The Smoky crowd actually doubled from this picture as Saturday night went on.
If anyone has some better crowd shots, please send them to [email protected].
It is now tradition for the Conference USSSA men’s teams to travel to the great Smoky Mountains for the Classic the 2nd weekend in July each year. 34 teams overall and 21 from the Conference played the double elimination tournament at 6 fields in Maryville, TN which is considered the top slow pitch regular season tournament in the world. And it is UNLIMITED home runs! Coming into the classic there had been 4 different winner’s in the last 4 years – Dan Smith in 2020, Smash It Sports 2021, Sonny’s 2022, and Resmondo in 2023. This years favorite to win was again Resmondo/All American Restoration/O (FL-Major) and they did not disappoint. Resmondo run ruled their way to the winner’s final where they ran into a buzzsaw in Juno Athletics who put up 30 runs in the top of the 1st inning against them. But Resmondo, never out of any game with their powerful offense, methodically came back and pulled off a 73-61 win finishing at 1:30 am Sunday morning to advance to the championship. On Sunday Juno beat RoofX to get back to the championship game and came out and led Resmondo 31-6 early on before Resmondo again methodically came back to win a 61-45 victory in 6 innings. As the old adage goes in racing, “win on Sunday, sell on Monday”. Congratulations to Brett, the sponsorship group, the players, and Rawlings for their victory.
2024 Smoky Picture Album link (adding action photos daily)
Friday & Saturday highlight clips link
JBL vs Juno condensed game link
Nitro Circus vs Resmondo condensed game link
Sports Reach vs Juno Athletics condensed game link
JBL vs RoofX condensed game link
Str8play vs Resmondo condensed game link
Nitro Circus vs Bay Area Legends condensed game link
Sonny’s vs RoofX condensed game link
Link to BallClubz Team Stat Reports
Winner’s Final
MVP Bradley Jones homer’s in the championship.
Championship
Josh Riley homer’s in the championship.
1st Place – Resmondo/All American Restoration/O (FL-Major)
2nd Place – Juno Athletics (NJ-Major)
3rd Place – RoofX/BadDraw/CE/Pure/Envy (IN-Major)
4th Place – Sonny’s/Worsham/RedAthlete/Haymak/R (WY-Major)
Resmondo OF Bradley Jones was MVP – .917, 20 HR, 39 RBI
Josh Riley from Resmondo and Jeremy Yates from Sonny’s tied for the most home runs with 25.
Women’s Peach State Major
1st Place – Monsta / LaFamiglia / GTL (FL-Major)
Peach State Results & Bracket Link
The Women’s Conference USSSA played in Dalton, Georgia. There were 12 teams including 5 Major teams in the tournament played at the Heritage Point Park. Because of the way the points are Lady SNI and Team 24 met in the “Round of 8” with Lady SNI winning 18-14. And also in the “Round of 8” Derby Girls knocked off Incognito 15-5. Monsta/LaFamiglia/GTL (FL-Major), the current #1 team, then knocked off Derby Girls 19-9 in the winner’s final Saturday as Alyssa Schreiner, Meagan Pearson, and Mariah Garcia all went 4-5. Then after Derby Girls won the loser’s final Sunday morning 15-10 over Team 24/Native, Derby then beat Monsta in the 1st championship game 15-14 as Fiana Finau went 4-4 and Ashley Langoni hit 2 home runs. In the “IF” game Monsta held on to win the 9-8, blanking Derby Girls in the last 3 innings as Kasey Britt the tournament MVP went 3-3. It was Monsta’s 6th tournament win of the year and 2nd in a row.
2nd Place – Derby Girls/OA/Miken/Easton/Worth (WA-Major)
3rd Place – Team 24 / Native (FL-Major)
4th Place – Lady SNI/DeMarini (FL-Major)
