By John RittenhousePlaying in familiar surroundings didn’t provide an advantage to the Luverne American Legion baseball team late last week.Luverne, the host of the Sub-District Playoffs, dropped a pair of games at Redbird Field to bow out of the double-elimination event.Adrian, which placed third at tournament’s end, topped the Cardinals 7-4 Friday. Edgerton handed Luverne a 2-0 setback in an elimination game played Saturday morning.Tournament champion Pipestone, second-place Okabena and Adrian will represent the Sub-District and the Second District Division 2 American Legion Baseball Tournament that will be played in Pipestone the next two weekends.Luverne ends the year with a 10-9 record.Edgerton 2, Luverne 0The Cardinals were unable to generate any offense during Saturday’s elimination game at Redbird Field.Edgerton blanked Luverne through seven innings, limiting the Cardinals to three hits in the contest.Luverne’s Brett Lundgren and Craig Oeding singled and advanced to second base in the third and sixth innings respectively. Both runners were stranded on second.Nathan Boler singled and gained third base in the fifth inning but was was unable to reach home plate.J.T. Bruynes pitched a complete game during the losing effort.Bruynes, who yielded single runs in the sixth and seventh innings, tossed seven innings of four-hit, four-walk, five-strikeout ball.Box score AB R H BIPick 2 0 0 0Bruynes 3 0 0 0Oeding 3 0 1 0Wysong 3 0 0 0Nath 3 0 0 0Schepel 3 0 0 0Petersen 3 0 0 0Boler 3 0 1 0Lundgren 3 0 1 0Adrian 7, Luverne 5The Cardinals opened the playoffs by dropping a two-run decision to Adrian at Redbird Field Friday.Adrian snapped a scoreless draw by scoring six runs in the top half of the third inning and never lost control of the contest.Adrian’s second-inning rally featured a two-run double from Will Lutmer, who went the distance on the hill to pick up the win.Luverne did outscore the Dragons 5-1 after the top of the second, but it wasn’t enough to keep the Cards from losing their first game in the double-elimination event.The Cards plated their first run in the bottom of the third when Boler reached base after being hit by a pitch. Boler scored when Jared Pick doubled.Adrian plated a single run in the top of the sixth to make it a 7-1 game before Luverne capped the scoring by producing one run in the bottom of the sixth and three counters in the seventh.Pick walked and scored in the sixth when Oeding singled.Ben Nath singled and Boler walked to give the Cards life in the seventh. Seth Goembel doubled home two runs, and Pick chased Goembel home with a double before Adrian recorded the final out of the game.Lutmer limited Luverne to six hits during his complete game on the mound. Cody Kontz led Adrian at the plate with two hits.Pick surrendered six runs, two hits and four walks during a two and one-third inning stint as Luverne’s starting pitcher. He took the loss. Boler worked the final four and two-third innings. He allowed one run, three hits and two walks.Box score AB R H BIPick 3 1 1 1Bruynes 4 0 0 0Oeding 3 0 1 1Wysong 3 0 0 0Lundgren 3 0 0 0Schepel 1 0 0 0Nath 2 1 1 0Boler 2 2 1 0Goembel 3 1 1 2Petersen 3 0 1 1