By John RittenhouseThe Luverne VFW baseball team reeled off three straight wins during a seven-day span to up its season record to 20-4.The Cardinals edged Sioux Falls by one run in Luverne Wednesday, June 29, before posting a nine-run victory over Marshall Orange Thursday. Luverne returned home to topple Adrian by 10 runs Tuesday.Luverne plays in Slayton tonight and hosts Pipestone Monday. The Cards will play four games at the Sioux Falls Tournament over the weekend.Luverne 11, Adrian 1Micah Boomgaarden and Andrew DeBoer tossed a combined no-hitter to lead the Cardinals to a 10-run home win over Adrian Tuesday.Boomgaarden started the game on the mound, leaving the game after allowing one run and issuing five walks. DeBoer picked up the win after pitching two innings of scoreless, four-strikeout, two-hit ball.Adrian scored the game’s first run in the top of the first, but Luverne countered with five runs in the bottom of the first before adding two runs in the second, third and fifth frames.Derek Elbers, Tyler Reisch and DeBoer slapped RBI singles and Chris Den Hoed added a two-run single to the first inning rally.Zach Olson tripled home a run before scoring on an error to make it a 7-1 game in the second. Olson and Boomgaarden delivered RBI singles in the third inning, and Luverne won the game when Boomgaarden drew a bases-loaded walk and DeBoer picked up an RBI with a fielder’s choice in the fifth.Box score AB R H BIClark 3 2 2 0Graphenteen 1 0 0 0Elbers 2 2 1 1Hoff 1 1 1 0Fitzer 3 2 0 0Reisch 1 2 1 1Richters 1 0 0 0Olson 4 1 2 2Boomgaarden 2 1 2 2Ossefoort 0 0 0 0DeBoer 4 0 2 2Bruynes 3 0 0 0Den Hoed 2 0 1 2Arndt 0 0 0 0Luverne 11, MO 2The Cardinals avenged an early-season loss when they bested Marshall Orange by nine runs in Marshall Thursday.A two-out rally in the top of the second inning turned into a six-run outburst, and a five-run spurt in the top of the seventh iced the win for Luverne.Orange drew first blood in the game by scoring once in the bottom of the first inning before Luverne countered with its two-out rally in the top of the second.Reisch delivered a two-run single to highlight the surge. Jacob Arndt, Jake Clark and Chris Fitzer drew bases-loaded walks, and Elbers was hit by a pitch with the bases full.The score remained 6-1 until the seventh inning, when Luverne scored five times before Orange countered with a single run.Elbers and Reisch, who led Luverne with three RBIs each, contributed two- and one-run singles to the seventh-inning rally. Caleb Bruynes singled home a run, and Clark was hit by a pitch with the sacks full.Bruynes pitched all seven innings to earn the win. He fanned six batters, allowed five hits and three walks.Box score AB R H BIClark 3 2 2 2Elbers 4 2 1 3Fitzer 3 0 1 1Reisch 5 0 2 3Olson 2 0 0 0Den Hoed 2 1 1 0DeBoer 4 1 2 0Ossefoort 1 1 0 0Boomgaarden 1 1 1 0Bruynes 3 2 1 1Arndt 3 1 0 1Hoff 1 0 0 0Luverne 4, SF 3Clark delivered a game-winning single in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift Luverne to a one-run home win over Sioux Falls Wednesday, June 29.Trailing 2-0 after three and one-half innings of play and facing a 3-2 deficit after heading into the bottom of the sixth, the situation didn’t look good for the Cards.Luverne, however, tied the game at three when Elbers reached base on an error before scoring when Anthony Graphenteen drew a bases-loaded walk in the sixth.Ardnt led the seventh inning off with a single and advanced to second when Elbers laid down a sacrifice bunt. With two outs in the inning, Clark stepped to the plate and delivered the game-winning single.After surrendering single runs to Sioux Falls in the first and fourth innings, Luverne tied the game at two in the bottom of the fourth when Andrew DeBoer singled home a run and Den Hoed picked up an RBI for a sacrifice fly.Jeremy Hoff pitched three innings of one-run relief to pick up the win. Adam Ossefoort started the game on the mound, surrendering two runs in four innings.Box score AB R H BIHoff 4 0 0 0Ossefoort 1 1 0 0Olson 2 1 2 0Clark 2 1 2 1DeBoer 2 0 1 1Fitzer 0 0 0 0Skattum 3 0 0 0Den Hoed 1 0 0 1Reisch 0 0 0 0Graphenteen 2 0 0 1Arndt 3 1 0 0Richters 2 0 0 0Elbers 4 0 0 0Box score AB R H BIClark 3 2 2 0Graphenteen 1 0 0 0Elbers 2 2 1 1Hoff 1 1 1 0Fitzer 3 2 0 0Reisch 1 2 1 1Richters 1 0 0 0Olson 4 1 2 2Boomgaarden 2 1 2 2Ossefoort 0 0 0 0DeBoer 4 0 2 2Bruynes 3 0 0 0Den Hoed 2 0 1 2Arndt 0 0 0 0