Luverne Sports
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorSeptember 03, 2025The Luverne girls’ tennis team improved their season record to 5-1, beating Redwood Valley and River Valley in home meets this past week. LHS blanked Redwood Valley with a 7-0 team win on Tuesday, Aug. 26, and outplayed River Valley 5-2 Wednesday, Aug. 27. Luverne will travel to three of their next four meets. LHS was scheduled to go on the road against Fairmont Tuesday, Sept. 2. Luverne…- By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorSeptember 03, 2025The Luverne cross country team had 12 runners place in the Top 10 Friday, Aug. 29, in Mountain Lake. Luverne and 15 other regional schools participated in the Paul Metcalf Invitational at the Mountain Lake Golf Course. Lacking varsity runners in the early season, LHS placed three runners in the Top 6 spots in the boys’ and girls’ varsity 5,000-meter races. In the boys’ varsity race junior…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 27, 2025The Luverne girls’ tennis team jumped to three wins and one loss to start the 2025 season. The Cardinals beat MACCRAY 5-2 and took Yellow Medicine 4-3 in their first doubleheader Tuesday, Aug. 19, at home. LHS posted a one win, one loss doubleheader against Lac Qui Parle and Montevideo Thursday, Aug. 21. Luverne beat Lac Qui Parle 4-3 and fell 6-1 to Montevideo on the road. “All in all, it was…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 27, 2025The Luverne cross country team started the 2025 season participating in the Marshall Cross-Country Invitational Monday, Aug. 25. Luverne was one of nine teams invited to the event at the Marshall Golf Course. “We were very proud of the kids’ effort tonight. They got out and competed hard, which is all you ask for,” head coach Pete Janiszeski said. “It was a lot of kids’ first cross country…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 20, 2025The Luverne Country Club hosted three club tournaments in the past couple of weeks as golfing winds down for the season. The Senior Club Tournament was on Aug. 9, the Ladies Club Tournament was Aug. 15 and the Men’s Club Tournament was played Aug. 16-17. Senior Club Tournament The Senior Club Tournament was played Saturday, Aug. 9. First place went to Joe Dorhout with a score of 70.…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 13, 2025The 2025 youth soccer season kicked off Tuesday, Aug. 5, with over 200 kids, Pre-K through seventh grade, playing their first game of the short season. Organized games are played Tuesday and Thursday evenings from Aug. 5 through Aug. 28 on four separate fields west of the Luverne High School. Organizer Michelle DeKam said one of the reasons she started the program was so that her son could play…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 13, 2025The Luverne Redbirds ended their District 8B tournament run Saturday, Aug. 9, in New Ulm after falling 10-5 to the Raymond Rockets for a second time in the playoffs. The Rockets beat Luverne 5-3 Aug. 2 in the first round of the District Tournament in New Ulm. That loss put the Redbirds into the consolation bracket where they still had a chance to move on to the state tournament. Luverne beat…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 13, 2025Jaydon Johnson placed first overall in the Cardinal Pride competition on the first day of football practice. Individual event winners are: Bench press: Dawson Holtz - 225 pounds/six times. Squat: Landyn Lais - 315 pounds/six times. Lucas Madison - 375/one time. Power press: Landyn Lais - 185 pounds/five times, Dayson Fritz - 205/one time. Cleans: Connor Bose - 185 pounds/eight times, Jaydon…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 13, 2025Golfer Mark Opitz recorded his first hole-in-one Saturday, Aug. 9, at Nordic Trails Golf Course in Alexandria. Mark and Annie (his wife) were golfing together when he made the shot on hole No. 4. Mark used a six iron on the fourth hole par 3, 130-yard shot. After Mark hit the ball his said, “Annie, that has a chance,” and by the time he got done getting the words out, it went in. Mark said…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 06, 2025The Luverne Senior Legion baseball team captured third place at the American Legion Division II State Tournament Saturday, Aug. 2, in Ely. Luverne beat Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 9-6 July 31 in the first-round game. They then lost 7-2 to Montevideo Aug. 1 to move down to the consolation bracket. Luverne beat Sibley East 4-1 in the consolation matchup Aug. 2 to capture third place at the state…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 06, 2025Luverne trap shooters Piper Wynia (left) and Makayla Oechsle recently received their conference medals for the 2025 spring trap shooting season. Wynia finished in first place and Oechsle placed third for Luverne in the female division. Wynia finished the season placing second at the Minnesota Trap Shooting Championship in Alexandria this past spring.
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 06, 2025The Luverne Redbirds dropped their first game in the Minnesota Baseball Association District 8B tournament Saturday, Aug. 2, in New Ulm. The No. 5-seed Redbirds fell 5-3 to the No. 4-seed Raymond Rockets in the first round of the district playoffs. In the District 8B bracket, three of eight teams have the opportunity to move on to the state tournament later this summer. After their loss to…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorAugust 06, 2025Local racing results for Aug. 1-2 are listed. Drivers posted have ties to Rock County. Rapid Speedway Aug. 1 - Rock Rapids, IA Sportsman’s #21 Larry Kracht, Magnolia – placed fifth in the A Feature, finished second in Heat 1 #17 Brandon Boeve, Beaver Creek – placed 12th in the A Feature, finished sixth in Heat 2 Points leaders as of 7/25 8th – Brandon Boeve – 658 12th – Larry Kracht…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorJuly 30, 2025The Luverne Senior Legion pulled off a Mini-Minnesota Miracle, beating a strong Sleepy Eye team twice in one day Aug. 2 in Truman to punch their ticket to the American Legion Division II State Tournament July 31-Aug. 2 in Ely. Luverne is scheduled to take on Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton July 31 at 12:30 pm in the first round of the state tournament. On Saturday Luverne narrowly beat Sleepy Eye 3-2…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorJuly 30, 2025The Luverne Junior Legion baseball team was knocked out of the sub-state tournament falling 4-3 to Sleepy Eye Tuesday, July 22, in Luverne. Leading 3-0 going into the sixth inning, Luverne let Sleepy Eye gather two runs in the bottom of the sixth and two more runs in the seventh to end their season in a 4-3 loss. Through the first five innings, Luverne was able to shut down Sleepy Eye at the…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorJuly 30, 2025The Luverne Redbirds closed out the 2025 regular season with a 7-1 loss to Fairmont Friday, July 25, at Redbird Field. In the first three innings, both Luverne and Fairmont were unable to get their offense going. Luverne reached first base twice in the first inning. Carter Sehr reached base on an error by the Martins third baseman, and Ben Serie hit a single, moving Carter to second. Fairmont…
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