Staff photo by Travis Rosenau The New Ulm VFW Silver’s Bobby Rewitzer runs to third on his way home during a Junior Upper Midwest Classic Tournament game against Rosetown on Friday at Johnson Park.

NEW ULM — Sometimes in baseball is not how many hits you get in a game, but rather when you get them.

While the New Ulm VFW Silver totaled nine hits in their game Saturday afternoon against Rosetown, five of them came in the first inning.

That led to a six-run inning and Silver used that jump-start and rode to an 8-2 win over Rosetown in the Junior Upper Midwest Classic at Johnson Park.

Wyatt Hansen got the win for the Silver. The right hander scattered four hits and struck out seven.

Archer Laine took the loss for Post 502. He was charged with eight runs in his 1 2/3 innings of work.

Bobby Rewitzer and Ethan Drill each had two hits for New Ulm.

Ethan Drill, Blake Aufderheide and Brock Nachreiner each had two RBIs.

“We played very well the first couple of innings,” the Silver coach Blaine Olson said. “But then our bats slowed down. But Wyatt pitched a very good game and that was all we needed.”

And the six run start did not hurt.

“That was big,” Olson said about the fast jump out of the blocks. “He [Hansen] kept them off-balance and our defense did the rest.”

Hansen started the six-run outburst in the bottom of the first when he reached on an infield error. He stole second. Rewitzer singled and Owen Drill was hit by a Laine pitch to load the bases.

A walk to Ethan Drill forced in Hansen for a 1-0 lead.

Hudson Lieser’s single made it 2-0 before Aufderheide hit a two-run double to right field for a 4-0 lead.

A wild pitch and an error added two more runs.

A walk to Rewitzer and Owen Drill being hit by a pitch ignited a two-run second inning.

Ethan Drill’s base hit plated Rewitzer for a 7-0 cushion.

Lieser coaxed a walk to load the bases before a Nachreiner sacrifice fly upped the lead to 8-0 after two innings.

While Siver’s bats went cold for the final four innings with just three more total hits — all of them coming in a scoreless sixth inning — the damage had been done, especially after a 7-4 win over Prior Lake in the first game to improve to 2-1 in Pool D.

“We have a chance to play [pool play] on Saturday,” Olson said. “We are hitting the ball as well as we have been all year and our pitching has been good. Our defense can be better, but everyone is playing together and having fun.”

In the game against Prior Lake, Rewitzer earned the win on the mound, striking out three and allowing no runs on one hit in 2 2/3 innings, while Owen Drill had a strikeout while allowing three earned runs on six hits in 4 1/3 innings. At the plate, Lieser was 2 for 3 with a run scored, while Chase Wilson, Hansen and Rewitzer each had a hit and an RBI. Nachreiner had a hit and two RBIs.

New Ulm will face the winner of Pool C at 6 p.m. on Saturday.