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The Luverne High School baseball team won two games this past week, bringing its season record to 2-2.
The Cardinals hosted Pipestone Tuesday, April 18, beating the Arrows 5-1, and traveled to Adrian Monday, April 24, eking out a 7-6 win over the Dragons.
LHS 5, Pipestone 1
Luverne posted its first win of the season against Pipestone 5-1 at Redbird Field Tuesday, April 18.
“Our starting pitching was very good (with) a great command of the strike zone, and our defense made the plays they needed to,” head coach Phil Piquette said.
“We were able to produce some runs at the plate but will need to be stronger situationally in the games ahead.”
Luverne’s scoring came off of nine hits and two walks in the game.
The Cardinals left seven runners on base, posted one error and had four batters fall to strike-outs.
In the bottom of the first inning, sophomore Carter Sehr scored first for LHS from second base when junior Conner Connell hit a fly ball past the Arrows’ shortstop.
In the second inning junior Elliot Domagala scored from third base on a hard single to right field from junior Patrick Kroski.
Kroski stole second base and advanced to third on an error by the Arrows’ shortstop.
Sehr drove Kroski in on a fly ball that dropped into center field.
In the third inning the Cardinals added one more run on a wild pitch that advanced junior Will Serie to second and scored Connell from third.
In the bottom of the fifth inning Domagala scored again from second base on a ground ball to left field from senior Zach DeBoer.
After the fifth inning Luverne had built a commanding 5-0 lead over the Arrows.
Pipestone was able to score once in the bottom of the seventh inning . With two outs and bases loaded, LHS walked in one run.
BOX Score
PSH 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
LHS 1 2 1 0 1 0 X 5
Batting
Luverne AB R H RBI
Sehr 4 1 2 1
Stroh 2 0 0 0
Sneller 4 0 0 0
Connell 2 1 1 1
Serie 3 0 1 0
Domagala 3 2 3 0
DeBoer 3 0 1 1
Kroski 3 1 1 1
Buss 3 0 0 0
Left On Base: 7, 2B: Elliot Domagala, Carter Sehr 3B: Conner Connell SB: Elliot Domagala, Partick Kroski, Carter Sehr
Pitching
Luverne IP H R ER SO
DeBoer 6 2 0 0 28
Domagala 1 1 6 1 1
Win: Domagala Pitches-Strikes: DeBoer 71-49, Domagala 18-4
LHS 7, AHS/EHS 6
The Luverne baseball team traveled to Adrian Monday, April 24, beating Adrian/Ellsworth 7-6.
Leading 6-3 in the fourth inning, Luverne looked to be in control of the game.
The Cardinals added one more run in the fifth and ended the sixth inning with a 7-3 lead.
“Our pitchers did their job against Adrian,” Paquette said.
“They all had good command of the strike zone and for the most part kept the Adrian hitters off balance.”
Adrian mounted a comeback in the seventh inning, scoring three runs only to fall short losing 7-6 to the Cardinals.
Sophomore pitcher Carter Sehr was credited with the win closing out the game without any runs to cross the home plate.
Luverne tallied 12 hits in the game with Domagala posting two doubles along with Sneller and Stroh each getting one double in the game.
Scoring for Luverne in the game was Sehr with two runs, Serie with one, Connell with two, Sneller with one and Domagala with one run.
“Our overall play needs to be much better as we look ahead to four Big South Conference games this week,” Paquette said.
BOX Score
LHS 0 1 4 1 1 0 0 7
AHS 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 6
Batting
Luverne AB R H RBI
Sehr 3 2 1 0
Stroh 4 0 2 0
Serie 3 1 1 1
Ahrendt 1 0 0 0
Connell 2 2 1 0
Sneller 4 1 2 2
Domagala 4 1 3 2
DeBoer 2 0 0 0
Miller 2 0 1 0
Kroski 4 0 1 0
Buss 3 0 0 0
2B: Elliot Domagala 2, Sneller, Stroh TB: Elliot Domagala 5, Riley Sneller 3, Jacob Stroh 3, Conner Connell 1, Patrick Kroski 1, Carter Sehr 1, Will Serie 1, Layke Miller 1 SB: Carter Sehr 2, Conner Connell 1
Pitching
Luverne IP H R ER SO
Kroski 3 2 1 1 4
Buss 2 2 2 2 4
Ahrendt 1.2 5 3 3 3
Sehr .1 0 0 0 1
Win: Sehr Pitches-Strikes: Kroski 47-32, Buss 49-29, Ahrendt 33-21, Sehr 10-6
The Cardinals were scheduled to travel to Jackson County Central Tuesday, April 25, and they’ll host Windom Thursday, April 27. LHS will travel to St. James Friday, April 28, and host Worthington Monday, May 1.