The Norfolk Admirals began a five-game homestand Friday night with the kind of game Brandon Osmundson might have dreamed about as a kid.

The Chesapeake native scored twice and was named the night’s No. 1 star as Norfolk handled the Adirondack Thunder 4-1 at Scope. The ECHL teams will play each other twice more this weekend, starting with Saturday’s 7:05 p.m. game — when the Admirals will wear pink sweaters in support of the fight against breast cancer.

Goalie Isaac Poulter made 21 saves for the victory in his fourth start of the season.

Just 6:06 into the game, Osmundson — a product of the Hampton Roads Whalers’ junior program and the most prominent local native to play for the Admirals (3-2-2-0) in their history that dates to the late 1980s — scored on a rebound from David Jankowski’s

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