Gold held to 3 hits in UMC semifinals loss
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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.