A TYPICAL SEASON

The typical season for all Mustang Baseball teams includes fivecomponents:

1. 1. Tryouts
   2. Fall-Ball
   3. Winter Workouts
   4. 12U Regular Season
   5. Cooperstown
   6. 13/14U Regular Season
   5. AAU National Championship Tournament
    

Tryouts

Mustang Baseball holds tryouts through out the year.  Our web site is updated in through-out the year with the dates, times and locations of each tryout.

Fall Season

The fall season consists of playing in the Little Rhody Fall Ball League. We were the Championship team in 2005 and 2006.

Winter Program

The Mustang's winter program, is conducted at the Extra-Innings Indoor Training facility in Warwick, RI, RIBI, Around the Horn in East Greenwich and Johnson and Wales.
Our winter workouts are designed to build on the fundamentals learned in the fall season and to keep your body in baseball condition so we can hit the outdoor season in full stride.

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An Extra-Inning membership is included for those participating in the Mustang Baseball Winter program at EI. This entitles you to cage time each week, unlimited use of the back room, plus discounts in the pro shop on clothing and equipment. This is available to others as well.

“REMEMBER OUR COMPETITION ARE REGIONAL TEAMS FROM THE SOUTH (FLORIDA) AND WEST (CALIFORNIA)AND THEY WILL HAVE PLAYED 60 GAMES BY THE TIME OUR WINTER WORKOUTS ARE COMPLETED!!!!

12U Regular Season

The Mustang 12U team is tailored so as not to conflict with the Little League or Cal Ripkin. The team starts play in early April playing primarily on Sundays and an occasional late Saturday. We suspend play in Mid-June so that those selected to their respected All-star teams will not conflict with Little League rules and pick play up as soon as most players are available.

Cooperstown

The 12U team goes to Cooperstown to play in a week long tournament in late July/Early August. This is a great trip, the team stays with the coaches just like the Little League World Series. Most teams make a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame not to mention 6 to 8 games on tremendous fields.

13/14U Regular Season

For our 13U-14U teams the regular season begins as soon as the fields become playable in the spring, usually the first weekend in April.

During the regular season Mustang Baseball, for 13U-14U is your #1 sports priority. You can play on other teams but our games and practices
take priority (except for middle school or high school teams). You cannot pitch on another team without our permission. If you pitch for your school team you must tell us when you pitched last, how many innings and pitches you threw, and when your coach plans to pitch you again. At ages 13U-14U you cannot play on your summer all-star team.

A typical week during the regular season consists of one midweek outdoor practice, one midweek indoor practice (at Extra Innings) and doubleheaders on Saturday and/or Sunday. Scrimmages will be played early in the regular season against other AAU teams from MA, CT and NH as well as against high school JV and Freshman teams. These games will help prepare the team for the state qualifying games. Scrimmages will also be played, after the state tournament. “Open Play Schedule” will allow those teams to schedule games as they see fit to help them prepare for the AAU Division I or II National Tournament. MUSTANG Baseball will use this open play schedule to play only the best competition available.

A New England Tournament will be held to determine which teams qualify for Div. 1 or Div. 2.

13/14U AAU NATIONALS

AAU National Championship Tournament (10 Days, 40 to 60 teams)

The middle to the end of July and the first week in August our teams will
participate in the AAU Division I/II National Championship Tournament, which
are held at various locations around the country.

A typical week at a National Tournament is as follows:

Thursday

Check in to hotel and have lunch
Long practice in the hot sun to get acclimated to the weather, shower
Dinner, 1 hour of free time, lights out at 10:00 PM

Friday

7:30 AM wake up call, light breakfast
Practice 10-2
Lunch, shower, free time
Opening ceremonies, dinner

Game Days (Saturday through Friday)

Breakfast, hitting practice
Game
Lunch, hitting practice/game (if it’s a double header day)
Regular practice and free time at hotel (if it is a single game day),
Shower/Dinner

Past Tournament Structure has been:

Pool play consists of four team pools where each team plays 3 games against the other teams in its pool. The top 2 teams from each pool and sometimes a few wild cards advance to the medal round. Teams that do not advance from this first pool move on to a losers bracket. The Championship Round also consists of 4 team pools again where each team plays 3 games against other teams in its pool with the top 2 advancing to the Medal round. The Medal round is an 8-team single elimination tournament with games played out to decide the standings from 1-8. All teams in this round earn
a medal, Gold, Silver, Bronze, or Copper.

The formal Mustang Baseball season ends upon the return from the National Championship Tournament and winds up with a season ending picnic in August or September.