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Subscribe to our NewsletterMichigan Jets' Update as of 11/25/2015
As of 6:24 P.M. on November 25, 2015, due to time constraints and conflicting commitments, the Michigan Jets will not be participating in travel baseball in 2016. If there is any change in the future, it will be noted on this website. All players that have paid money will be receiving full refunds. If you still would like to find a team to play on for the summer of 2016, please call Dale Ochodnicky at 734-578-6770 and he will get you set up. We will still be running our Renegades program (leaguelineup.com/MichiganRenegades) and the Wolverine-Buckeye World Series (leaguelineup.com/WolverineBuckeyeWorldSeries).
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The Jets had a 36-9-3 record.
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Run differential was +205 runs for the season.
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The Jets won the Motor City Pride Collegiate Clash tournament with 24 teams in it.
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The Jets won the Pastime Great Lakes Freedom Classic wood bat tournament at the University of Michigan with 18 teams in it.
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The Jets came in second place in the USSSA Great Lakes Challenge.
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The Jets came in second place in the USSSA State Tournament.
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The Jets came in second place out of 26 teams at the Wolverine-Buckeye World Series.
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The Jets tied for fifth place out of 32 teams at the Triple Crown Sports' Great Lakes Spectacular.
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The Jets tied for fifth place at the Pastime World Series.
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The Jets had players on the team from multiple states and countries.
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The Jets went 5-1-1 at the Wolverine-Buckeye World Series.
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The Jets went 5-0 at the Motor City Pride Collegiate Clash.
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The Jets went 5-0-1 at the Pastime Tournaments' Great Lakes Freedom Classic Wood Bat tournament.
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The Jets defeated teams from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Ontario.
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The Jets defeated the team that won the 98-team 2015 18U Buckeye Elite tournament.
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The Jets defeated the team that won the 88-team 2014 16U Buckeye Elite tournament.
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The Jets played on six Division I college fields.: University of Michigan, Oakland University, Central Michigan University, Kent State University, the University of Akron, and Bowling Green State University.
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Every single player that played for the Jets in 2015 either is playing college baseball or has been offered opportunities to play college baseball.
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Six players that played for the Jets in 2015 are playing baseball at the Division I level.
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The Jets played 20 games on college fields this summer including the Division I fields mentioned before plus Adrian College and Siena Heights University.
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The Jets were not mercied the entire season.
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The Jets won 12 games via mercy rule.
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The Jets beat a team that won a tournament with 67 teams in it at the University of Michigan in 2014 (the Pastime Great Lakes Championships)
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The Jets beat the team that won a 67 team tournament at the University of Notre Dame in 2014 (the Pastime Great Lakes Tournament of Champions)
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The Jets had a winning record in all nine tournaments that they played in.
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At the Wolverine-Buckeye World Series, the Jets averaged 11 runs per game.
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Over a five game stretch at the Wolverine-Buckeye World Series, the Jets had a +50 run differential.
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The Jets had a six game winning streak.
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The Jets had a stretch where they went 16-1-1 over eighteen games.
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Scored 368 runs in 48 games. Averaged 7.66667 runs per game.
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Allowed 163 runs in 48 games. Allowed 3.4 runs per game.
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Run differential was + 4.26 runs per game.
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The Jets outscored their opponents 368-163 over the course of the season.
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The Jets were the #4 ranked 18U team in Michigan in Points by USSSA.com
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The Jets were the #6 rated team in Michigan by USSSA.com in Power Rating.
- The Jets won their pool at the USSSA Great Lakes Challenge.
- The Jets won their pool at the USSSA State Tournament.
- The Jets won their pool at the Motor City Pride Collegiate Clash.
- The Jets won their pool at the Pastime Tournaments' Great Lakes Freedom Classic at the University of Michigan.
- The Jets won their pool at the Triple Crown Sports' Great Lakes Spectacular.
- The Jets won their pool at the Wolverine-Buckeye World Series.
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The Jets had a 47-6-3 record.
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The Jets won 20 of their 47 games via mercy (or run rule).
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The Jets did not get mercied one time the entire season.
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The Jets held a lead in 54 of their 56 games.
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Through their first 29 games, the Jets did not allow more than four runs in 28 of those 29 games.
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The Jets are now the only team to win both the Triple Crown Sports' Great Lakes Spectacular and the Motor City Pride Collegiate Clash twice.
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The Jets won seven of the eleven tournaments that they entered. They also placed third in two other tournaments.
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The Jets won the USSSA State Tournament, the USSSA Diamond Classic, the USSSA Midwest Elite, the Triple Crown Sports Great Lakes Spectacular, the Joel Zito Invitational, the Arsenal Invitational, and the Genesee Fieldhouse Fire & Ice Invitational.
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The Jets had players on the team from Michigan, Ontario, Quebec, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.
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The Jets came in third place in the USSSA Great Lakes Elite and in the USSSA Great Lakes Challenge.
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The Jets went 3-0 in the Genesee Fieldhouse Fire & Ice Invitational and won it.
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The Jets went 3-0 in the Arsenal Invitational and won it.
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The Jets went 5-0-1 in the USSSA State Tournament and won it.
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The Jets went 6-0 in the USSSA Diamond Classic and won it.
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The Jets went 6-0 in the USSSA Midwest Elite and won it.
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The Jets went 6-0-1 in the Triple Crown Sports Great Lakes Spectacular and won it. They came in first place out of 28 teams.
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The Jets went 5-0 in the Joel Zito Invitational and won it.
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The Jets went 4-1 in the USSSA Great Lakes Elite and came in third place out of 20 teams.
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The Jets defeated teams from Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, and Kentucky.
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The Jets allowed only allowed a total of three runs in the Joel Zito Invitational while scoring 37.
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The Jets tied for 25th place out of 74 teams at the Cincy Flames Dinger Wood Bat World Series.
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The Jets defeated Midland Berryhill, a team that has won the American Legion World Series in the past. Midland Berryhill is also the 2014 Michigan American Legion State Champion. Berryhill also won the Ultimate Strike Zone.
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The Jets won their pool at the USSSA Great Lakes Elite.
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The Jets won their pool at the USSSA Midwest Elite.
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The Jets won their pool at the USSSA Diamond Classic.
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The Jets won their pool at the Triple Crown Sports Great Lakes Spectacular.
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The Jets won their pool at the Arsenal Invitational.
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The Jets won their pool at the Genesee Fieldhouse Fire & Ice Invitational.
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The Jets won their pool at the Joel Zito Invitational.
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The Jets went 24-4 in USSSA tournaments.
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The Jets allowed no more than thirteen total runs in any of the six USSSA tournaments that they played in.
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The Jets outscored their opponents 62-10 in the USSSA Midwest Elite.
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The Jets were the #2 ranked AAA team in Michigan in Points by USSSA.com out of 50 teams.
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The Jets were the #1 rated team out of 48 teams in Michigan by USSSA.com in Power Rating.
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The Jets scored 441 runs this season.
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The Jets averaged scoring 7.875 runs a game.
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The Jets only allowed 139 runs in 56 games.
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The Jets only allowed 2.48214 runs per game in 56 games.
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The Jets outscored their opponents by almost 5.5 runs per game.
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The Jets had an eleven game winning streak, a ten game winning streak, an eight game winning streak, a six game winning streak, and a five game winning streak – all in the same season!
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The Jets got to play fourteen games on college fields! These included Miami (OH) University, Eastern Michigan University, Thomas More College, Northwood University, Central Michigan University, Cedarville University, etc.
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The Jets mercied the Great Lake Canadians, a team with multiple members of the Canadian Junior National Team.
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The Jets had a winning record in nine of the eleven tournaments that they entered.
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The Jets outscored their opponents 441-139 over the course of the season.
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The Jets outscored their opponents by 302 runs over the course of the season.
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The Jets beat the Detroit Eagles three times (including mercying them twice). The Eagles have won multiple RBI Regionals and placed well in the RBI World Series in the past.
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The Jets beat the Great Lake Canadians by seven more runs than the nationally-renowned Midland Redskins did.
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The Jets scored eleven more runs against the Great Lake Canadians than the nationally-renowned Midland Redskins did.
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The Jets only allowed one home run in 56 games.
• The Jets had a 35-14-3 overall record.
• The Jets defeated teams from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Ontario.
• The Jets went 4-0 in the Genesee Fieldhouse Fire and Ice Invitational.
• The Jets came in third place at the USSSA Great Lakes Challenge.
• The Jets came in third place out of 20 teams at the USSSA Great Lakes Elite.
• The Jets had a 38-10-1 overall record.
• The Jets defeated perennial state powers such as the Michigan Bulls 17u and 18u teams, Saginaw
• The Jets won the Wolverine Invitational and the Motor City Pride Collegiate Clash.
• The Jets went 7-0 at the Wolverine Invitational which included wins over four teams from Ohio.
• The Jets won their pool at the Wolverine Invitational.
• The Jets went 6-1 at the Motor City Pride Collegiate Clash.
• The Jets won their pool at the Motor City Pride Collegiate Clash. Their pool included the Lapeer
• The Jets defeated the Lapeer Outlaws, who won the Motor City Pride Invitational and were 25-6-1 on
• The Jets mercied the 18u Michiana Scrappers, a team with multiple Division I signees.
• The Jets went 2-1-1 and came in second place at the USSSA Great Lakes Challenge. The Jets defeated
• The Jets came in second place at the USSSA Battle at the Capitol.
• The Jets went 6-1 at the USSSA Battle at the Capitol.
• The Jets were the first team to defeat Saginaw Means all summer and gave Means their only loss of the
• The Jets mercied four of the six teams that they beat in this tournament.
• The Jets mercied the Bloomfield Sting who came in third place out of 36 teams in the Cincy Flames
• The Jets came in sixth place out of 23 teams at the Triple Crown Sports Great Lakes Spectacular (which
• 32-13-1 overall record
• #2 Power Rating out of 33 teams in the USSSA 18u AAA Classification in Michigan
• 2-1 record at the USSSA Great Lakes Challenge
• 5th place finish at the USSSA Great Lakes Challenge
• 3-2 record at the USSSA Great Lakes Elite with victories over teams from Illinois and Ontario
• Mercied the third place team (the London Badgers) at the USSSA Great Lakes Elite
• 8th place finish out of 20 teams at the USSSA Great Lakes Elite
• 4-1 record at the USSSA State Tournament
• 2nd place finish at the USSSA State Tournament out of 20 teams
• Winning record in six of eight tournaments entered and .500 record in one of the other two
• 5-1 record at the USSSA Battle at the Capitol
• 4th place finish out of 22 teams at the USSSA Battle at the Capitol
• 6-1 record at the Triple Crown Sports Great Lakes Spectacular
• Won the Triple Crown Sports Great Lakes Spectacular, coming in 1st place out of 24 teams
• Came in 2nd place at the Madonna Invitational
• Mercied the NFWB Cobras, who won the Madonna Invitational and the Collegiate Clash
• Beat the Oakland Bulldogs, who won the CABA World Series in Youngstown, Ohio and also went 35-7 on the season
• Won thirteen games via the mercy rule
• Several Jets’ players are playing Division I college baseball
• All Jets’ players are playing college baseball except one (who is trying to walk-on at a Division I program)
• Beat the CM Stars twice, who won the Palomino World Series in California
• Mercied the London Badgers, who as of right now are 62-19. They have only been mercied twice all season, and we were one of the two teams to do it.
• Mercied the Michigan Blue Jays, who won the USSSA Battle at the Capitol, came in 3rd place out of 96 teams at the Pastime Tournaments Best of the Midwest in Dayton, Ohio, came in third place at the Pastime Tournaments Mid-Atlantic Tournament of Champions, and came in 2nd place at the 2010 USSSA World Series
• The Jets outscored their opponents by 136 runs for the season
• The Jets outscored their opponents by an average of about 2.95 runs per game for the season
• Defeated teams from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Canada
• Hit two home runs off of a pitcher that was drafted in the 2011 MLB Draft
• Scored an average of 7.39 runs/game
• Allowed an average of 4.44 runs/game
• Twelve different Jets hit home runs; four players hit multiple home runs
• One Jet hit eight home runs!
• One Jet played in over 30 games, had over 100 plate appearances, and did not strike out one time!
• Defeated Milford Legion twice, who have advanced to the Michigan Legion State Tournament two years in a row.
• The Jets won their pool at the USSSA State Tournament
• The Jets won their pool at the USSSA Battle at the Capitol
• The Jets won their pool at the Triple Crown Sports Great Lakes Spectacular
• The Jets were the only team at the USSSA Battle at the Capitol to defeat the team that ended up winning the entire tournament.
• The Jets were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to play at Eastern Michigan University, Central Michigan University, Northwood University, Wayne State University, and Madonna University.
2011-2015: Michigan Jets won
This is the same coaching staff that led the 2009 Michigan Mustangs 18u team to a 26-11 tournament record. The Mustangs had a 25-8 record in tournaments against teams from Michigan. The Mustangs went 18-4 in their last 22 tournament games. The 2009 Michigan Mustangs won one tournament (the West Bloomfield Diamond Classic), came in second place in one tournament (the Madonna Invitational), got to the semifinals in two other tournaments (Home Runs for Heroes and the USSSA Battle at the Capitol), and got to the quarterfinals in one other tournament (the USSSA Great Lakes Challenge AAA).
This coaching staff also put together the 2008 Michigan Moose team.
Below is a list of their accomplishments:
• The Moose won 28 games.
• The Moose went 4-1 at the Motor City Pride Invitational
• The Moose won their pool at the Motor City Pride Invitational (but did not advance due to extenuating circumstances)
• The Moose went 4-1 at the Beast of the East
• The Moose tied for 1st in their pool at the Beast of the East.
• The Moose went 4-1 at the Brighton Baseball Classic
• The Moose won their pool at the Brighton Baseball Classic.
• The Moose were runners-up at the Beast of the East
• The Moose were runners-up at the Madonna Invitational
• The Moose were runners-up at the Brighton Baseball Classic. Nine Moose players were named to the All-State team (one in 2006, six in 2007, and two in 2008)
• Defeated Kali Baseball Academy, one of the premier teams in California.
• Defeated teams from five different states and two different countries.
• Were the only team in the Motor City Pride Invitational to defeat the eventual tournament champions.
• #2 ranked team in the state of Michigan in the USSSA 18 & Under Senior AAA Coaches' Poll (out of 21 teams)
• #11 ranked team in the state of Michigan in terms of USSSA Points in the USSSA 18 & Under Senior AAA category (out of 45 teams)
• Were the only team at the Madonna Invitational to hold the eventual champions to four runs (one team let up eight runs and two others let up eleven runs) during pool play.