CHARLOTTE (NC) –– Canes Carolina 11U enters this weekend’s USSSA Easton Showdown NIT tournament with four victories in the team’s last five games.
Get hot, stay hot. That’s the event mission for these resurgent Canes – find a way to keep the momentum rolling in their favor as the 2023 Spring season reaches its apex.
The tournament starts with a stout contest against Dirtbags Black, one of the best 11U teams in the Charlotte metro area. The Canes and Dirtbags take the field at 8:30 am at Catawba Park in Tega Cay, South Carolina.
The morning’s second game starts at 10:30 am with the Canes taking on Panthers Marucci out of Charlotte.
Overall, there are four Major-level teams making up Pool A – Canes, Dirtbags Black, SBA North Prospects (Rockwell, NC), and Dirtbags Carolina (Rock Hill, SC).
CHARLOTTE (NC) — Despite inclement weather washing away last Sunday’s bracket play, Canes Carolina enters this weekend’s tournament with well-earned momentum and confidence.
The Canes went 2-0 in pool play in the Top Gun Trucker Hat Classic, outscoring Dry Pond and Belmont Bandits a combined 22-7 and earning the No. 2 seed after last Saturday’s action.
This week the team is participating in the USSSA Battle for the Jerseys in an open division featuring eight clubs from North and South Carolina. Canes open with Mill Town Blue (Fort Mill, SC) at 1:30 pm, then face Lake Norman area rivals LBC Lions (Cornelius, NC) at 5:30 pm. Each game will take place at Jack Hughes Park in Pineville.
It will be the first time the Canes have faced Mill Town Blue in 11U play. The Canes split a pair of meetings at this age level with the Lions in 2022.
Canes Carolina 11U baseball club is actively seeking a paid head coach for its Charlotte Metro-area team. Canes Carolina 11U is a Major classification team participating in Perfect Game, USSSA, Triple Crown, and Top Gun events.
Candidates should possess coaching experience (travel, showcase, middle school, high school baseball) and a passion for player development.
This position will collaborate with the Canes Carolina 11U general manager and will be responsible for leading and managing practice plans and gameday coaching decisions.
As part of the Canes Baseball network of teams, our mission is to promote a team-oriented attitude that is displayed on and off the field. The Canes program is modeled after college programs, with an emphasis on teamwork, discipline, and dedicating themselves to baseball year-round. Playing for the Canes gives student-athletes the experience of traveling all over the east coast and playing high-level baseball.
Interested candidates should contact Canes Carolina 11U general manager Darren Schmolke at schmolkeconstruction@gmail.com or (504) 388-1994. Once again, this is a paid coaching position that can start immediately.
CHARLOTTE (NC) — There are tournaments, there are big tournaments, and then there’s the USSSA Queen City Select Super NIT. Formerly called “The Beast of the East,” this USSSA event brings together the best travel baseball teams from North Carolina, South Carolina, and other areas of the Southeastern United States.
Canes Carolina will compete in a stacked, 14-team 11U Major field that includes seven of the top 10 teams in USSSA’s North Carolina power rankings, as well as the No. 1 team in South Carolina. Seven teams are ranked by Travel Baseball Rankings.
Canes Carolina will be taking to the diamond for the first time since a semifinal round showing in the USSSA St. Patty’s Classic (March 18-19). This begins a stretch of baseball that finds the Canes in tournament action for three of the next four weekends.
The squad will open play in the Queen City Select Super NIT Saturday at noon in a Canes inter-organization matchup, as Canes Carolina faces Canes South (Greenville, SC) at TM Winget Park. Canes South enters play as the No. 1 ranked team in South Carolina by both USSSA and TBR.
The back half of Canes Carolina’s double-header occurs at 4 pm as the Canes take on the Asheville A’s, the 11th-ranked team in TBR’s North Carolina poll. The Asheville A’s have one of the longest-tenured core groups of players in the tournament, with eight of the team’s 11 players spending at least four years with the squad.
Tournament play takes place Sunday at Catawba Park in Tega Cay, SC.
CHARLOTTE (NC) — With spring training in the rearview, Canes Carolina 11U sets its sights on this weekend’s 2023 season-opening tournament.
The Canes will be participating in the USSSA St. Patty’s Classic, which features a nine-team 11U Major and AAA pool and will be contested in the Charlotte Metro area.
The Canes start the 2023 campaign against Mill Town White (1 pm) and conclude pool play by taking on Dirtbags Carolina (5 pm). Both games will be played at TM Winget Park.
MOORESVILLE (NC) — The Canes Carolina 11U baseball team will participate in seven sanctioned tournaments this spring, appearing in events organized by Perfect Game, Triple Crown Baseball, and USSSA.
New head coach Chris Manriquez will direct the Canes, which features six returning players and four new faces for the spring season. Manriquez is also the head varsity baseball coach at Charlotte’s Carmel Christian High School. Tyler Roakes will serve as Canes’ assistant coach.
Three crown jewel tournaments appear on the team’s calendar, including two tournaments outside the Charlotte footprint.
The Perfect Game 11U World Series (June 15-20) in East Cobb, Ga., features more than 100 of the top travel baseball teams across the country and a minimum of six games per team.
The 13th annual installment of Triple Crown Baseball’s popular Border Wars tournament has 14 of the top teams from North Carolina and Virginia meeting in Rocky Mount, NC (May 6-7).
Canes Carolina will also play in USSSA’s biggest Charlotte-based event, the prestigious Queen City Select Super NIT (April 14-16), a three-day event with three dozen of the region’s top Major-level teams in the field.
The complete Canes Carolina schedule is as follows:
March 18-19: USSSA St. Patty’s Classic (Charlotte)
April 14-16: USSSA Queen City Select Super NIT (Charlotte)
April 29-30: USSSA Metrolina Classic NIT (Charlotte)
May 6-7: Triple Crown Baseball Border Wars XIII (Rocky Mount, NC)
May 20-21: USSSA Easton Hype Series (Charlotte)
June 3-4: USSSA Race City Classic (Charlotte)
June 15-20: Perfect Game 11U World Series (East Cobb, Ga.)
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