliminary between his sixth-seeded Livermore Falls Andies (10-6) and the 11th-seeded Boothbay Seahawks (5-9).

Some coaches might consider sending their No. 2 pitcher to the hill when their team is the higher seed in a preliminary game. But Dube will be sending his team’s ace, Levi Jones, to the mound to face the Seahawks. Jones is 7-0 with a 1.90 ERA for the Andies this season, and shut out Boothbay, 5-0, in the two teams’ only regular-season meeting.

“My feeling is you can only play one game at a time. You can’t take anything for granted,” said Dube, who coached the Andies to a state championship in 1999. “We’ve played well behind Levi and we’re facing a good quality pitcher, so we’re going to go with our best out there.”

The quality pitcher Dube refers to is Boothbay’s Will Carroll, a first-team all-conference selection at pitcher last year as a junior who makes the Seahawks a team to be feared in this year’s playoffs despite their sub-.500 record.

The Andies didn’t face Carroll the first time they played Boothbay, so Dube has been weighing several sometimes conflicting scouting reports on the hurler. To prepare his team to face the Boothbay ace, he’s compared him to someone the Andies are much more familiar with, Jay ace Josh Armandi.

“Carroll’s in the same league with Armandi. Those guys can dominate,” he said. “I’ve heard he throws as hard as Armandi and I’ve heard he doesn’t throw as hard as Armandi. I think he’s more of a fastball-slider guy than Armandi. To me, he seems to be more of a thrower than a pitcher, but tomorrow, after I see him, I may have a different opinion.”

One thing Dube is certain of is that the Seahawks will have strong arms on the mound and behind the plate.

“Their catcher, Max Arsenault, has got a cannon for an arm too,” Dube said. “That makes it harder to steal, so we’re thinking more about moving runners rather than being our normal aggressive style. You might see some small-ball at Livermore Falls (Tuesday). That hasn’t been our style in the past.”

The winner of that game moves on to face No. 3 Telstar in the quarterfinals Thursday. Tuesday’s other Class C prelim game involving two MVC rivals pits No. 9 Winthrop (6-8) against No. 8 Hall-Dale.

In Eastern Class A, No. 13 Leavitt (6-10) may have to brace for one of the state’s top fireballers when it meets fourth-seeded Mt. Ararat (12-4) in Topsham.

Leavitt wouldn’t mind if the Eagles decided to overlook them and didn’t start their ace, Mark Rogers, even though the Hornets lost to the Eagles, 9-5, during the regular season without Rogers on the mound.

Regardless of who they face, Leavitt’s game-plan will be the same, coach Dave Morin said.

“We’re going to try to be aggressive and put the ball in play and play good defense,” said Morin, who will send Jordan Morris to the mound for his Hornets. “We talked about just giving them 21 or 22 or 23 outs at most. Anything more than that, we’re in trouble.”

“I told the kids that if it’s Rogers, as good as he is, we just have to try to put the ball in play. But if it’s not Rogers, we’d have to take it as the supreme insult,” Morin joked.

Morin laid out the game plan to his players yesterday before suffering a broken nose and another broken bone just below his left eye when he was hit by a bat during practice. The bat accidentally slipped out of the hands of one of his players while the player was hitting grounders and hit Morin in the face while he was talking one-on-one with another player.

Doctors have told Morin not to take the trip south for today’s prelim. Assistants Matt Strong and Rick Schrepper will run the team in his absence.

Another all-KVAC clash in the prelims involves No. 11 Lawrence (7-9) traveling to Hippach Field to face No. 6 Mt. Blue (10-6). The Cougars beat the Bulldogs in their only regular-season contest, 9-3, on May 8.