Senior Legion baseball completes 9-5 regular season

The Luverne Senior American Legion baseball team went 3-3 during the last two weeks of regular season play.
Luverne was 1-3 during a Marshall tournament June 24-26 before picking up wins over Marshall and Tracy last week.
“We were kind of short-handed during the tournament because we had some of our regular players in New Ulm playing with the Junior Legion team the same weekend,” said coach Codie Zeutenhorst.
“Our pitching was limited, and we had a number of guys playing different positions,” he said. “And we played four really good teams.”
“We can just hope to build off of those games to do well in the future when we have a full lineup.”
The team ended the regular season 9-5 and will begin tournament play tonight (Thursday) in Tracy.
 
Brookings 8, Luverne 0
Luverne opened the Marshall tournament with an 8-0 loss to Brookings, South Dakota, Friday, June 24, at American Legion Field in Marshall.
Braydon Ripka had the only hit in the five-inning game for Luverne.
“We only had 16 at bats with 15 being the minimum in that game,” said Zeutenhorst.
“Our bats just weren’t there that night.”
Kaden Anderson pitched all five innings for Luverne.
The right-hander gave up six hits and eight runs while walking four and striking out three.   
 
Luverne         0 0 0 0 0 x x    0
Brookings     1 2 3 1 1 x x    8
 
                          AB    R    H     BI
B Ripka              2     0     1     0
K Anderson       2     0     0     0
E Beyer              2     0     0     0
C Overgaard      2     0     0     0
R Sneller            2     0     0     0
Z DeBoer            2     0     0     0
G Reisch            2     0     0     0
A Halverson       1     0     0     0
R Borman          1     0     0     0
 
Alexandria 13, Luverne 5
Alexandria defeated Luverne 13-5 June 25 in the second game of the tournament at American Legion Field in Marshall.
Luverne was able to gather six hits in the game, and five different players scored five runs off those hits.
Casey Sehr and Riley Sneller had two hits each.
Anderson and Sehr each had two RBIs with Sehr belting a double in the fifth inning.
Zach DeBoer pitched the first 3 1/3 innings for Luverne.
He gave up five hits and nine runs and walked four batters.
Sehr relieved DeBoer on the mound. He offered four hits, four runs and four walks and struck out one.  
 
Luverne         0 1 0 0 4 0     9
Alexandria    0 0 4 5 0 4    13
 
                      AB    R     H    BI
E Beyer            4     1     0     0
B Ripka            2     1     0     0
K Anderson    3     1     1     2
C Sehr              3     1     2     2
R Sneller          3     0     2     0
C Overgaard    1     0     0     0
Z DeBoer          1     0     0     1
E Radtke          1     0     0     0
P Kroski           3     1     1     0
G Reisch          3     0     0     0
 
Luverne 4, Willmar 3
Luverne earned its first win of the Marshall tournament during a Saturday afternoon game at Irish Yard in rural Milroy.
The team defeated Willmar 4-3.
Luverne scored all four runs in the top of the first inning.
Willmar scored one run in the third and two more in the fifth, but when neither team was able to score in the final four innings, Luverne held on for the 4-3 victory.
Ethan Beyer pitched a complete seven-inning game for Luverne.
He struck out five and gave up three runs off ten hits.
Beyer, Sneller, Patrick Kroski and Gavin Reisch collected Luverne’s four hits with Sneller adding an RBI.
Beyer, Anderson, Sehr and Connor Overgaard plated Luverne’s runs in the game.
 
Luverne       4 0 0 0 0 0 0      4
Willmar        0 0 1 0 2 0 0       3
 
                      AB    R     H    BI
E Beyer            4     1     1     0
B Ripka            3     0     0     0
K Anderson     3     1     0     0
C Sehr              3     1     1     0
C Overgaard    3     1     1     0
R Sneller          3     0     1     1
P Kroski           3     0     1     0
Z DeBoer          2     0     0     0
G Reisch          3     0     1     0
 
Redfield 8, Luverne 1
Luverne lost to Redfield, South Dakota, in the fourth and final game of the Marshall tournament June 26 at Irish Yard.
The game was scoreless until the top of the fourth inning when Redfield scored four runs.
Luverne answered with one run in the bottom of the inning, but it would be the team’s only run of the game.
Redfield went on to add one run in the fifth and three more in the sixth inning.
Sneller led the offense for Luverne with two hits, and Will Serie scored the team’s only run.
Pitching in the game was by committee with Sehr, Kroski, Ripka and Kai Buss all seeing time on the mound.
The Luverne pitchers combined to give up seven hits and eight runs while striking out five Redfield batters.
 
Redfield       0 0 0 4 1 3 0     8
Luverne       0 0 0 1 0 0 0     1
 
                      AB    R     H    BI
B Ripka            2     0     1     0
E Beyer            2     0     1     0
K Anderson     3     0     1     0
C Sehr              3     0     0     0
C Overgaard    2     0     0     0
W Serie            2     1     1     0
R Sneller          2     0     2     0
K Buss             2     0     0     0
E Domagala     1     0     0     0
P Kroski           2     0     0     0
 
Luverne 7, Marshall 6
After a busy four-game weekend, Luverne returned home to Redbird Field Monday, June 27, and defeated Marshall Junior Legion Black 7-6.
Luverne opened the scoring with three runs in the bottom of the first inning.
“It was good to see us getting some hits and scoring in the first inning after struggling with hitting over the weekend,” Zeutenhorst said.
Jacob Stroh led the Luverne offense going two for three at the plate, including a triple in the fifth inning.
Stroh scored a run and added two RBIs.
Ripka also had two hits for Luverne while Serie plated two runs in the game.
Anderson pitched 3 2/3 innings. He gave up seven hits and five runs while striking out five.
“Kaden came out and pitched really well after pitching a lot over the weekend,” Zeutenhorst said.
Buss came to the mound for 1 1/3 innings. He gave up two hits with one run, walked one and struck out one.
Serie pitched the final inning for Luverne, giving up just one hit.
 
Marshall      0 0 2 3 1 0 x     6
Luverne       3 0 0 1 2 1 x     7
 
                      AB    R     H    BI
B Ripka            2     1     2     1
E Beyer            3     1     1     0
K Anderson     2     0     0     0
W Serie            3     2     1     1
R Sneller          2     1     1     1
J Stroh             3     1     2     2
E Domagala     1     0     0     1
Z DeBoer          3     0     0     0
K Buss             2     1     1     0
 
Luverne 4, Tracy
Luverne traveled to Milroy Thursday, June 30, to face the Tracy Senior Legion team at Yankee Field.
The visitors came home with a 4-0 win over Tracy.
Luverne scored the only four runs in the game in the top of the fifth inning.
Beyer and Conner Connell reached base on walks and scored on a 2-RBI single by Elliot Domagala.
Sneller and Domagala then scored off passed balls.
Beyer, Sneller and Domagala had two hits each in the game.
DeBoer pitched six innings for Luverne. He gave up only two hits, walked two and struck out eleven.
Connell came to the mound for the final inning. He struck out all three Tracy batters.
 
Luverne      0 0 0 0 4 x x      4
Tracy          0 0 0 0 0 x x      0
 
                      AB    R     H    BI
B Ripka            3     0     0     0
E Beyer            3     1     2     0
C Connell         3     1     0     0
W Serie            3     0     0     0
R Sneller          3     1     2     0
E Domagala     4     1     2     2
Z DeBoer          3     0     0     0
K Buss             3     0     0     0
A Halverson     2     0     0     0