By John RittenhouseThe Luverne American Legion baseball team racked up 30 runs while disposing of a pair of area teams at Redbird Field in games played since last Thursday.The Cardinals toppled Fulda by six runs Thursday before notching a seven-run win over Edgerton Tuesday.Luverne, 8-2 overall, will play five games at the Brookings, S.D., tournament Friday through Sunday. The Cardinals host Slayton Tuesday.Luverne 13, Edgerton 6The Cardinals scored eight runs in the first two innings and coasted to a seven-run home victory over Edgerton Tuesday.Luverne plated six runs in the home half of the first inning and added two more in the second to take command of the game.Edgerton outscored Luverne 6-5 the rest of the way, but it wasn’t enough to seriously challenge the Cards.Jared Pick doubled and Zach Wysong walked before both runners raced home on an error to open the scoring in the first.Rob Fodness delivered a two-run single, Tim Boen contributed a sacrifice fly and Mark Remme scored on a wild pitch to cap the six-run inning.Adam Reisch doubled in the second inning before scoring on a two-run home run to left-center field by Wysong to make it an 8-0 game in the second.Edgerton trimmed the lead in half at 8-4 before Luverne scored twice in the bottom of the fourth to open a 10-4 cushion.Wysong doubled home one run and scored the second run in the fourth on an error.Edgerton answered with two runs in the top of the fifth, but the Cards scored twice in the bottom of the fifth and once in the sixth to win handily.Taylor Graphenteen was hit by a pitch before scoring the first run in the fifth when Pick grounded out. Fodness singled and scored on a single from Reisch to increase the lead to 12-6 by innings end.Remme was hit by a pitch before scoring the sixth-inning run on an error.Wysong pitched the first inning for the Cards before giving way to Graphenteen, who worked the next two and one-third innings to notch the win. Kelsey Petersen tossed one and one-third innings for Luverne. Fodness twirled the final two and one-third frames.Box score AB R H BIPick 4 1 1 1Reisch 4 2 3 1Wysong 3 3 3 3Kurtz 1 1 0 0Johnson 2 0 0 0Remme 3 2 0 0Boen 2 0 1 1Goembel 1 0 0 0Bruynes 1 1 0 0Petersen 2 0 0 0Graphenteen 2 2 1 0Fodness 3 1 2 2Luverne 17, Fulda 11The Cardinals trounced Fulda for the second time this season when they came out on the winning end of a six-run decision in Luverne Thursday.Luverne’s Remme drove in five runs with two hits and Adam Kurtz picked up three RBIs and emerged as the winning pitcher in the game.Fulda scored three runs in the top half of the fourth inning to take an 11-10 lead in a wild game, but the Cardinals scored the final seven runs to record the victory.Kurtz tied the game with an RBI single in the bottom of the fifth inning before Boen delivered a two-run single to give Luverne a 13-11 edge.Reisch singled home a run, Remme picked up an RBI with a fielder’s choice and Kurtz drew a bases-loaded walk to earn RBIs during a four-run sixth inning that iced the game.Remme gave the Cards a 2-0 lead with a two-run single in the first inning, but Fulda moved in front 5-2 by plating five runs in the top of the second.Luverne regained the lead at 6-5 with a four-run bottom of the second that was highlighted by an RBI single from Graphenteen and Kurtz being hit by a pitch with the bases full.Fulda scored three times in the top of the third to regain the lead at 8-6, but the Cards answered with a four-run surge in the bottom of the inning to take a 10-8 lead.Remme doubled home two runs, Fodness delivered an RBI triple and Graphenteen contributed a sacrifice fly to the third-inning rally.Kurtz pitched three innings of hitless, shutout relief to pick up the win. Fodness and Boen tossed two innings each.Box score AB R H BIGraphenteen 1 2 1 2Goembel 1 1 0 0Pick 0 5 0 0Wysong 2 2 1 0Kurtz 2 2 1 3Remme 4 1 2 5Reisch 4 1 1 1Boen 4 0 1 2Bruynes 4 2 3 0Fodness 3 1 1 1Johnson 1 0 0 0
