Traveling Europe Together
Luverne High School world language students and teachers spent 10 days traveling in Spain and Germany from June 17-26.
Redbirds win two, lose one, improve to 11-2 for the season
The Redbirds won two games and fell once this past week, bringing their season record to 11-2.
Luverne beat Heron Lake 4-0 in Worthington Wednesday, June 26.
Senior Legion versus Edgerton rained out, takes Marshall 6-4 with rain delay
The weather proved to be a challenge for the Senior Legion games this week.
Blaze host 2024 Bash-A-Rama fastpitch softball tournament
The Luverne Blaze fastpitch softball club hosted its fourth annual Bash-A-Rama tournament Saturday, June 29, and Sunday, June 30.
Luverne Junior Legion baseball beats Pipestone 11-5 at home
The Luverne Junior Legion baseball team beat Pipestone 11-5 at home Monday, June 24.
Because of flooding at Redbird Field, the game was played at the Luverne High School south baseball field.
Christensen Broadcasting to start streaming LHS varsity sports this fall
Luverne Public Schools signed a three-year sports streaming contract Thursday, June 20.
The contract begins September 1.
Sports
- By Jason Berghorst for the Star HeraldMay 17, 2022The Luverne Redbirds amateur baseball team opened the 2022 season with a loss to the Milroy Irish at home Sunday. “It was a tough way to start the year, but there is a lot of baseball left,” said Redbirds manager Brooks Maurer. Milroy jumped to an early lead by scoring four runs in the top of the first inning. Luverne scored its first run of the season in the bottom of the second inning when…
- By Dalton Bass for the Star HeraldMay 17, 2022The Hills-Beaver Creek girls’ golf team traveled to Mountain Lake Tuesday night, May 10, for the third of four total Red Rock Conference meets. Senior Tess Van Maanen placed first overall for the second straight day with an 18-hole score of 86. With this score, she maintains her first-place position overall in the conference after lowering her lowest two-round score total to 176. Senior Danette…
- By Dalton Bass for the Star HeraldMay 17, 2022The Hills-Beaver Creek High School track and field teams traveled to Redwood Falls last week to compete in the section True Team Meet. It was a meet that included all teams from Section 3A and awarded points to each individual and relay team from first place all the way down to last. The points are totaled up at the end, and the winning team moves on to the State True Team meet. The H-BC girls…
- May 17, 2022Luverne High School – Week 4 Name Round 1 2 Total Hunter Ahrendt 24 25 49 Landon Ahrendt 19 21 40 Chris Aning 18 16 34 Cash Bonnett 17 22 39 Ayden Bonnett 22 20 42 Morgan Bonnett 13 13 26 Alex DeWispelaere 23 20 43 Trygve Gangestad 25 29…
- By Jason Berghorst for the Star HeraldMay 17, 2022The Luverne Cardinal baseball team split a very unique doubleheader in Jackson Thursday, May 12, before coasting to an easy victory over Adrian at home Monday. LHS, 11-6 after Monday's game, was scheduled to host Worthington on Tuesday after this edition of the Star Herald went to press. The Cardinals are then scheduled to play at Murray County Central in Slayton on Tuesday in their final…
- By Blaine Radtke for the Star HeraldMay 17, 2022Luverne High School boys’ and girls’ track teams took home conference titles at the little-school Big South Conference competition Saturday, May 14, in Windom. The Cardinal girls won over second-place Jackson County Central 215.5 to 145. The LHS boys won over Redwood Valley 132 to 115.5. Seven schools constitute the little school portion of the conference (St. James, Blue Earth Area, Windom,…
- By Blaine Radtke for the Star HeraldMay 10, 2022Both Cardinal track teams won the Section 3A True Team meet Monday night in Redwood Falls. Each school had two entrants per event and one relay team. Relays are scored at three times the number of teams. There were 11 teams, so 33 points for first and individual events are double the amount of competitors so first was 22 points. “If you can get both competitors in an event to finish in the top…
- By Dalton Bass for the Star HeraldMay 10, 2022The Patriot girls’ sprint relays have had success in most of their meets all season, but none bigger than the one Saturday afternoon at Howard Wood Field where 100 teams from five different states compete in Sioux Falls. After coming up just inches short in the 4-by-200 meter-relay Friday afternoon, the team of Abbie Harris, Brynn Rauk, Layla Deelstra and Brynn Bakken were not going to be denied…
- By Blaine Radtke for the Star HeraldMay 10, 2022Twenty Cardinals competed in the 97th running of the Howard Wood Dakota Relays in Sioux Falls May 6 and 7 with over 3,500 athletes from the five-state area. Entries are limited, so only the best make the field. Although some events were run as one division, generally athletes competed in three classes – B, A, and AA – with Luverne competing in Class A. “I thought the kids did an awesome job of…
- By Stacy Olson for the Star HeraldMay 10, 2022The Luverne High School softball team stretched its winning streak to 10-0 last week with a pair of wins against Jackson County Central at home on Tuesday, May 3. St. James, however, proved to be too much for the Cardinals who dropped two games to the hosts, 4-2 and 9-6, on Thursday, May 5. The LHS girls made quick work of Adrian, 16-1, the next day in Ellsworth before beating the Trojans 5-3 in…
- By John Sichmeller for the Star HeraldMay 10, 2022The Luverne golf teams competed in three meets last week. They hosted the Southwest Christian-Edgerton boys and girls on May 3 when the Cardinal boys won 166-204 and the girls shot an impressive 188 in a meet with an incomplete SWC team. The LHS boys placed third and the girls were fifth in Fairmont Saturday when sophomore Henry Hartquist claimed an individual victory. In Big South West Division…
- By Jason Berghorst for the Star HeraldMay 10, 2022The Luverne baseball team added three more wins this week before falling to the Marshall Tigers Monday. The Cardinals, now 9-5 on the season, defeated Pipestone Area 13-7 and swept a doubleheader against St. James 6-0 and 7-0 on Thursday before losing to the Marshall Tigers Monday. LHS is scheduled to travel to Jackson for a doubleheader against the Huskies today (Thursday) before hosting Adrian…
- By Mavis FodnessMay 10, 2022Hills-Beaver Creek High School senior Journey Dwire took sole possession of first place in the Class 3A Conference 1 girls’ standings, as the team moves into third place halfway through the five-week season. Dwire leads the girls with a Week 3 season average of 20.5 hits per 25 shots. Five of her teammates rank in the Top 25. They are Danielle Leenderts (fifth), Tara Paulsen (ninth), Olivia Bork…
- By Mavis FodnessMay 10, 2022uverne High School senior Hunter Ahrendt shot a perfect 50 in Week 3 of the clay target shooting season. Ahrendt is tied for ninth place in the boys’ individual conference. His season average is 23 out of 25 clays. Five of Luverne’s girls’ shooters are in the Top 25. Cheyenne Schutz is eighth with a season average of 19.5, followed by Piper Wynia (10th), Kayetlin Huiskes (18th), Morgan Bonnett (…
- By Dalton Bass for the Star HeraldMay 10, 2022The Patriot track teams participated at the Pipestone Bob Nagle Relays Tuesday, May 3, where the girls’ and boys’ teams both placed fifth among seven teams. H-BC competed with Luverne, MCC, Pipestone, RTR, SWC-E and TMB in the meet. The girls’ 4-by-100 (52.97) and 4-by-200 (1:54.14) relay teams of Abbie Harris, Brynn Rauk, Layla Deelstra and Brynn Bakken placed first. Bakken also came in first in…
- By Blaine Radtke for the Star HeraldMay 10, 2022The Cardinals competed in the Bob Nagle Relays in Pipestone on Tuesday, May 3, in good weather. In team totals the LHS girls placed first and the LHS boys finished in second. Isabella Oye was third in the 100-meter-dash in 13.74 seconds, and Sarah Stegenga was second in the 200-meter-dash with a time of 28.4. Tenley Nelson, Tiana Lais and Ella Schmuck took first, second and third place in the…
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