Staff photo by Ari Selvey The New Ulm Legion Gold’s Zach Hubbard delivers a pitch during a legion baseball game against Waseca Tuesday at Johnson Park.

NEW ULM — New Ulm Legion Gold right-hander Zach Hubbard pitched six innings of three-hit ball and New Ulm used a three-run first inning to down Waseca 3-0 Tuesday night at Johnson Park.

Hubbard, who threw 91 pitches, struck out five in his stint.

Owen Hunstad took the loss for Waseca. He went four innings and gave up all four runs and five hits.

Kyle Albrecht had an RBI double and Evan Blekestad a run-scoring triple — both coming in the three-run first inning.

“We played pretty good overall,” New Ulm head coach Curt Forbrook said. “I do not know if we hit the ball great tonight. But overall we played well — we got good pitching from Zach and Eli Anderson (who closed out the seventh inning) and this was our first game of the season without an error.”

New Ulm, who hosts New Prague at 7 p.m. Wednesday night at Johnson Park, jumped on Hunstad for three quick runs in the bottom of the first inning.

Levi Hopp walked and stole second. He went to third on a Jake Finstad base hit and when Finstad stole second, Hopp scored on a throwing error for a 1-0 lead.

Finstad then trotted home on a Kyle Albrecht double to right.

Albrecht scooted home on a Blekestad triple to center.

But after that, the Gold bats went quiet as they managed just two more hits for the rest of the game.

“Some of that was our plate approach,” Forbrook said. “We did hit the ball, but it was right at them — it was one of those games — sometimes you have a game like that.”

But it did not matter as Hubbard was in control.

“He has not pitched a lot this year,” Forbrook said. “But he pitched great. We will need him down the stretch.”

The only real trouble that Hubbard ran into came in the top of the sixth when he walked three batters to load the bases with two outs before he ended the inning on a groundout.

New Ulm is now 13-8 on the season.