The Okmulgee Bulldog varsity baseball team came away with a sixth-place finish in last weekend’s 2nd Annual Bobby Mudd Memorial Tournament in Mounds.

The Bulldogs were unable to take home their second consolation title this season, falling by a 10-0 margin to the Drumright Tornadoes in last Saturday’s consolation finals.

Okmulgee began tournament play last Thursday with a 10-2 loss to the Chouteu-Mazie Wildcats, then rebounded from the opening-round setback last Friday with a 7-0 win over the Wewoka Tigers in the consolation semifinals.

The Bulldogs were back in action Monday with a doubleheader showdown in Tulsa with the Cascia Hall Commandoes. The Okmulgee diamond squad will close out this week’s schedule with a road trip to Weleetka on Thursday and a home game against Checotah on Friday.

In last Thursday’s opening-round battle with Chouteau-Mazie, the Bulldogs tallied their two runs in the second and third innings.

Chouteau-Mazie opened the scoring with a run in the bottom of the first, then added a run in the second, three in the third, two in the fourth, and three in the fifth to hand the Okmulgee squad the 10-2 defeat.

Brandon Simon accounted for both Okmulgee hits in the opening-round contest, going 2 for 2 with a pair of singles and an RBI.

The Bulldogs’ other run crossed the plate on a bases-loaded RBI walk by Jordan Deere.

Alex Gilmour was saddled with the pitching loss for Okmulgee, allowing 10 runs on 11 hits with two strikeouts, three walks, and four hit batters in fourplus innings of work.

In last Friday’s consolation semifinal showdown with Wewoka, the Bulldogs began the scoring with a run in the top of the first. After a scoreless second, the Okmulgee squad added a run in their half of the third, three in the fourth, and two in the fifth for a 7-0 advantage.

The game ended after four and one-half innings of action due to the 2-hour time limit expiring with Okmulgee batting in the top of the fifth.

Jordan Deere was the top hitter for Okmulgee, going 2 for 4 with a pair of singles and an RBI.

Tylen Smith (2 for 2, 2 doubles) and Ryder Hedges (2 for 3, 2 singles) also recorded multi-hit games for the Bulldogs against Wewoka with two hits each.

The other Okmulgee base hits in the shutout win came on a single by Braeden Hopkins-Lewis, triple by Alex Gilmour, and RBI singles by Joseph Robertson and Austin Burwell.

Burwell earned the pitching win for the Bulldogs, allowing no runs on two hits with five strikeouts, one walk, and three hit batters in three innings of work.

Brandon Simon struck out two and walked one in his one inning of scoreless relief work.

In Saturday’s fifth-place contest, Drumright broke a scoreless tie with two runs in the bottom of the second, then tallied eight runs in the last of the third for a 10-0 advantage.

The Okmulgee squad was unable to produce any runs in the top of the fourth to hand the Bulldogs the 10-0, shutout, loss and a sixth-place finish.

The Okmulgee offense was held to just one base hit in the shutout loss - a one-out single in the fourth by Braeden Hopkins-Lewis.

Tylen Smith was saddled with the pitching loss for the Bulldogs, allowing nine runs on six hits, striking out one and hitting one in two and two-third innings of work.

Brandon Simon gave up one run on three hits in his one-third inning of relief work in the third.

--- Mounds Tournament First Round

Chouteau-Mazie 10, Okmulgee 2

Okmulgee:0-1-1-0-0 2 - 2 -3 Chouteau: 1 - 1 - 3 - 2 - 3 10 - 11 - 0 WP: Spencer LP: Alex Gilmour HR: None --- Consolation Semifinals Okmulgee 7, Wewoka 0

Okmulgee: 1 - 0 - 1 - 3 - 2 7 - 10 - 0 Wewoka: 0-0-0-0-x 0- 2 -2 WP: Austin Burwell LP: Johnson HR: None --- Consolation Finals

Drumright 10, Okmulgee 0

Okmulgee: 0-0-0-0 0 -1-1 Drumright: 0 - 2 - 8 - x 10 - 9 - 0 WP: T. Snell LP: Tylen Smith HR: None