Premier World Series 17U

Correction: Blake Parker actually had four doubles in the second game.

DBAT Mustangs Bacsik won 12-10 today vs Waco Storm. They won their pool 3-0 and have moved into the Championship Bracket.

Link

http://www.premierbaseball.net...rnament&tournament=4

They might as well be playing this Premier tournament in Texas and call it the 'Texas Premier Championship'. Not a lot of representation from other states...

I guess if you leave out NY, Canada, Illinois, Indiana, Mo, OK, AZ etc you would be right. LOL.

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Originally posted by PWBaseball:
I guess if you leave out NY, Canada, Illinois, Indiana, Mo, OK, AZ etc you would be right. LOL.

21 Teams from Texas
1 Team from New York
1 Team from Canada
0 Teams from Illinois
3 Teams from Indiana
6 Teams from Missouri
0 Teams from Oklahoma
1 Team from Arizona
1 Team from Kansas
1 Team from Arkansas

This data according to the tournament website shows the field to be a little heavy on the Texas teams for a 'National Championship' dont you think?

Dillon,

Not sure why the surly attitude towards the heavy Texas turnout. All the teams in the Premier league have the opportunity/option to attend their National Championship.

As someone from Texas, why are you dogging the teams that chose to attend?

Good to see 8-5A boys doing well. From Perfect Game website:

Parker delivers in pinch for DBAT Mustangs
7/24/2009 7:53:06 PM
 
Blake Parker (Plano West H.S.) hit a two-run, pinch-hit homer in the seventh inning, lifting the DBAT Mustangs-Bacsik to a 13-11 victory over the Houston Raiders Grey. Nic Watkins (Mineola H.S) and Taylor Black (Allen H.S.) also homered for the Mustangs.

Blake Parker delivered the entire tournament

And for those of you who are not aware...Texas Stix catcher Hunter Lockwood, LD Bell, went 4-4 with 4 home runs in a game on Thursday!

Lots of scouts interested (at one point during the tournament he was 13-17 with 4 2B, 6HR) but he is only a JUNIOR!

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Originally posted by collikar:
Dillon,

Not sure why the surly attitude towards the heavy Texas turnout. All the teams in the Premier league have the opportunity/option to attend their National Championship.

As someone from Texas, why are you dogging the teams that chose to attend?

C,

No "attitude" toward this tournament, or any tournament for that matter. I was just taken back when viewing this tournament's field of teams, as it was extremely heavy on the Texas side. My second post on this topic was in direct response to PWBaseball's comment on my initial post after viewing the tournament field,as he/she was stating that there actually were teams from other states besides Texas.

I wasn't 'dogging' any team for attending, nor would I. It was simply just surprising to see this many Texas teams attend a 'National Championship' in Missouri. Any idea as to why Premier was not well represented from other parts of the country (Sorry if I'm naive on the Premier side of things)?


I apologize if the post(s) came off as negatively as it was taken. Again, it was very surprising to view the teams in an event called a National Championship with 85% or so of the teams from Texas, especially when taking place in another part of the country.

Good question Dillon. We're heading up to Fayetteville, AR this week for the Premier World Series Sophomore Championship. 25 of the 40 teams participating are from Texas.

From what I can recall, Texas teams were primarily the ones who got together and formed Premier. In the beginning, there were maybe just 3-4 teams from outside Texas. Since then, teams from other states have joined Premier and it is slowly becoming more "national," although top East Coast and West Coast teams are still doing their own thing. The fact that Perfect Game is now scouting the Joplin event signifies Premier's growing importance.

I'm curious to hear what schools were at this year's event. Two years ago, I remember TCU, DBU, Univ. of Memphis, Rollins College, K-State, Army, Navy, UTSA, New Mexico, Missouri State, New Mexico State, and the Univ. of Houston being at some of the games, and there were other schools as well that we couldn't identify. Can anyone who was there this year recite some names off the top of your head?

Dartmouth, Baylor, Texas Tech, Navy, Wake Forest, Texas, Dllas Baptist, UT Arlington, UTSA, Sam Houston, Kansas, TCU, Oklahoma, LSU, AND NUMEROUS OTHERS.