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By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorMay 20, 2026The Luverne High School baseball team lost 15-8 to Windom Tuesday, May 12, on the road and beat Adrian-Ellsworth 10-0 Monday, May 18, in Adrian. The Cardinals, now 14-3 for the season, will travel to Montevideo Thursday, May 21, before sections play starts Tuesday, May 26. Section seeding and brackets should be determined by the end of the week. Windom 15, Luverne 8 Windom handed Luverne…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorMay 13, 2026The Luverne Cardinals baseball team goes 2-1 the past week to improve to 14-2 for the season. LHS beat Jackson County Central 13-1 on the road Tuesday, May 5, and split a double header with St. James at home Thursday, May 7, at home. Luverne fell 6-3 to the Saints in Game 1 and won Game 2 by a 6-4 margin against a solid Saints club. LHS was scheduled to travel to Windom Tuesday, May 12 and…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorMay 06, 2026The Luverne High School baseball team won five games in a row this past week to improve to 12-1 for the season. LHS beat Pipestone 16-6 at home Tuesday, April 28. Luverne took two games from Redwood Valley Thursday, April 30, beating Redwood 18-2 in Game 1 and 14-1 in Game 2. The Cardinals collected two more wins Saturday, May 2, beating Madelia 10-5 and BOLD 6-1 on the road. Luverne recorded…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorApril 29, 2026The Luverne baseball team split games against Windom and Fairmont to improve to 7-1 for the season. LHS fell 11-4 to Windom Tuesday, April 21, at home in a lackluster game against the Eagles. Luverne recorded a 12-2 win against Fairmont Friday, April 24, at home in five innings. The Cardinals were scheduled to travel to Pipestone Tuesday, April 28. They have a double header at home against…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorApril 22, 2026The Luverne High School baseball team collected three wins over the past week to improve to 6-0 for the season. The Cardinals defeated Jackson County Central 16-6 at Redbird Field Tuesday, April 14, and won two games (20-4 and 19-3) against Blue Earth on the road Thursday, April 16. Luverne is scheduled to face their next five teams at home. The Cardinals were scheduled to host Windom Tuesday…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorApril 15, 2026The Luverne High School baseball team pocketed three wins over the past week, improving its record 3-0. The Cardinals beat Pipestone 12-7 on the road Friday, April 10, and Esko 5-4 at home Saturday, April 11, before taking down Fairmont 6-1 on the road Monday, April 13. Luverne was scheduled to host Jackson County Central Tuesday, April 14, and will head to Blue Earth Friday, April 17. …
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 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 editorJuly 30, 2025The Luverne Redbirds set their sights on the Minnesota Baseball Association District 8B playoffs. Luverne is scheduled to take on the Raymond Rockets Saturday, Aug. 2, at 11:00 am. The District 8B games will be played at Johnson Park in New Ulm. It is a double-elimination bracket with three teams moving on to the state tournament. Hosts for the 2025 State Tournament are Brownton, Hutchinson,…
By Jason BerghorstJuly 23, 2025The Luverne Senior Legion baseball team won the first two games and lost the third game during the first weekend of the Division II Southwest Sub-State tournament. After defeating Wabasso 8-3 Thursday and routing Windom 14-0 Friday, Luverne fell to Sleepy Eye 6-4 Sunday afternoon. With the loss, Luverne will now have to play a yet-to-be-determined opponent Friday night at 7:30 p.m. in Truman.…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorJuly 16, 2025The Luverne Senior Legion baseball team captured the Southwest Sub- Sub State title after beating Adrian 17-2 Friday, July 11, and Russell-Tyler-Ruthton 9-1 Saturday, July 12, in Windom. Luverne now advances to play in the eight team Southwest Sub-State tournament in Truman. The team will open the two-weekend, double-elimination tournament vs. Wabasso at 2 p.m. today (July 17). Luverne 17,…
By Jason BerghorstJuly 16, 2025The Luverne Junior Legion baseball team took its first step toward returning to the State Junior Legion baseball tournament by winning the sub sub-state tournament championship Sunday. Luverne defeated Pipestone 12-2 in Adrian. The local Junior Legion team, now 12-4 on the season, will open sub-state tournament play at Redbird Field Sunday, June 20, at 7 p.m. with the opponent to be…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorJuly 09, 2025The Luverne Senior Legion baseball team beat Windom 9-3 on the road Tuesday, July 1. Luverne had a game scheduled against Colton Monday, July 7, but that game was called after the first two batters due to weather in Luverne. In the game against Windom, Luverne made nine runs on eight hits and had six RBIs. Alex Schlosser had two RBIs, scored once on one hit, recorded one double and stole three…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorJuly 09, 2025The Luverne Junior Legion 10 baseball team made short order of Windom, beating them 16-2 Tuesday, July 1, on the road. Kelby Schomacker and Coy Thone led Luverne with two hits each in the game. Carter Como and Ben Hartquist each had one hit against Windom. Como collected three runs, and Hartquist got one double in the win. Hartquist, Colton Haubrich, Maddox Miller, Schomacker and Thone each…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorJuly 02, 2025The Luverne Senior Legion baseball team won two games and fell twice this past week. Luverne beat Madison 5-4 Tuesday, June 24, at home. At the New Ulm tournament, Mankato National Legion beat Luverne 7-2 Friday, June 27, in their first game. In the second game Luverne took down Omaha West 5-3 on June 27. In Luverne’s final game of the New Ulm Tournament, Luverne fell 6-0 to the Mankato…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorJuly 02, 2025The Luverne Junior Legion 9 and 10 teams played a double-header against Pipestone Monday, June 30, at Redbird Field. The Junior Legion 9 game ended in a 5-5 tie after four innings, and the Luverne Junior Legion 10 team beat Pipestone 12-1 after 5 1/2 innings. Legion 10 was scheduled to take on Windom on the road Tuesday, July 1. Legion 9 and 10 travel to play Heron Lake Monday, July 7. …
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