Ken Griffey Jr World Series

Can someone keep us up to date on scores, pitchers, and how these three teams do on a day to day basis? Also, is their a web site?

www.owassobaseball.com

Early Scores
DBAT Mustangs Noss 19 Colorado Wolves 0
Texas Stix 12 Arkansas 4

DBat-Sharpe was up 19-6 top of 4th. Not sure if that was also the final.

The previous DBAT Sharp score was a final.

DBAT Noss beat the Texas Stix 5-3.

DBAT Sharp will play Arkansas tomorrow at 8am.

#1 seed -- DBAT Noss
#3 seed -- DBAT Sharp
Stix was either 4 or 5

DBAT Noss beat Arkansas 15-3 in their first bracket game today.

DBAT Sharp plays New York Renegades at 5:30 today.

Stix played Broken Arrow at 3pm (not sure of that score, last I heard Stix losing 7-2)

DBAT Noss will play winner of Stix/Broken Arrow at 5pm tomorrow.

Stix lost to Broken Arrow 11-8
DBAT Sharp beat New York 13-0.

DBAT Noss vs Broken Arrow tomorrow at 5pm
DBAT Sharp vs Owasso or Colorado tomorrow at 7pm

Stix vs Arkansas tomorrow at noon.

Thursday games:

DBAT Noss beat Broken Arrow 11-3

Texas Stix lost to Arkansas 9-5(?)

DBAT Sharp beat Owasso 17-5

Friday games:
Arkansas vs Owasso 1pm
NY vs Broken Arrow 4pm

DABT Noss vs DBAT Sharp 7pm

How does the regional qualifying work for this? 6 out of the 8 teams are from the Mid South. No Florida, Georgia, or Calif. teams?

Yea, I was wondering the same thing. Its a "national tournament" but only 8 qualifiers? Three of the 8 "national" regions are in Dallas with three teams from the Dallas area qualifying. 3 Dallas teams, 2 Tulsa teams, Ark, NY, and Col. How are these teams chosen and is this really a National Tournament? How many states play qualifying tournaments to get to Owasso every year? Just curious like NTxDad61

Odd number's 9u, 11u, 13u, 15u, 17u do not have regional tournaments only state tournaments. Dallas area has more teams because they have more state tournaments. Local AABC office has to get the ok for the number they can send to the world series. If they have a bunch of teams that want to go to the world series they will have more state tournaments instead of one huge one. I'm sure someone can explain in more detail.
All states that have AABC and have teams that want to try and go will have a state tournament.

Beast, if thats the case, then "Dallas" had three "state" tournaments this year. The state tournament seems to be a misnomer. Owasso doesn't really seem to me to be a true national world series tournament. Do you agree?

It all has to do with AABC.

If there is no AABC league in Florida, you will not see a team from Florida represented in the World Series.

Different regions have different participation from different age levels.

For example, if there are 14 leagues in Texas consisting of 150 teams, AABC will award a corresponding amount of state tournaments.

If Montana has 1 AABC league with 4 teams, the obvious would happen.

Catch my drift?

If there are 150 teams in Dallas and 4 teams in Montana...

Shouldn't you give odds to allow the best teams to represent AABC in the World Series?

Facts are, you could have 100 teams in Texas better than the state Champion in Montana.

Would it be smart to send 100 of the better teams home and let an inferior team be represented at the respective World Series?

When you get to the Connie Mack level where it really gets competitive in all parts of the country, you will see a more dispersed representation.

Take a look who is at the Connie Mack World Series this week and it will become obvious.

Each league has a "state tournament" (bbi, lonestar, super 8 for north texas) that is why there were 3 representatives from dfw area. Not all states play AABC. It is mainly played in the southwest and a few other states. AABC's handbook defines "nation tournament" as National competition: Tournament competition above the
Association levels (Regional Qualifiers, Region Championships,
World Series Qualifiers, and World Series). How would you define Nation World Series? Is it because of the # of teams or the lack of teams from different states that makes you think it is not a national ws? You can look through the AABC info for different age groups at www.aabc.com.

Thanks for you explanation Ken. My explanations was just from our experience this year and what I have read. Yours eplains it better.
Good luck in Farmington

Friday's games:

NY beat Broken Arrow to send BA home
Owasso beat Arkansas to send Arkansas home
Dbat Sharp beat DBAT Noss (still in since 1st
loss)8-2

Saturday's games:

DBAT Sharp vs NY at 1pm
DBAT Noss vs Owasso at 4pm

Championship game at 7pm

luvtxball
Sorry can't agree with you. In my humble opinion. At the 15 year old level I believe it is a national tournament. Beast Jr. played in it and he wouldn't trade it for all the USSSA, Super Series, and whatever else so called national tournaments (excluding Perfect Game Tournaments) that are out there where they take the top 64 teams, 48 teams, 32 teams. You know where you keep playing every weekend till you get a qualifying spot. I remember when USSSA had the elite 16, before that they had 40 teams in that tournament. I see they are back up to the "Elite 32". I guess somebody finally came to there senses and put a pencil to it and figured out how much money they were missing out on. I am not bashing anyone. Everyone has to do what they think is best for there kid. Its not easy to figure it out when you have just one kid. You feel like you are doing the right thing. If you have multiple kids you can learn from the previous and correct somethings.

I like the AABC format you win you keep playing. More teams need to get in it.
This is old school baseball. In this format you could be headed back home after 2 games. They wouldn't get their 4 or 5 game guarantee.

The new generation parents doesn't like it much because they can't plan their vacations as well.
You know like going to the beach or to see the mouse during the tournament.
If you are going to go on a vacation. Then take a vacation. Get away from the baseball field for a week or a weekend. Believe me little Johnny is not going to forget how to play the game in a week. After having been thru this for the last 12 years. There are only a couple of things I would have changed. I would not have let Junior play baseball in the fall until he was in high school. And kids should not have to play 4 baseball games on Sunday. JMHO. And we would have taken some real vacations.

Sorry for the long post.

But I was just trying to get out of mowing the yard.
Didn't work.

Good luck to DBat-Mustangs-Guthrie-Dow.

My son has played with or against most of those kids. And it has been a pleasure watching all of those kids grow up.
Regards
TB

anyone interested in the connie mack ws, listen on verticalradio.org. DBAT is playing now and up 10-0 in the first.

Beast, after reading Guthrie's post and your explanation, it is much more clear. Now I know AABC is not played everywhere and you are both right about the level of competition. Thanks Beast and Mr. Guthrie for the insight.

Well the Ken Griffey Jr WS has come to an end with DBAT Sharp defeating DBAT Noss in the Championship game. More details to come at www.dbatmustangs.com. It has been a great week for both teams. Congratulations to all of the players and coaches. See everyone back in Texas. Have a safe trip home.