The St. Louis Park Oriole soccer teams opened up the 2017 regular season hosting the team that eliminated them in last year's Section 6AA quarterfinals the Hopkins Royals Thursday night as the boys came up short against the Royals 3-2 and the girls won in overtime 2-1.
The boys team opened up the first twin bill of the season as sophomore Clarence Weah scored two goals, the second on a penalty kick to lead Hopkins to a 3-2 win.
Weah would begin the scoring for the Royals as he scored from the center slot. They would go up by two at the half when Nico Shirley picked up a loose ball in front of the net and sent the ball into the goal.
In the second half, Weah was fouled in the penalty that gave Oriole goalkeeper William Phelan a yellow card so he had to come out of the game and he would be replaced by back up netminder Leo Finley. Finley's short stint would be costly when Weah scored on a penalty. But St. Louis Park, playing without head coach Chato, who was at a wedding in Seattle would battle back with two goals. The first would come from Ben Klepfer and Josh Halper would score from the left side to cut the lead to one. But that was all the scoring for the Orioles as they couldn't send the game into overtime.
Both teams return to action on Saturday, August 26. Hopkins starts the season 1-0 and hosts the Champlin Park Rebels at 10 AM and St. Louis Park falls to 0-1 and travels to Plymouth to face the Wayzata Trojans at 3:30 PM.
Now to the girls game that turned out to be a dandy as Anika Vignes scored the game winning goal with 1:46 left in the first overtime to lead the Orioles to a 2-1 win over the Royals.
Following a scoreless first half, St. Louis Park took the lead when Ellie Kent was awarded a free kick and she sailed the ball past a five player Hopkins wall that crossed the goal line and reached the net. But the Royals would tie the game on a left side goal from Josie Feldman with 11:13 left in regulation time. Neither team would erase the ones from the scoreboard so it was on to overtime.
The Orioles would break the deadlock in the first overtime on Vignes' shot from the 20 yard line that would enter the net. As for the Royals, they couldn't get the equalizer in the second overtime and St. Louis Park would start the season with a bang.
St. Louis Park begins the season with a record of 1-0 and heads to Plymouth on the 26th to face the Wayzata Trojans at 1:30 PM. Hopkins dropped to 0-1 and will also be in action on the 26th, hosting the Champlin Park Rebels at noon.
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