Due to rescheduling of a girls lacrosse postponement between the Mounds View Mustangs and the St. Louis Park Orioles on May 1 because of rain, the date and site were changed. Instead of Mounds View, St. Louis Park was the site for the Orioles final regular season home game that saw Laney Wolter score six goals to lead the Mustangs to a an 18-9 victory over the host Orioles Friday night.
Since the author of this blog is the public address announcer for girls lacrosse and baseball at St. Louis Park, it became a two site double header with girls lacrosse beginning at 5 PM, with baseball to follow at 7 at Derrick Keller Field at Dakota Park between the Orioles and the Bloomington Kennedy Eagles.
First up was girls lacrosse as Talia Simonett scored from the right side to give the Orioles the early lead. The Mustangs would surge into the lead with four unanswered goals from Anna Solheim, Grace Nickoloff and two from Taylor Rimell. Roethler would end Mounds View's run as Anna Roethler received a pass from Halle Weinmann, broke through two defenders and scored. It would then become a back and forth exchange of goals between Roethler and Rimell that would put Mounds View ahead 5-4. Wolter would heat up for the Mustangs as she ended the first half with five goals and assisted on Rimell's fourth goal to give Mounds View a 12-4 halftime lead.
Mounds View would distance themselves from St. Louis Park in the second half, scoring the first three goals. Wolter, Solheim and Rimell would tally for the Mustangs. The Orioles would score three goals as Roethler scooped up a ground ball that followed a pass from Sofia Roloff, that resulted in a ground ball. Roethler scooped it up and sent the ball to the net. Roloff would pick up her second assist as she found Sara McCalllon and she would score the goal. Roethler would score her fourth goal, scoring from the center slot. Kaitlyn Siebert would strike twice with a pair of goals. Maira Robert would also contribute as she made making an assist.
Roethler would also score twice and it gave her five goals for the game. They got goals from Robert and Morgan Kelly to conclude the scoring,
The Mustangs improved their record to 6-5 and travels to Woodbury to face the Royals at 7 PM. The Orioles fell to 4-7 and will also be on the road and will also be in action on the 25th as head to Bloomington to take on the Kennedy Eagles
About five minutes later, it was on to Derrick Keller Field for Senior Night as the Oriole baseball team took on the Bloomington Kennedy Eagles. It was "Double double toil and trouble" for the Eagles as St. Louis Park hit four consecutive doubles in the bottom of the first inning en route to an 11-7 win.
The Orioles sent eight batters to the plate in the bottom of the first as Connor Cornell, Riley Dvorak, Julien Shadle and Shea Pekarek hit doubles that resulted in three runs.
St. Louis Park would add two runs in the bottom of the second as the Kennedy defense committed three errors. Dvorak's RBI single scored Johnny Sorenson and Cornell would score on a wild pitch by Hoyt DeVolder. They would extend their lead to eight in the third that included a two RBI single by Dvorak.
Oriole starting pitcher Noah Fracassi took a no hitter into the top of the fourth inning but he was pulled after giving up consecutive walks to Erik Swenson and Kyle Conzemius. Jacob Stillman came in to retire the next two batter but gave up the first Kennedy hit in the top of the fifth as John Kern hit a two RBI single.
DeVolder would double home Conzemius in the top of the sixth and Ben Cradle would hit a ground out to Dvorak at short to score DeVolder. In the bottom of the sixth, Luke Mobley would hit a two RBI single and score on Stillman's single
DeVolder would also bring home Swenson and Cradle's RBI double capped a three run seventh inning. Johnny Sorenson, who would pick up the save as he retired Jacob Ekholm and Kern with the bases loaded to preserve the win.
Prior to the start of the game, Cornell, Shadle, Fracassi, Matthew Meyer, Eddie Halvorson Sam Amundson and Jack Elias were honored in a Senior Night ceremony. Student manager Riley Hannon was also honored threw the first pitch.
St. Louis Park improved their record to 7-11 and concludes the regular season Saturday, May 20 at noon at Hopkins. Kennedy closes their season on Monday, May 22 as they host the Mpls. South Tigers at 7 PM at Red Haddox Field in Bloomington.
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