By John RittenhouseThe Luverne VFW baseball team completed an undefeated run through the Third District Southern Division Playoffs by posting 10-run wins over Worthington and Adrian Thursday and Saturday respectively.Luverne defeated Worthington at Redbird Field Thursday before winning the championship against Adrian in Pipestone on Saturday.The 21-9 Cardinals advance to the Third District Tournament in Marshall this weekend. Luverne plays Marshall Blue at 1 p.m. Saturday to open the event.Luverne 10, Adrian 0The Cardinals won their third-straight tournament game by the 10-run rule when they toppled Adrian during Saturday’s title tilt in Pipestone.Zach Olson threw five innings of shutout ball and was one of six Cardinals to drive in at least one run in the contest.Olson fanned eight batters, yielded three hits, walked one batter and hit one batter during the game.Luverne supported the pitcher by scoring two runs in the first and fourth innings, and three in the second and third frames.Phil Paquette walked and Brent Dinger singled in the bottom of the first. Both runners scored on an error.Paquette tripled home a run and scored on a wild pitch during a second-inning rally that also featured Chris Den Hoed laying down a squeeze bunt.Tanner Skattum singled home a run and Derek Van Santen and Zach Clark received RBIs for groundouts in the third.Olson tripled home a run and Skattum slapped a run-scoring single to give the Cards a 10-run lead in the fourth.Box score AB R H BIHoff 3 0 0 0Den Hoed 2 0 0 1Paquette 2 2 1 1Dinger 3 2 2 0Olson 2 2 2 1Skattum 3 1 2 2Ossefoort 2 1 1 0D.Van Santen 3 1 1 1Clark 2 1 1 1Luverne 10, Worthington 0The Cardinals disposed of Worthington in five innings during Thursday’s game at Redbird Field.Dinger tossed one-hit ball for five innings and Jeremy Hoff and Clark drove in three runs each to lead Luverne to victory in the second-round contest.Dinger, who fanned nine batters, dominated the Worthington lineup. He did load the bases with walks in the third inning, but escaped the jam without surrendering a run.After taking a 1-0 lead with an RBI single from Skattum in the bottom of the second, Luverne put the game away by scoring nine runs in the fourth and fifth innings.Hoff tripled home three runs and Clark singled home another during a four-run fourth inning.Clark chased home a pair of runs with a single, Skattum slapped an RBI double and Van Santen and Den Hoed contributed RBI singles to a five-run rally in the fifth that ended the game by the 10-run rule.Box score AB R H BIHoff 3 0 2 3Den Hoed 3 0 1 1Paquette 3 0 0 0Dinger 3 0 0 0Olson 3 2 1 0Skattum 3 2 3 2Ossefoort 3 2 2 0Graphenteen 1 0 0 0D.Van Santen 1 2 1 1Clark 2 2 2 3