In Arizona, the Dallas Tigers Arias 17u Tigers had a fantastic weekend. With a shorthanded pitching staff due to high school injuries, Arias’ Tigers hit their way to the quarterfinals. Our Tigers proved to everyone their that heart, determination and teamwork can take a team a long way, beating teams with big rosters, with several top pitchers. The Dallas Yankees and their “Hired Guns” found out that money doesn’t necessarily buy happiness. Our Tigers beat the Yankees in extra innings 4-2 with 15u Matt Wilson closing the game. Great job boys and coach Arias.

In Keller, the Dallas Tigers Ingram 16u team win the Stix tournament. Behind dominate pitching, Ingrams Tigers rolled to their first tournament win of the season.

        In McKinney, the Dallas Tigers Hernandez club battled the heat and tough competition to win the Triple Crown State Championship. In game one Sunday, lefthander Garrett McCain pitched a No-Hitter against a very good hitting Team Hardball. Congratulations to Garrett as well as the fantastic Tiger defense.

Jake Thompson was named to the First Team of the 2010 Louisville Slugger All American Team. He made it as a  multi-position players as a P/1B and is the ONLY sophomore to make first team in the country as a multi-position player.

Congratulations Jake!

The Dallas Tigers 17U Arias team won its 5 team pool in Phoenix at the AABC Connie Mack World Series Qualifier.  The Tigers are one of 25 teams competing from across the country for a slot in the World Series in Farmington in August.  The top 2 teams from each bracket advance to a 10 team double elimination tournament for the bid.

“The Dallas Tigers hosted the Brooks Wallace Memorial 16U Tournament June 18-20.  Congratulations to the Buzz Lightning Baseball Academy who defeated last year’s champs, the Texas Prospects, at Plano High School Sunday night. The tournament was held at Plano HS, Plano East and Plano West.
 
The Brooks Wallace Memorial honors the memory of Brooks Wallace, who was a three year letterman at Plano High School and played shortstop for Texas Tech University for four years.  After leading Tech to its first ever Southwest Conference Tournament, Wallace joined the Texas Rangers organization for two years before heading back to Tech as an assistant coach. 
 
Tragically, at the age of 27, Brooks lost his battle with cancer leaving behind a legacy of good works, good friends and a knowlege by all that knew him that he loved the game of baseball and the game of life.  Brooks made such an impact on the game that in 2004, the College Baseball Foundation began awarding The Brooks Wallace Award the best college player each year.  In 2008, the CBA began awarding the honor to the best baseball shortstop  each year.  
 
In honor of Brooks, next year’s tournament will be bigger and better than ever with plans to donate a portion of the proceeds for one or more scholarships to some deserving graduating senior players.
 
Thanks again to all the teams that participated.”

Two of our Dallas Tigers went in the MLB draft on day one yesterday. RHP Zach Lee was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers as the 25th overall pick in the 1st round. Zach sign a letter of intent to play football and baseball at LSU.

High school teammate Matt Lipka, short stop, was selected by the Atlanta Braves as the 35th overall pick in the 1st round. Matt signed a letter of intent with the University of Alabama.

Congratulations to both boys. The Dallas Tigers wish both boys the best of luck!!

Check out more Tigers in the 2010 Major League Draft!!!  Wow!

Zach Lee           28th pick       Dodgers   McKinney HS

Matt Lipka         35th pick       Braves     McKinney HS

Jordan Swagerty 75th pick       Cardinals  Arizona St.

Bobby Doran      123rd pick      Astros     Texas Tech

Cole Green        133rd pick      TIGERS!    U of Texas

Shane Henderson 622nd pick    Dodgers   FlowerMoundHS

Evan Gattis         704th pick    Braves     Odessa P.B.

Justin Howard      717th pick    Pirates     Uof NewMexico

Brian Ragira         916th pick    Rangers     Arl.MartinHS

Shawn Tolleson    922nd pick       Dodgers   Baylor

Jonathan Kaskow  1237th pick     Reds        Stanford

Tant Shephard    1417th pick   Reds        U of Texas

JTAutrey            1463rd pick   RedSox    StephenvilleHS

Lots of our Former Tigers’ schools are in the Super Regional Tournament! Good luck to all of our boys!!

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  Arkansas

• Jacob Morris
• Monk Kreder

• Arizona State
• Jordan Swagerty

• TCU
• Jason Coats

• Vanderbuilt
• Bryan Johns
• Chase Reid

• University of Texas
• Cole Green                           Staton Thomas
• Tant Shephard                      Tim Maitland
• Johnathan Walsh

• Oklahoma
• Drew Harrison
• Drew VerHagen
• Chad Kettler

The 14U Dallas Tigers – Vanlandingham team won the USSSA State Championship this weekend at Big League Dreams in Mansfield. The Tigers out scored their opponents 35-10 in 5 games.  Sunday was highlighted by 3 complete game performances.  Drew Gooch pitched a complete game in a hard fought 4-3 win over the Arlington Heat.  Seth Mullis hit a 2 run home run to open the scoring.  In the bottom of the 6th, CJ Tyler hit a game winning double to send the Tigers to the next round.  In the semi-finals, Cameron Yates threw a complete game shut out to beat DBAT Mustangs-Brady 9-0.  Not to be out done, Alex Samples tossed a complete game shut out in the championship game, and added 2 doubles at the plate to lead the Tigers to a 16-0 win over the Dallas Stars.  Chase Collins produced offensive fire power from the middle of the lineup all weekend and Ryan Weigel stole 6 bases in 5 games.  Defensively, Joseph Heineman and Brady Usherwood made 2 spectacular plays to end potential threats from the opponents.  The Tigers improved to 35-12-1 on the season.

   USTSA “BATTLE IN BIG D”