Staff photo by Travis Rosenau Minnesota Valley Lutheran first baseman Grayson Bode just gets New Ulm Cathedral’s Alex Portner out at first during a nonconference baseball game at Johnson Park on Monday.

NEW ULM — New Ulm Cathedral used a four run third inning and then added five more in the sixth as the Greyhounds downed Minnesota Valley Lutheran 13-3 Monday night in a Tomahawk Division game at Johnson Park.

Eli Anderson got the mound win for the Greyhounds (11-6, 9-4). Anderson allowed just four hits and none after the third inning. At one point in the game Anderson set down 12 straight Chargers hitters before an MVL batter reached on an outfield error to start the seventh. He struck out six.

Kyan Kube took the loss for MVL, now 7-8 overall and 5-4 in conference play.

Kube went 4 1/3 innings and was charged with five runs.

Henry Forst led the 13-hit Cathedral attack with three hits. Alex Portner and Evan Blekestad each had two hits with Blekestad driving in four runs.

“The first three innings were not our best baseball,” Cathedral head coach Alan Woitas said. “We did not help out Eli (with three errors) — we made some defensive miscues but those are things that we need to clean up. But we flipped the switch on in the back half of the game.”

MVL head coach Micah Degner said he was disappointed by the loss.

“The first three innings we thought that we competed pretty hard, but we let them turn the momentum — they had a big (fourth) inning — and we went flat after that,” he said.

And after that third inning, the Chargers also went hitless and managed just one base runner.

“He got in a groove there,” Woitas said about the junior right-hander. “He struggled location-wise early but once he settled in and found his rhythm, he was really good again.”

Cathedral erased the 3-0 MVL lead with four runs in third inning using a wild pitch, an error a Portner double and a double steal.

The Greyhounds added a run in the fifth when Anderson was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on a Blekestad double.

Five more runs came across in the sixth. Infield singles from Forst, Will Finstad and Portner loaded the bases. A walk to Elijah Rieser, a two-run single from Anderson and a Blekestad groundout and a Ryler Collins squeeze bunt made it 10-3.

Cathedral added three more in the seventh on a Forst single, a wild pitch and a Blake Johnson RBI single.

“AP (Alex Portner) had some good at-bats and Evan had a couple of hits,” Woitas said. “It is going to be a different player each day for us and everybody excels in their role when it is their turn.”

Cathedral is at Fairfax Tuesday to play Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop and then Lester Prairie, while the Chargers are at Waterville-Elysian-Morristown Tuesday.