ST. MICHAEL — The New Ulm Legion Gold strung together multiple hits for a 9-7 win over the Grand Rapids Wolfpack in a DI Legion Baseball State Tournament game Saturday afternoon, earning a quarterfinals rematch with Grand Rapids following the win.

However, the Wolfpack held the Gold to three hits in the second game and won a 3-0 shutout to end New Ulm’s season and advance to Sunday’s semifinals.

New Ulm finishes the year 19-14.

New Ulm 9, Grand Rapids 7 (Game 1)

In the win-or-go-home game for the Gold to start Saturday, the Gold racked up 13 hits, led by Colin Anderson’s 3-for-4 day at the plate. Logan Mielke also was 2 for 3 with two RBIs for the Gold, while Zach Hubbard was 2 for 4, Ben Alfred was 1 for 2 with two RBIs and Jake Finstad added a double.

Finstad got the Game 1 win also in 6 1/3 innings, allowing nine hits and four walks for seven runs, two earned, while striking out four. Cohen Domeier got the final two outs for the Gold in relief, one being a strikeout.

An Alfred sac fly in the first inning got New Ulm on the board first when it scored Hubbard. A two-error, three-hit second inning by Grand Rapids spelled trouble for New Ulm and put the Wolfpack ahead 4-1.

The Gold were quick to respond with a five-run top of the third, getting the tying run on a Mielke RBI single and the go-ahead run on a Dirk Haynes groundout. Grand Rapids got a run back in the fifth, but New Ulm got two more runs in the sixth for an 8-5 lead. Caleb Forstner stole home in the seventh on a double-steal attempt for the Gold to make it a 9-5 game.

Grand Rapids rallied in the seventh for two runs, but a pop out ended the game.

Ethan Morgan led the Wolfpack bats in Game 1, going 2 for 4. Alex Wegwerth took the loss on the mound in three innings, allowing nine hits for six earned runs while striking out one.

Grand Rapids 3, New Ulm 0 (Game 2)

Zach Hubbard pitched the complete game for New Ulm in the loss. While the Wolfpack attacked early in the game for a run in the first and two in the second, Hubbard settled in after that and kept things manageable the rest of the way.

He allowed six hits and one walk for three earned runs while striking out three. He also had one of the Gold’s three hits in the game, the other two coming on singles by Mielke and Finstad.

Sam Dick was 2 for 3 with an RBI to lead Grand Rapids in the Game 2 win, with an RBI double giving his team the first run of the game in the bottom of the first. Morgan had a two-run triple in the second for the final two runs of the game.

Morgan also got the start and went five innings on the bump, allowing two hits and two walks for no runs while fanning seven.