| 05/15/25 vs Cleveland | 6-2 |
| 05/13/25 vs B O L D | 5-2 |
| 05/12/25 vs Minnesota Valley Lutheran | 11-1 |
| 05/08/25 vs Springfield | 4-0 |
| 05/08/25 @ Springfield | 4-1 |
| + 5 more games |
New Ulm Cathedral waltzed into their matchup on Thursday with nine straight wins... but they left with ten. They walked away with a 6-2 victory over the Cleveland Clippers. That's the second time they've managed to beat them this season, as they also won 5-1 back in April.
Jake Finstad made a splash while hitting and pitching. He struck out ten batters over seven innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off five hits. Those ten strikeouts gave him a new career-high. He was also stellar in the batter's box, going 3-for-4 with two runs, one triple, and one stolen base.
Finstad wasn't the only one making solid contact as four players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Alex Portner, who went 1-for-2 with one run and one RBI. Evan Blekestad was another, going 1-for-2 with one triple and one run.
New Ulm Cathedral's win was their seventh straight at home, which pushed their record up to 16-1. The home victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.0 runs on average over those games. As for Cleveland, with the loss, they broke their three-game winning streak and moved their record to 13-5.
New Ulm Cathedral has already played their next contest, a 15-7 win against Triton on the 17th. Cleveland has also already played their next game (against Heron Lake-Okabena/Fulda), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.
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