Thursday, October 5, 2017

SLP Orioles Wrap up Home Season Against Orono Spartans

The St. Louis Park Orioles conclude the home portion of their regular season schedule Friday night as they battle the Orono Spartans in a 7 PM game.

Last week, the Orioles faced their city rival, the defending Class AAAA state champion Benilde-St. Margaret's Red Knights and lost 48-20.  The bright spot for St. Louis Park was quarterback Johnny Sorenson who threw two touchdown passes.  The first was to Semaj Mitchell and the second was a 60 yard completion to Akili Farris.  Sorenson also ran in a five yard touchdown to wrap up the scoring as BSM forged ahead in the second half to remain unbeaten and set up a section rematch with the Holy Angels Stars.  Sorenson will be the key to the Orioles in order to beat the Spartans and the defense has to come through and shut down Orono's top running back Bobby Striggow.

And speaking or Striggow, he scored the game winning touchdown last Friday in overtime to beat the Waconia Wildcats and improve their record to 3-2.  They were shut out by BSM 14-0 on September 8 and two weeks later they were defeated by the Chaska Hawks 26-22.  Striggow has been a key cog in the Spartan offense as he scored six touchdowns in the last two games and reached the end zone 11 times.  He also plays linebacker on defense and had nine tackles last week.  Orono's quarterback Nick Prentice has been in a bit of a funk the last two weeks, completing 16 of 42 passes.  His best game was in the season opener against the Bloomington Jefferson Jaguars going 11 for 23 for 302 yards and threw three touchdown passes.

If you plan on attending the game you might want to bring an umbrella because the weather picture is calling for rain Friday night.

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