By John RittenhouseThe Luverne American Legion baseball team went 1-4 at the Brookings Tournament over the weekend.The Cardinals split games on Friday, beating Cokato after losing the opener to Pipestone.Coon Rapids bested Luverne on Saturday, while Mayville, N.D., and Brookings saddled the Cards with losses on Sunday.Luverne, 2-9 overall, finishes the regular season with a road game in Adrian Friday.Brookings 5, Luverne 0The host team handed Luverne its second shutout of the event during Sunday’s tournament finale.The Cards were limited to a pair of hits in the contest.Phil Paquette doubled in the top of the fourth inning and Ben Nath singled in the sixth.Brookings scored singled runs in the second and third innings before icing the win with a five-run fifth inning.Andrew DeBoer tossed the first four and two-thirds innings, taking the loss for Luverne. Nath pitched the final inning and one-third.Box score AB R H BIClark 3 0 0 0Boomgaarden 2 0 0 0Paquette 3 0 1 0Reisch 3 0 0 0DeBoer 3 0 0 0Nath 3 0 1 0Goembel 3 0 0 0Bruynes 3 0 0 0Richters 1 0 0 0Hoff 1 0 0 0Mayville 5, Luverne 1Mayville scored the game’s first five runs and coasted to a four-run win over the Cardinals during Sunday’s first game.The North Dakota team put together two-run rallies in the first and fourth innings and plated a single run in the top of the third to gain a 5-0 lead.Luverne’s lone run came in the bottom of the fourth.Tyler Reisch singled, advanced to second base on a sacrifice bunt by DeBoer and scored on an error.Paquette pitched the first three innings of the game and took the loss after surrendering three runs. Micah Boomgaarden threw four innings of two-run relief.Box score AB R H BIClark 3 0 1 0Boomgaarden 3 0 0 0Paquette 3 0 2 0Reisch 3 1 1 0DeBoer 3 0 0 0Nath 3 0 0 0Hoff 1 0 0 0Bruynes 2 0 0 0Goembel 3 0 0 0Richters 2 0 0 0CR 6, Luverne 0The Cardinals couldn’t produce a run during Saturday’s tournament game in Brookings.Coon Rapids limited Luverne to a pair of hits in the contest.CR, on the other hand, scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning, one in the fourth and three in the fifth to win handily.Jake Clark and DeBoer singled in the first and second innings respectively to account for Luverne’s hits.Caleb Bruynes worked all six innings on the mound and took the loss.Box score AB R H BIBoomgaarden 3 0 0 0Clark 3 0 1 0Paquette 3 0 0 0Reisch 3 0 0 0DeBoer 3 0 1 0Hoff 2 0 0 0Goembel 2 0 0 0Richters 2 0 0 0Bruynes 2 0 0 0Luverne 4, Cokato 2The Cardinals picked up their second win of the season during Friday’s second game in Brookings.With Nath tossing a complete game to keep Luverne close, the Cards overcame a 2-0 deficit to win by two runs.Cokato gained a two-run lead by plating single runs in the top half of the first and fifth innings.Luverne tied the game at two in the bottom of the fifth before producing the game-winning runs in the sixth.Derek Elbers walked and Seth Goembel singled before scoring the fifth-inning runs when Zach Olson slapped a two-run single to left field.Clark walked and scored the go-ahead run in the sixth when Reisch singled. Elbers singled home Reisch to cap the scoring.Nath limited Cokato to five hits and two runs during his seven-inning effort on the mound. He walked four batters and fanned three.Box score AB R H BIBoomgaarden 3 0 0 0Clark 2 1 0 0Paquette 3 0 0 0Reisch 3 1 1 1Nath 3 0 2 0Elbers 2 1 1 1Goembel 3 1 1 0Bruynes 3 0 1 0Richters 2 0 0 0Pipestone 4, Luverne 1The Cardinals opened the tournament by dropping a three-run decision to rival Pipestone Friday.The score was knotted at one after four innings of play, but Pipestone scored three runs in the top of the fifth inning to settle the issue.Pipestone scored the game’s first run in the first inning before Luverne tied the contest with a counter in the bottom of the second.Reisch singled, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Nath and scored the tying run when Goembel singled.Clark went the distance on the hill. He surrendered seven hits and one walk during a three-strikeout performance.Box score AB R H BIBoomgaarden 4 0 1 0Clark 4 0 0 0Olson 3 0 0 0Reisch 3 1 1 0Nath 2 0 1 0Goembel 3 0 2 1Bruynes 1 0 0 0Paquette 1 0 0 0Richters 3 0 0 0Elbers 3 0 0 0