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The 9th Annual Drew Medford Memorial Tournament (DMMT) will feature a record 29 prep baseball teams playing a total of 66 games from Thursday, March 6 through Saturday, March 8, at eight area high schools. In continuing the tournament’s mission, one player from each team will receive a $1,000 college scholarship grant.
Through the generosity of its sponsors and community supporters, the Drew Medford Memorial Tournament has awarded $189,000 to local baseball players over its first eight years. This is the sixth consecutive year that the tournament is awarding at least 20 scholarships.
Scholarship recipients are chosen by each participating team, and the player must embody the characteristics of the tournament’s namesake: drive to succeed, humility and empathy for others, and a leader on his baseball team.
All scholarship recipients will be honored prior to the final game of the tournament between Fort Worth rivals Arlington Heights and Paschal. This year’s game between the Yellow Jackets and Panthers will take place at Arlington Heights at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 8. The scholarship ceremony will be held on the field at 6:30 p.m.
Paschal, Arlington Heights, Aledo, Birdville, Boswell, Cleburne, FW Country Day and South Grand Prairie are this year’s host schools.
The 29 teams playing in the 2025 tournament are Aledo, Arlington, Arlington Heights, Arlington Lamar, Arlington Martin, Azle, Benbrook, Birdville, Boswell, Cleburne, Country Day, Fossil Ridge, Greenbrier (Ark.), Joshua, Keller Central, Lake Belton, LD Bell, Mansfield, Mansfield Lake Ridge, Mansfield Legacy, Mansfield Timberview, Nolan Catholic, Arlington Oakridge, Paschal, Polytechnic, Richland, South Grand Prairie, FW Trinity Valley and Weatherford.
Medford was a district MVP, all-state and honorable mention All-America baseball player for Paschal High School. He signed to play baseball at TCU but was killed in an automobile accident in August of 2016. His family and lifelong friends created the baseball tournament to honor his memory and create a legacy for other high school players. In 2017, the inaugural Drew Medford Memorial Tournament, which featured a six-team field, was played.
The DMMT will officially kick off Wednesday, March 5, with a 6 p.m. welcome dinner at Paschal High School. The dinner will feature a roundtable discussion featuring several of Medford’s high school friends and teammates.
