Photo by Brady Dennis New Ulm’s Cohen Domeier, right, bumps fists with Candon Briggs after scoring a run against Worthington on Thursday evening at New Ulm High School.

NEW ULM — New Ulm High School plated six runs in the first inning and then added six more in the second en route to a 14-3 shelling of Worthington Thursday afternoon in a Big South Conference game.

The game was stopped after 4 1/2 innings because of the 10-run lead rule.

New Ulm earlier defeated the Trojans 9-5 in nine innings of a suspended game. In the suspended game, the game was tied at 5-5 after the fifth inning until the Eagles finally were able to take four runs in the top of the ninth to pull ahead. Tanner Backer singled in the game-winner before a single by Dirk Haynes made it 7-5. New Ulm plated two more runs in the inning on errors.

Zach Hubbard led the way at the plate for New Ulm, going 3 for 5, while Haynes was 2 for 5 with an RBI and Levi Hopp was 2 for 5 with two doubles.

Mitchell Hopp pitched three innings in relief in the suspended game and got the win, going three innings and allowing one hit and two walks for no runs while striking out six.

Mitchell Hopp also got the win in the second game for the Eagles (10-3, 7-1). He went two innings, striking out five and allowing one run.

Chase Bryne took the loss in the second game for Worthington (2-9, 1-8). He was charged with nine runs in two innings.

Dirk Haynes had two hits and two RBIs, with Zach Hubbard tripling and Tanner Backer doubling. Cohen Domeier was 2 for 2 with an RBI and two runs scored.

“When we are engaged and our momentum is up, we are pretty tough,” New Ulm head coach Mike Anderson said. “But if we can play like this and with energy, we can be tough.”

The Eagles, who host Mankato West Saturday at 1 p.m. at Johnson Park, salted the game away after two six-run innings.’

A Backer RBI double was followed by a Haynes run-scoring single for a 2-0 lead. Owen Castleman followed with an RBI single and a Levi Hopp double made it 4-0.

A Domeier walk and a wild pitch made it 6-0.

Levi Hopp’s sacrifice fly in the second made it 7-1 and a Candon Briggs two-run single increased the damage to 9-1. Zach Hubbard’s two-run triple and an error had the Eagles in cruise control at 12-1.

New Ulm added two more runs in the fourth on a Hunter Larson single and a fielder’s choice.

“We had that (12-0) lead, but we still added some runs,” Anderson said. “And anytime you can score 14 runs in a game you cannot complain about that.”

Anderson said that facing the Scarlets — ranked second in Class AAA Saturday — is a big game.

“But they are all big games now,” he said.