Kickapoo Chiefs at Parkway College Showcase

2011 Parkway South College Showcase

An excellent tournament the Chiefs participate in annually. It includes the current #1 ranked Nequa Valley squad. The Post-Dispatch offers schedules and a look at a few of the St Louis teams involved in the competition. Kickapoo Chiefs – 1 Parkway South – 0 Chiefs led at halftime on a 25 yard shot by Southwest [...]

Missouri Girls High School Soccer Coaches Poll

Ashlee Rightnowar, Rolla Bulldogs (2011)

The first poll of the season is out. Let’s take a look… In Class 1, Springfield Catholic is firmly at the top of the initial poll with 9 first place votes. Greenwood finished just outside the Top 10 as well. In Class 2, Harrisonville received votes. The Wildcats are defending District champions and will fight [...]

Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Cup at Lake Country Soccer

2011 Ozark CocaCola/DrPepper Cup logo

Rumor has it the tournament reached the 120 team mark this year which will draw 4000 plus players and family to Springfield this weekend. There are games on the Boy’s side ranging from U9 up to the U19 category for senior boys headed for college in the Fall. On the Girls side it’s U9 up [...]

Friday Games

Catch scores for tournament games elsewhere. Here are the other regional games today. Camdenton Lakers – 6 Sedalia Sacred Heart – 0 Sophomore striker Miriam Taylor scores 4 goals West Plains Zizzers – 2 Mt View Liberty Eagles – 1 The Zizzers get goals by Suzanne Hones in the 5th and 63rd minutes, both off [...]

Haist and Moats On Their Win Over Catholic (my 5000th story)

moats miller haist, Nixa Eagles

I’ve been covering your kids for six years and this post is number 5000 in that time period. Add in 21K photos on my photo site and 25K photos on my old photo site and this is video 380. Compare that to the coverage the News-Leader offers. One story so far this season, a half [...]

Drury Hosts Missouri State, Benedictine and Crowder Saturday

You can catch four Men’s college games on Saturday at Harrison Stadium, home of the Drury Panthers. The Benedictine Ravens, an NAIA program that competes in the Heartland of America Conference (Evangel, Wm Jewell) visits as does Crowder College, the NJCAA program in Neosho that features a number of local players. Drury and Missouri State [...]

Ozark Lady Tiger Shootout

Ozark Tigers logo

The Ozark Lady Tiger Shootout for 2011 is a 10 team tournament that is bringing in a pair of Kansas City teams (no more Eureka or Nixa I’m sorry to say) along with Harrison (AR) for the two-day affair. Red Pool Black Pool White Pool Ozark Harrison Neosho Kearney Lebanon Rogersville Northwest Joplin Willard Carl [...]

Jack Jewsbury Leads The Portland Timbers

Jack Jewsbury, Portland Timbers vs Chivas

Have you caught a Portland Timber’s game yet? If not, Farmer’s Gastropub now has the MLS DirecTV package. A call to the restaurant can ensure that you’ll catch the game and a good meal. Here’s some reports from Week 3: Soccer by Ive’s provided his wrap-up NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION 1, PORTLAND TIMBERS 1 (HIGHLIGHTS) Man [...]

Ozark Conference – Rolla and Glendale Now 2-0

8 of the 10 programs have games today, with Camdenton visiting Glendale BUT playing at Kickapoo while Kickapoo heads East to Rolla. Lebanon seems to be finding their stride, could Parkview be in for some trouble today? Parkview Vikings – 0 Lebanon Yellowjackets – 2 The Yellowjackets are applying the lessons learned in last years [...]

Rogersville, Carthage Grab Home Wins

Logan-Rogersville Wildcats – 5 Mt. View Liberty Eagles – 1 Goals by Bekah Pell (3), Megan Smith, and Haley Weeks Greenwood Blue Jays – 0 West Plains Zizzers – 1 The Zizzer’s goal was scored by Carly Shannon in the 6th minute and they held on for the win at Greenwood. Carthage Tigers – 2 [...]

COC Soccer – Nixa Shocks Catholic

Kelsey Haist's goal falls under cross bar

No true Conference games as it’s small-schools versus large schools today BUT you can see Class 1 State Champions Springfield Catholic go up against #1 ranked Large School Nixa tonight. Nixa Eagles – 2 Springfield Catholic – 1 Senior Kelsey Haist gave Nixa only their second win ever over Catholic when she buried her shot [...]

Missouri State Hosts SBU Bearcats and Drury Panthers Saturday

Lindsey Sprouse battles Tamara Hollis

The Missouri State Bears will play a pair of games on Saturday at Plaster Stadium. They will host the Southwest Baptist Bearcats for an afternoon game and the Drury Panthers later that evening. No charge for the games. Drury and SBU faced off last Sunday with the Panthers surprising the Bearcats with a 4-0 win. [...]

Drury Panthers Signing Class for 2011

Mike Lee, CBC (2011)

Drury men’s soccer coach Ryan Swan has announced a nine-player recruiting class of incoming Panthers for the 2011 season. The Panthers are coming off an 11-7-0 campaign in 2010 that included a 9-5 record in Great Lakes Valley Conference competition, but lost 12 graduating seniors off that squad. The new Drury players for the upcoming [...]

Kickapoo Hosts Central

Alaina Jones, GK - Central Bulldogs (2013)

One game today, varsity only at 6pm at Kickapoo Kickapoo Chiefs – 10 Central Bulldogs – 0 Marin Gelsheimer broke a scoreless deadlock late in the first half with a 25 yard shot into the upper right corner, opening up the floodgates.

Missouri Class 3 Southwest Regional Soccer Poll

Courtney Frerichs, Nixa Eagles (2011)

The first Class 3 Regional poll, covering Districts 11 and 12. Parkview has moved to District 12 this season and shows up in this Regional poll ahead of Willard, defending District 12 champions. 1. Nixa (38) 4-0 2. Glendale (32) 1-0 3. Kickapoo (24) 2-3 4. Ozark (13) 2-2 5. Parkview (5) 2-1