Staff photo by Steve Muscatello New Ulm Legion Blue center fielder Landon Depew throws the ball in after making a catch as Faribault's Sam Graves tries to get back to second during playoff action Thursday in Stark. For more photos of this event go to cu.nujournal.com

STARK TOWNSHIP — The New Ulm Legion Blue baseball team was defeated in the second round of the Sub-State 2 elimination bracket by Jordan 16-6 in eight innings on Thursday.

Earlier in the day New Ulm defeated Faribault 8-7 in the first round of the elimination bracket.

Against Faribault, New Ulm scored three runs in the top half of the first inning from three hits. Nathan Hauser scored on a wild pitch, for the first run of the inning, moving Trenton Sweere to third. Brandon Seidl drove in a run and also scored in the first.

“We had the bats going the first game, we also played some pretty solid defense with few errors and came out in the clutch positions,” Seidl said.

Faribault scored one run in the second inning and rallied to bring two runners across the plate to tie the game in the third inning.

New Ulm’s starting pitcher Jack Fairbairn walked runners to first and second with no outs in the bottom of the fourth inning, before throwing a wild pitch, putting both runners in scoring position. Fairbairn recovered with a strikeout and a sacrifice RBI fly out, only giving up one run as Faribault lead 4-3.

New Ulm Ryley Hansen in the fifth inning after being hit by a pitch and scoring when Kaden Gilb reached after he struck out and a throwing error by Faribault catcher was out of reach for the first-basemen to end the inning as the game was tied at 4-4.

Tyler Walls’ RBI single in the sixth inning was the go-ahead run as New Ulm put up three runs to lead 7-6.

Luke Scheid stole home, after a pitching change from Faribault, in the eight inning to add an insurance run for New Ulm.

“It was great, we didn’t have many wins during the regular season, we all just focused on Sub-State and just played our best baseball,” Seidl said.

Scheid was credited with the win after pitching four innings in relief giving up one run and one strikeout with two hits.

New Ulm Blue faced Jordan immediately following its win, a game that took three hours and seven minutes to complete, in the second round of elimination play.

Jordan posted five runs in the bottom half of the third inning from six hits to lead New Ulm 5-0.

New Ulm struck in the sixth inning on three straight singles from Fairbairn, Hansen and Seidl to load the bases with no outs. A walk by Sweere and Shane Esser would bring in both runners for New Ulm.

Jordan answered with four runs in the bottom of the sixth, off three hits to go up 10-2.

New Ulm added two runs in the seventh and eighth innings but fell short losing 16-6.

“We all were not as focused in the second game, the heat got to us,” Seidl said.

Hauser was the losing pitcher going six innings, giving up 10 runs with two strikeouts and Brendan Bieraugel pitched two relief innings giving up six runs from five hits and one strikeout for New Ulm.

Hansen went 2 for 5 scoring two runs, Seidl 3 for 4 and Bieraugel was 2 for 4 with an RBI.