The District tournament will be held at Cooper Sports Complex, hosted by the Greenwood Blue Jays. A play-in game on Saturday October 29th will be followed by the semifinal games scheduled for November 1st. The Final will be on November 2nd.
Seed School Record
1 Springfield Catholic (20-0-1)
2 Greenwood (9-9-1)
3 College Heights Christian (18-5)
4 New Covenant Academy (5-13-1)
5 Thomas Jefferson Independent (8-6)
Saturday Oct 29th at 10:00 AM
#4 New Covenant Warriors -
#5 Thomas Jefferson Cavaliers –
Tuesday November 1st at 4:30 PM
# 1 Springfield Catholic –
#4 New Covenant Warriors/#5 Thomas Jefferson Cavaliers winner -
Tuesday November 1st at 4:30 PM
#2 Greenwood Blue Jays –
#3 College Heights Cougars -
Nice story about the Tigers who reached the Quarterfinals last year, losing to Rock Bridge at Columbia. Click on the link to be taken to the video.
Head Coach Jacob Osborne deserves a lot of credit for creating the environment the Tigers needed to re-establish the winning tradition at Carthage, with District titles the past three years. Ismael Serratos, featured in the video, won a State Championship this Summer playing forward for the Springfield SC squad at the Missouri State Cup.
The population of Carthage, Mo., is nearly 70 percent white. The soccer team at Carthage (Mo.) is 100 percent Latino. Coach Jacob Osborne and starters Carlos Luna and Ismael Serratos talk about playing on a team with a racial makeup disproportionate to that of their school and town.
Congratulations to the Bears on their great win at home last night. Wish I didn’t have to leave Springfield for them to get over that hump!
The historic win can be viewed on Mediacom, channel 22 on Friday, October 14 at 7 p.m., Sunday, October 16 at 1 p.m. and Tuesday, October 18 at 4 p.m. In addition, the replay of the game will be made available on Mediacom On-Demand. The only other televised Missouri State men’s soccer game was the MSU 5-0 win over Texas-Pan American on October 10, 1996 at Cooper Field.
From MissouriStateBears.com – In its first-ever win over a top-five opponent, the Missouri State men’s soccer team (4-5-2, 2-0 Missouri Valley Conference) upset No. 4 Creighton (10-2, 0-1 MVC) in a 1-0 shutout on Wednesday at Plaster Field. The Bears have won three out of the past four matches and registered their second shutout of the season.
“The defense came out prepared, they were organized, played tight zones,” said head coach Jon Leamy. “That’s how we got the first goal. Heath pressured well, got mixed up with their goalkeeper and buried it and put us on top. It’s a big win for us.”
Missouri State’s game-winner came halfway through the first half on a Creighton defensive breakdown. A ricocheted ball off of Bluejay goalkeeper Brian Holt conveniently made its way back to Heath Melugin who took full advantage of the blunder. From 15 yards out, the senior midfielder chipped the ball into a wide open net to put the Bears up 1-0 in the 23rd minute. Melugin has now scored in two consecutive matches and moved into the team lead in points with seven and tied for the team lead in goals with two.
The standings for the COC Large School division show a horse race between the Nixa Eagles and Carthage Tigers, as has been the case the last three years if memory serves.
The match up between these two teams is Thursday evening at Nixa. Approximate start time 6:15 pm.
Here’s the short list. For more details, such as Nixa’s 33 goals for, 0 against in COC Soccer action, scroll the embedded document.
2011 Central Ozarks Conference Soccer Large School Standings
Team COC Record Overall Record
1. Nixa 5-0 15-0
1. Carthage 5-0 9-3
3. Ozark 3-2 7-9
3. Neosho 3-2 4-5
5. Willard 2-3 4-8
6. Republic 1-4 2-12
7. Branson 0-4 2-6-1
7. Webb City 0-4 3-10
Coming soon to a theater near you in St Louis, Kansas City, Columbia, Jefferson City, Liberty and Leawood, KS (sorry Springfield) is Rise & Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story.
The movie is the true story of a young American’s impossible journey – a journey never experienced or heard of in the soccer world. After college, Jay’s dream of playing pro soccer in Europe seemed unreachable. Sleeping in an attic, painting houses and eating beans and toast to survive, Jay took the most unlikely route to the top. After not making the professional leagues in the U.S., Jay left for Europe at the age of 21 without any professional experience – only a passport, $1800 and a backpack full of dreams.
The film documents Jay’s journey from the bottom – playing in Sunday park leagues and lower level division London clubs earning 40 pounds a week – to playing in the English Premier League – to starting in the world’s greatest sports stage – the 2010 World Cup. The Jay DeMerit Story is a story of perseverance, hard work and relentless belief in a dream…it is a story that needs to be told.
The film’s producers also are asking fans to help promote their local screenings and have created a promotional media packet that is available on the movie’s website. If I were running a club in Springfield, I’d be reaching out to Campbell 16 and B&B Theaters in Ozark about setting up a screening since both chains are premiering the film at multiple locations in the state.
What: St. Louis Premiere of Rise & Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story
When: Thursday, November 3 · 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Where: Wehrenberg Ronnies 20 Cine’
5320 S Lindbergh Blvd, Saint Louis, MO
