By John Rittenhouse
The Luverne Redbirds put together a 16-0 scoring run while besting Wilmont 16-1 during an amateur baseball game played in Wilmont Wednesday, June 27.
After surrendering one run in the bottom of the third inning, Luverne pitcher Derek Ohme blanked the home-standing Cardinals over the final four frames.
Luverne, which was shut out offensively for the first three innings, plated 16 runs in the final four innings to turn what was a close game into a rout.
Ohme controlled the game on the mound.
The Redbird hurler blanked Wilmont in six of the game's seven innings. Ohme didn't walk a batter while allowing six hits and recording six strikeouts.
When Wilmont plated the game's first run in the bottom of the third, the Redbirds picked up the pace offensively by scoring one run in the fourth and fifth innings, eight in the sixth and six in the seventh to put the game out of reach.
Jeff Sehr doubled in the fourth inning and knotted the score at one when Jon Jarchow chased him home with a single.
Jesse Reisch drew a walk and scored the go-ahead run when Mike Boen doubled in the fifth.
Mike Wenninger, who slapped a team-high four hits in the game, belted a two-run homer to highlight Luverne's eight-run sixth inning.
Reisch doubled home two runs, Ohme doubled home one run, Jarchow and Boen had RBI singles and Brad Walgrave added a sacrifice fly to the sixth-inning uprising, which ended with Luverne sporting a 10-1 advantage.
Billy Schneider's two-run single was the key blow during the six-run seventh inning.
Wenninger, Ohme and Brian Weber all added RBI singles. Another run scored on a passed ball.
Ohme, Boen and Jarchow all had two hits for the 7-4 Redbirds.
Box score AB R H BI
Ohme 4 2 2 2
Boen 4 1 2 2
M.Sehr 0 1 0 0
J.Sehr 4 1 1 0
Schneider 1 1 1 2
Wenninger 4 3 4 3
Eernisse 5 1 1 0
Jarchow 5 1 2 2
Weber 3 1 1 1
Walgrave 4 1 0 1
Reisch 2 3 1 2