A fantastic finish to the 2017 home season for the St. Louis Park Orioles took place Friday night as Johnny Sorenson threw a touchdown pass to Akili Farris with 1:07 to play that led the Orioles to a 16-14 win over the Orono Spartans.
The Orioles had a chance to score first as they lined up for a Skyler Rudelius-Palmer field goal. Instead, it was a fake field goal and St. Louis Park would come up empty. There would be good news for Orioles fans when Sorenson would dash into the end zone on a 28 yard keeper that would be the only scoring of the first half. St. Louis Park would lead 7-0 at halftime.
Both teams would score in the third quarter. The Orioles would go up by 10 on Rudelius-Palmer's 36 yard field goal that ricocheted off the crossbar and go through the uprights. The Spartans would counter on Nick Prenticc's 17 yard touchdown pass to Jarvis Omersa with 1:02 left in the third quarter that cut the St. Louis Park lead to 10-7.
Omersa would help put Orono in the lead in the fourth quarter as he caught a Prentice pass on fourth down and 11 that wound spot the ball at the St. Louis Park one yard line. Fisher Eiss would complete the drive with a two yard touchdown run to put the Spartans in front 14-10. It would be the Orioles turn on offense on Senior Night and a chance to send the sparse crowd home happy on a wet Friday night. The fans would get there chance as Sorenson arced a 41 yard pass to Farris and he would enter the end zone to give St. Louis Park the lead. But wait. The Spartans would get the ball and they had an opportunity to get into at least field goal range for a possible victory. There would be no celebration going down I-394 for Orono as Prentice's pass was intercepted by Peyton Morrison with :25.7 remaining and that would cap the home season.
Both teams records are now 3-3 and return to action on Friday, October 13. The Orioles travel to New Brighton to take on the Irondale Knights and the Spartans host the DeLaSalle Islanders at Pesonen Stadium. Game times are 7 PM.
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