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6-20-2012 New Ulm Brewers 5, Leavenworth 4. No details supplied or reported
6-18-2012 Essig 9, New Ulm 8 Tomahawk East League baseball

NEW ULM - Essig defeated the New Ulm Brewers in Tomahawk East League amateur baseball Monday.

Dusty Fleck earned the complete-game win for Essig. He allowed seven hits and one walk while striking out three.

Offensively for Essig, Fleck was 3-for-5 with a run and three RBI. Kyle Helget was 3-for-4 with two runs scored.

For New Ulm, Chris Peters was 3-for-4 with a double and Wade French had a grand slam and five RBI.

6-16-2012 Blue Earth 3, New Ulm Brewers Exhibition
NEW ULM - In a battle of league leaders, the Blue Earth Pirates took on the New Ulm Brewers on Saturday in amateur baseball action at Johnson Park.

The Pirates entered as the leaders of the 13-60 League with a 13-0 record, while the Brewers began the day as leaders of the American Division of the Tomahawk East League with a 9-1 mark.

In the end, a game-ending double play by the Pirates kept their unbeaten string alive.

The Brewers' Taylor Rolloff was thrown out at home with one out while trying to score the game-tying run from third on a fly ball to left field from Brock Sieve as the Pirates escaped with a slim 3-2 win over the Brewers Saturday afternoon.

Lee Hodges got the complete game win for Blue Earth. He allowed eight hits and struck out five. Hodges also drove in two runs with two sacrifice flies.

Adam Slander took the loss for New Ulm. The southpaw fanned three and permitted nine hits.

TJ Schmidtke led the Pirates with three hits.

Aaron Pfaff paced the Brewers, who host Essig tonight at 7:30 p.m., with two hits.

The Pirates plated single runs in the first three innings to take a 3-0 lead over Slander and the Brewers.

In the first, singles from Aaron Wendt and Schmidtke and a Hodges' sacrifice fly made it 1-0.

Josh Franta's two out single, a passed ball and a Dameato Beck single made it 2-0.

It was dj vu for the Pirates in the third when Wendt and Schmidtke singled before Hodges again helped his own cause with his second sacrifice fly.

The Brewers, who were held to one hit through five innings by Hodges, cut the lead to 3-1 in the sixth.

Adam Loose reached on an infeld single and Zach Hoffmann was safe on an error. Landon Rewitzer's infield single loaded the bases for Zach More, who singled in Loose.

In the eighth inning, New Ulm sliced the lead to 3-2.

Brody Peterson and Pfaff singled to start the inning, with Peterson later scoring on a fielder's choice.

The Brewers mounted a game-tying threat in the bottom of the ninth.

Rolloff laced a one-out single and raced to third on a Drew Pfaff base hit.

Brock Sieve followed with a fly ball to left that was caught by Pirates left fielder Justin Schmidtke. Rolloff tagged and tried to score, but was out on a throw from Schmidtke to catcher TJ Stallmann to end the game.