By John RittenhouseThe Luverne American Legion baseball team split games during the second week of the 2005 season.The Cardinals dropped a one-run decision in Okabena Friday before posting a 10-run victory in Edgerton Tuesday.Luverne, 3-1 overall, plays in Fulda tonight before competing at the Jackson Tournament Saturday and Sunday. The Cards host Okabena Tuesday.Luverne 12, Edgerton 2Luverne bounced back from its first loss of the campaign by recording a 10-run, five-inning win in Edgerton Tuesday.J.T. Bruynes pitched a complete game and emerged as one of Luverne’s top offensive performers during the contest by driving in two runs with two hits.Bruynes fanned nine batters without issuing a walk during his five-inning stint on the hill. He limited the hosts to three hits and one earned run.Luverne scored two runs in each of the first three innings to open a 6-1 lead.Ben Nath recorded a sacrifice fly and Steve Schepel doubled home a run in the top of the first.After Edgerton plated one unearned run in the bottom of the first, Craig Oeding singled and scored on a wild pitch and Jared Pick slapped an RBI single to make it a 4-1 game in the second.Schepel tripled home a run and scored on Brett Lundgren’s double in the third, giving Luverne a 6-1 advantage.Edgerton scored its second run in the fourth, but the Cards scored six runs in the fifth to settle the issue. Bruynes singled home a pair of runs to highlight the fifth inning for Luverne.Box score AB R H BIPick 2 2 1 2Bruynes 4 2 2 2Boelman 4 1 0 0Nath 3 1 1 1Schepel 3 1 2 2Lundgren 4 0 1 1Oeding 3 2 2 0Petersen 2 2 0 0Goembel 2 1 0 0Okabena 10, Luverne 9The Cardinals dropped their first game of the summer season when they traveled to Okabena Friday.Luverne pitchers limited Okabena to four hits in the game, but 10 walks issued by the hurlers came back to haunt the Cards.Marc Boelman gave Luverne a 1-0 lead with an RBI single in the first inning before Okabena countered with a four-run rally in the bottom of the frame to open a three-run advantage.Luverne battled back to knot the score at four with single runs in the second (an RBI single from J.T. Bruynes), third (an RBI double by Steve Schepel) and fourth innings (a squeeze bunt by Boelman).Boelman capped a five-RBI effort with a three-run homer in the top of the sixth, and Kelsey Petersen added an RBI single in the same inning to give the Cards an 8-4 lead.Okabena tied the game at eight in the bottom of the sixth only to fall behind 9-8 when Luverne’s Petersen singled home his second run in the game in the top of the seventh.The hosts settled the issue with two runs in the bottom of the seventh.Ben Nath pitched the first four innings and didn’t gain a decision. He yielded four runs, three hits and six walks. Jared Pick took the loss after surrendering six runs and four walks in two-plus innings of relief.Box score AB R H BIPick 5 3 2 0J.Bruynes 4 1 1 1Boelman 4 2 2 5Nath 4 1 0 0Lundgren 4 1 1 0Petersen 5 0 2 2Schepel 2 0 1 1C.Bruynes 3 0 1 0Goembel 3 1 0 0Boomgaarden 3 0 0 0