Any schedules yet?

My son's 14U team will playing in a tournament at East Cobb the third week of June. USSSA Major State Tournament.

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Originally posted by CSG:
My son's 14U team will playing in a tournament at East Cobb the third week of June. USSSA Major State Tournament.

What is that? I saw it on their site but thought it was for GA teams. We might be there the week after for WWBA National Championships.

I thought the same thing, but it is open to any team that is USSSA. And that is one of the weeks we wanted to travel out of state.

Looks like my boy's team is scheduled for the Ripken Baseball Big Kahuna 14u tournament in Myrtle Beach,SC about July 22.

Big Kahuna 14u teams

If anyone out there knows anything about any of these teams please feel free to sound off.

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Originally posted by bkekcs:
If anyone out there knows anything about any of these teams please feel free to sound off.

The Utah Bandits team has a stud catcher!

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Originally posted by Beezer:

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Originally posted by bkekcs:
If anyone out there knows anything about any of these teams please feel free to sound off.

The Utah Bandits team has a stud catcher!

Beezer
You've really done your homework haven't you?


Anybody have any updates out there?

We qualified for the Elite 24 ( ) and will be going to Battle in the South. Heard rumors about AAU in Myrtle Beach. Oh, and of course, lots of local stuff around here too. Should be a very busy spring/summer in Northern Cal!!

We are playing nothing but 60/90. I don't see the value of 54/80 other than to pump up the egos of the more physically mature kids. For us, that knocks us out of USSSSA tourneys...unless we play up at the 14U level....whic we will do.

We are playing going to AAU Nationals in Myrtle Beach, we are going to Ripken in MB in early March and the BCS Regional in Richmond. Many of my kids will be on school teams so our schedule will be limited in the early part of the year.

My son's 14U team is slated for a few fairly local tournaments and will also play in the Super NIT in Charlotte and the Battle of the South in Knoxville. Depending on qualifying status, either the Elite 24 or the AAU Nationals later in the summer.

Son's U13 team is scheduled for tourneys at:

USSSA, BLD park in Manteca, CA
USSSA, Twin Creeks in Sunnyvale, CA
USSSA, Fremont, CA
Triple Crown Sports, Palm Desert, CA
USABF, San Diego, CA

Our 13u team will play in 6 tournaments around Dallas and also Round Rock,TX, Oklahoma City, Shreveport,LA and Omaha in June.

redbird5- I will disagree to a certain extent with you regarding 13's and 54/80. I think it's a great transition size for that age group- especially in the fall. These kids are still growing and I've found that the transition helps them stay tighter fundamentally. My analogy would be a little kid shooting a basket on a 10' rim. Your technique is going to suffer.

We do intend to play mostly 60/90 in the spring and summer but I found the transition really helped. BTW- Done this for about 25 years and tried it alot of ways. This seemed to work well.

I agree completely with NCBall about the 54/80 transition. We've found that it helps our players defensively because their first step needs to be correct if they have any chance to get to balls in the quicker 54/80 game.

I believe the transition step has helped just about every player- big and small.

NCball - I feel better about my kids on 60/90. We haven't seen any deterioration of mechanics. As a matter of fact, we have noticed the opposite. Our kids have found that in order to be successful on the bigger field they need to be more efficient. To each his own, I guess.

Best of luck this season.

redbird- Thanks, you too. Hopefully we will see you in Myrtle Beach.

Any updates on your 2007 Tournaments?

Elk Grove Travelers 14U
USSSA Major State - East Cobb, GA - June 18-24
USSSA Super NIT - Lumber Yard, IL - June 8-10

West Coast Rakers 13U

Triple Crown Spring Training Phoenix 3/23
Will be playing 14U

Battle in the South 5/10 13U

Triple Crown Championship Steamboat 8/17 13U

Columbus Sharks U13 (Ohio)

Advantage Sports - Cincinnati
Battle in the South - Tennessee
Triple Crown Qualifier - Fremont,Oh
USSSA State
Battle of the Best - Indy
Buckeye Elite (U14 Div.)
Triple Crown Nationals- Myrtle Beach