By John RittenhouseZach Wysong had a busy week as a member of the Luverne High School baseball team.The Cardinals played five games in a five-day span, and Wysong was on the field in all of them.Luverne lost a Southwest Conference doubleheader to the Jackson County Central Huskies in Jackson Thursday. Luverne went 0-2 in the Lac qui Parle Valley Tournament near Madison Saturday. The Cardinals snapped a five-game losing streak by defeating Windom in Luverne Monday.Wysong, an H-BC junior, slapped one hit, scored two runs and pitched one scoreless inning during a 9-5 win over Windom Monday.He singled and scored one of two runs Luverne plated in the bottom of the third to knot the score at three. Wysong reached base on an error and scored one of six runs in the fifth inning that settled the issue.Wysong allowed one walk when he was asked to pitch the seventh inning in relief of Adam Kurtz.The H-BC athlete was 4-7 at the plate with two RBIs and he scored two runs during Saturday’s tournament near Madison.Luverne lost a 5-2 game to Renville County West in the opener before falling 10-8 to LQPV in the finale.Wysong, who had two hits at the plate, drove in both of Luverne’s runs in the loss to RCW.He gave the Cards a 1-0 lead with a sacrifice fly in the first inning, and tied the game at two with a run-scoring single in the fifth.Wysong was 2-3 at the dish and scored two runs in the two-run loss to LQPV.He singled and scored Luverne’s second run of the game in the sixth. Wysong walked and scored during a six-run rally in the seventh that fell two runs short of tying the gameWysong hit safely in both games and pitched five innings of solid ball during Thursday’s doubleheader in Jackson.The Huskies won both ends of the twin bill by 5-4 tallies.Wysong, who was 1-4 at the plate in the opener, gave the Cards a 3-1 lead when he reached base on an error, stole second, and scored on an error in the top of the fourth inning.JCC, however, scored four runs in the bottom of the fourth and went on to nip the Cardinals by one run.Wysong had two hits and four trips to the plate during the second game, when he logged five innings on the mound as the starting pitcher.He left the hill with Luverne sporting a 4-2 lead, but JCC rallied to score three runs in the top of the seventh to win by one.Wysong singled in the middle of a one-run rally in the third inning that tied the score at two.He also knocked home the first run of a two-run fifth inning with a double.The 9-7 Cardinals play single games in Pipestone today and in Fairmont Tuesday.
