WWBA 17U

I think lots of teams have dropped out. IL has summer league playoffs so many players had to be home today for that. Not sure about other States...

It wasn't even supposed to rain yesterday either but almost everything (1 game) got cancelled.

who dropped out? Why would you go down there, spend all that money on travel, hotel, etc. tell your kids this is a great event, tons of college's and pro's there, have them foot the bill for it all and then drop out? Makes no sense, I just can't believe any team would drop out.

There are almost 200 teams entered. If any Illinois team, or teams decided to pack up and come home, that's their business. I don't think that indicates that lots of teams have dropped out. Anyway, it's about who's still there, isn't it?

Lots of rain the past few days. All of Sunday's games were cancelled. Some teams who were in the Championship bracket decided to leave instead of staying on and playing Monday. Most stayed and they're playing 5 inning games today.

I see that TT was eliminated today by Diamond Devils 17U from South Carolina. Very nice job in this tournament. Another group of Illinois players showing what they can do on a big stage.

Top Tier played well down here and made the final 16. There were about 6 teams who left before today.

The final four has ABD Bulldogs (CA) who defeated the East Cobb Astros (GA), Diamond Devils (SC) who defeated the Dallas Tigers, Tri State Arsenal (NJ) who defeated ASD (CA) and Diamond Elite (FL) who defeated The Dirtbags (NC).

The Diamond Devils team that beat Top Tier has 7 or 8 players that have committed to the U of South Carolina and others who are committed to SEC or ACC Colleges.

Illinois Sparks also made the playoffs, but their players had to get back to their high school teams by Monday so they were one of the few teams that had to forfeit their playoff game.

Overall a very good showing by the Illinois teams in both 17U and 18U.

PG, was Bryce Harper playing with the 17U ABD Bulldogs in the tournament? Also, congrats to Top Tier and all the Illinois teams in the event!

Bryce Harper (from Las Vegas) was with the San Diego Show.

Very good event with great competition and college exposure for the players. East Cobb is a wonderful venue but the weather seems to be a problem most years. I wouldn't want to be the one in charge of trying to reshuffle the schedule due to rainouts etc. You have to wonder if there is a different part of the country, outside of California, that could handle such an event with hopefully more agreeable weather this time of year?

Despite the iffy weather, when you're making your baseball plans, WWBA has to be put in the "can't miss" category IMO.