By John RittenhouseA promising start was followed by a disappointing finish when the Luverne American Legion baseball competed in the Brookings (S.D.) Wooden Bat Tournament over the weekend.Luverne opened the event with a three-run win over Pipestone Friday, but consecutive setbacks to Coon Rapids, Mayville –Portland (N.D.), Dassel-Cokato and Brookings followed the win.The Cardinals ended the tournament with a 9-6 record.Luverne opens the Sub-District Tournament at 6:30 p.m. Friday in Slayton.Brookings 5, Luverne 0The Cardinals were unable to produce a run during Sunday’s tournament finale against Brookings.The host team limited Luverne to four hits during the contest.Luverne received consecutive singles from Jared Pick and Adam Reisch without scoring in the top of the fourth inning. Rob Fodness and Zach Wysong slapped singles in the fifth and sixth innings respectively.Wysong pitched all six innings and took the loss for Luverne.He yielded two runs in both the first and third innings, and one in the fifth. All of the runs were earned against Wysong, who fanned seven batters, walked six and gave up six hits.Box score AB R H BIPick 3 0 1 0Reisch 3 0 1 0Wysong 3 0 1 0Kurtz 3 0 0 0Remme 2 0 0 0Herman 3 0 0 0Boen 3 0 0 0Fodness 3 0 1 0Graphenteen 2 0 0 0D-C 8, Luverne 1Luverne opened play on Sunday by dropping a seven-run decision to Dassel-Cokato.D-C gained a 7-0 lead by scoring six runs in the second inning and one in the third and never lost control of the game.Luverne did plate a run in the top of the fourth inning, but D-C countered with a run in the bottom of the inning to cap the scoring.Luverne’s fourth-inning run was unearned. Pick reached base on an error before scoring on a ground out by Wysong.The Cardinals were limited to one hit in the contest. Reisch singled in the sixth inning.Rob Fodness tossed all six innings for Luverne. He recorded six strikeouts and allowed three earned runs.Box score AB R H BIPick 3 1 0 0Reisch 2 0 1 0Wysong 3 0 0 1Kurtz 3 0 0 0Herman 2 0 0 0Boen 2 0 0 0Petersen 1 0 0 0Fodness 3 0 0 0Goembel 3 0 0 0Graphenteen 1 0 0 0M-P 16, Luverne 9Luverne’s highest-scoring performance of the tournament wasn’t enough to produce a win during a game played Saturday morning.The Cardinals sported 3-0 and 9-7 leads in the first three innings of play, but Mayville-Portland scored nine runs (three in the fourth, three in the fifth and three in the seventh) in the final four innings to win by seven.Luverne opened the scoring by plating three runs in the bottom of the first.Pick walked and Wysong was hit by a pitch before both runners scored on Tim Boen’s two-run single. Brad Herman capped the three-run surge with an RBI single.M-P countered by scoring seven runs in the top of the second, but the Cardinals regained the lead at 9-7 by scoring three runs in the second and third frames.Taylor Graphenteen was hit by a pitch before Pick and Wysong drew walks to load the bases in the bottom of the second. Adam Kurtz plated Graphenteen with a sacrifice fly. Pick and Wysong scored on Mark Remme’s two-run single.Herman and Kelsey Petersen drew walks before scoring the first two runs in the third inning on an error. Pick, who drew a walk, scored on a sacrifice fly by Wysong to give the Cards a two-run cushion before the inning was complete.Herman pitched the first one and two-thirds innings without gaining a decision. Petersen received the loss after tossing one and one-third innings of relief. J.T. Bruynes worked the final four innings on the mound.Box score AB R H BIPick 2 3 1 0Reisch 4 0 0 0Wysong 1 2 0 1Kurtz 3 0 0 1Remme 3 1 2 2Boen 4 0 1 2Herman 3 1 1 1Fodness 1 0 0 0Petersen 1 1 0 0Bruynes 1 0 0 0Graphenteen 2 1 0 0CR 5, Luverne 1Five early runs scored by Coon Rapids proved to enough to clip the Cardinals during Friday’s second game.Luverne drew first blood in the contest by plating a run in the top half of the first inning.CR, however, scored twice in the bottom of the first before capping the scoring with three runs in the bottom of the second.Pick, who had one of Luverne’s three hits in the game, scored an unearned run in the first when the reached base on an error before racing home on a wild pitch.Pick, Reisch and Graphenteen slapped one hit each for the Cards.Pick tossed all six innings and took the loss. He allowed 10 hits, five earned runs and one walk during a two-strikeout effort.Box score AB R H BIPick 2 1 1 0Reisch 3 0 1 0Bruynes 0 0 0 0Wysong 3 0 0 0Kurtz 3 0 0 0Remme 3 0 0 0Boen 3 0 0 0Herman 3 0 0 0Fodness 3 0 0 0Graphenteen 2 0 1 0Luverne 3, Pipestone 0The Cardinals blanked rival Pipestone during Friday morning’s tournament opener.Luverne scored three runs in the home half of the first inning and pitcher Kurtz made them stand up by tossing a two-hit shutout.Kurtz walked one batter and fanned three in the game.Pick was hit by a pitch and Reisch drew a walk to stir things up for the Cards in the bottom of the first. Both runners scored on an error. Kurtz, who reached base on the error, scored the second run when Herman slapped an RBI single.Box score AB R H BIPick 2 1 0 0Reisch 2 1 0 0Wysong 2 0 0 0Kurtz 3 1 0 0Remme 2 0 0 0Boen 3 0 0 0Herman 3 0 2 1Fodness 3 0 0 0Graphenteen 1 0 0 0Box score AB R H BIPick 3 0 1 0Reisch 3 0 1 0Wysong 3 0 1 0Kurtz 3 0 0 0Remme 2 0 0 0Herman 3 0 0 0Boen 3 0 0 0Fodness 3 0 1 0Graphenteen 2 0 0 0