By John RittenhouseThe Luverne Redbirds came up empty during a pair of games over the weekend.In a game rescheduled from June 4, Pipestone nipped the Luverne amateurs by two runs at Redbird Field Friday. Luverne dropped an 11-run decision in Hartford, S.D., Sunday.The 6-9 Redbirds play in Spencer, Iowa, at 2 p.m. Saturday before playing a 7:30 p.m. game in Windom Sunday.Hartford 16, Luverne 5A short-handed Luverne squad lost an 11-run decision in Hartford, S.D., Sunday.With seven Redbirds on hand for the game, Luverne needed to have three players from the Hartford squad join them during the game.Luverne put a team on the field, but it came up 11 runs short.The Redbirds scored their first run of the game when Barry Shelton delivered an RBI single in the fourth inning.Mike Miller belted a two-run homer and Jake Studer drew a bases-loaded walk to highlight a four-run rally in the fifth inning.Studer pitched the first two and one-third innings and was saddled with the loss. Rob Fodness tossed the final three and two-thirds innings.Box score AB R H BIStuder 3 0 0 1Fodness 4 1 2 0Miller 3 1 2 2Kurtz 4 0 0 0Reisch 1 2 0 0Pick 4 0 1 0Shelton 3 1 2 1Pipestone 4, Luverne 2The visiting A’s prevailed by two runs during Friday’s rescheduled game in Luverne.After the teams battled to a scoreless draw through six innings, the squads scored a combined six runs in the final three frames.Pipestone took a 1-0 lead in the top of the seventh only to have Luverne tie the game when Tony Sandbulte singled and scored on an error in the bottom half of the frame.The A’s scored twice in the top of the eighth, with Luverne answering by scoring once in the bottom of the inning to make it 3-2.Adam Kurtz drew a walk before scoring on an RBI single by Sandbulte to account for the eighth-inning run.Pipestone added an insurance run in the ninth inning before blanking the Redbirds in the bottom of the frame.Jesse Kuhlman pitched eight and one third-innings of four-run ball to take the loss for Luverne. Kurtz recorded the final two outs.Box score AB R H BIStuder 0 0 0 0M.Boen 3 0 1 0Miller 5 0 1 0Kurtz 4 1 0 0Reisch 3 0 0 0Fisher 3 0 0 0Sandbulte 4 1 2 1Pick 2 0 0 0Fodness 3 0 0 0