Monthly Archives: July 2009

Physical? Check. Insurance Form? Check? High School Practice – Only A Week Away?!!

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If you haven’t been keeping an eye on the countdown timer, than Monday August 10th will sneak up fast. A week from Monday High School sports will begin in the state. If your son, or daughter, are playing Fall sports there are a few items that need to be in place. You’ve got next week to complete them so your child can be on the pitch from the beginning.

1. A completed physical form.
2. A completed proof of insurance form.
3. Completed citizenship form.

By the way, the video is from Thursday nights 8v8 Kick Around at Kickapoo High School. The Chiefs, Falcons and Ozark Tigers were playing a series of 30 minute games with each school fielding a pair of teams. Two of the Chief’s 3 seniors this year are shown, with Skyler Russell bringing the ball down the left side with a square ball to Ian Kennedy who’s one-timer is blocked by senior Jordan Pitt, with the goal line save coming from senior Brandon Baum. Feels like mid-season already!

Missouri State Bears Change Game Times Due To Lighting Failure

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bearhead_125.jpgThe Missouri State Bears have announced that while all Fall sports that play in Plaster Stadium, including Men’s and Women’s Soccer, will remain at the Stadium the start times have been changed to address the loss of four lighting standards. The University had a light pole, located at the northwest corner, fall unexpectedly on July 14. No one was injured. Following a review by a structural engineering firm, the University decided to remove the remaining three poles as a safety precaution.

Here are the games that are affected. Oh, and they hope to have the lights replaced by October 17th for the Ozarko Band Contest, so games after that date are currently shown at their original times.

Men’s Soccer
Missouri S&T (Exh.) Tue., Aug. 18 7:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
UMKC Sat., Sept. 5 7:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Centenary (La.) Wed., Sept. 16 7:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m.
Denver Thu., Oct. 1 7:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Creighton Wed., Oct. 7 7:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Oral Roberts Wed., Oct. 14 7:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.

Women’s Soccer
Drury (Exh.) Thu., Aug. 13 7:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
Central Missouri (Exh.) Sun., Aug. 16 7:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
Saint Louis Tue., Sept. 8 7:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m.
Stephen F. Austin Fri., Sept. 11 7:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m.

You can read the press release and download the complete schedules on the Missouri State Bears website. I’m updating the games on my College Calendar as well.

How Was Your Weekend?

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I ask that question as a prelude to sharing Andy Wilkinson’s weekend with you from last week. As you can see in the photos, he covered a lot of bases. He started his road trip with a drive from Joplin up to Kansas City to enjoy the KC Wizards game against the LA Galaxy on Saturday. From there he headed to St Louis where he participated in the St Louis Athletica game against the FC Gold Pride. The Women’s Professional Soccer match was held at the A-B Soccer Complex, was broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel and included Andy as AR2.

Congrats to one of our region’s up-and-coming referee’s, as Andy is actively pursuing his National license. Thanks for the photos Andy. Oh, and to address any questions… That’s Jack Jewsbury in the first, Beckham in the second, Andy’s on the far left in the third (not the little girl, the ref!) and that’s Hope Solo bending over in front of Andy as he check’s the nets prior to the start of the game. Apparently his buddies were a bit enamored of Hope and so most of his photos are of the US goalkeeper!

Missouri State Bears Men’s Soccer Update

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Three members of Missouri State men’s soccer team played in the U19 Boy’s title match Sunday at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championship in Lancaster, Mass. Gerard Barbero, III, (So., Marietta, Ga.), Cameron Miller (So., Woodstock, Ga.) and Thomas Vania (So., Kennesaw, Ga.) are members of the North Atlanta Soccer Association (NASA) U-19 squad that lost to the Baltimore Bays 2-0 after earlier tying them 0-0 in the opening game at the Championship.

Barbero, a midfielder, played in 19 matches for the Bears a season ago, scoring one goal and assisting on two others. Miller, also a midfielder, got on the pitch in 17 matches, starting twice for the Bears. Vania, a defender for the Bears, played in 20 of 22 matches a season ago and received the starting nod from head coach Jon Leamy 11 times.

Ryan Hennessy (North Kansas City HS/KC Pace) and Brian Wurst (Park Hill South/KC Pace/Drake) finished the regular season leading the KC Brass in games played and played the full 90 minutes on defense in the KC Brass’ 2-1 win over Real Colorado Foxes on July 18, 2009 at William Jewell College.

Contact Mediacom Regarding US World Cup Qualifier vs Mexico Broadcast August 12th

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Dont-Tread-150OK folks, if you want to see the US vs Mexico match on August 12th, it’s going to take some work. From TVweek.com

NBC Universal is now going to offer all cable and satellite operators free access to Telemundo-owned cable network mun2 on August 12, so that all soccer fans around the country will get to see the English-language telecast of the World Cup qualifying match between the United States and Mexico.

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/2009/07/nbcu-reaches-compromise-on-eng.php

Visit the Mediacom site here, and fill in the contact form by copying the information within the block quote above and pasting it into the comment site. I don’t have an account with Mediacom but I classified it under Cable Support. This site is read across the Midwest and Mediacom is the cable provider in many of these areas. If we can get a large enough effort, maybe we’ll be able to see the show. Categorized under Sportsmanship!

Springfield Catholic Boys Touring, And Playing, In England

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Catholic In EnglandWe arrived on Friday July 24 in Manchester Airport after a very long and delayed flight. However, even being jet lagged and exhausted we went to Old Trafford, Manchester United’s stadium. It is the largest stadium in English Football seating just over 75,000 people. After this we checked into Chester College where we have stayed for 6 nights. We ate dinner at the college and then decided to go have a training session at the university’s field, it was unexpected however, that we would draw a crowd just to watch us train. They would cheer for us and even chase our balls.

On Saturday we shopped and had free time throughout Chester. We then traveled to Wales to play our first game against Llandyrnog FC in which we won 4-0 with Austin Lewis, Adam Entrup, Carson Shafer, and Taylor Arens scoring. That’s Nick Kofron and #23 (?) pictured at left with a player from Llandyrnog FC, exchanging club banners.

On Sunday morning Liverpool Football Club’s Academy coach and head of player education and welfare, Phil Rosco, trained with us. He had us doing this simplest stuff but made a very large emphasis on detail and technique, and demonstrated that the small things make difference between a great player and an average player. We also went to tour Anfield, Liverpool FC’s home stadium as well as Everton.

On Monday we went to Conway Castle and Snowdonia national park in Wales. We also played our game against Ruthin Town FC and beat them 3-0 with Nick Kofron, Connor Dahlberg, Niko Temofeew scoring. Joe is chasing me out now we need to be on the road in 20 minutes, we will send more information when we get to London.

The report above is by David Bailey. You can see many more photos and lots of details on the Springfield Catholic website.

Update from Coach Kofron – The team photos when we are in green are from the first game and the photos we are wearing blue is from tonights match we lost 3-0 (you can see them on the SGFcatholicsoccer.com website). It was actually a very good physical game where they scored a nice goal in the rainy first half and got one on a deflection with 1 minute to go in first half. Second half and much of the first we had majority of the play but were not effective enough in the final third and missed a few chances that could have changed the outcome. Their team name is Towyn Rangers FC. A very nice disciplined but hard tackling team. Other pictures are from Conway Castle and the Parks we visited. We did not go into Goodison as they do not do tours. Off to London tomorrow to train at Charlton FC training ground. We play again on Friday against BOCA FC.

Drury Panthers Men Begin Preseason Trip To England

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Drury Panthers logoThe Panther’s took off on Monday morning for England where they will be touring and playing a series of games against local opponents as part of their preseason training this year. It’s a trip the NCAA allows once every four years and a new tradition that Coach Bilbao brought with from his time at Truman State. Junior Grant Bowden will be offering a daily report during the road trip, the first of which waxes eloquently about the overnight travel leading up to their arrival in London Tuesday. I would have hoped to have them blogging on my site but the Panther’s have rightly figured out that the traffic should come to their website. And when Grant gets back, I’ll have to ask him how he knows the sizes of small prison cells.

So, visit DruryPanthers.com for the latest on the trip to England. The ladies head for Italy for a trip of their own later this week.