Senior Night Shellacking for SLP Orioles

Friday night was Senior Night for the St. Louis Park boys lacrosse team and they celebrated in style as senior captain Brody Ilstrup scored six goals and junior Jackson Lochan added another six to lead the Orioles to a 16-5 win over the Breck Mustangs.

If you arrived late because of road construction, you missed plenty of scoring in the early going.  The Orioles would score four goals in the first 1:42 Lochan, who scored six goals in the Chaska game would score the first two goals.  He scored on a rebound :37 into the game and tallied from the center slot :16 later.  St. Louis Park would go up by three when Mitchell Vortherms made a centering pass to Kyle Hedblom and he would send it to the net.  Zach Ryan would score from the right side :30 alter and the lead increased to four.  Vortherms would score the fifth goal of the period off a pass from Lochan.  Then it was Ilstrup who would wrap up the first period of the scoring with two goals.  The second came from the 25 yard line and the Orioles were up by seven.

Ilstrup, who will play next season at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI would open the second period scoring with a line drive goal.  Breck would end the Orioles run at eight on a center slot goal from Gavin Hopping.  Ilstrup would score the Orioles next two goals.  His first came when he went around the left side of the net, found an open spot and scored.  He would score his next goal on a Mustang turnover.  Michael Kenney would end the second period scoring for the Mustangs when he scored with :02.3 to play and the Orioles led at the half 10-2.

St. Louis Park would score five unanswered goals in the third period as Lochan would find the net four times to give him 12 goals in two games.  He would score his first :32 into the period on a pass from Ilstrup.  His second goal came from the right side.  Hedblom would score the next goal before Lochan added two more.  He displayed outstanding speed as he cut to the center slot and lined the ball to the goal.  He would added his six goal with 1:09 left in the period.

Breck would finally get into an offensive rhythm in the fourth period on Hayden Parkhill's pass to Hopping and he would score his second goal.  Blaine Madson would score from the center slot.  St. Louis Park got its lone goal of the period as once again, Ilstrup intercepted a Mustang pass and found the open net.  Brendan Madson would wrap up the scoring for Breck as the ball reached the net at the final horn.

Ilstrup was one of four seniors who was recognized at halftime.  The other three were Benji Wyberg, Ernesto Garcia and Grant Plender.
The Orioles improved their record to 5-4 and begin a season ending road trip on Tuesday, May 16 against the Providence Academy Lions at 7 PM in Plymouth.  The Mustangs fall to 3-6 and host the Orono Spartans on Saturday, May 20 at 11:30 AM.