LAKEWOOD — Bruins by birth and brothers forever, Wyatt and Walker Rudden celebrated their last game together on a baseball diamond with dueling backflips.

“A backflip,” Walker told me, “is something cool that not everybody can do.”

Nobody does backflips and baseball with more flair than the Rudden boys.

Cherry Creek High also did what it does best Saturday, when the Bruins won the 249th state championship in school history.

With Wyatt on the mound as Creek’s starting pitcher and his kid brother behind him at second base, the Bruins beat Regis Jesuit 8-1 at Keli McGregor Field to take home the Class 5A trophy for the second year in a row.

Before the trophy presentation, however, the Rudden brothers put a loud and proud exclamation point on the victory by gathering two of their acrobati

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