DICKINSON — Following the Badlands Big Sticks’ dominant 11-2 victory over the Mankato MoonDogs, things seemed to start to trend upwards. They snapped a three-game losing streak and the offense finally produced after being stagnant during their losing-skid.

Unfortunately, the momentum from Tuesday’s win couldn’t carry over into Wednesday’s pivotal game against the Minot Hot Tots, and the Big Sticks fell 4-2, pushing them 2.5 games back of first place with only three games to go in the regular season.

Badlands only tallied two runs on four hits and did not record a single hit in the final four innings of the contest, and left five runners stranded.

The Hot Tots got the early 1-0 lead in the top of the first but the home team responded thanks to a solo shot from sophomore Samson Pugh (Texa

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