Ben Timson Named NSCAA Coach of the Year

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Girls Private-Parochial – Ben Timson, Springfield Catholic High School (Mo.) Timson’s team posted a 23-4 record on the way to its second consecutive Missouri Class 1 state championship. In the past two seasons the team has a combined record of 44-9-1 and has reached the state semifinals each of the past three years. This video [...]

Southwest Missouri All-Star Soccer Game Rosters Announced

2006 All-Stars from Joplin and Neosho

The 7th Annual All-Star game is being played at the Greenwood Stadium Field at the Cooper Soccer Complex Thursday June 23rd. There will be two games, a Girls game beginning at 6:00 pm followed by the Boys game at 8:00 pm. The rosters for the game have just been released with a new color scheme [...]

6th Annual Southwest All-Star Game Tonight!

Join us for tonight’s High School All-Star game, being hosted at Springfield Catholic High School for the first time. The game features the best graduating high school seniors in this region, as chosen by Steve Ole Olson of SGFsoccer.com, who covered over 50 games this Spring season, and Eric Sorlie of Springfield SC. Nominations were [...]

Head Coach Ben Timson On Catholic’s State Title

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Head Coach Ben Timson and I took some time after the celebrations on Saturday to discuss his title-winning squad and its traditions. It’s a history that stretches back to 1998, very early in Southwest Missouri annals although not the first. I believe that belongs to the Rolla Bulldogs who first kicked off in 1996. The [...]

Missouri High School Girls Soccer Opens At Springfield Catholic

Head Coach Ben Timson with Jessica Smits (back left)

Spring sports opened across the State on Monday and I made my inaugural trip of the season to see Springfield Catholic, last seen capturing 3rd Place in Class 1 in June 2009. While we might argue the semantics of Spring in the Ozarks right now, with temperatures dropping rapidly during practice, the quality of the [...]

Southwest Soccer All-Stars Take The Field This Evening

UPDATE – the games will be played tonight. A little rain won’t stop us. Lightning and flooding would but I suspect we’ll avoid those possibilities and will enjoy the cooling effect a bit of rain will offer. We’ve got a full day today folks. Turn your radio on this morning, Thursday at 9:30am. Catch All-Stars [...]

May Day And Blossoming Freshman

Fortunately for me, I’ve discovered that the majority of you don’t come here because of my journalistic skills. We know newspapers are dying, so I am here cover the game we love and that’s good enough for you. That is all to explain my feeble attempt at a May Day (and the day is a [...]

Anne Prenger Signs With Missouri-St Louis Tritons

As noted earlier this month, Springfield Catholic’s two senior girls signed to play college soccer. Anne Prenger will be competing in the Great Lakes Valley Conference while representing the UMSL Tritons, where she’ll play for Coach Beth Goetz. Here are Coach Goetz’s comments on Anne: We’ve been following Anne a bit for the last two [...]