By John RittenhouseThe Luverne Redbirds went 1-1 without placing at a 16-team tournament in Green Isle over the weekend.Luverne topped the host team 5-2 in Friday’s opener before falling 3-0 to St. Francis Saturday.The 9-2 Redbirds host Bancroft at noon Sunday before playing in Windom at 5 p.m. the same day.Luverne 5, GI 2The Redbirds advanced to the winner’s bracket by topping the host team by three runs in Friday’s opener.Jeff Sehr drove in two runs with a pair of doubles to lead the offense. Four Redbird pitchers combined efforts to limit Green Isle to two earned runs and six hits in seven innings.Sehr gave Luverne a 1-0 lead when he doubled home Tony Sandbulte, who reached base with a single, in the top of the first.Eric Edstrom doubled and scored on Jon Jarchow’s groundout to make it 2-0 in the second.Sandbulte walked before scoring on Sehr’s second double of the game in the third. Sehr scored later in the inning on a wild pitch to give the Redbirds a 4-0 cushion.Green Isle broke through for a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth before Luverne capped the scoring with a single counter in the seventh.Terry Eernisse singled and scored the final run when Sandbulte doubled.Jarchow pitched a scoreless first inning before giving way to Travis Eernisse, who allowed two earned runs, three hits and four walks over the next four innings to pick up the win.Kyle Kruen walked one batter and surrendered two hits while pitching one-third of one inning. Edstrom allowed one hit in one and two-thirds innings to record a save.Box score AB R H BIOhme 4 0 0 0Sandbulte 2 2 2 1J.Sehr 3 1 2 2Weber 1 0 0 0Fisher 2 0 0 0M.Sehr 2 0 0 0Schneider 1 0 0 0Iveland 3 0 0 0Edstrom 2 1 1 0Jarchow 1 0 0 1Tr.Eernisse 1 0 0 0Shelton 1 0 0 0Te.Eernisse 3 1 1 0SF 3, Luverne 0The Redbirds had a six-game winning streak snapped when they were eliminated from the tournament by St. Francis Saturday.Luverne couldn’t get anything going offensively against SF, and the Redbirds were limited to one hit in the game.SF plated single runs in the second, fourth and sixth innings.Luverne’s best scoring chance came in the fourth inning.After the first 11 Redbirds to bat in the game were retired, Sehr slapped a two-out single before moving to second base when Mike Wenninger was hit by a pitch. The rally ended when the next batter struck out.Luverne had three more base runners after the fourth inning, but none advanced past base.Derek Ohme pitched all six innings and took the loss. He allowed two earned runs, five hits and fanned four batters.Box score AB R H BIOhme 2 0 0 0Sandbulte 3 0 0 0J.Sehr 3 0 1 0Wenninger 2 0 0 0M.Sehr 2 0 0 0Fisher 1 0 0 0Edstrom 3 0 0 0Weber 2 0 0 0Iveland 2 0 0 0Te.Eernisse 2 0 0 0
