Memorial Weekend Baseball Tournament

Perfect blue-skies with an outgoing breeze helping the batters was the setting for this year's 4-team high school baseball tournament at the new Brendan Grant Memorial Field. Held on May 24th & 25th 2024, this was the 20th overall tournament, but the 1st at the new Brendan Grant Memorial Field. Lynnfield came out on top against Reading in the championship game, followed by Belmont and then Burlington.

The Brendan Grant Memorial Baseball Tournament is held each Memorial Day weekend at the Brendan Grant Memorial Field. Four high school baseball teams compete each May in a four-game tournament near the end of the spring high school baseball season. The standings since the tournament was first held in 2005 are:

2005: (1) Lynnfield, (2) Winchester, (3) Belmont, (4) Bedford
2006: (1) Lynnfield, (2) Belmont, (3) Winchester, (4) Bedford
2007: (1) Belmont, (2) Austin Prep, (3) Winchester, (4) Lynnfield
2008: (1) Belmont, (2) Austin Prep, (3) Winchester, (4) Lynnfield
2009: (1) Winchester, (2) Lynnfield, (3) Belmont, (4) Austin Prep
2010: (1) Belmont, (2) Lynnfield, (3) Winchester, (4) Austin Prep
2011: (1) Austin Prep, (2) Belmont, (3) Lynnfield, (4) Winchester
2012: (1) Lynnfield, (2) Belmont, (3) Winchester, (4) Austin Prep
2013: (1) Winchester, (2) Lynnfield, (3) Austin Prep, (4) Belmont
2014: (1) Reading, (2) Lynnfield, (3) Belmont, (4) Austin Prep
2015: (1) Reading, (2) Medford, (3) Belmont, (4) Lynnfield
2016: (1) Belmont, (2) Lynnfield, (3) Reading, (4) Medford
2017: (1) Belmont, (2) Lynnfield
2018: (1) Lynnfield, (2) Belmont, (3) Burlington, (4) Reading
2019: (1) Lynnfield, (2) Belmont, (3) Reading, (4) Burlington
2020: (cancelled due to the global pandemic)
2021: (1) Belmont (2) Wilmington (Held @ Belmont Hill)
2022: (1) Lynnfield; (2) Reading; (3) Burlington; (4) Belmont (Held @ Lynnfield)
2023: (1) Lynnfield; (2) Belmont; (3) Reading; (4) Burlington (Held @ Belmont Hill)
2024: (1) Lynnfield; (2) Reading; (3) Belmont; (4) Burlington

Baseball/Softball Field Stewardship

Field stewardship has been a key ongoing support activity of the Foundation in the community. Specific efforts have been directed at improvement/maintenance of the Brendan Grant Memorial Baseball Field (the Belmont High School Varsity Field) and Belmont’s baseball and softball fields.

BGF’s keystone endeavor was the completion of close to $1M in improvements to the varsity field starting in late 2001 and proceeding until its dedication in 2007. The Foundation has been the chief steward of the field since then, directly supporting ongoing maintenance. Each year, near the end of May, the Memorial Weekend Baseball Tournament is played at Brendan Grant Memorial Field on what participants have referred to as one of the jewels of the Middlesex League’s high school baseball fields.

The recent massive Belmont High School reconstruction project has caused the field to be relocated, and a five year construction effort has been wrapping-up in 2024. On the 7th of June 2022, the Belmont School Committee unanimously approved the re-naming of the new field as the "Brendan Grant Memorial Field". On the 11th of May 2024, the new baseball field was re-dedicated. The Foundation remains on standby to continue its stewardship role with the new re-located baseball field and facility.

Scholarships

Each year the Foundation awards scholarships to four graduating seniors from Belmont High School at the June Senior Assembly. The scholarships recognize outstanding student athletes who are members of the baseball, softball, wrestling and golf teams.

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Programs and Activities

Golf Tournaments

Golf Tournaments have been held most years since the Foundation was established. The following is a summary of golf tournaments sponsored by The Brendan Grant Foundation:

Special Golf Tourn., 1/Oct/2001, Belmont Country Club, Belmont MA
1st Annual Golf Tourn., 12/Aug/2001, Rockland Golf Course, Rockland MA
2nd Annual Golf Tourn., 15/Sep/2002, Rockland Golf Course, Rockland MA
3rd Annual Golf Tourn., 14/Sep/2003, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
4th Annual Golf Tourn., 12/Sep/2004, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
5th Annual Golf Tourn., 24/Sep/2006, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
6th Annual Golf Tourn., 23/Sep/2007, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
7th Annual Golf Tourn., 21/Sep/2008, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
8th Annual Golf Tourn., 26/Sep/2010, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
9th Annual Golf Tourn., 16/Oct/2011, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
10th Annual Golf Tourn., 28/Oct/2012, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
11th Annual Golf Tourn., 15/Sep/2013, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
12th Annual Golf Tourn., 14/Sep/2014, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
13th Annual Golf Tourn., 4/Oct/2015, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
14th Annual Golf Tourn., 16/Oct/2016, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
15th Annual Golf Tourn., 17/Sep/2017, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
16th Annual Golf Tourn., 16/Sep/2018, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
17th Annual Golf Tourn., 15/Sep/2019, Southers Marsh GC, Plymouth MA
Scott's Remembrance Golf Tourn., 11/Sept/2023, Sacconnesset Golf Club, Falmouth MA.

Brendan Grant Wrestling Tournament

The Brendan Grant Wrestling Tournament is a one-day high school wrestling tournament held on the first Saturday of January each year at Belmont High School. The 2023 Tournament was another successful event on January 7th at the new Belmont High School.

This is an invitational tournament involving 16 teams from the New England region. Although this is not a BGF event, members of the Brendan Grant Foundation directly assist since it is in Brendan’s name.

This tournament was first held in January 1982 and was renamed in 2002 as a tribute to Brendan Grant who was a member of the wrestling team for four years and a senior captain in the 1999-2000 season.

Brendan’s Home Run

“Brendan’s Home Run” was a 5K run/walk held each year on Father’s Day in Belmont. It ran for 18 years from 2002 through 2019, and gained a reputation as a competitive road race for some of the top runners in the New England region.

There is a great history with Brendan's Home Run 5K Race/Walk, and for almost two decades it was a mainstay for many on Father's Day.

Remembering Brendan's Home Run 5K Run/Walk: Check out the Road Race Gallery. with the archive of when Brendan's Home Run was in full swing...

Brendan Grant Foundation Ski Race

The annual Brendan Grant Ski/Snowboard race was held at Tenney Mountain in Plymouth NH starting in 2002. The race continued through the 2006 season but ended when the Tenney Mountain ski area ceased its operations.

Starting in 2007, the Tenney Mountain Ski Team re-located to nearby Ragged Mountain, where they continued to use the Brendan Grant Foundation racing bibs. Today, if you ski at Ragged Mountain you'll notice all children in the ski school classes wear the Brendan Grant Foundation race bibs for easy identification.