Nia Williams Named MVC Defensive Player of the Week

Nia Williams, Missouri State Bears (2013)

Missouri State sophomore defender Nia Williams was named Defensive Player of the Week by the Missouri Valley Conference, the league announced Tuesday. Williams is a vital part of a Bears defense that recorded its third consecutive shutout on Friday and has a team goals against average of 0.80 for the season. She once again played [...]

Greenwood’s First Home Match Against Central Tonight

Greenwood Blue Jays – 0 Central Bulldogs – 3 The Blue Jays inaguarate the newly christened Greenwood Stadium Field at Cooper Soccer Complex with a home match this evening against the Central Bulldogs. The Jays are 2-0, having shut out New Covenant and surprised the Bolivar Liberators with a 2-1 win last Thursday. The Bulldogs [...]

Sep 7th Game Reports

Nixa Eagles – 10 Republic Tigers – 0 The Tigers open their inaugural season of play on the road, falling to the Eagles. Weston Hanger scored the 1st goal by penalty kick. Goals were also scored by Drake Trease-assist by Robert Neathery, KhaiUyen Huynh scored three, Quinton Monnig, Luke Moore with two, unassisted, Andrew Schenck [...]

USA Hosts Columbia October 12th

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The U.S. Men’s National Team will host South American rivals Colombia on Oct. 12 at PPL Park in Chester, Pa. Kickoff for the USA’s first match on the Chester waterfront is set for 8 p.m. ET, and the match will be broadcast live on ESPN2 and Galavision. Fans can also follow along on ussoccer.com’s MatchTracker [...]

Drury Panthers Shut Out Lewis In GLVC Opener

Peter Higgins, Drury Panthers (2011)

ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – Drury gained sweet revenge against the team that ended its magical NCAA-II Tournament run a year ago, as the nationally ninth-ranked Panthers blanked third-ranked Lewis 3-0 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference opener for both schools here on Sunday. Drury (1-1) struck for two goals in the first five minutes of the [...]

Springfield Players Clash In D3 Tournament

Marlow, Carver, Aiken, Griffin at Emory

This story was filed by former Emory (and Parkview) player Patrick Carver An early goal from Titans of Illinois Wesleyan University was not enough to take down the Eagles of Emory University today in Atlanta, Georgia. Illinois Wesleyan features two players from Springfield in Tim Griffin (Parkview) and Tom Marlow (Parkview). Marlow’s minutes were limited [...]

Why Was Bob Bradley Rehired By US Soccer?

Bob Bradley, US Soccer

Here’s the best explanation I’ve seen, by Paul Kennedy at Soccer America The conventional wisdom was that Bob Bradley wouldn’t return as national team coach next year. By general agreement, Bradley mismanaged the biggest game of his coaching career, the round-of-16 match against Ghana at the 2010 World Cup. And history suggests that the USA [...]

FRI – Kickapoo Chiefs Host Nixa Eagles

Kickapoo Chiefs – 1 Nixa Eagles – 0 Kickapoo unassisted goal by Nate Lavoy with 20 minutes to play in the game. He scored off a free kick from 20 yards out. An early District 11 matchup, the Chiefs open their season tonight against the Eagles who opened the season on Tuesday with some late [...]

Thursday Game Reports – Blue Jays Shock Liberators

Bolivar Liberators – 1 Greenwood Blue Jays – 2 Tied 1-1 at halftime, Greenwood got the game winner in the 72nd minute from Devon Whitlock in the second, assisted by Nick Hogan. Hawken Thieme, who displayed some serious chops in the Alumni game last week, did an awesome job in this game according to reports. [...]

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Missouri State Bears Fall in Double OT at SMU

Gerard Barbero, Missouri State Bears (2012)

From the Missouri State Bears website: DALLAS, Texas – After a more than two and a half hour delay in Dallas, the Missouri State men’s soccer team finally got the regular season underway. The Bears got off to a fast start, but SMU stormed back to defeat the Bears 3-2 in double overtime Wednesday night [...]

High School Schedules Still Needed

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Thanks to the following Schools who have contributed their schedules: Branson Pirates! Camdenton Lakers! Carthage Tigers! Cassville Wildcats! Catholic Fightin’ Irish! Crocker Lions! Glendale Falcons! Greenwood Blue Jays! Hillcrest Hornets! Lebanon Yellowjackets! Logan-Rogersville Wildcats! Monett Cubs! Neosho Wildcats! Nixa Eagles! Osage Indians! Republic Tigers! Waynesville Tigers! Webb City Cardinals! West Plains Zizzers! Still missing are [...]

Jon Kempin Promoted To KC Wizards MLS Squad

Jon Kempin, KC Wizards (Blue Valley NW 2011)

From the KC Wizards website comes news of their first home-grown player signing – The Kansas City Wizards announced Tuesday that they have signed goalkeeper Jon Kempin as the first Home Grown Player in club history. The 17-year-old product of the Wizards Juniors youth developmental academy signed as a Generation Adidas player, becoming the youngest [...]

Mens College Soccer on Fox Soccer Channel

Evansville at Missouri State, November 2009

The NSCAA College Game of the Week will return to Fox Soccer Channel with 12 men’s games this fall. The schedule kicks off Sept. 3 with one of the men’s game’s best rivalries. South Carolina will face Clemson in Mike Noonan’s debut as Clemson coach. The only Missouri Valley Conference game that will be included [...]

World Cup 1930

FIFA World Cup trophy

A little rainy day viewing for you, courtesy of the World Cup blog who notes yesterday brought forth a significant obit: the only player still remaining from the first World Cup final in 1930. Argentine Francisco Varallo passed away at the ripe young age of 100. A bit of a reminder while our friends in [...]