Briarwood sweeps doubleheader, beats Holtville and advances in playoffs
Published 9:07 pm Saturday, April 19, 2025
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
The Briarwood Lions used a potent offense to sweep the Holtville Bulldogs in a doubleheader and advance in the Class 5A playoffs. (For the Reporter/Dawn Harrison)
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By DAVE DOMESCIK | Staff Writer
NORTH SHELBY – The Briarwood Christian Lions used a potent offense to sweep a doubleheader against the Holtville Bulldogs, winning game one 4-0 and game two 15-3 to advance in the Class 6A state playoffs.
Briarwood got off to a hot start offensively in the first contest and never looked back, scoring all four of its runs in the first inning and riding shutdown pitching the rest of the way.
The Lions drew a walk in their first three at-bats, quickly loading the bases before Houston Hartsfield hit a sacrifice fly to make it 1-0. Will Clark then hit into a fielder’s choice that brought in another run, but made it two outs in the bottom of the first.
Brayden Robertson stroked a double to right field to make it 3-0, and Robbie Paulsen hit a line-drive single to make it 4-0 Briarwood.
Ivan Hand was lethal on the mound for the Lions, pitching a complete-game shutout to start Briarwood’s playoff journey with a bang. Hand accrued nine strikeouts, tallied zero walks and allowed only four hits throughout the game.
The Lions made sure that a potential Holtville answer in game two was silenced, bludgeoning the Bulldogs by 12 runs. Hartsfield, Parker Sfakianos and Sam Lanier combined for five innings of work on the mound and five strikeouts.
Clark opened the scoring for Briarwood with a two-run single in the first, but Holtville responded in the bottom of the inning with an RBI single, making it 2-1 headed to the second.
The Lions roared for five runs in the second inning to make it 7-1 and never looked back. Briarwood used small ball throughout the inning, as back-to-back RBI bunts drove in two runs to make it 4-1.
Hand singled on a pop fly to left in the next at-bat to make it 5-1, with Parker Daniels and Robertson ripping two sacrifice flies to make it 7-1.
Both offenses quieted down until the third, when a Bulldogs’ error brought in two more Lions to make it 9-1.
Hartfield then had the highlight of the game in the next at bat, crushing a triple to right field that brought in two runs. Back-to-back doubles from Clark and Robertson in the top of the fourth rounded out the scoring for Briarwood and put the game firmly out of reach.
The Lions’ season will continue after the two impressive wins, as they will travel to face the St. Paul’s Episcopal Saints on the road next week in round two.
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