Click link above for teams, brackets and seeding procedure.

Game # 1 Friday 6:30pm vs. South Farmington Blues

Game #2 Saturday 12:30 vs. Jet Box Baseball Club

Game #3 TBD

All games are played at the Richfield Township Hall.  This is a Bronze/Silver/Gold tournament. All teams will be allowed to play. Top 2 teams receive World Series Berths. All teams must follow BPA Tournament rules as posted at michiganbpa.com. Concessions and merchandise will be on sale. Gate Fee of $5.00 per day, $8.00 for weekend will be charged. Players, 3 Coaches, and children under 14 will get in free.

Tournament Rules 

1. All tournament play is governed by the BPA Rule Book, or The National Federation Rule Book. Unless listed below.
2. All teams must check-in at the director’s tent before the start of their first game. Teams must have a signed copy of their BPA On-line Roster, and a certificate of team insurance. Note, Tournament director will keep a copy of these.
3. All teams must be at the assigned field and ready to play 30 minutes before scheduled game time, or a forfeit will occur. Teams must contact the tournament director in advance if a problem occurs and this is unavoidable. The Tournament director then has the right to extend this time frame.
4. All teams have the option of batting 9, 10, or everyone present at the time of the start of the game. This must be told to the Home plate umpire at managers meeting at home plate.
5. Pitching Rules: No pitcher may throw more then 3 innings per game. 1 Pitch equals 1 inning.
6. No new inning may begin 1hr 45min. after the official timer has begun.
7. Any protest of a rule, must be made before the next pitch is thrown. A $75.00 protest fee must be paid to the umpire in cash before a protest will be heard. If the team making the protest wins. The $75.00 will be returned. An illegal player protest, must be made before the final out of the game occurs. The protest fee is $75.00 per player protested.
8. Anyone ejected from a game for any reason must leave the premises immediately and can not be present for the next scheduled game. NO EXCEPTIONS. If said person refuses to leave. The game will then be forfeited. If person is ejected a second time, they will not be permitted to be on the premises for the remainder of the tournament.
9. No infield practice is allowed. Teams are allowed to use the outfield.
10. In case of Rain, call 810-347-0718 for information.
11. Tie breakers: 1. Head to Head. 2. Run differential 3. Runs against. 4. Runs scored. 5. Coin Toss.  
12. Base and Pitching Distances: 8-10u, 46’/60’. 11-12u, 50’/70’, 13u, 54’/80’,       14-18u, 60’6”/90’
13. 9u ONLY. No leading off. Base runners may steal 2^nd and 3^rd, once the ball has crossed home plate. If Runner leaves early he may be called out. No stealing home unless another base runner or the runner on 3^rd is played upon. 3^rd strike dropped ball is an out. Runners on 1^st and 2^nd may advance at their own risk.
14. 15-18u ONLY. Bats can not exceed the minus 3 limit.
15. 13-18u ONLY. Metal cleats are allowed.

Tournament Bracket 

Cooperstown Dreams Park

 The Troy Tigers Competed at Cooperstown on June 27th-July 4th.

  On February 29 the Tigers traveled to Lansing to play in the Frozen Ropes Dome tournament. Although small in field deminsions there was room for a nice size infield. Lots of interesting bounces off the dome walls for hits or pllays you just don't get in the outdoors.

After playing a new team from Northville and a couple of scrapy teams from Indiana the boys made there way into the finals. We saw this team play and they proved to be very talented. The Region Redbirds U11 didn't sneak up on us, but the boys have to admit they were not ready for the this group. The Region Redbirds came out on top 10-5. They had excellent pitching, great fielding and timely hitting. These buys can hold there own with anybody in U11 or U12. In fact it was only after the tournament we were able to do some research on this team and found out they are ranked 23rd in the country for U11's.

Our boys can be proud of the great effort all weekend. Our pitching was outstanding with contibutions from Craig, Josh, Lucas, Austin, Jalen, Grant and Miles. We really showed our depth on the mound which will serve us well this season. The hitting is hard to get a clear pitcher on with many of the hits bouncing off the dome making for some odd plays. We had several hits off the dome only to be thrown out at first or doubled off.

Fielding was the short coming with several errors in the championship game that allowed to score what proved to be the difference.

It was great to get some game situations in this early in the season. The Tigers are going back into the gym to work and get ready for the next tournament in March.

Another Dome tournament and another winter storm. The last tournament in Lansing had the team traveling in some pretty nasty conditions. Thankfully nobody was injured and the vehicles involed in their accidents can be repaired or replaced. This time everbody was safe and no repair shops were involved. But there was plenty of white knuckle driving.

The fields were bigger with fences a little shorter (175-195 ft.) and games were limited to one hour in length. The tourny was well run and games went off on time. It was a nice experience and we would recommend it to everyone. Of course it's great to say that because we came home the champions.

The Tigers took care of business in the first two bracket games. The last bracket game was with the local team from Swartz Creek with the winner moving on to the finals. Coach wanted nothing less than five runs in the first inning and the boys went out and did that with outs to spare. They never looked back and moved on to meet another quality U11 team.

The Macomb Mudhens have been tearing up teams in their age group for years and often move up to get some good games. The Mudhens are ranked 15th in the country by the same group that has the Region Redbirds at 23rd. We knew it was going to be a battle. The boys went out with 3 runs in the first inning. Only to have the Mudhens put up 4 in the second. We came right back with another 3 in the 2nd and two more in the 4th. We came away with an 8-5 win. The championship game should have been played out to the full six innings but the management kept to their schedule and the time limit called the game in the bottom of the fourth.

The mistakes of the earlier tournament didn't come back and the team relied on great pitching, solid defense and aggressive baserunning to notch the first tournament win of the year.

Having palyed two quality teams in the U11 group and having 25% of our rostor at U11 shows the depth of teams coming out of this area for that age group. Now we can look forward to playing outdoors and facing some of the top teams in our age bracket.