Casey Vandertop scored three goals in a span of 8:06 in the second period as No. 1 seed Edina earned a 6-2 victory over unseeded Elk River/Zimmerman on Thursday in a state Class 2A quarterfinal at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

Vandertop’s goals gave the Hornets leads of 2-0, 4-0 and 6-0. John Halverson and Mason West scored goals that sandwiched between Vandertop’s. The three goals were his 10th, 11th and 12th of the season and ended a four-game goal-less drought. 

Last season Vandertop helped lead Edina’s Bantam AA team to a state championship.

Daniel Babcock scored Elk River/Zimmerman’s lone goal with 2:13 left in the second and the Elks’ Kole Mears scored the lone goal of the third.

Freshman Freddie Schneider, also a star on last season’s Hornets’ Bantam AA team, scored the lone goal of the first period. Schneider banged home a rebound 3:19 into the opening period for his 12th goal of the season.

No. 3-2A Edina (24-4-1) scored again late in the opening period but the play went to video review and the goal was disallowed because it was ruled offside.

No. 3-2A Edina outshot Elk River/Zimmerman (18-10-1) 10-3 in the opening period and held a 21-6 advantage through two periods.

Edina beat the Elks 4-0 on Dec. 15 in the teams’ lone regular season meeting.

Casey Vandertop’s second goal of the second period put Edina comfortably ahead at 4-0. The goal was the third in less than 3 minutes for the Hornets.

3:48 - That's how long it took Edina to score three goals and extend its lead from 1-0 to 4-0 when Casey Vandertop scored the second of his three goals.

2:07 - The amount of time it took Stu Anderson of St. Paul Johnson to score three goals against South St. Paul in 1954, a state tournament record. Vandertop needed 8:06 to score his three.

3 - Number of goals by Vandertop, who scored one goal in nine different games in the regular season.

3, part 2 - Elk River/Zimmerman recorded three shots in both the first and second periods as Edina broke out to a 6-1 lead.