Luverne Sports
- By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorSeptember 10, 2025By Greg Hoogeveen The Luverne Cardinals football team ran over Sibley East 49-8 Friday, Sept. 5, on the road. Luverne amassed seven touchdowns in the first half, three coming on the ground and four through the air. “It was a good win for us, and all the kids were able to get minutes,” LHS head coach Todd Oye said. “It was apparent that we had the advantage in speed and were able to make some…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorSeptember 03, 2025The Luverne Cardinals football team took the wind out of Blue Earth’s sails on Aug. 28, beating the Buccaneers 40-6 at home. After a scoreless first quarter, Luverne got the first score of the game in the second quarter on a 51-yard pass-and-catch play between senior quarterback Josh Hansen and junior Darius Dolo for six points. Dolo caught the ball in the middle of the field surrounded by four…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorSeptember 03, 2025The Luverne girls’ volleyball team opened the 2025 season with a loss in Edgerton and a third-place tournament finish in Rochester in the past week. LHS has a 4-2 record for the season with three games set for the next week. The Cardinals were scheduled to play Pipestone Tuesday, Sept. 2, at home, and they’ll host Windom Thursday, Sept. 4, and West Lyon Monday, Sept. 8. SWMC 3, Luverne 1…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorSeptember 03, 2025The Luverne girls’ tennis team improved their season record to 5-1, beating Redwood Valley and River Valley in home meets this past week. LHS blanked Redwood Valley with a 7-0 team win on Tuesday, Aug. 26, and outplayed River Valley 5-2 Wednesday, Aug. 27. Luverne will travel to three of their next four meets. LHS was scheduled to go on the road against Fairmont Tuesday, Sept. 2. Luverne…- By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorSeptember 03, 2025The Luverne cross country team had 12 runners place in the Top 10 Friday, Aug. 29, in Mountain Lake. Luverne and 15 other regional schools participated in the Paul Metcalf Invitational at the Mountain Lake Golf Course. Lacking varsity runners in the early season, LHS placed three runners in the Top 6 spots in the boys’ and girls’ varsity 5,000-meter races. In the boys’ varsity race junior…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 27, 2025The Luverne girls’ tennis team jumped to three wins and one loss to start the 2025 season. The Cardinals beat MACCRAY 5-2 and took Yellow Medicine 4-3 in their first doubleheader Tuesday, Aug. 19, at home. LHS posted a one win, one loss doubleheader against Lac Qui Parle and Montevideo Thursday, Aug. 21. Luverne beat Lac Qui Parle 4-3 and fell 6-1 to Montevideo on the road. “All in all, it was…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 27, 2025The Luverne cross country team started the 2025 season participating in the Marshall Cross-Country Invitational Monday, Aug. 25. Luverne was one of nine teams invited to the event at the Marshall Golf Course. “We were very proud of the kids’ effort tonight. They got out and competed hard, which is all you ask for,” head coach Pete Janiszeski said. “It was a lot of kids’ first cross country…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 20, 2025The Luverne Country Club hosted three club tournaments in the past couple of weeks as golfing winds down for the season. The Senior Club Tournament was on Aug. 9, the Ladies Club Tournament was Aug. 15 and the Men’s Club Tournament was played Aug. 16-17. Senior Club Tournament The Senior Club Tournament was played Saturday, Aug. 9. First place went to Joe Dorhout with a score of 70.…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 13, 2025The 2025 youth soccer season kicked off Tuesday, Aug. 5, with over 200 kids, Pre-K through seventh grade, playing their first game of the short season. Organized games are played Tuesday and Thursday evenings from Aug. 5 through Aug. 28 on four separate fields west of the Luverne High School. Organizer Michelle DeKam said one of the reasons she started the program was so that her son could play…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 13, 2025The Luverne Redbirds ended their District 8B tournament run Saturday, Aug. 9, in New Ulm after falling 10-5 to the Raymond Rockets for a second time in the playoffs. The Rockets beat Luverne 5-3 Aug. 2 in the first round of the District Tournament in New Ulm. That loss put the Redbirds into the consolation bracket where they still had a chance to move on to the state tournament. Luverne beat…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 13, 2025Jaydon Johnson placed first overall in the Cardinal Pride competition on the first day of football practice. Individual event winners are: Bench press: Dawson Holtz - 225 pounds/six times. Squat: Landyn Lais - 315 pounds/six times. Lucas Madison - 375/one time. Power press: Landyn Lais - 185 pounds/five times, Dayson Fritz - 205/one time. Cleans: Connor Bose - 185 pounds/eight times, Jaydon…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 13, 2025Golfer Mark Opitz recorded his first hole-in-one Saturday, Aug. 9, at Nordic Trails Golf Course in Alexandria. Mark and Annie (his wife) were golfing together when he made the shot on hole No. 4. Mark used a six iron on the fourth hole par 3, 130-yard shot. After Mark hit the ball his said, “Annie, that has a chance,” and by the time he got done getting the words out, it went in. Mark said…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 06, 2025The Luverne Senior Legion baseball team captured third place at the American Legion Division II State Tournament Saturday, Aug. 2, in Ely. Luverne beat Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 9-6 July 31 in the first-round game. They then lost 7-2 to Montevideo Aug. 1 to move down to the consolation bracket. Luverne beat Sibley East 4-1 in the consolation matchup Aug. 2 to capture third place at the state…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 06, 2025Luverne trap shooters Piper Wynia (left) and Makayla Oechsle recently received their conference medals for the 2025 spring trap shooting season. Wynia finished in first place and Oechsle placed third for Luverne in the female division. Wynia finished the season placing second at the Minnesota Trap Shooting Championship in Alexandria this past spring.
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 06, 2025The Luverne Redbirds dropped their first game in the Minnesota Baseball Association District 8B tournament Saturday, Aug. 2, in New Ulm. The No. 5-seed Redbirds fell 5-3 to the No. 4-seed Raymond Rockets in the first round of the district playoffs. In the District 8B bracket, three of eight teams have the opportunity to move on to the state tournament later this summer. After their loss to…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 06, 2025Local racing results for Aug. 1-2 are listed. Drivers posted have ties to Rock County. Rapid Speedway Aug. 1 - Rock Rapids, IA Sportsman’s #21 Larry Kracht, Magnolia – placed fifth in the A Feature, finished second in Heat 1 #17 Brandon Boeve, Beaver Creek – placed 12th in the A Feature, finished sixth in Heat 2 Points leaders as of 7/25 8th – Brandon Boeve – 658 12th – Larry Kracht…
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