2026 Golden State Major tournament report!

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2026 Golden State Major

Palm Springs, California

May 15-16

The annual Golden State Major began on Friday, May 15th with 15 men’s teams from 5 different states and 6 of the teams were from Conference USSSA. They used the Dudley Classic M ball and many of the games were played in 100 degree heat at the Big League Dreams in Palm Springs, California. All 6 of the ‘A’ and ‘B’ Conference teams advanced to the quarterfinals Friday night. Bay Area Legends (CA-A) who was the #1 seed and had a bye in the 1st round, beat Bad Hombres (CA-B) 29-14. GREINERT – KOVAL – BAF (MD-A) beat R1/WWS/JJ sports (CO-B) by the same score 29-14 setting up the ‘A’ vs ‘A’ match on Saturday between Bay Area and Greinert. In the lower half of the winner’s bracket GTL/Legacy/Dirty (WA-B) run ruled Desert Heat Auto (AZ-B) 36-8 as Justin Waldher went 5-5 with 3 HR and 9 RBI, Wilkyns Jimenez went 5-5, and Blake Madewell went 4-4 with 4 runs scored. And rounding out the evening A&M/DavisTrucking/SupremeThreads/BC (CA-B) knocked off CutThroat/ImpactEdge/CourseyRealty (WA-B) 29-24.

The semifinals were played at 11 AM Saturday, where Bay Area Legends won the battle of ‘A’ teams 37-33 over Greinert and GTL knocked off A&M 30-26 after taking a 28-14 lead. For GTL Austin Breer, Joe Acevedo, and Justin Waldher were each on base 5 times and Brian Atchison drove in 7 runs. In a high scoring winner’s final at 4 PM central time, GTL – the home team, got out to a 23-17 on Bay Area Legends after 3 complete innings. Neither team used all of their 12 allotted home runs and GTL separated in the bottom of the 6th scoring 10 runs on 4 homers and ended up winning 39-29 without having to hit in the bottom of the 7th. The loser’s bracket had a run by R1 who won 3 games to finish tied for 5th. And Desert Heat won 3 straight including a 38-36 win over CutThroat and a 36-35 win over Greinert to finish 4th. Saturday evening then, A&M knocked off R1 19-18, Desert Heat 42-32, and Bay Area Legends 44-42 to make it to the championship. In the championship A&M, who was basically on the field almost the whole day, scored in every inning and forced the “if” game against GTL 32-29. As the time crept past midnight, the “if” game started and both teams scored 11 runs in the 1st inning. Then around 12:50 AM the sprinkler system came on and nobody at the park knew how to turn it off and the game was called a draw with GTL and A&M splitting 1st place.

Conference USSSA returns to action Saturday, May 23rd in Memphis, Tennessee.