SLP Oriole Boys Get the Shut Out, Girls in Scoreless Deadlock Against Chaska Hawks

The weather picture was a lot better than Tuesday for the St. Louis Park Orioles soccer teams Metro West Conference opener where the boys shut out the Chaska Hawks 5-0 and the girls battled to a 0-0 tie.

First up was the boys game which started 30 minutes late due to Chaska having bus trouble.  It would turn out to be a breakout game for David Benjamin, who scored two goals to lead St. Louis Park to a 5-0 win over Chaska.

The Orioles tallied three times in the first half.  Thomas Salamzadeh almost got the first goal but it was disallowed because of an offside call.  St. Louis Park would get on the scoreboard when Zinedine Kroeten centered the ball to Benjamin in the top of the box and he would score his first goal.  Salamzadeh would get credit for the Orioles second goal on a line shot that went off of Hawks goalkeeper Eddie Munoz and entered the net.  They would go up by three on Randy Mayele's goal from the left corner.

St. Louis Park added two more goals to their ledger in the second half.  Benjamin would score his second goal on a pass from Ben Klepfer.  The Orioles concluded the scoring on Sam Gage's right side goal with 1:30 left to play.

Both teams return to action on Saturday, September 8.  St. Louis Park improved their record to 3-0-1 and will travel to Plymouth to face the Armstrong Falcons at 2 PM.  Chaska fell to 1-3-2 and heads to Waconia for an 11 AM game against the Wildcats.

Now to the girls game where the Chaska Hawks had a goal nullified due to offside and that would be the only ball in the net for 90 minutes of playing time as the game would end in a 0-0 tie.

The story of the game would be the numerous substitutions the Hawks and Orioles made throughout the game.  If you were to get an exact number, it would be like the Coneheads of Saturday Night Live fame would answer "mass quantities."  Chaska would put new players in on almost every throw in.

Chaska's record is now 1-3-2 and two and they will head to Waconia on Saturday, September 8 to face the Wildcats at 1 PM.  St. Louis Park has a record of 1-3-1 and will also be in action on the 8th, heading to Minneapolis to take on the Southwest Lakers at 7 PM.