By John RittenhouseThe Luverne American Legion baseball team capped a 10-7 regular season by dropping a 9-8 home decision to New Ulm Tuesday.Luverne fell behind 9-0 after four and one-half innings of play before rallying to score eight runs in the fifth and sixth innings.The Cardinals couldn’t push the tying run across the plate when they batted in the seventh.New Ulm put together three-run first and fourth innings, a two-run fifth and a one-run third to open a 9-0 cushion.Luverne scored five runs in the bottom of the fifth and three in the sixth to trim the difference to one run at 9-8.Jared Pick and Zach Wysong delivered two-run doubles and Seth Goembel added an RBI single to make it a 9-5 game in the fifth.J.T. Bruynes doubled home a pair of runs and Steve Schepel slapped an RBI triple when the Cards capped the scoring in the sixth.Nate Boler tossed the first three innings and took the loss after surrendering four runs, three hits and one walk. Brett Lundgren pitched one inning of five-run, four-hit relief. Marc Boelman pitched three innings of scoreless relief.Luverne, which hosts the Sub-District Tournament, opens postseason play at 7 p.m. Friday at Redbird Field.Box score AB R H BIPick 4 2 1 2Bruynes 4 0 1 2Boelman 3 0 0 0Wysong 4 0 2 2Nath 4 0 1 0Oeding 4 1 1 0Boler 1 0 0 0Lundgren 3 2 2 0Goembel 3 1 1 1Petersen 1 0 0 0Schepel 1 2 1 1
