The Bastrop High School varsity softball club advanced to the area round of the 2022 UIL Texas 5A State Championships last Friday night, securing an 11-6 home victory over the Anderson Lady Trojans to complete a 2-0, first-round series sweep.A day earlier, the Lady Bears had obtained a 9-7 road victory in Game 1 of the series, in what developed into a late-inning thriller at Austin’s Noack Sports Complex.Bastrop, winners of four of their final five district matchups, jumped all over Anderson in the early going of Game 1. The Lady Bears’ No. 3 batter, Bailey Merritt, collected base hits ...