Harrison Stadium

The Class 3 game between Glendale and Parkview will be played at Harrison Stadium, a 6pm 4pm start time.

The Class 2 game between Logan-Rogersville and Harrisonville will be played at Logan-Rogersville High School, a 5:30 4:00 pm start time (although I’m betting on a change due to field conditions!) Highway 60 East to Highway 125, go North about 1/2 mile, go past the High School and turn right on Farm Road 174 and then pull into the parking lot which is the first right. You’ll avoid a speed-bump laden parking lot route that way.

The Class 1 game between Springfield Catholic and Dixon is being played at Dixon High School, a 4:30 pm start time. Looks like it must be a scenic drive North on Highway 28, from I-44.

Glendale Falcons, 2011 District 11 Champions

UPDATE3 – District 11 game at Ozark now scheduled for 6pm (started at 5:45 pm, no notice from Ozark on change until I was on the road).
UPDATE2 – The District 10 game at Camdenton has been moved again, this time to Saturday May 21st at 2:00 pm.
UPDATE – The game at Ozark High School has been moved to 4pm today. The rematch, the one for all the marbles, grab your favorite sports cliches folks. Ozark will be live streaming the game – SpringfieldWebTV

Highlights should be available on KY3 and KOLR10 tonight!

District 11: at Ozark High School
#1 Glendale Falcons – 2
#2 Nixa Eagles – 0
A six minute stretch late in the 2nd half sent Glendale past Nixa into the Sectionals for the third time in four years for the senior class. It was not the seniors who struck the decisive blow however but a pair of sophomores. Allison Yoakam, toiling in the background of her dynamic midfield teammates, Brewer and Opfer, all season got the game winner in the 60th minute this evening when her surprising shot from 30 yards was mis-handled and fell across the endline. Senior keeper Kristin Miller then was lost for the remainder of the game four minutes later while diving to make a save.

Sophomore Drianna Raff got the important second goal in the 66th as she out-raced her defender down the left side and ran onto a square ball, one-timing her shot with the outside of her foot and watching it curl away from freshman Alexi Stagner and into the far side netting.

The loss of Miller, with the resultant downtime so soon after the first goal, meant that the Eagles were not playing with the same focus and intensity they had brought to the game to that point. That was not the case earlier after a direct red card to sweeper Abbie Turnbull 3 1/2 minutes into the second half, when a long ball took an unexpected bounce and sent Emily Cline into the attack, leading to a tripping foul in the box. The resultant PK was sent high by Molly Brewer and the Eagles returned to the attack mode that showed they had learned their lessons well during the season.

Both teams had shots ring off the crossbar in tonight’s game, with Glendale getting one from Cline in the first 10 minutes, later Alix Opfer had one shortly before the penalty kick opportunity. Nixa’s Lauren Moats had one in the first half and this was a game that Nixa could have won as they worked the wings extremely well and avoided Glendale’s strength down the middle.

It was only the second game that senior Emily Cline has NOT scored in, the other being the final regular season game against Catholic. It’s a very positive sign for the Falcon’s graduating class in their efforts to reach the Final 4 a second time.

For the Eagle’s, it’s the first of several likely challenges they will face with the Falcon’s in the coming years. While last year’s run was aided and abetted by some good luck, including beating the Parkview Vikings in a similar fashion to their loss tonight – a proven senior GK giving up an unexpected goal – the future looks very bright. Monday night their Middle School team will play in the Final for the 3rd straight year, this time against Pershing, a feeder school for Glendale. The underclassmen now know the feelings of joy, and pain, and that will only fuel the off-season efforts to a greater level.

Glendale will host Parkview on Tuesday May 24th in the Sectional

The Kansas City area representatives will be narrowed as well, determining the State Semifinal opponent.

District 15: at Park Hill South
#1 Park Hill South Panthers – 5
#3 Truman Patriots – 1

The winner faces the defending State Champion Liberty Jays on Tuesday. The other Sectional features Lees Summit North at Lee’s Summit West.
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One District Title game remains to complete the Southwest region playoff picture.

District 9: at Moberly, 5:00 pm
#1 Moberly Spartans -
#3 Hannibal Pirates -

The winner will host Helias Catholic in a Sectional game on Tuesday May 24th.

The Logan-Rogersville Wildcats, a fourth year program that won their first ever District title with their win over Marshfield and a group of six seniors who have been part of the team the entire period, will host the Harrisonville Wildcats in the other Sectional. Tuesday May 24th as well.