Staff photo by Travis Rosenau New Ulm Cathedral’s Evan Blekestad celebrates a run scored with Caleb Forstner (3) during a Tomahawk-Valley Conference crossover baseball game on Tuesday night at Mueller Park.

NEW ULM — With their offense manufacturing runs early on and starting right-handed pitcher Colin Anderson working out of some tough spots, the New Ulm Cathedral Greyhounds stayed unbeaten this year with a 5-1 win over Cleveland on Tuesday night in a Tomahawk-Valley Conference crossover baseball game at Mueller Park.

Jake Finstad finished a homer shy of the cycle to lead Cathedral (5-0), going 3 for 4 with an RBI and two runs scored. Elliot Schabert was 2 for 4 also for Cathedral.

The Greyhounds got their first run in the first inning when Finstad, who doubled to lead off and took third after tagging up on a flyout, scored on a fielder’s choice. The fielder’s choice saw a grounder hit by Colin Anderson to first thrown home in an attempt to get Finstad out at the plate. The throw got by the catcher as Finstad slid in face-first safely, but Anderson was caught out trying to take second.

The Greyhounds made it 3-0 in the second on a ground-ball RBI single from Finstad to score Evan Blekestad, who singled, and an RBI single by Caleb Forstner to score Finstad.

“[Jake] has been hitting the ball really well, I think he had three hits again,” Greyhounds head coach Alan Woitas said. “He’s been seeing the ball really well and putting good contact on it. I thought we did a nice job manufacturing some runs. In the first couple innings, Jake had a double, Caleb had a big at-bat to move him to third and then Colin hits a ground ball to score him. Second inning, Evan gets a base hit, gets a good jump on a ball in the dirt and a base hit scores him. So just little things like that, I thought we did a really good job moving runners up at the plate and having production.”

The Clippers got a run back in the fourth when Miles Tomaszewski collected his second double of the night, this one scoring Caleb Connor, who singled with one out. Tomaszewski ended up going 3 for 3 on the night.

Elijah Rieser took a leadoff walk in the sixth and scored on a sac fly to center by Anderson for a 4-1 Cathedral lead before Caleb Forstner later walked and scored on pitch that hit off the top of the catcher’s glove and found the backstop.

Anderson, who pitched six innings and allowed five hits and two walks for one earned run while striking out 13.

Joey Schugel pitched a 1-2-3 seventh with a strikeout in the mix to end the game.

Anderson worked his way out of trouble in the fifth after allowing a leadoff single by striking out the next three batters he saw. He also got out of trouble in the sixth when he allowed a walk and a single to start the inning before getting a groundout, a strikeout and another groundout to end the Cleveland threat.

“Colin’s a gamer,” Woitas said. “He’s going to go out there and compete at the highest level and we have a lot of faith in him that he’s going to give us a chance to win every ball game he pitches and he did that again tonight. He battled out of some tough situations and he had some really quick innings, too, so he’s comfortable in both situations and we have high expectations for him and he met them today.”