File photo by Travis Rosenau New Ulm’s Evan Blekestad runs to third during an Upper Midwest Classic quarterfinals game on Saturday at Johnson Park. New Ulm fell to Monticello in the UMC semifinals on Sunday.

NEW ULM — Monticello’s Dom Marschel held the New Ulm Legion Gold to just three hits and Post 260 used three two-run innings to down the Gold 6-2 in the Upper Midwest Classic Sunday.

Marschel fanned five in getting the win.

Hunter Larson took the loss for the Gold. He went 4 1/3 innings and was charged with four runs.

Adam Brenny, Cale Holthaus and Gavin Gardner each had two hits for Monticello.

Dirk Haynes had a triple for New Ulm.

“We just did not get enough hits,” New Ulm head coach Curt Forbrook said. “We had a couple of errors again — we did not play clean — and I thought that we got good enough pitching, but it was not our day.”

New Ulm, which hosts Mankato National on Wednesday, took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third when they got two of its three hits.

Dirk Haynes tripled with one out and scored on a two-out single from Levi Hopp.

But Monticello scored twice in the bottom of the inning and added two more runs in the fifth for a 4-1 lead.

Post 132 cut the lead to 4-2 in the sixth on a Candon Briggs sacrifice fly before Monticello added two more runs in the bottom of the inning for a 6-2 lead.

“We were in a little bit of a funk today,” Forbrook said. “And I do not know why or what. In the past we have come from behind for wins and we have hit well. But it did not show today — we had a few balls right at them. We did not make things happen today like we normally do.”

Forbrook said that the loss was disappointing.

“You only get as a group one or two chances at this tournament and when you get a chance and don’t take advantage of it it, is disappointing,” he said.

New Ulm is 9-4 on the season.