By John RittenhouseThe Luverne tennis team completed a busy stretch Tuesday that featured the Cardinals competing in four events in a seven-day span.The Cards lost a five-point road decision to Sioux Falls O’Gorman’s junior varsity squad Wednesday, April 27. Luverne won by five points in Redwood Falls Thursday and split matches at the St. James Tournament Saturday.Luverne posted a three-point home win in a non-conference match against Worthington Tuesday.The 7-4 Cardinals play in Clara City today, at the Benson Tournament Saturday and host Yellow Medicine East Tuesday.Luverne 5, Worthington 2The Cardinals bested the Trojans for the second time this season when the teams squared off in Luverne Tuesday.Luverne went 3-1 in singles and took two of three doubles matches from the Trojans to win by three."The match was closer than the final score indicates," said LHS coach Greg Antoine.Luverne’s Dusty Antoine (6-4, 6-0 over Jason Johnson), David Nelson (6-2, 6-3 over Nate Peterson) and Derek Boeve (6-4, 7-6, 8-8 in the tie-breaker) won at No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 singles.Brandon Deragisch and Nick Heronimus pulled out a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win over Ben Clark and Justin Langseth at No. 1 doubles for LHS. Weston Sawtelle and Erik Stegemann upped their record to 4-0 as a doubles team by topping Jordan Willemsen and Cody Neyens by 6-1 and 7-5 scores at No. 2 doubles.Worthington’s Quentin Dudley handed Zach Sanderson 6-2 and 6-4 setbacks at No. 4 singles. Tim Roos and John Roos topped Matt Kreuch and Jamie Vickery by 6-2 and 6-3 tallies at No. 3 doubles.SJ tourneyThe Cardinals went 1-1 and placed second during Saturday’s three-team tournament in St. James.Luverne coasted to a 7-0 win over Yellow Medicine East in the opening match. The host Saints nipped LHS 4-3 in the second round.Dusty Antoine and David Nelson went 2-0 in singles during the tournament. Sawtelle and Stegemann notched a pair of wins at second doubles.Playing at No. 1 singles, Antoine notched 6-1 and 6-3 wins over YME’s Justin Thomas before besting SJ’s Adam Doll by 6-1 and 6-2 tallies.Nelson secured 6-1 and 6-0 wins against YME’s Julian Palacios before topping SJ’s Adrian Reyes by 6-0 and 6-3 scores.Sawtelle and Stegemann recorded 6-3 and 6-1 victories over YME’s Colin Bennett and Eric Lynner in the first round. The Luverne team split sets (6-0, 4-6) with SJ’s Nate Jurgens and Jan Matsufusi before posting a 10-5 win in the tie-breaker that was used to determine the third set.Luverne’s Boeve and Zach Sanderson went 1-1 at No. 2 and No. 4 singles. Deragisch and Heronimus split matches at No. 1 doubles, as did Vickery and Marcos Aguire in the No. 3 slot.Luverne 6, RWV 1The Cardinals improved their record to 3-0 in Southwest Conference play by posting a five-point win over Redwood Valley in Redwood Falls Thursday.Luverne swept the hosts in singles and went 2-1 in doubles to take the match"Our experience carried us through singles without a loss," said Cardinal coach Antoine. "Our No. 1 and No. 2 doubles teams were very aggressive in getting to the net, forcing RWV into many errors when they were trying to deal with two players being at the net."Dusty Antoine (6-1, 6-0 over Cole Smith), Boeve (6-3, 6-4 over Ian Larson), David Nelson (6-0, 6-0 over Chad Kramer) and Sanderson (6-1, 6-0 over Shane Gewerth) secured singles wins for LHS.The No. 1 doubles team of Deragisch and Heronimus topped Mike Pendleton and Sean Ferguson by 6-1 and 6-3 tallies. Luverne’s Sawtelle and Stegemann earned a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory over Devan Blaine and Dan Stephens at No. 2RWV avoided a sweep when Trevor Palusky and Kurt Larson notched a 6-2, 7-6 (7-3 in the tie-breaker) win over Kreuch and Vickery at No. 3 doubles.O’Gorman JV 7, Luverne 2The Cardinals lost their second consecutive match when the dropped a five-point decision to the Knights’ junior varsity team in Sioux Falls Wednesday, April 27.O’Gorman won all six singles matches and went 1-2 in doubles to topple the Cards, who didn’t play a bad match according to their coach."We played really well," said Coach Antoine. "We hit the ball hard and hit some winners because of it. Our doubles teams really communicated well and were very aggressive in their play."Luverne’s wins came at No. 1 and No. 2 doubles. Dusty Antoine and Boeve recorded a 10-3 win against Steve Dix and Dan Philippe at No. 1. Deragisch and Heronimus rolled to a 10-2 victory against Mike Billion and Matt Rippe in the second slot.O’Gorman’s Andrew Billion and Paul Fahrendorf nipped Sawtelle and Sanderson 10-7 in third doubles.Kevin Brennen (10-5 over Antoine), Dix (10-7 over Boeve), Philippe (12-10 over Nelson), Mike Billion (10-5 over Deragisch), Matt Rippe (10-4 over Heronimus) and Andrew Billion (10-2 over Stegemann) prevailed in singles for the hosts.