By John Rittenhouse
The Luverne Redbirds had a four-game winning streak snapped when they dropped a one-run home decision to Wilmont Sunday.
The streak reached four straight with a four-run home win over Hadley Wednesday, June 19.
Luverne, 6-5 overall, hosts Spencer, Iowa, at noon Sunday before taking on Jackson at 6 p.m.
Wilmont 8, Luverne 7
An outstanding comeback fell short when the Redbirds hosted Wilmont Sunday.
After falling behind 6-0 during the first three and one-half innings of the tilt, Luverne went on a 7-1 run to tie the game at seven when eight innings were complete. Wilmont then scored once in the top of the ninth and blanked the Redbirds in the bottom of the inning to win by one.
The Redbirds clawed their way back into the game when Brian Weber singled home a run in the fourth, Cole Irish and Micky Sehr doubled home runs in the fifth and Billy Schneider slashed a run-scoring single in the seventh to make it a 6-4 game.
Wilmont scored once in the top of the eighth to lead 7-4 before the Redbirds knotted the score at seven with three counters in the bottom of the inning.
Sehr singled home two runs and Schneider singled home the tying-run in the eighth.
Jeff Sehr was saddled with the pitching loss.
Box score AB R H BI
Ohme 6 0 1 0
J.Sehr 3 2 1 0
Wenninger 4 1 1 0
Irish 4 2 1 1
M.Sehr 5 1 3 3
Schneider 5 1 4 2
Weber 3 0 1 1
Fick 4 0 1 0
Reisch 1 0 0 0
Eernisse 1 0 0 0
Iveland 2 0 0 0
Fisher 1 0 1 0
Luverne 6, Hadley 2
The Redbirds won their sixth straight tilt by besting Hadley in a game that ended after seven innings of play due to rain Wednesday, June 19.
After surrendering two runs in the top of the first, Redbird starter Jeff Sehr blanked Hadley over the next six frames to post a victory.
Sehr's teammates came through with five runs in the third inning and one in the fifth to create a four-run win.
Sehr supplied the key blow when he doubled home two runs in the third. Mike Boen added an RBI double, and Irish and Micky Sehr singled home one run each.
Mike Wenninger singled and scored Luverne's fifth-inning counter when Micky Sehr lifted a sacrifice fly to center field.
Box score AB R H BI
Ohme 4 0 2 0
Wenninger 3 1 1 0
Irisch 3 1 2 1
M.Sehr 3 1 2 2
Iveland 0 0 0 0
J.Sehr 3 1 1 2
Boen 3 0 1 1
Eernisse 3 0 0 0
Schneider 3 0 1 0