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A TYPICAL SEASON
The typical season for all Mustang
Baseball teams includes fivecomponents:
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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, 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.
“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 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.
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