Both attacks hit each other and the resulting shockwave blasted sand in every direction. Henri shielded his eyes from the incoming sand, but he thought he saw something brown in it too. 
"I guess I'll have to do some sweeping after this," he muttered and he dusted off his clothes when the sand after the blast was over. One of the downsides of running the ground gym, but at least he wouldn't get wet, unlike Alana when something like this happened in her battlefield. 
He scanned his battlefield, but his Diglett was nowhere to be seen. He waited for a moment, but then looked at the Absol and his opponent. "Really good attack," he said. "Smart move too. If the Bulldoze attack would have hit the Absol it could have been over for you, because he put a lot of force in it, but countering it with another attack was a good strategy." He gestured to the field. "It looks like Diglett withdrew deeper into the sand, you disturbed his habitat violently twice and I think he had enough. And you showed good skill and strategy, so I will award your efforts with a ground badge."