By John RittenhouseThe basketball season came to an end for the Luverne Cardinals during the quarterfinal round of South Section 3AA Tournament played in Tracy Tuesday.Taking on No. 1 Tracy-Milroy-Balaton, the eighth-seeded Cardinals played the Panthers to a draw at two in the first five minutes of the game. When the pace started to pick up, T-M-B found a zone of comfort and rolled to s 59-33 win.The loss ends Luverne’s 5-19 season."We wanted to slow things down, and we were pretty effective at it for a while," said Cardinal coach Jason Phelps. "Eventually, we had to become aggressive and start attacking their zone. Once it turned into a fast-paced game, we had trouble keeping up."The pace of the game changed in the final 3:01 of the first quarter, when T-M-B went on an 8-0 run to open a 10-2 lead.Luverne trimmed the difference to seven points at three different occasions in the early stages of the second quarter. T-M-B, however, withstood the challenges and turned 21-11 lead into a 30-11 halftime advantage with a 9-0 run to end the second period.The Cardinals were unable to get back into the game in the second half as the Panthers increased their lead to 29 points (52-23) by the end of the third quarter before settling for a 26-point win at game’s end.Mindy Nieuwboer scored 10 points, nabbed six rebounds and charted three assists for LHS. Samantha Gacke led the Cards with eight rebounds.Box scoreKlein 0 0 0-0 0, Heitkamp 1 0 0-0 2, Nieuwboer 5 0 0-2 10, Snyder 2 0 1-3 5, Peterson 0 0 1-3 1, Kuhlman 1 0 2-2 4, Vogt 0 0 0-0 0, Gacke 2 0 3-6 7, Evans 2 0 0-0 4, Hoiland 0 0 0-0 0.Team statisticsLuverne: 13 of 48 field goals (27 percent), seven of 16 free throws (44 percent), 23 rebounds, 16 turnovers.T-M-B: 24 of 45 field goals (53 percent), five of eight free throws (63 percent), 25 rebounds, 15 turnovers.