Missouri State Bears Open Season At SMU Wednesday

Cal Roselieb, Missouri State Bears (2014)

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Men’s soccer head coach Jon Leamy begins his 19th season in charge of the program as the Bears head to Dallas, Texas, to open the 2010 season against SMU on Wednesday night. The Bears will look to continue last season’s success and make it back-to-back Missouri Valley Conference titles and NCAA Tournament [...]

TUE Report – Tigers Open Season With A Win

Brian Otradovec (Parkview 2012) in front of (Carthage)

Parkview Vikings – 1 Carthage Tigers – 4 The District 12 defending champions opened their season at Parkview tonight with a win. The Vikings took the initial lead on Brian Otradovec’s goal only to see the Tiger’s tie it before the end of the first half. Carthage iced the win with a pair of goals [...]

Bob Bradley Will Continue As US Men’s Team Head Coach

Bob Bradley, US Men's Team Head Coach

CHICAGO (Aug. 30, 2010) – U.S. Soccer has agreed to a four-year contract extension with U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob Bradley. Bradley led the U.S. to an undefeated record in group play at the 2010 FIFA World for the first time en route to a first-place group finish for the first time in [...]

MON Report – Liberators Open With A Shutout Win

Matt Magana, Bolivar Liberators (2011)

Bolivar Liberators – 5 Aurora Houn’ Dawgs – 0 The Liberators open their defense of last year’s 2nd place finish at State with a shut out at Aurora. Bolivar’s goals were scored by Matt Magana (2), Jacob Hampton (2) and Tim Armstrong Nixa Eagles – 1 Joplin Eagles – 0 Nixa goal by Junior Jameson [...]

Glendale Falcons

Alec Martinez (Glendale 2011) in front of Reid Harbach (Catholic 2012)

The new HS Sports columnist Matt Schoch has done a decent job of reaching out via Twitter so I’m going to try a new policy here and point to some stories from the News-Leader, something I quit doing a few years ago. We’ll see how it works out… Glendale finds inspiration in team’s successful history [...]

Missouri State Lady Bears Defeat TN-Martin

Katelyn Frederickson, Missouri State (2014) in front of the bench

From the Missouri State SID – The Missouri State women’s soccer team (2-1-0) continued to play flawless defense and recorded a second-straight shutout on the weekend as the Bears defeated Tennessee Martin (1-2-1) at Plaster Field Sunday afternoon. Rachel Weimer and Brooke Williams scored in the Bears’ 2-0 win over the Skyhawks. Video by KSFX [...]

College Heights Opens With Win, Welcome Back!

Springfield Catholic – 0 Rockhurst Hawklets – 6 Joplin Eagles – Nixa Eagles – College Heights – 4 Richland Bears -2 Laquey – 1 College Heights – 0

Greenwood Stadium Field Dedication

Benefactor Rick McQueary with 2010 Greenwood team and Alumni

The dedication ceremony for the newly christened Greenwood Field Stadium at the Cooper Soccer Complex went off under a beautiful blue sky complemented by the blue of the Greenwood Blue Jay faithful today. A large crowd was on hand to hear the dignitaries recognize the efforts of the community in bringing about the installation of [...]

Brewer Wins His 200th, Missouri State Lady Bears Face TN-Martin Sunday

Grace Cross, MSU (2013) battles Jacqueline Paz, UALR (2012)

Missouri State Bears – 3 Arkansas Little Rock – 0 From the Missouri State Bears – The Missouri State women’s soccer team (1-1-0) opened the home regular season schedule with a convincing 3-0 win over visiting UALR (0-3-0) Friday night at Plaster Field. Freshman Tiffany Laughlin scored twice, including the game winner, to give head [...]

Crocker Opens Season With Win Over West Plains

Crocker Lion logo

Crocker Lions – 3 West Plains Zizzers – 1 Teddy Zeigenbein opened the scoring when he scored on a breakaway in the 3rd minute. Devon Scott knotted the score for the Zizzers’ only five minutes later but Zeigenbein combined with AJ Imilkowski who scored the eventual game winner in the 44th. Zeigenbein scored the final [...]

Southwest Baptist Visits Drury Panthers Saturday

Kelsy Long, Drury Panthers (2011)

This is a game I always look forward to and with the large recruiting class of local players that Head Coach Rob Podeyn has brought into the Bearcats roster, there’s an even stronger pull. Still an exhibition game for both teams, its a nice measurement for the Bearcats (MIAA) and Panthers (GLVC) as they complete [...]

HELP – I Need Your Schedules

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Folks, I need your help. I don’t have the free time I used to for this website which is a hobby. The very limited amount of advertising I bring in doesn’t cover my gas in traveling around the region, much less my equipment, etc, etc. No need to belabor the point. The first step in [...]

Founders Cup Tournament Opens Saturday At Lake Country Soccer

Founder's Cup 2010 Tournament Logo

Tournament season in Southwest Missouri opens with the newest event, the Founder’s Cup. Games will be played by teams competing in the U9-U14 Boys age range as well as U11-U14 Girls as well as High School Girls. The tournament will include the first games to be played on the new Astroturf surface on the soon [...]

Jack Jewsbury, KC Wizards

Chad Jaeger with Jack Jewsbury

I had an opportunity to chat with Jack Jewsbury, KC Wizards and Kickapoo Chiefs (’99) earlier this week when he was in town for a Youth Clinic sponsored by Mediacom and Lake Country Soccer. The photo of him with Chad Jaeger, who played for Drury in the mid 90′s and now coaches here with Springfield [...]

Champions League Draw

Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images

The Guardian looks at the Champions League Draw and how the English clubs (4) are placed: English clubs largely had reasons to be pleased with the draw for the Champions League group stages, which took place in Monaco this afternoon. Manchester United will travel to Scotland to take on Sir Alex Ferguson’s former club Rangers [...]