Luverne Sports
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 22, 2025The Luverne Cardinals football team finished their regular season with a win over the Lake Crystal-Welcome Memorial Lions 15-0 Wednesday, Oct. 15, at home. LHS posted a 6-2 season going into the section tournament. The No. 3 seed Cardinals are scheduled to host the No. 6 seed Belle Plaine Tigers in the section quarterfinals Tuesday, Oct. 21. Against Lake Crystal-Welcome Memorial, Luverne…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 22, 2025The Luverne volleyball team beat H-BC 3-1 Tuesday, Oct. 14, in Hills, in the Cardinals’ final regular season game. LHS posted a 14-13 record for the regular season. “We played well to end the regular season with a win and meeting a team goal of over .500 wins, finishing 14-13,” LHS head coach Sarah DeBeer said. H-BC closed its regular season with a record of 10-13. Heading into section…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 22, 2025Luverne hosted the 2025 Big South Conference cross country meet on their home course Tuesday, Oct. 14. Fifteen conference schools participated in two categories at the meet. Eight “big school” teams and seven “small school” teams ran together in the boys’ and girls’ events. The “big schools” division includes Belle Plaine, Marshall, St. Peter, Fairmont, Worthington, Tri-City United, Waseca and…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 22, 2025Week 4 shooting scores are in for the Luverne trap team. Senior Makayla Oechsle and junior Lucas Madison led the team, shooting 44 targets each. Senior Nicholas Mann finished with a score of 43. Junior Gavin Hoven, sophomore Logan Wrigg and freshman Nolan DeKam each hit 42 targets. Junior Logan Willi hit 35, freshman Joey Lenz hit 33, junior Martin Fick hit 31, sophomore Owen Overgaard…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 15, 2025The Luverne Cardinals football team fell 44-13 to the Jackson County Central Huskies at home Thursday, Oct. 9. Luverne came into the game 5-1 against the undefeated 6-0 Huskies. The Cardinals kept the game relatively close in the first half, finding themselves down 22-13 in the game. “I was proud of the effort our kids played with, especially in the first half,” LHS head coach Todd Oye said…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 15, 2025The Luverne High School volleyball team fell twice on the road this past week. Luverne lost 3-1 to Fairmont Tuesday, Oct. 7, and fell 3-1 to Adrian/Ellsworth Friday, Oct. 10. The Cardinals were scheduled travel to play the H-BC Patriots in their final regular season game Tuesday, Oct. 14 Fairmont 3, LHS 1 The Cardinals fell 3-1 to Fairmont in volleyball action Tuesday, Oct. 7, on the road…- By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 15, 2025The Luverne girls’ tennis team finished their 2025 season at the Section 3A Individual Tournament at Huether Family Match Pointe in Sioux Falls Monday, Oct. 13. LHS sent two singles players and two doubles teams to the event, and all six players were eliminated in the first day of the tournament. In singles action, senior Addyson Mann won her first-round match against her Benson/KMS opponent 6-…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 15, 2025The Luverne girls’ varsity cross country team placed second and the boys’ team finished in sixth at Adrian/Ellsworth Invitational Tuesday, Oct. 7. Conditions were cool and calm with temps in the 70s for the competition at the Adrian Country Club. The LHS girls’ 5,000-meter varsity team finished second with 67 team points behind first-place Sioux Falls Lincoln with 27 team points. Host Adrian/…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 15, 2025Week 3 Luverne trap shooting scores have been posted. Junior Lucas Madison was the high shooter with a two-round total of 45 targets hit. Sophomore Owen Overgaard finished with a 42 and senior Makayla Oechsle scored a 41. Seven shooters finished with hits in the 30s. Senior Nicholas Mann and junior Gavin Hoven posted 39 targets hit. Sophomores Ashton Altman and Logan Wrigg and freshman Joey…- By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 08, 2025The Luverne Cardinals improved their season record to 5-1 after beating the Minnesota Valley Lutheran Chargers 28-6 on the road Friday, Oct. 3. LHS head coach Todd Oye said he was pleased with the effort of his players on the field. “I felt we executed our game plan very well,” he said. “This was highlighted by our last offensive drive in the first half with a nice throw from Josh Hansen to…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 08, 2025The Luverne Cardinals volleyball team finished 4-2 this past week, taking on six solid squads along the way. LHS won 2-1 against the Blue Earth Area Buccaneers Tuesday, Sept. 30, at home. Luverne traveled to the 2025 Jimmy John’s Classic in Marshall for a two-day tournament Friday, Oct. 3 and Saturday, Oct. 4. The Cardinals won three matches and fell twice at the tournament. On Friday LHS fell…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 08, 2025The Cardinals girls’ tennis team fell 4-3 to Lac Qui Parle Valley Monday, Oct. 6, in a team sectional playoff game, crushing their hopes of extended team postseason play. In the Cardinals’ final regular season match, they beat Worthington 4-3 at home Tuesday, Sept. 30, finishing with a 2025 season team record of 7-9. Luverne will have the opportunity to play again at the 2025 MSHSL Individual…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 08, 2025The Luverne cross country team hosted an eight team meet Thursday, Oct. 2, at the Luverne High School course west of the school. The LHS girls’ 5,000-meter varsity team finished in first place beating out four other teams in warm weather conditions. Luverne took first place with 46 total team points. Canby/Minneota was second with 56, Pipestone Area placed third with 62, Adrian/Ellsworth was…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 08, 2025Week 2 trap shooting scores are in for the Luverne team. Junior Lucas Madison was the high shooter, hitting 24 and 23 targets out of 25, for a 47-target total. Five athletes finished in the 40s, five finished in the 30s and one shot at 19. Luverne has three weeks left of competition shooting. Week 2 Results Athlete R1 R2 F Ashton Altman 19 19 38 Nolan…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 08, 2025Micky Sehr recorded his second career hole-in-one Wednesday, Oct. 1, at the Luverne Country Club. Both holes-in-one were dropped in on Hole 7 at LCC. His most recent hole-in-one went 146 yards off his 9-iron. Micky was golfing with Dan Serie, Pete Connell, Eric Lammert and his brother Jeff Sehr. “The ball landed a few feet right of the hole, spun left and appeared to stop right by the pin,”…
By Greg Hoogeveen, sports editorOctober 01, 2025Luverne lost 20-16 to the Pipestone Arrows in the highly contested Battle Axe game Friday, Sept. 26, in Pipestone. LHS let a 16-13 fourth quarter lead slip with eight minutes left in the game on a broken passing play by Pipestone. The Arrows quarterback was pressured by Luverne, tucked the ball, and ran 63 yards to the end zone to take a 19-16 lead. The Arrows added the extra point kick to go…
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