Two former Classic Lake Conference rivals, the Hopkins Royals and the host St. Louis Park Orioles battled for The Helmet Saturday afternoon and the Orioles got hat tricks from Jackson Lochan and Brody Ilstrup to lead them to a 12-3.
It was St. Louis Park's first win over Hopkins since 2009 when Boys Lacrosse was a club sport. The Helmet is a traveling trophy with a lacrosse helmet painted half orange and half blue.
The Orioles scored four unanswered goals in the first period. Ilstrup would score the first two goals. His first came off a right side pass from Mitchell Vortherms and the second came off a pass from Kyle Hedblom. Lochan would score the next two goals. Ilstrup's pass help set up his first goal and Lochan would wrap up the first period scoring with :24.3 left in the period.
St. Louis Park would strike twice in the second period. Hedblom would be involved with both goals. He would score the first goal from the right side and would pick up an assist on Vortherms line drive shot that entered the net. But play came to a halt with 3:46 left in the first half with 3:46 left when Lochan made a hard check that sent Cole Kinney-Leonhardt to the turf and he went unconscious. St. Louis Park police and fire departments were summoned to the stadium as well as an ambulance and the game was delayed for about 30 minutes as Kinney-Leonhardt attempted to regain consciousness. He eventually was able to get up and was helped off the field by the paramedic who escorted him to the ambulance. He was taken to the hospital for testing and no word on his condition was mentioned.
Following a two minute halftime, it was back to lacrosse as Dante Nord got the Orioles started :37 into the third quarter with a center slot goal. Nick Ghose would put Hopkins on the scoreboard as he also scored from the center slot. Lochan would get the hat trick as he cut through several Royal defenders and scored. Zach Ryan wrapped up the third period scoring, circling around the right side of the net and found an opening to put the ball in.
In the fourth period, Ilstrup opened the scoring for St. Louis Park as he went through two Hopkins defenders and picked up the hat trick. With the Orioles up by nine, head coach Chris Bixby gave the reserves some playing time and one player who would factor into the scoring was freshman Leo Benson, who scored two goals in a 1:10 span. All the Roayls could do was a late goal from Jackson James with :36.8 left in the game.
St. Louis Park improves their record to 3-4 and hosts the Chaska Hawks on Tuesday, May 9 at 7 PM. Hopkins fell to 0-8 and will also be in action on the ninth as they host the Eden Prairie Eagles at 7 :30 PM. In eight games, the Royals have been outscored 131-18
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