MADISON — An injury to Cody Waddell has put Vicksburg coach Cody Zumbro in a bind.

The Gators are running thin on pitching, and hot-hitting Brandon only made matters worse Tuesday at the Big Blue Tournament.

The Bulldogs (6-3) rapped 14 hits against a trio of Gator pitchers to take a 15-5 win over the Gators in five innings. The loss drops Vicksburg to 4-6 going into tonight’s game against Terry. On Friday, Vicksburg gets a rematch with Warren Central in a key Division 4-6A game.

The game with the Vikings and Waddell’s unavailability due to tendonitis has Zumbro scrambling to find fresh arms.

“This is our fifth game in six days and without Cody, we’re having to throw ninth graders,” Zumbro said after the Brandon loss. “We won’t have Cody back pitching until next week. We also have that game Friday with Warren Central and we have to save our No. 2 (Clyde Kendrick) and No. 3 (Cameron Cooksey) because I want to have that combination ready. We don’t know who we will throw against Terry.”

Zumbro tried senior catcher Taylor Brocato on the mound against Brandon. Brocato had two balks in the first inning that led to two runs. He later gave up four runs on five hits in the second as the Bulldogs erased a 4-2 deficit.

“We gave up the first six runs on walks, balks and a throwing error,” Zumbro said. “We just have to battle. We had a ninth grader, Michael (Rohrer), at short and the only way to fix that inexperience is to play.”

Zumbro brought in sophomore Gabe Bufkin in the third inning, down 6-4. The Bulldogs greeted him with five straight hits in a variety of ways. The first went straight up the middle followed by two flares into shallow left and right center. One hit went down the right field line and another went down the left field line.

Yet if a relay toss had been made on Logan Adcock’s fielder’s choice at second base, Bufkin would have been out of the inning, down 8-4. Instead, Brandon used the error to extend its inning and tack on six more runs to break the game open, 14-4.

Vicksburg got an unearned run in the top of the fifth ,but Brandon answered with three reserves getting base hits against ninth grade reliever Jekori Reed to finish the game.

John Harvey had two singles, a double, two RBIs and three runs scored to pace the Bulldogs. Trent Turner drove in three runs off two hits and Boggan had two hits and two runs scored.

Vicksburg got three runs in its first inning. Kendrick had a two-run double while Brocato followed with an RBI single for a 3-0 lead.

Lamar Anthony had a single and scored in the second off a hit by Jonathan Clay to make it 4-2. Keaton Jones had two runs scored, the latter coming in the fifth inning that made it 14-5.