The 2017 Section 6AA Soccer tournament opened Thursday night in St. Louis Park with a couple of close quarterfinal games that saw the girls hold off a strong second half Armstrong rally and the boys winning in a shootout.
The girls began the evening's proceedings with a balanced scoring attack and holding off a rally by the Armstrong Falcons that led them to a 3-2 win.
Rafferty Kugler put the Orioles on the board when she received a centering pass from Anika Hanson and she lined it to the goal to give St. Louis Park a 1-0 halftime lead.
The Orioles would go up by three with two second half goals. First was Alex Balfour who dribbled the ball downfield and went through a couple of Falcon defenders to put the ball into the net. Then Lola Ruff would feed Anna Jennisen and she would go top shelf to score. But Armstrong was not out of the game. Following a St. Louis Park foul, Elise Gallup was awarded a penalty kick and she put it past Oriole goalkeeper Olivia Massie. The Falcons would cut the lead to one as Jessica Hanley sent the ball to Julia Osborne and she lined a shot that deflected off of Massie and entered the net. There wouldn't be a chance to send the game into overtime since they didn't get the tying goal.
St. Louis Park improved their record to 10-4-1 and advances to the semifinals on Saturday, October 14 in Minneapolis against the Washburn Millera at 1 PM. Armstrong concludes their season with a record of 6-10.
Now to the boys game as there were zeros on the scoreboard throughout regulation time and even overtime that sent the game into a shootout where Thomas Salamzadeh scored in the fourth round to lead the Orioles to a 1-0 win over the Minneapolis South Tigers.
It was a rematch of the August 29th game where the Orioles shut out the Tigers 2-0.
Nobody scored in the first half. Same with the second half and the two 10 minute overtime periods, thus setting up a five player shootout. Oriole goalkeeper William Phelan made a couple of outstanding saves and St. Louis Park got goals from Zinedine Kroeten, Randy Mayele, Alex Ruiz Shimada and Salamzadeh to put the Tigers away and win the shootout 4-2.
The Orioles improve their record to 11-4-1 and also head to Minneapolis on the 14th to battle the Washburn Millers at 3 PM. The Tigers lost their third straight game and end the season 5-9-2.
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