By John RittenhouseThe Luverne volleyball team wrapped up a 6-18-2 regular season by playing in three events since last Thursday.The Cardinals finished 0-6 in Southwest Conference play after losing a three-game match in Windom Thursday before falling in four games at home to Worthington Tuesday. Luverne went 1-4 and placed fourth at the Pipestone Tournament Saturday.Luverne drew the eighth seed for the South Section 3AA Tournament. The Cards play No. 9 Lake Crystal-Welcome-Memorial to open the event at 7 p.m. Monday in Jackson.Worthington 3, Luverne 1The Cardinals came up empty in an attempt to record a SWC win against the Trojans Tuesday.The match was tied at one game each before Worthington prevailed in Games 3 and 4 to upend the Cards in front of their Parents’ Night crowd.Game 1 was tied at one when Worthington went on a 15-2 run to open a commanding 16-3 lead. Luverne trimmed the difference to eight points (16-8) with a kill by Chelsea Park, but the Trojans wouldn’t let the Cards creep any closer before prevailing 25-14.Luverne led 10-3 after Lindsey Olson delivered a service point in Game 2. Worthington countered with a 12-6 surge to trail 17-15 before Park capped a 5-1 surge to give the Cards a 22-16 lead they would turn into a 25-22 win.Worthington scored the first four points of the third game on the way to building a 19-7 advantage. Luverne rallied to trail by four (21-17) when Dinah Xaphakdy served a point as the game progressed, but the Trojans scored the next four points to win 25-17.Luverne scored the first three points of the fourth game and led 8-7 moments later. The score was knotted at 11 when Worthington rattled off six straight points to gain a 17-11 lead.Luverne closed to within two points (17-15) of the Trojans with a service point from Olson, but a 6-4 spurt for the Trojans gave them a 25-19 victory.Maggie Kuhlman led the Cards with 10 kills and nine digs, while Meghan Cronberg added six kills and three blocks. Xaphakdy was 19 of 19 serving with 14 points and two aces, Park charted 14 set assists and Erin Hoiland registered three blocks.Pipestone tourneyThe Cardinals went 1-2 and placed fourth during Saturday’s six-team tournament in Pipestone.Luverne went 1-1 in pool play, earning a position in the third-place match. Brookings, S.D., swept the Cardinals in the finale, leaving LHS in fourth place.The Cards opened the tournament by securing a 2-1 victory against RWV. The teams each won one game by 25-22 tallies to start the match. Luverne notched a 15-12 win in the third game to take the match.Mitchell, S.D. upended the Cardinals by 25-23, 27-25 and 15-9 scores in the second round of pool play.Brookings saddled the Cards with 25-10, 25-14 and 25-15 setbacks in the third-place match.LHS coach Lori Oechsle was happy with the way her short-handed team played during the tourney."We played well with the people we had. We had to bring up three freshmen for the tournament because of a band event, and they played pretty well," she said.Park, who charted 60 set assists during the tournament, completed 27 of 30 serves with seven aces and 15 points. Along with recording four blocks, Becca Sandager completed 23 of 25 serves with three aces and 12 points. Kuhlman led the Cards with 26 kills and went 28 of 30 serving with 16 points and two aces.Cronberg registered 18 kills and nine blocks during the event. Hoiland added 16 kills to the cause.Windom 3, Luverne 0Luverne’s best serving night of the season wasn’t enough to give the Cardinals their first conference win of the season when they traveled to Windom Thursday.The Cards completed 93 percent of their serves, but it was receiving serves that hampered LHS during 25-8, 25-19 and 25-15 losses to the Eagles."We did serve the ball well," said LHS coach Oechsle. "We just couldn’t pass it very well. Windom was hitting the ball to the open spots, and our girls were not getting there to pick them up."Xaphakdy (10 of 11 with six points), Kuhlman (eight of eight with three points and one ace) and Hoiland (eight of eight with three points) led the Cards in serving. Kuhlman and Hoiland charted six and four kills respectively. Xaphakdy had six set assists.Park recorded six set assists and Cronberg added four blocks to Luverne’s cause.