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By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorMay 01, 2024The Luverne baseball team hosted Jackson County Central Tuesday, April 23, beating the Huskies 10-7. Luverne tallied 10 runs on 15 hits and covered 24 total bases in a game that featured junior Carter Sehr’s two triples and four trips over home plate. Senior Elliot Domagala had two hits, three RBIs and two doubles in the LHS win. Conner Connell, a senior, pitched six innings, giving up two…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorApril 24, 2024The Luverne baseball team won four games in the past week, including winning the 2024 MACA (Morris Area/ Chokio-Alberta) Baseball Invitational in Morris. This puts the Cardinals’ record at 5-4 after a rocky start to the season. LHS beat Windom 11-7 at home Thursday, April 18, and notched three more victories in Morris April 19 and 20. “ Luverne had a great showing in the Morris Tournament,”…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorApril 17, 2024The Luverne baseball team dropped four games this past week, falling 9-5 to Marshall on April 9, losing to Windom 7-4 on April 12, and bowing to Esko 4-2 on April 13, and 11-6 to Pipestone Monday, April 15. Luverne was scheduled to travel to Pipestone Tuesday and will host Windom Thursday at Redbird Field at 5:30 p.m. Luverne heads to Morris, for a tournament on Friday, April 19, and Saturday,…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorApril 10, 2024The Luverne baseball team traveled to Fairmont for their first game of the season, beating the Fairmont Cardinals 4-2 Monday, April, 8. Senior Conner Connell took the mound for Luverne, striking out 10 batters, surrendering three hits and two runs over 6 1/3 innings while walking two batters. LHS got their first run in the top of the second inning with a single by junior Layke Miller scoring…
By Greg HoogeveenAugust 31, 2023(above) Ben Serie celebrates winning the game against Plato 4-3, in the bottom of the ninth inning Aug. 26 in Delano. Serie beat the throw to home plate after teammate Derek Lundgren hit a line drive toward third base for the walk-off win. The Luverne Redbirds are headed to the Sweet 16 of the 2023 Class C Baseball State Tournament. The Redbirds knocked off the Plato Blue Jays in a walk-off 4…
By Greg HoogeveenJuly 27, 2023Luverne is heading to the Division II American Legion State Baseball Tournament Aug. 4, 5 and 6. Their first game will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 4, in Granite Falls against a team yet to be determined. “Any time you make it to a state tournament, the competition is always tough, but we are going to go into every game expecting to win no matter who we are playing,” said head coach Jake Haugen.…
By Greg HoogeveenJuly 27, 2023The Luverne Redbirds qualified for the Region 13C tournament, finishing the regular season with a 19-1 record overall and capturing the Gopher League Championship with a 14-1 record. The Redbirds received a bye in the 13C playoffs, winning the Gopher League, along with the runner-up Milroy Irish. The Fairmont Martins also got a bye, winning the First Nite League, along with the runner-up Windom…
By Greg HoogeveenJuly 26, 2023The Redbirds hosted the Tea Steam Wednesday, July 19, winning 16-3 in 6 1/2 innings. The Steam was Luverne’s last game of the regular season this year. In the top of the first inning, Tea scored one run on a fly ball to left field that dropped just in front of Phil Paquette scoring a runner on third base. The Redbirds tied the game in the bottom of the first when Ben Serie stole home on an…
By Greg HoogeveenJuly 19, 2023The Redbirds posted six homeruns in two games this past week, beating Hadley 10-1 at home July 12 and Ruthton 17-1 on the road July 16. The win against Hadley clinched Luverne’s Gopher League regular season championship. The Redbirds will play their last regular season game against the Tea Steam Wednesday, July 19, at home. Redbirds 10, Hadley 1 The Redbirds beat the Buttermakers 10-1 at…
By Mavis Fodness, reporterJuly 26, 2022When I was growing up and doing chores around the family farm, a radio would often be heard in the dairy barn. WNAX out of Yankton, South Dakota, frequently broadcast the play-by-play of the Minnesota Twins games. Through the mid- to late 1970s I heard the names of future Hall of Famers Tony Oliva, Rod Carew and Bert Blyleven as they came to the plate or played a great defense. Hearing those…- August 22, 2017To the Editor: As the Third District V.F.W. Commander and Luverne Post 2757 Quartermaster, I would like to thank our V.F.W. baseball team and coaches for a great season. I was really impressed by your quality of ball playing. Keep up your great work, and I will be at Marshall in 2018 to cheer you on. Our team is championship quality. Buck Underwood Luverne
By Jason Berghorst, columnistOctober 17, 2016Since my middle school years, I've had an interest in politics. I think it actually is important who is elected and I think it matters how our elected officials act and react to people and situations. In my opinion, our candidates reflect on us as a nation, and their character counts. So, as you can probably imagine, I'm not enjoying this campaign season. This election season is like a…
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