Totino-Grace Eagles Trounce SLP Orioles

As the cold rain swept through the St. Louis Park area Monday night, Luke Schroeder scored five goals to lead the Totino-Grace Eagles to a 17-6 win over the host Orioles.

The Orioles got the early lead in the first quarter when Parker Brynildson got a pass from Jackson Aune in the center slot and scored :51 into the game. Schroeder would help the Eagles take the lead.  He would pass to Hunter Tisdale and Tisdale would even the score at one and then Schroeder would score to put Totino-Grace ahead.  Mike Kieselbach, playing his first varsity game of the season lind a shot toward the net to even the game at two.  But the Eagles would regain the lead on goals from Jack Kreger and Schroeder and led at the end of the first quarter 4-2.

Totino-Grace would start the second quarter scoring when Schroeder would score from the center slot.  Brynildson would score his second goal, cradling the ball downfield and sending it to the net.  The Eagles would widen their lead with three unanswered goals, starting with Caleb Meehan on a left side pass from Nate Zdon, followed by Mark Collins on a behind the net pass from Tisdale and Kreger scoring his second goal to give Totino-Grace an 8-3 halftime lead.

While the rain was letting up on this chilly Monday night, the Eagles were raining white balls into the Oriole net in the third quarter, scoring five unanswered goals.  Meehan would score his second goal from a Collins pass.  Schroeder would tally, followed by Tisdale :33 later.  Schroeder would pick up another assist on a right side pass to James Keiser and he lined the ball to the goal.  But Schroeder wasn't finished yet.  He would score another goal :24 later and the Eagles led at the end of the third quarter 13-3.

The Totino-Grace goal run extended to six on Kreger's goal :49 into the fourth quarter.  There would be good news for the small throng of Oriole fans in attendance when Jake Spano ended the Eagles run with the first of His two goals.  Brynildson would score another hat trick but it wasn't much for St. Louis Park to mount a big comeback as the Eagles would score four times, with Darby Jones scoring on a liner, followed by two goals from Collins and Keiser going around the net to score with :32 in the game.

Totino-Grace improved their record to 1-1 and will host the Armstrong Falcons on Wednesday, April 24 at 5 PM at Columbia Academy in Columbia Heights.  St. Louis Park fell to 0-3 and hosts the St. Paul Central Minutemen on Thursday, April 25 at 5 PM.