The Silicon Valley Mustangs are bound for Cooperstown.
Comprised of 12- and 13-year-old boys from Gilroy and Morgan
Hill, the Mustangs have been competing together for the better part
of two years and will be making the trip to the site of the
Baseball Hall of Fame in New York this weekend. Silicon Valley will
taking part in a skills competition on Saturday before beginning
play in a 96-team tournament on Sunday. Games will be played at
Cooperstown Dreams Park.
The Silicon Valley Mustangs are bound for Cooperstown.
Comprised of 12- and 13-year-old boys from Gilroy and Morgan Hill, the Mustangs have been competing together for the better part of two years and will be making the trip to the site of the Baseball Hall of Fame in New York this weekend. Silicon Valley will taking part in a skills competition on Saturday before beginning play in a 96-team tournament on Sunday. Games will be played at Cooperstown Dreams Park.
To earn their spot in Cooperstown, the Mustangs won two tournaments over the course of the 2008 travel club season and finished in second place three times. On July 12-13, the Mustangs earned their second tournament title by beating a team from Seaside 11-2 in the Miken Sports Tournament final in Salinas. The prior weekend, at the Monterey Bay Baseball Beat the Heat Tournament, Silicon Valley took second place, falling to a very tough challenger in the Central Valley Heat.
In April, the Mustangs won the A thru Z @ Twin Creeks Tournament. The team’s last win before that took place in the fall of 2007 at the Triple Crown Sports Tournament in Paso Robles. The team took time off for players to be involved in other sports through the winter, and resumed playing competitively in March of this year.
Silicon Valley will be playing games Sunday through Wednesday. If the Mustangs do well enough, the team would advance to a final on Thursday. For being a part of the tournament, all players will be inducted into the American Youth Baseball Hall of Fame.
