Premier Baseball 16U Championship

5sdad,

Talked to Jay this afternoon.....said ya'll are playing well. 3-0 in pool play.......nice!! Good luck the rest of the way.

Results now beginning to be posted:
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5sdad ~ tell your Mustangs congrats.

Dtiger ~ looks like your group's doing well, also.

Keep the updates rolling!

Today, South Texas Sliders 16u (no color) defeated the McKinney Marshalls and tied the Bayside Yankees, winning their pool.

Thanks OP & collikar for the kind words.

The Mustangs are the number 1 seed and will play the winner of the South Texas Sliders & Houston Heat game tomorrow at 4:00.

So which Mustang 16 team is playing in this? Or did they combine?

I think they combined. I know 4 or 5 from Gustafson's team did not make the trip for various reasons.

Houston Heat d South Texas Sliders 8-0 (5 innings)

Dallas Mustangs vs Houston Heat @ 4:00pm

The defeated Sliders team was the navy team. The Sliders' 16U (no-color) team plays at 7 p.m. tonight.

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Dallas Mustangs vs Houston Heat @ 4:00pm

Last report I had was HH 6, DM 2 in the 6th. DM ended up being the #1 seed.

Yesterday
Houston Heat d Dallas Mustangs 8-4

Today
Dallas Mustangs d Austin Wings 4-0

Mustangs will play their last game tomoprrow @ 9:00am.

Good luck Mustangs

Anyone know how this MUSTANG team did?

skythelimit,

We finished 5-1.

DTiger -- how did your team do?

We got 6th. We dominated pool play, even though we had sloppy infield play and we were the #2 seed. We got a by, and won our first bracket play game easily. We then faced the Austin Wings and sloppy play along with 1-2 clutch hits by them got them 6 runs. We came back in the last inning but fell short 6-5. The Austin Wings were in the championship, but I don't know how they did. I would guess they lost to the Heat (if that's who they played). The Houston Heat saved all their pitching until bracket play. Even though our big pitchers didn't pitch until bracket play, our relievers were used in pool play. This brings up a question I've been wondering about in my head. Certain teams like the HH, and Houston KC, along with others, seem to treat pool play as meaningless games, sometimes even playing a totally different team of players (this is a rumor that I've heard from coaches that in no way is to point fingers). In theory, shouldn't a team always try to win with the most they are capable? Even though these teams do well in bracket play, they... sleep through pool play. I don't think there are enough reasons in this type of tournament to win your pool (the winner receiving a by). I was just wondering how you guys (and gals) felt about this?

Since every team was going to the single elimination bracket, some teams chose to save all their usual pitching for the bracket. The alternative was to play for a bye while burning your best pitchers.

The Heat, KC, etc. aren't scared of any team. So they weren't worried about ending up a low seed (e.g., potentially losing pool games by not using their best arms) in terms of playing a high seed opponent.

The rumor is just that. And an untrue one at that. Sour grapes.

Lots of talented teams.

When speaking tournament strategy, it's very effective. But if I was a member of one of those teams, I would have a hard time going into the tournament willing to concede a game or two.

To me, I would concede a game a save a pitcher to win the tourney. Im not really sayin concede, but throw your or 5 pitcher and hope the hittin goes well. And you never know he may pitch good.

Who is conceding? Those teams still stand a good chance of winning.

Guys -- this is not a new strategy -- to keep your best pitchers until bracket play. Some of you are acting like the Houston teams invented this tactic.

Our coaches did pitch some of our better pitchers the first two days. But none of them went over 2 innings so any of them where ready when bracket play started. I think we used 10 pitchers in the 3 pool games and one of those games only went 5 innings.

Dtiger it was nice meeting you this weekend.

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Originally posted by Panther Dad:
Guys -- this is not a new strategy -- to keep your best pitchers until bracket play.

Exactly.

Now the stakes are higher if all teams don't go to the elimination bracket. Then you are more likely to see the aces first.

Texan - how did Texan Jr and team do?

DBAT GM, you have a PM.

Well, I wanna know too Texan.

Texan what team does your son play for? Did we play you guy's?

Okay, okay... You, too, have a PM, PD.

Well, I'm too lazy/strapped for time to read backwards, so how did the tournament end?

The Houston Heat beat the Wings in the finals 11-1 in a 5 inning game.

What team won the premier world series?

I just joined and the thread was not up to date, I see earlier who won.

The 16U Marshals finished 4th in the tournament. They went 1-2 in pool play, won 3 straight, then lost to the Heat (good club) and lost the third place game to the Rawlings group from St. Louis.
Our kids played with a lot guts, as they were not the best team down there (21 seed), they just played their hearts out...
Coaches Evil Dave Ostroff and Brian Thomas did a great job with these kids all summer long...

Who did they beat in bracket play? They sure did have a lot of players down there.

The Marshals seem to be a well organized & well disciplined team. Good hustle. They did extremely well in the tournament. Congrats to your boys.

Thanks for responding heatdad and catcher, and congrats to the Heat. Great ball club!

The Marshals are a GREAT group, also. They continually give the Mustangs a run for their money! Reading this web-site, looks like all the Marshals teams are extremely competitive at all levels! Congrats to those boys, too.

Good luck to all in high school ball.