The theme of the week for Dobson's baseball team was pitching. Junior Cade Montplaisir got his turn Thursday night and turned in the best performance of many for the week.

Montplaisir, making his first start of the season and second appearance, tossed a complete game shutout as Dobson bested Williams Field, 4-0, to win the 7th annual Highland Triple Play Classic at Highland High.

Dobson finished 5-0 for its week's work in the tournament and its pitching staff surrendered just six runs total. The Mustangs gave up two runs in each of their first two games, one in each of the next two and Montplaisir added his signature to a masterful stretch of games on the mound. Preceding Montplaisir in the previous games were D.J. Carr, Michael Zoemisch, Dallas Martinez and Chris Pennell.

"Our pitching was outstanding," Dobson coach Dave Tykoski said. "Cade had only thrown one inning before tonight. We just told him to relax and concentrate on location. Location, location, location. He pitched a great game."

Montplaisir produced four 1-2-3 innings and in the others gave up two singles. The closet Williams Field came to scoring was the sixth when Black Hawks catcher Jordan Washburn ripped his second hit of the game to left. Dobson left fielder Zach Julian came up throwing and nailed Jedd Fagg at home for the third out of the inning. Dobson led, 4-0, at the time.

For his seven innings of work, Montplaisir allowed six singles, did not walk a batter and struck out eight. HIs teammated did not make an error behind him.

As it turned out, Dobson got all the runs Montplaisir needed in the bottom of the first. Leadoff hitter Justin Behnke reached on an error. After steali second and two outs later, Pennell drilled a double to left-center plating Behnke. Nick Kaltenbach followed with at triple to right-center for the second run.

Dobson, which was outhit 6-3, got its only other hit in the fifth. It was a one-out double by Carr that scored Julian who had reached on an error. Carr scored later in the inning on a wild pitch.

The loss dropped Williams Field to 11-5 on the season. Williams Field scored 33 runs in its three tournament wins, but just two runs in its losses (both to Dobson). Dobson improved to 9-6 overall.

The only downside to Dobson's season at present is that five of its six losses are in power-point games. Tykoski hopes the momentum from the tournament will spill over to power-point games next week with Skyline and Highland.