Staff photo by Steve Muscatello New Ulm Legion Gold starting pitcher Nick Fischer tosses a pitch during an Upper Midwest Classic game against LeSueur-­Henderson Thursday at Johnson Park in New Ulm. For more photos of this event go to cu.nujournal.com

NEW ULM — Perhaps the best way to describe New Ulm Legion Gold’s game Thursday night against LeSueur-Henderson in the Upper Midwest Classic may be this way.

New Ulm’s Brandon Mehlhop and Hunter Ranweiler each had three hits.

That was the same total of hits by the LeSueur-Henderson team in the game.

Gold pounded out 18 hits and scored 10 runs in the third inning as they raced to a 16-1 win over LeSueur-Henderson.

The game was stopped after five innings because of the 10-run lead rule.

Southpaw Nick Fischer got the win. He scattered three hits and struck out six. The only run he allowed came in the bottom of the fifth on a Cole Pengilly RBI triple. He walked five.

Jayce Luna took the loss for LSH. He was tagged with 15 runs in 2 2/3 innings.

J.T. Hoffmann, Cole Wellmann, Cooper Yackley, A.J. Lassas and Andrew Peters all had two hits.

Wellmann drove in three runs.

Gold coach Jeremy Drexler said that his team hit the ball well.

“But we got a couple of bloop hits too,” he said. “They had a tough time throwing strikes early so we took advantage. It was good to jump all over them right away and not let them hang around.”

After a scoreless first, Gold, who plays Grand Rapids at 2 p.m. on Friday and then Waconia at 7 p.m. at Johnson Park, pushed five runs across in the second inning on three hits and two errors.

Lassas singled before both Fischer and Peters walked. A walk to Hoffmann forced in Lassas before Mehlhop’s sacrifice fly scored courtesy runner Tyler Roufs.

An error followed by a two-run single from Wellmann made it 4-0.

A second error moved New Ulm up 5-0.

New Ulm doubled that run out-put in the next inning, sending 14 batters to the plate and scoring 10 runs after there was one out.

An error followed by base hits from Peters, Hoffmann, Mehlhop and Ranweiler made it 7-0. After two were out, Gold had a single from Yackley, a walk to Lassas, a single by Kasey Kuck and doubles from Fischer and Peters before Hoffmann singled in the 15th run of the game.

Gold made it 16-0 in the fourth.

Drexler did say that this game may have been a fluke.

“They are probably not as bad as they played and we are not as good as we looked,” he said. “We have two tough games coming up today.”