Staff photo by Ari Selvey New Ulm VFW Silver’s Paxton Johnson delivers a pitch during a VFW baseball game against Sleepy Eye VFW Tuesday at Johnson Park.

NEW ULM — It was another day at the office for the New Ulm Silver VFW baseball team.

Kaden Stueber, Ryler Collins and Tanner Kissner each collected two hits and Silver took advantage of three costly Sleepy Eye VFW errors as they downed Sleepy Eye 13-3 Tuesday night at Johnson Park.

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

Paxton Johnson got the win for Silver, now 17-5 on the season,

He went three innings and allowed one run on three hits while striking out four.

Heath Eckstein took the loss for Sleepy Eye. He went 3 2/3 innings and was charged with 10 runs.

Adam Braulick had two hits for Sleepy Eye.

“I thought that the guys did a great job of putting the ball in play,” Jeff Ferrell, New Ulm Silver head coach said. “Paxton and Tanner [Kissner] threw very well — they threw strikes. And when the other team scored, we did a nice job of matching them.”

Sleepy Eye took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Braulick doubled and eventually scored on a Silver error.

But Silver responded with two runs in the bottom of the first on a Sleepy Eye error and an Evan Starke single.

Silver pushed three more runs across in the second when Kissner singled, Owen Castleman was hit by a pitch and Stueber singled. A wild pitch allowed one run to score before Parker Ranweiler’s groundball resulted in an error that added two more runs.

Silver then sent nine men to the plate in the fourth and added five more runs. A Collins RBI single and a wild pitch made it 7-1.

An infield error made it 9-1 before a Kissner single upped the lead to 10-1.

Sleepy Eye cut the lead to 10-3 in the top of the fifth, but Silver pushed three runs across in the bottom of the fifth on a balk and a Collins single before a fielder’s choice ended the game.

“We got some big hits from different people tonight.” Ferrell said “And I was especially happy with the job that Porter Jensen did behind the plate — twice he went out and talked to Paxton on his own which and he has done a nice job of it.”

Silver is off until Saturday when it plays in Sleepy Eye in the District Tournament at 3:30 p.m. against the winner of the Sleepy Eye-Hutchinson game.