By John RittenhouseThe Luverne Redbirds finished the regular season with a 10-11 record after dropping two of three games in the final week of the campaign.Luverne rolled to a nine-run win in Worthington Wednesday, July 13 before dropping four- and one-run decisions in Hadley and Wilmont Friday and Sunday respectively.The Redbirds opened the Gopher League playoffs with a home game against Worthington last night (July 20). A win would send Luverne to Hadley Friday. A loss would set up a Sunday game at a site to be determined.Wilmont 4, Luverne 3The Cardinals pushed a pair of runs across the plate in the bottom half of the 11th inning to nip the Redbirds in Wilmont Sunday.Luverne led 3-2 when Mike Wenninger reached base on an error and scored on an error in the top of the 11th. Wilmont answered with the game-winning rally in the bottom of the frame.The Redbirds led 2-0 when Zach Wysong walked and Mike Boen reached base on a fielder’s choice in the third. Both runners scored on an error.Wilmont tied the game with single runs in the sixth and seventh inning.Mike Miller took the loss after yielding a pair of runs without retiring a batter in the 11th. Mike Wenninger pitched five scoreless innings of eight-strikeout ball as the starter. Adam Kurtz yielded two runs while pitching three and two-thirds innings of relief. Jake Studer worked a scoreless inning and one-third.Box score AB R H BIStuder 4 0 0 0Wysong 3 1 1 0Boen 5 1 0 0Wenninger 5 0 0 0Jr.Pick 0 1 0 0Miller 4 0 2 0Sandbulte 5 0 0 0Fisher 5 0 1 0Kurtz 5 0 0 0Fodness 4 0 0 0Hadley 4, Luverne 0The Redbirds were unable to produce a run during Friday’s game in Hadley.The Buttermakers limited Luverne to six hits in the contest, with two coming from Tony Sandbulte.Hadley scored two runs in the first and sixth innings to win the game.Jesse Kuhlman pitched seven and one-third innings of four-run ball to take the loss. Kyle Kreun blanked Hadley in the final inning and two-thirds.Box score AB R H BIBoen 3 0 1 0Jo.Pick 4 0 1 0Miller 4 0 1 0Kurtz 3 0 0 0Gacke 1 0 0 0Fisher 4 0 0 0Sandbulte 3 0 2 0Shelton 4 0 1 0Reisch 3 0 0 0Kreun 3 0 0 0Luverne 15, Worthington 6Wenninger and James Fisher drove in three runs each to lead the Redbirds to a nine-run victory in Worthington June 13.Wenninger belted a two-run homer in the top of the first to open the scoring. He drew a bases-loaded walk to ignite a four-run rally in the fifth that snapped a deadlock at two.Fisher contributed a sacrifice fly to the fifth-inning surge, which included an RBI single from Sandbulte and a bases-loaded walk from Rob Fodness.Worthington trimmed the difference to two runs (6-4) in the bottom of the fifth, but Luverne iced the game by scoring six times in the eighth before adding three more in the ninth.Fisher slapped a two-run single to lead the way in the eighth. Wysong, Miller and Sandbulte added RBI singles to the rally. Barry Shelton drew a bases-loaded walk.Kuhlman picked up an RBI with a fielder’s choice and Kurtz recorded a sacrifice fly during the ninth inning.Kruen tossed the first five innings to earn the win. Fodness pitched three innings of relief, while Studer worked the final inning.Box score AB R H BIWysong 4 3 1 1Jo.Pick 4 1 1 1Reisch 1 1 0 0Miller 5 4 3 1Wenninger 4 3 2 3Kuhlman 1 0 0 1Kurtz 4 1 0 1Shelton 0 0 0 1Fodness 3 1 1 1Fisher 5 0 2 3Sandbulte 4 1 3 2Jr.Pick 3 0 0 0