Bulldogs’ big inning makes the difference in sweep of Badgers

  • Elijah Stanley takes one for the team with a hit-by-pitch off the helmet that drove in a run in his last Badger baseball game. JEFF LOWE | DISPATCH RECORD
    Elijah Stanley takes one for the team with a hit-by-pitch off the helmet that drove in a run in his last Badger baseball game. JEFF LOWE | DISPATCH RECORD
  • Gauge Gholson pitches in his last series as a Badger, including a scoreless relief appearance on Friday. JEFF LOWE | DISPATCH RECORD
    Gauge Gholson pitches in his last series as a Badger, including a scoreless relief appearance on Friday. JEFF LOWE | DISPATCH RECORD
  • During a pitching change, the Burkburnett infield stops by second base to talk with Ace Whitehead after one of the last at-bats of his high school career. JEFF LOWE | DISPATCH RECORD
    During a pitching change, the Burkburnett infield stops by second base to talk with Ace Whitehead after one of the last at-bats of his high school career. JEFF LOWE | DISPATCH RECORD

    The second inning of game two gave Burkburnett a lead too big to overcome in an otherwise competitive bi-district baseball series with Lampasas.

    No. 21 Burkburnett ended the Badgers’ season with a 5-3, 11-6 series score in Mineral Wells. The Bulldogs scored 10 runs in the bottom of the second inning in Saturday’s finale. But after falling behind 11-2, the Badgers kept fighting to cut the lead nearl…