Connie Mack Qualifier

I didn't think it started until next week. Am I mistaken?

South Plains Regional qualifier - stars today - texasaabc.com

Dallas Patriots beat DBAT Hinojosa 9-1 in first game

Sorry, I was thinking about Phoenix.

Dbat McCabe playing Patriots tonight at Flower Mound. Was Thompson pitching for the Patriots? Any updates?

Yankees beat Spikes
Mustangs Browning beat Tigers Ingram in extras
Mustangs Blair beat Titans
Frozen Ropes beat Mustangs Chatman
Dbacks Sanders beat Mustangs Bonesio
Patriots 17 beat Mustangs McCabe

Thursdays Winners games

Patriots 18 vs Stars/Dbacks
Yankees vs Browning
Mustangs Blair vs Frozen ropes
Dbacks Sanders vs Patriots 17

Thursdays Losers Bracket Games

Mustangs Hinojosa vs Dbacks/Stars
Spikes vs Tigers
Titans vs Mustangs Chatman
Mustangs Bonesio vs Mustangs McCabe

The 2 Dback teams are mostly 18s along with Patriots Stout and Yankees. Everyone else looks to be mostly 17s. Where are all the 18s playing?

Yankees beat DBAT-Browning 12-0 and will play either Patriots 18 or DBacks-Beck @ PE Friday morning at 10 AM.

DBAT-Hinojosa beat the Dallas Stars 11-3 and will play either the Spikes or Tigers Friday morning @ FM at 10 AM.

Any other results?

DPats 18 beat DBacks-Beck 9-0 and play the Yankees this morning at 10:00 at Plano East

DPats 18 beat Dallas Yankees 7-1 this morning

In a back and forth affair DPats 18 beat the Frozen Ropes 8-7. This was a match-up of the remaining 3-0 teams in the tourney. 5 teams remain with the DPats 18's as the only 4-0 team. The other 4 are 3-1. They drew for a bye last night and the FR got the bye. Today's games are at Flower Mound HS at 10, 12 and 5. DPats 18 play DBat McCabe at noon.

DPats 18 beat DBat McCabe 9-5 to advance to championship game/games. They will play the winner of the Yankees/Frozen Ropes game this afternoon. Either one of those teams would need to win 2 against the Patriots tomorrow starting at 10:00am.

Yankees beat DBacks Beck. I dropped by to watch the 5:00 game and the Frozen Ropes pitcher was dominating. I never got his name but he had 12 or 13 strikeouts. He gave up a run in the first on a rbi 2B and Dean had a single but that was it. He cruised after that. The Yankees pitcher was equally effective, only giving up 2 or 3 hits. He had 9-10 strikeouts as well. Frozen Ropes trailed 1-0 in the bottom of the 6th and got a leadoff hit. The coach played for the tie and bunted them over with 2 strikes. Then a triple plated the run to tie it. Next hitter popped a sac fly out to center to take a 2-1 lead. The FR pitcher struck out the side including Dean and Ewing to seal it.

Patriots and Frozen ropes play at 10 tomorrow

Pretty sure the Ropes pitcher was Justin Bethard (Frisco Centennial).

Patriots beat Frozen Ropes 2-1 today. Both pitchers threw the ball well. It was a tough day for the hitters as the wind was blowing in quite hard. Patriots scored 2 in the 2nd and Frozen Ropes scored 1 in the 3rd. Frozen Ropes had a chance in the 5th to tie it when they got a two out hit with a man on second. Very close play at the plate. The Patriots left fielder made a very good throw. The runner beat the throw and appeared safe. The umpire banged him out. From where I was sitting he might not have touched the plate, it was hard to tell. The crowd went ballistic and several parents were ejected. Quite a circus actually. Overall, decent game to watch. Two pretty good teams that are coached well.

It was a close play at the plate for sure. I don't think the runner's hand ever touched the plate. After the play the unpire never wiped off the plate and it was still clean. If the runner would have swiped his hand across there would have been some dirt across the plate and it was clean as a whistle.

The DPats 18's head off to Phoenix, AZ with a 15-1 mark on the young summer season...good luck boys, punch your ticket to Farmington!

By far the most competitive 18u summer I have seen in a long time. Congrats to the Pats and the Ropes for making it to the last game in this tough tourney. This summer is going to be fun. Lots of great 17 and 18U teams in DFW.

Great stuff.

That runner most definately touched the plate and better yet was well past the plate before being tagged, It was a great slide because the catcher was blocking the plate without the ball. If the runner trucks the catcher he would of been out but instead made an athletic move and was totally safe. The question was if he was tagged at all. Besides the umpire was totally out of position and admitted dust was in his eye and really couldn't see, stated after the game when he had to answer to the men in charge. Funny how the truth comes out after the fact! Congrats to both teams for a great tournament.