Staff photo by Steve Muscatello New Ulm Cathedral’s Aaron Portner slides under the tag of Minnesota Valley Lutheran third baseman Mathew Rieger (6) during the first game of a doubleheader Thursday at Mueller Park in New Ulm.

NEW ULM — Mark Schommer allowed just one hit — a one-out double to Teddy Giefer in the first inning — as New Ulm Cathedral broke open a close 2-1 game with five runs in the top of the fourth inning enroute to an 11-1 win over Minnesota Valley Lutheran Thursday in a Tomahawk Conference baseball game.

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

Jordan Fischer took the loss in the first game, allowing seven runs on six hits in his four innings of work.

Aaron Portner, Zach Helget and Will Schabert each had two hits for the Greyhounds.

The Greyhounds finished the doubleheader sweep as they topped the Chargers 9-2 in the nonconference contest.

Aaron Portner got the mound win in the nightcap as he permitted four hits.

Jace Marotz was tagged with the second game defeat. He went 2 1/3 innings and was charged with seven runs.

Josh Seidl led Cathedral with three hits and drove in three runs. Tony Geiger and Schabert each added two hits. Portner drove in three runs with a bases-loaded double in a five-run Cathedral first inning.

Cathedral head coach Bob Weier said that Schommer, who struck out seven, works on his pitches and gets the batters out.

“And that is what you want,” he said. “And he is still only averaging 14, 15, 16 pitches an inning.”

“He is a very good pitcher,” Chargers head coach John Gunderson said about Schommer. “He was hitting the strike zone. He had a lot of pitches working for him.”

The Greyhounds held a slim 2-1 lead going into the fifth inning when they used three walks, an error and three hits to plate five runs. “Walks and errors have been our season,” Gunderson said. “We clear that up and we make a game out of it.”

The big blow came off of the bat of Josh Seidl, who laced a two-run double.

Cathedral added two runs in the fifth and again in the sixth inning.

In Game 2, Cathedral scored five runs in the first inning off of Marotz, who threw 47 pitches in that inning.

Portner brought in three runs with a double with Tony Geiger and Schabert each driving in a run.

“We played 12 innings of baseball today and we scored runs in 10 of those innings,” Weier said.

MVL cut the lead to 5-2 in the second when Marotz reached on an error and Mason Cox doubled. RBI singles from Matthew Rieger and Sam Rievera got the Chargers on the board.

Cathedral added two more runs in the third on Seidl’s two run single. In the fourth, a Zach Helget sacrifice fly and a Seidl single.

Cathedral is at Martn Luther/Granada-Huntley-East Chain at 5 p.m Friday.