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2026 Memorial Major
Millington, TN
May 23rd
Resmondo pitcher Travis Clark continues his MVP season in Memphis, Tennessee!
Memorial Team List
Memorial Video and Article Links
Memorial Major Results & Bracket Link
2026 Memorial Major Picture Album
YouTube Channel (Highlights and Condensed Games)
BallClubz Team Stat Reports link
Archived Livestream Games Link
JPS vs WestPoint condensed game link
Top Shelf vs Dan Smith condensed game link
JPS vs Resmondo condensed game link
Juno vs Dan Smith (Andy Purcell’s debut pitching) condensed game link
Juno vs WestPoint condensed game link
Loser’s Final condensed game link
Championship condensed game link (when available)
Play In Games Recap
Patterson and the JPS ‘B’ team took it to WestPoint in the opening game.
The 2026 Memorial Major played on the baseball fields at the USA Baseball Complex in Millington, TN and began and ended on Saturday May 23rd. The 7 team double elimination tournament was a little bit “top heavy” with 3 Major teams, a ‘AA’ team, and 3 ‘B’ teams. They used the Dudley Hardcore ball which flew pretty good in the high humidity but overcast weather. The infielders said it was also more accurate to throw than the Pro-M’s we have been using. The show field was a stadium with 310-335-380-335-310 fence dimensions.
The tournament began with 3 “play in” games. At 8 AM in the stadium JPS/No Pressure/Blane Dunn Const (AR-B) out powered WestPoint (IN-AA) early on and made an unusual number of nice plays on the fence in the outfield. JPS stands for Julian Panel Sports. In the bottom of the 3rd inning the JPS centerfielder Patterson threw out a runner trying to stretch a single into a double and JPS led 16-13 mid game. In the top of the 5th WestPoint left fielder Joey Kampfer robbed a homer. In the bottom of the 5th WestPoints Ryan Ramirez hit a grand slam to put them up 18-17. In the top of the 6th the JPS power returned when Billy Pearson hit a 2 out 2 run homer and Sinku hit a pinch hit homer to put JPS back on top and WestPoint tied the game going into the 7th on a Ryan Mcclanahan homer. In the top of the 7th JPS hit their 4 remaining home runs (14 total) and the defense played a perfect game to hold onto the upset 26-23! Back on field #3 with its 340-348-380-333-307 field dimensions the other two “play in” games were going on. DanSmith/Proton/Thunder/RoofX/RF/BD (IN-Major) struggled with Top Shelf/BC Apparel/Icon (OK-B) trailing 13-9 early on. But they hung two zero’s on Top Shelf and scored in every inning to hold on to a 20-18 lead without having to bat in the bottom of the 7th. Dan Smith only out homered Top Shelf 9-7 in the game. At 9:45 AM Juno Athletics / LSR (NJ-Major) made quick work of Great Ape Grips (GA-B) 31-4.
Final 4 Recap
Marshburn goes through the wickets against JPS in semifinal #1.
Also, at 9:45 AM in the stadium the semifinals began with #1 Resmondo-SIS-Stub Term-RDD-S&S-LLC- taking the field against upset minded JPS. Resmondo middle infielder Heath Barnes made one of the best diving plays of the year in the top of the 1st inning to hold JPS to zero runs. Then Resmondo scored 6 on 4 all with 2 outs. Most of the hits in this game were home runs it felt like (25 HR out of 40 hits) and the Resmondo defense and pitching was solid as they inched out to a 13-5 lead after 3 innings and it was 19-12 and 10-10 on home runs after the top of the 5th. Brad Reckart pitched this game and Travis Clark played 1st base. In the bottom of the 5th needing 8 runs to end it, Resmondo did just that, getting a pinch hit home run from Kyle Pearson to end it 28-12. It was their 15th home run of the game. Bradley Jones, Cory Briggs, and Heath Barnes were perfect on base in the game.
Semifinal #2 featured the return of pitcher Andy Purcell after 4 years in retirement.
In the 2nd semifinal it was two major teams Juno Athletics and Dan Smith. Juno had most of their players and manager/sponsor Mark Carucci was there for the first time this year. And for Dan Smith it was their new pickup Andy Purcell pitching for the first time in 4 years! Purcell had the knuckle ball going early, was trying to get the flat strike called, and threw a couple “unfairly delivered” sidearm balls just like in the old days. He held Juno scoreless in the top of the 2nd and got a number of mishits throughout the game. Meanwhile the offense jumped out to a 20-5 lead, Andy Purcell was on base 3-3, and the Dan Smith pitching and defense held Juno to just 10 runs in 5 innings, getting the win 31-10. Arlis Miller, Josh Riley, Tyler Ervine, Tyler Storey, and Purcell were all perfect on base in the game. Ryan Harvey did not play, back spasms.
Winner’s Final Recap
Dan Smith CF Brandon Yoder robbed this Kyle Pearson homer at the 380 mark to keep the game going.
The winner’s final took place in the afternoon between the two superpowers Dan Smith and Resmondo. Resmondo led the season series 3 games to 2. Dan Smith came out and scored 11 runs on 5 homers. Resmondo responded with 12 on 5. Then Dan Smith scored 10 on 3 to go up 21-12. When Resmondo put up a 3 spot in the bottom of the 2nd and it was Dan Smith’s chance to pounce, but they ended up putting up a zero. In the bottom of the 4th Travis Clark hit a homer to tie the game at 22-22 with the teams even on homers 9-9. Andy Purcell pitching his second game of the season pitched very well getting 2 strikeout looking’s and overall kind of made Resmondo look like they were struggling at the plate. With Resmondo hitting “bad” homers it looked like Dan Smith might pull through. But the Dan Smith offense disappeared in the middle innings putting up just 1 run in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th innings total but Dan Smith they still held a 33-27 lead going into the bottom of the 7th. In the last frame Resmondo needing 7 runs on 6 homers to win hit 3 straight homers before Heath Barnes struck out looking and Dan Smith center fielder Brandon Yoder robbed Kyle Pearson of a homer at the 380 mark. Now Resmondo down 1 with 2 to hit and 2 outs got a game tying homer from Travis Clark, an intentional walk to Bradley Jones, and a walk off 3 run homer from Jason Matusik to win 36-33! Dan Smith had left 3 homers on the table and Resmondo was led by Daniel Cayton who was 6-6 with 4 extra base hits.
Andy Purcell got the out on this middle shot.
Resmondo’s Jason Matusik hits a walk off homer to beat Dan Smith.
Loser’s Bracket Recap
WestPoint middle infielder Steve Hendrickson makes a spectacular diving play in the loser’s final.
In the loser’s bracket Great Ape Grips beat the other two ‘B’ teams Top Shelf 26-10 and JPS 17-16 to finish 4th. And WestPoint upset Juno Athletics 25-10 over on field #3 and then they beat Great Apes 27-15 to make it to the loser’s final back in the stadium against Dan Smith. In that game some good WestPoint defense early and a Canaan Baum home run rob led to an early 10-3 lead. But Dan Smith 3rd baseman Joey Miller turned a 5-2 double play to hold WestPoint scoreless in the top of the 3rd and Dan Smith came in and scored 17 runs on 8 homers to go up 20-10. Dan Smith then held off WestPoint down the stretch 32-28. Jeremy Fry was 5-5 on base to lead Dan Smith who pitched Faron Fry in this game after shutting down Andy Purcell for the rest of the tournament.
Championship Recap
The championship began around 6:30 PM.
The championship began around 6:30 PM central as it cooled off some more and the humidity went down and the batted ball speeds went up. There was no wind. Both teams tried to “play the game” early and conserve home runs and Dan Smith did that a little better than Resmondo and got out to a 16-3 lead when Resmondo went down in order in the bottom of the 2nd. Then Dan Smith scored 8 more in the top of the 4th going up 24-5 on a Josh Riley 3 run homer and it looked like Dan Smith would for sure force the “if” game. But Resmondo scored 11 in the bottom of the 4th, 14 in the bottom of the 5th, and 14 more in the bottom of the 6th to enter the 7th inning with an unlikely 44-42 lead. Dan Smith scored 2 runs to tie in it in the top of the 7th but left 3 home runs on the table leaving Resmondo to need just 1 run to win and they had 1 homer to hit. Dan Smith intentionally walked Kyle Pearson then Travis Clark singled. With runners on 1st and 2nd Bradley Jones hit a towering fly ball down the left field line and seemingly out of play, but Tyler Storey caught the ball controversially near fair territory and carried it out of play. The umpires got together and they said he did catch the ball and when he carried it out of play that gave the runner home plate and Resmondo won the game 45-44. It is Resmondo’s 4th tournament win of the season and 3rd in a row. Travis Clark was again MVP and he went 7-7 in the final game and Cory Briggs went 6-6. Resmondo also takes a commanding lead in the Conference points standings.
The USA baseball complex is a great place for a conference tournament. It is devastating that 12 teams dropped out of this event which is my favorite tournament of the year. Conference USSSA continues their season in Peoria, Arizona May 29th.
The umpires said Tyler Storey caught this ball and carried it out of play, thus allowing the winning run to score.
Long Bomber of the Week!
Juno’s Donnie Walsh is the Long Bomber of the Week hitting this ball over that first tree in deep left center. Other honorable mentions are Tyler Ervine from Dan Smith and Terry Lambright from WestPoint who kept hitting moon shots reminding me of Jeremy Isenhower back in the day.
Memorial Results and Awards
MVP – Resmondo pitcher Travis Clark
Defensive MVP – Resmondo center fielder Cory Briggs
Offensive MVP – Dan Smith 1st baseman Tyler Ervine
Team by Team Notes
1st Place – Resmondo-SIS-Stub Term-RDD-S&S-LLC-
FL-Major Record 3-0
Resmondo is rolling through the regular season winning 4 of the 5 tournaments they have played in and winning on all sized fields. Their depth, power, and ability to step on the gas when needed puts them in a position to win the regular season points championship and thus the #1 seed for the USSSA Major World Series where they will try to win their 4th in a row! Travis Clark is having a league MVP type season both hitting and pitching.
SS Tyler Marshburn makes the play from the ground.
2nd Place – DanSmith/Proton/Thunder/RoofX/RF/BD
IN-Major Record 3-2
Dan Smith is struggling. Their offense disappears at times and didn’t even support Andy Purcell’s excellent pitching performance in that winner’s final game against Resmondo. The defense and even hustle at times is in question. This week they added another veteran pitcher Justin Mucciarelli to the roster. They didn’t have a pinch hitter for Purcell when needed in the winner’s final and they didn’t have a pitcher they wanted to put in when Resmondo scored double digits 3 consecutive innings in the championship?
3rd Place – WestPoint
IN-AA Record 2-2
WestPoint lost to the JPS ‘B’ team in their opener but recovered to upset Juno by the run rule and they played Dan Smith pretty good in the loser’s final. Much like Dan Smith, WestPoint is nowhere near peaking so far this year.
WestPoint CF Canaan Baum robs a homer.
4th Place – Great Ape Grips
GA-B Record 2-2
My apologies to Great Ape who I never did see play. They were always on the other field from where I was and I wasn’t able to get over to F3 to get their 4th place team photo. They did win the battle of ‘B’ teams in the top part of the loser’s bracket which made for a nice day for them.
Faces in the Crowd / More Pictures
Carucci was back for Juno but they only scored 20 runs total in their losses to Dan Smith and WestPoint? Dan Herren was playing hurt.
In Conference, if you start with your back foot even with home plate, you can stride forward as far as you want.
JPS had that nice win over WestPoint.
The Dudley Hardcore ball made those stadium fences play short.
It was a softball playing crowd!
