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The St. Louis Park Orioles conclude a two game road trip as they try to end a two game losing streak against the Orono Spartans Friday night at 7 PM at Pesonen Stadium on the Orono High School campus. Both the Orioles and Spartans come into the game with identical 2-3 records.
Last Friday night, St. Louis Park battled their private school counterparts the Benilde-St. Margaret's Red Knights. There would be good news for Oriole fans in the first half as McCabe Dvorak hauled in a 15 yard touchdown pass from Aaron Ellingson and Sajid Nathim scored on an 11 yard run to put St. Louis Park ahead at halftime 13-7.
Unfortunately, there would be bad news for the orange and black as BSM would score 28 unanswered points in the second half to celebrate a Happy Homecoming with a 35-13 win. Red Knight quarterback Nick Peterson threw two touchdown passes and scored on a three yard run. BSM had two 100 yard rushers who also reached the end zone. Isaiah Smith ran for 130 yards and Will Petty accounted for 113.
The Orioles will need to have a better game from Ellingson, who completed 10 of 32 passes for 91 yards and play a strong defense against a potent Spartan offense.
As for the Spartans, they were shut out the fifth ranked team in Class AAAAA the Waconia Wildcats 26-0. Orono is led by quarterback Nick Prentice who had his worst game of the season last week completing four of 15 passes for 66 yards. It's the first time this season that he has thrown for under 200 yards. He also has sent 11 balls into the end zone. Also headlining the backfield is running back Fisher Eiss, who has 555 rushing yards including three games over 100 yards. Last week, the Wildcats put a "Gone Fishing" sign on Eiss as they held him to 16 yards rushing. He did catch a pass for 20 yards. Danny Striggow, Gus Hendeickson and Sam Wagner-Lund anchor a strong Spartan defense and they will need to shut down the Oriole offense.
If you plan on heading down I-394 toward Orono, be sure and bundle up. The weather picture for Friday night is cloudy and the temperature should be about 51 degrees. Who will hit the .500 mark after Friday night's game with two weeks left in the regular season?
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