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The Luverne Redbirds upped their season record to 14-2 after three big wins over the past week.
The Birds swept a doubleheader in games with Fox Lake 10-1 and Fairmont 7-0 on Sunday after shutting out Pipestone Wednesday, June 22.
Luverne was scheduled to play the league-leading Milroy Irish at the Irish Yard Wednesday night and will host Ruthton at Redbird Field July 6.
Luverne 16,
Pipestone 0
The Luverne Redbirds earned their fifth shutout of the season when they defeated the Pipestone A’s 16-0 in seven innings June 22 at Redbird Field.
Luverne’s Jake Haugen and Codie Zeutenhorst combined to pitch the shutout, allowing just seven total hits and walking one Pipestone batter while striking out 11 total.
The Redbirds, who had scored 49 runs in their previous three games, continued their offensive ways by scoring three runs in the first inning and five more in each of the second and third innings.
Phil Paquette blasted a three-run homerun to left field and Newt Johnson added a two-run homer, both in the second inning.
Gaige Nath led off the third inning with a triple to center field before the next batter, Derek Lundgren, hit a homerun that also scored Nath.
Luverne held a 13-0 lead through the fourth and fifth innings.
In the bottom of the sixth, the Birds tallied three more runs that were the result of four walks and some wild pitches that Luverne baserunners took advantage of.
The Wenninger brothers led the Redbirds at the plate.
Skyler was three for three and scored three runs. Cade was three for four, scored a run and added three RBIs.
Lundgren scored four runs and totaled two RBIs.
Paquette and Nath also scored three times each for the victors.
Pipestone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x x 0
Luverne 3 5 5 0 0 3 x x x 16
AB R H BI
D Lundgren 3 4 2 2
P Paquette 3 3 2 3
C Reisch 1 0 0 0
S Wenninger 3 1 1 3
N Johnson 2 3 1 0
B Maurer 2 0 0 0
J Haugen 3 0 0 1
C Zeutenhorst 0 0 0 0
C Wenninger 4 1 3 3
E Beyer 3 0 1 1
M Sterrett 0 1 0 0
C Crabtree 4 0 0 0
G Nath 3 3 2 0
Luverne 10, Fox Lake 1
The Luverne Redbirds took on Fox Lake in Truman Saturday as part of an on-the-road doubleheader at 2 p.m.
Luverne got on the scoreboard in the first inning when Newt Johnson drove in two runs on an RBI single to left.
The Redbirds would go on to score one in the third, one in the fourth and two in the sixth before putting up a four spot in the top of the seventh.
The four-run inning was led by sacrifice flies by Skyler Wenninger and Mark Sterrett, and an RBI double by Declan Beers.
The Rebirds tallied 10 hits in the game, led by Beers, Johnson and Crabtree, all with multiple hits.
Cade Wenninger got the win on the mound, throwing six innings, allowing only four hits and striking out five batters.
Batting:
D Lundgren: 0-3, 2 R, 2BB
G Nath: 1-4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB
S Wenninger: 1-3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB
D Beers: 2-2, 3R, 2RBI, 3BB
N Johnson: 2-5, 3RBI
J Haugen: 1-3, 1RBI, 1BB
C Wenninger: 1-3, 1R, 1BB
C Crabtree: 2-4, 1R
M Sterrett: 0-2, 1RBI, 1BB
Pitching:
C Wenninger: 6.0 IP, 3 hits, 1R, 0ER, 4BB, 5Ks
B Maurer: 1.0 IP, 0 hits, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 1Ks
Luverne 7, Fairmont 0
The Redbirds took down the Fairmont Martins behind the pitching of Derek Lundgren during the 5 p.m. game in Fairmont Sunday.
Lundgren went all seven innings, striking out six, walking one, and only giving up two earned runs.
Luverne took an early lead when Declan Beers hit a triple to score Skyler Wenninger from first base.
Newt Johnson followed up the triple with an RBI double over the left fielder.
Derek Lundgren led off the top of the third with a triple, but the Redbirds were unable to drive him in. The Martins got on the board in the bottom of the third after hitting a two-RBI double.
The Redbirds answered right away in the top of the fourth when Johnson hit a solo homerun over the scoreboard.
The Redbirds extended the lead to 4-2 in the top of the fifth when Declan Beers hit an RBI single to score Mark Sterrett from second.
Fairmont tied that game at four in the bottom of the fifth inning after an error and two doubles.
The Redbirds regained the lead in the top of the seventh.
Gaige Nath led off the inning with a double, followed by a Skyler Wenninger walk. Declan Beers got the Redbirds lead back when he hit an RBI double.
Wenninger, on third base, then scored on a wild pitch, and Johnson drove in Beers on a fielder’s choice.
Batting:
D Lundgren: 1-4
G Nath: 1-4, 1R
S Wenninger: 1-3, 2R, 1BB
D Beers: 3-4, 2R, 3RBI
N Johnson: 2-3, 1R, 3RBI
J Haugen: 0-4
C Wenninger: 1-4
C Crabtree: 0-3
M Sterrett: 1-2, 1R, 1BB
Pitching:
D Lundgren: 7.0IP, 5 hits, 4R, 2ER, 1BB, 6Ks