After a successful Saturday matinee in Long Lake, the St. Louis Park Orioles football team has a short time to prepare for Wednesday night's regular season home finale against the Chanhassen Storm.
And yes. The Saturday matinee football game for the Orioles against the unbeaten Orono Spartans turned out to be a huge success as St. Louis Park battled back from a 21 point deficit in the first quarter to score 28 in the second to upset Orono 35-27. Will Dvorak threw two touchdowns to his brother McCabe and and 79 yard completion to Deontez Ross, Jr. Zeke Oppegaard scored on a one yard touchdown run. The only other Spartan touchdown came in the third quarter on a 99 yard fumble return by Graham Beltrand to cut the lead to 28-27. But good things came to the Orioles in the fourth quarter when Will Dvorak threw his fourth touchdown pass of the game, an eight yard strike to Jordan Moore-Gooden to oust Orono. The St. Louis Park defense was stellar on that warm Saturday afternoon, recording six sacks and Christian Arteaga had 13 tackles. Congratulations Jason Foster! You finally made it to the win column in your first season as head coach.
The Orioles will face another unbeaten team in the Chanhassen Storm. Though one of their games got canceled due to COVID-19, the Storm stormed their Highway 5 rival last Friday night, the Waconia Wildcats 34-0. Senior running back Tucker Pinkerton ran for two touchdowns, a 69 yard run in the second quarter and an eight yard run in the fourth. The Chanhassen defense held sophomore running back Maxwell McEnelly to 72 yards.
The keys to the game for the Orioles are for Will Dvorak to continue his momentum at quarterback and for the defense to put pressure on Storm quarterback Riley Funk.
The Storm's keys to the game are for the offensive line to continue to create opportunities for Pinkerton to get long runs and for the defense to slow down the Orioles running game which hasn't been much this season.
Wednesday's weather picture will be chillier, with a high in the 40s. Bundle up. Game time is 7 PM.
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