By John RittenhouseA wild game in Pipestone Wednesday, May 31, proved to be the final time the Luverne High School baseball team would take the field in 2006.The Cardinals squared off against Jackson County Central for an elimination game during the Section 3AA Tournament that night.Luverne rallied from a 7-3 deficit to sport brief leads in the seventh and eighth innings of the game, but JCC answered the challenge in the bottom half of both innings to pull out a 10-9 victory."This game was the story of our entire season," said Cardinal coach Mike Wenninger."It was an up-and-down game, and it was an up-and-down season."The Cards had a positive start by turning a two-run double by Kelsey Petersen and an RBI single by Jake Clark in the second inning into a 3-1 lead.JCC countered with a six-run eruption in the bottom of the third to move in front 7-3, but the Cards answered with three runs in the top of the fourth to make it a one-run difference at 7-6.Marc Boelman and Micah Boomgaarden singled home runs and Chris Fitzer picked up an RBI with a fielder’s choice during Luverne’s rally in the fourth.The score remained the same until the top of the seventh inning, when Tyler Reisch and Andrew DeBoer provided run-scoring doubles to give the Cards an 8-7 edge.It looked like Luverne’s lead would stand when JCC had two outs with a runner on first base in the bottom of the seventh inning, but a pair of errors allowed the Huskies to score the tying run and force an eighth inning.Luverne gained the momentum again when back-to-back doubles by Fitzer and Reisch gave it a 9-8 edge in the top of the eighth, but JCC scored a pair of runs with one out in the bottom of the inning to settle the issue.Boelman was tagged with the loss after pitching one and one-third innings of three-run relief. One of the runs he surrendered was earned.DeBoer and Fitzer worked two and two-thirds innings each on the mound, while Nathan Boler logged two-thirds of one inning on the hill.Luverne ends the year with a 10-13 record.Box score AB R H BIClark 2 0 1 1Boomgaarden 5 2 3 1Fitzer 5 2 1 1Boelman 4 1 2 1Petersen 2 0 1 2Reisch 3 1 2 2Nath 4 0 0 0DeBoer 4 2 3 1Lundgren 2 1 0 0Goembel 1 0 0 0Elbers 2 0 0 0