BY CLIFF SMELLEY
Telegraph Staff Writer
Mattox Burgin drove in the only run for the Bradford High School baseball team, which lost 14-1 to Bishop Snyder on May 1 in the quarterfinals of the District 2-3A tournament at Bishop Snyder.
The fifth seed Tornadoes (7-18) fell behind 5-0 after two innings. Cason Pilcher led off the top of the third with a single. One out later, Luke Stucky, who went 2 for 3, hit the first of his two doubles. Burgin followed with a line-drive single into left field to score Pilcher.
Bishop Snyder (6-14) answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning and then scored six in the fourth.
The fourth seed Cardinals travel to Jacksonville to play top seed Trinity Christian (20-4) in a semifinal game on Tuesday, May 2.
Prior to the tournament, Bradford had losses of 7-3 against host Wolfson on April 26 and 7-6 against host Belleview on April 28.
Trailing 5-0 in the game against Wolfson, the Tornadoes got on the board in the fourth, with Burgin hitting a single and scoring on a Stucky double.
The Wolfpack scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth to go up 7-1.
Bradford scored two runs in the fifth. Breion Johnson hit a single and advanced two bases on a wild pitch and a sacrifice bunt by Matthew Stafford. That set him up to score on a Jeffrey Brugh single. Brugh, who stole second and third, scored on a Pilcher ground out.
The game against Belleview was tied 6-6 in the bottom of the ninth before the Rattlers had two batters hit by pitches. A ground out advanced the runners before Clayton Evans, who was on third, scored on a wild pitch to end the game.
Bradford trailed 5-2 entering the seventh. Pilcher, Stafford and Brugh all walked to load the bases. Ryland Rike was hit by a pitch to force a run in before a Burgin single brought another run in. Kevin Crawford was hit by a pitch to force a run in and tie the score at 5-5. Ryder Thompson hit a two-out single that put the Tornadoes ahead by one.
Belleview tied the score in the bottom of the seventh, taking advantage of a hit batter, two singles and a ground out.
Burgin and Thompson each had two RBI, with Burgin going 2 for 4. Crawford and Rike each drove in one run.
