By Greg Hoogeveen
February 28, 2023
The Luverne girls’ basketball team won two games and dropped a heart-breaker to Marshall.
LHS beat Tracy 71-32 Feb. 14 at home and traveled to Worthington Feb. 16 to beat the Trojans 76-39, before losing to Marshall 51-37 in Windom Feb. 18.
The Cardinals’ next game is Saturday, Feb. 25, at home against Minnesota Valley Lutheran in subsection play.
LHS 71, Tracy 32
Luverne hosted Tracy-Milroy-…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 28, 2023
The H-BC girls’ basketball team added three wins and one loss to their season this past week.
The Patriots beat Adrian 54-51 Feb. 14 away, won against WWG at home Feb. 16 by a score of 56-51, lost 41-21 on the road to Elkton Feb. 17, and beat Red Rock Central 63-41 at home Feb. 20.
The Lady Pates will now focus on the post-season, taking on Tracy-Milroy-Balaton Feb. 25 in Worthington.
H-BC 54,…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 28, 2023
The Luverne boys’ basketball team hosted Worthington Thursday, Feb. 16, beating the Trojans 75-64.
“We had a lot of energy at the tip off from the kids on the court and from the bench,” said head coach John Sichmeller. “That has been something we have been working on, and it was good to see it pay off for our kids,”
Luverne opened up the scoring with a 32-18 lead at the half, before battling a…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 28, 2023
The Luverne boys’ hockey team traveled to Windom Thursday for the last regular season game Thursday, Feb. 16.
The Cardinals beat the Eagles 5-3 bringing their regular season record to 18-6-1 and conference record to 13-3 in the Big South.
LHS finished behind New Ulm with a 23-1-1 season and 16-0 conference.
Luverne and Windom played a close game in the first two periods, and the score was tied 3-…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 28, 2023
The H-BC boys’ basketball team fell to Southwest Christian 90-46 on Feb. 14 in Edgerton, lost a home game 81-54 to the Wolverines on Feb. 17, and came up short at Westbrook Walnut Grove, 67-35, in a game played Monday ahead of impending winter weather.
H-BC, with a season record at 9-13, was scheduled to travel to Russell-Tyler-Ruthton on Friday, Feb. 24.
The Patriots will close out their regular…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 28, 2023
The Luverne wrestling team traveled to Jackson Thursday, Feb. 16, for the first round of the Section 3A Team Tournament.
The ninth-seeded Cardinals took on No. 8 Wabasso in the first match of the night, and the winner of that contest faced No. 1 seeded Jackson County Central in the second match.
Luverne’s match with Wabasso was close but not good enough to beat the Rabbits who won 42-30 pinning…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 28, 2023
The Luverne gymnastics team traveled to Pipestone Saturday, Feb. 18, for the Section 3A team and individual tournament.
The seven teams competing included the host Pipestone, Worthington, Windom, Marshall, Redwood, Jackson and Luverne.
Among the teams were 154 total gymnasts performing for all-around and individual placing to move on to state.
“This is the best season record I have had since…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 28, 2023
The Luverne girls’ hockey team is headed to state playoffs after the Cardinals took down New Ulm 4-0 in St. Peter on Feb. 14 to claim the 2023 Section 3A Championship trophy.
This is Luverne’s fourth year in a row being crowned the 3A Champs, but the Cardinals have yet to win a game at state.
The Cardinal girls’ hockey teamwill play their first game Wednesday, Feb. 22, at the Xcel Energy Center…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 21, 2023
The Luverne girls’ hockey team is headed to state playoffs after the Cardinals took down New Ulm 4-0 in St. Peter on Feb. 14 to claim the 2023 Section 3A Championship trophy.
This is Luverne’s fourth year in a row being crowned the 3A champs, but the Cardinals have yet to win a game at state.
This year’s opening round was set to begin Wednesday, Feb. 22, at the Xcel Energy Center with an opponent…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 14, 2023
The Luverne girls’ basketball team added four decisive wins this past week.
LHS beat host MCC 63-23 Feb. 7, defeated Adrian at home 70-31 on Feb. 9, topped the Cougars 56-32 Feb. 10 at Canby, and clipped the Windom Eagles at Windom, 63-28, Feb. 13.
Luverne is now 20-2 for the season.
The Cardinals were scheduled to host Tracy-Milroy-Balaton Tuesday, Feb. 14, and they’ll travel to Worthington…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 14, 2023
The Hills-Beaver Creek boys’ basketball team went 1-1 this past week with an 80-67 loss to Luverne Feb. 7 and a 67-60 win over HLOF Feb. 9.
The Patriots, now 9-10 for the season, were scheduled to travel Tuesday, Feb. 14, to take on Southwest Christian and will meet Worthington at home Thursday, Feb. 16.
LHS 80, H-BC 67
The Patriots traveled to Luverne Tuesday, Feb. 7, losing an 80-67 cross-…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 14, 2023
The Luverne boys’ basketball team won two games and lost one high-game this past week.
LHS beat H-BC at home 80-67 Tuesday, Feb. 7. The Cardinals lost to Windom 111-97 on the road Feb. 10 and won 80-60 at home against Adrian Feb. 13.
Luverne is now 11-9 for the season with one game remaining against Windom, on the road, Thursday, Feb. 16.
LHS 80, H-BC 67
The Cardinal boys’ basketball team and…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 14, 2023
The H-BC girls’ basketball team took down Heron Lake-Okabena/Fulda 50-17 on the road Friday, Feb. 10, bringing the Patriots’ record to 9-13 for the season.
“I thought our girls did a good job of setting the tone to start the game,” head coach Dylan Gehrke said.
“Defensively we played well all around.”
He said the Lady Pates were led offensively by junior guard Brynn Rauk, who had 19 points, six…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 14, 2023
Luverne girls’ wrestling placed two competitors at the section tournament in Hastings Saturday, Feb. 11, to qualify for state competition.
Freshman Bernie Rock took first place in the 120-pound weight class.
Her sister, eighth-grader CeCe Rock, placed second in the 152-pound weight class.
Both will compete in the 2023 Girls’ Wrestling State Tournament at the Xcel Energy Center Saturday, March 4.…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 14, 2023
The Luverne boys’ hockey team won three games last week.
The Cardinals took down Fairmont at home, 10-3, on Feb. 7.
LHS beat Minnesota River two days in a row, on Feb. 10 in a close game, 4-3, at home, and on Feb. 11 by a score of 4-0 on the road.
The Cardinals are now 17-6-1 for the season, with a seven-game winning streak going into their next game.
Luverne is scheduled to play their final game…
By Greg Hoogeveen
February 14, 2023
The Luverne Cardinal wrestling team participated in one triangular and two quadrangulars over the past week.
On Feb. 7 the Cardinals beat Hanson 48-15 and Viborg-Hurley/Irene Wakonda 51-6.
On Feb. 9 they lost to Red Rock Central 42-39 and to Wabasso 60-18, and LHS beat Chester 63-4.
On Feb. 10 the Cardinals lost to Fulda-Murray County Central 60-23, beat Ortonville 51-12 and lost to St. James 51-…
