GILMAN — Carter Anderson struck out 11 batters in East Marshall baseball’s 10-0, five-inning win over BCLUW at East Marshall Middle School on Monday.

The Mustangs have now won five in a row, improving to 7-12 overall after starting the season 0-8.

“It’s nice to build up some fire and hopefully keep it going,” Anderson said.

The senior southpaw struck out seven Comet batters in a row and issued zero walks.

“He had good command of his fastball and good command of his breaking ball. … His fastball really sneaks up on you when his breaking ball is working,” said East Marshall head coach Justin Frost. “He attacked the zone early in the count and was really good tonight.”

In the third inning, East Marshall piled on the run support for Anderson.

The Mustangs sent 13 batters to the plate in that inning and walked away with nine runs on five hits and three errors. Six of the runs scored with two outs.

Connor Kriegel finished with three RBI, Blake Neuroth was 2-for-2 — both hits were doubles — with two RBI, and Anderson helped his own cause with three hits on Monday, and was one of five Mustangs with a single run batted in.

“Two-out hits can be very deflating for an opponent,” Frost said. “We’ve been on the wrong end of that this season as well, so it was nice to see us do that.”

BCLUW loaded up the bases in the fifth inning on balls put in play by Calvin Zoske, Daniel Zoske and Cayden McLeland.

“We knew the more we saw him, the better off we’d be,” said BCLUW coach Matt Zoske. “And we got it figured out a little bit of an idea of what we might be able to do to be successful, putting it in play.”

The Mustangs turned a double play to get out of the game, with Blake Neuroth, Alex Jacobson and Blake Fisher completing the 6-4-3 to end it.

“I knew I had a team that could back me up,” Anderson said. “So I’m just looking to throw strikes. And my two-seam on the outside of the plate was working well, because if they did put contact on it, it was gonna go to the left side.”

BCLUW (2-12) has lost three in a row and is back home against Don Bosco on Wednesday, followed by a road tilt at North Tama on Thursday.

“We had a bad inning tonight and we have to figure out how to shake that off and not let a two run inning turn into a six or seven-run inning,” Zoske said. “It’s all about staying in it mentally, more than anything else.”

Anderson is one of three seniors that was honored prior to the game for East Marshall’s senior night, along with Tyler Fuller and Brock Curtis.

“It’s been great to build a bond with this team and hang out with my friends,” Anderson said.

The Mustangs’ hot streak will be challenged the rest of this week with three games against above-.500 teams — at Jesup on Tuesday, back home for Aplington-Parkersburg on Wednesday and finishing up the NICL West series with Grundy Center on Thursday.

“All three facets of the game are coming together for us right now,” Frost said. “We just need to keep doing what we’re doing, get better every game and stay focused no matter what the opponent is, and things tend to work themselves out and hopefully we’re getting hot at the right time for when districts roll around.”