By John RittenhouseThe Luverne baseball team knocked off a pair of quality opponents in Pipestone and Murray County Central this week.The Cardinals rolled to an 11-run win over the Arrows in Pipestone Thursday before handing the Rebels a five-run setback at Redbird Field Monday.Luverne, 6-9 overall, hosts Worthington for a double-header today and Marshall for a single game Friday before ending the regular season in Adrian Monday.Luverne 6, MCC 1A solid effort from starting pitcher Jake Clark led the Cardinals to a five-run home win over the Rebels Monday.Clark pitched five innings of shutout ball. He fanned 10 batters and surrendered three hits.Luverne led 5-0 when Clark left the mound. Chris Fitzer threw one inning of one-run ball before Andrew DeBoer tossed a scoreless seventh inning.Clark helped his cause by tripling and scoring the first run of the game in the bottom of the first when Micah Boomgaarden lifted a sacrifice fly to left field.Ben Nath singled home a run to make it a two-run lead in the fourth inning, and the score was 4-0 when Boomgaarden singled home a run and another counter scored after an MCC error in the fifth.After the Rebels plated their first run in the top of the sixth, Luverne received run-scoring singles from Caleb Bruynes and Marc Boelman in the bottom half of the inning to win by five.Box score AB R H BIClark 4 2 2 0Bruynes 1 1 1 1Boomgaarden 2 1 1 2Fitzer 2 0 0 0Richters 1 0 0 0Boelman 3 0 2 1Petersen 2 1 1 0Reisch 2 0 0 0Nath 3 0 2 1Lundgren 3 0 1 0DeBoer 2 0 0 0Oeding 0 1 0 0Goembel 3 0 0 0Luverne 17, Pipestone 6The Cardinals turned in their top offensive performance of the season during Thursday’s 11-run win over the Arrows in Pipestone.Luverne slapped 19 hits in the game and received RBIs from nine different players. The Cards scored at least one run in every inning during a season-high 17-run output.Chris Fitzer led the charge with four hits and four RBIs. Kelsey Petersen and Ben Nath drove in two runs each.Nath singled home two runs and Fitzer and Brett Lundgren lashed run-scoring doubles in the first inning, and the Cards led 6-0 when Marc Boelman doubled home a run before Petersen slapped an RBI single in the second.The Arrows scored twice in the bottom of the second, but the Cards countered with a run-scoring single by Micah Boomgaarden in the third and two runs scored on an error in the fourth to make it a 9-2 game.Luverne proceeded to score four runs in the fifth inning, one in the sixth and three in the seventh to win handily.Fitzer singled home two runs, Petersen singled home another and Tyler Reisch picked up an RBI with a fielder’s choice in the fifth.Fitzer capped his four-RBI day with a single in the sixth. Derek Elbers singled home one run, Jake Clarke received an RBI with a fielder’s choice and another run scored on an error in the seventh.Boleman tossed five innings for five-run (two were earned) ball to pick up the win. Clark threw two innings of one-run relief.Box score AB R H BIClark 4 2 1 1Boomgaarden 4 1 1 1Fitzer 5 2 4 4Boelman 5 4 3 1Petersen 4 1 2 2Nath 4 2 3 2Reisch 3 0 0 1DeBoer 0 1 0 0Lundgren 4 0 2 1Boler 0 1 0 0Elbers 5 2 3 1