Staff photo by Ari Selvey New Ulm’s Mitch Bockenstedt delivers a pitch during a Tomahawk East League amateur baseball game against St. James Tuesday at Johnson Park.

NEW ULM — Mitch Bockenstedt recorded a career-high 19 strikeouts and threw his first amateur no-hitter as the New Ulm Brewers blanked St. James 8-0 Tuesday night in a Tomahawk East League game at Johnson Park.

Bockenstedt, who threw 111 pitches, allowed just two base-runners in the game, both coming in the the fifth inning on a walk and a hit batsman.

Dylan Grev took the loss for St. James. He went five innings and allowed four runs.

Justin Hoffmann had two triples for the Brewers with Cole Ranweiler adding two hits.

“This is the first no-hitter I have ever had in all of the years I have ever played,” said Bockenstedt who is in his seventh season with the Brewers. “I had a five-inning no-hitter when I was in Iowa but this is the first nine inning one that I have ever had,”

The Brewers, who play at Leavenworth Thursday, took a 1-0 lead in the in the second on a Ranweiler double and a Zach More squeeze bunt. New Ulm scored two more runs in the fourth on a More double and a passed ball. A Hoffmann triple and a Ranweiler single made it 4-0 in the fifth with a run scoring in the fifth without a hit. An Ayden Jensen RBI single in the sixth made it 6-0 before a Tate Becker RBI triple and a wild pitch made it 8-0 in the eighth.

“My fastball was good and we mixed in some curveballs early,” Bockenstedt said. “And Josh [Seidl, Brewers catcher] called a really good game — we threw all four pitches — mixed them all in and kept them off-balance. Kudos to Josh for calling a great game.”