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 [...]

2009 Missouri Class 1 High School Girls All-State Teams

Co-Player of the Year – Courtney Besand, St. Vincent Co-Player of the Year – Alicia Vonderheid, Trinity Offensive POY – Tillie Bill, Southern Boone Co-Defensive POY – Justine Dover, Sacred Heart Co-Defensive POY – Emily McMeekin, Barstow Goalkeeper POY – Taylor Zerbe, Trinity Private Coach of the Year – Dustin Wengert, St. Vincent Public Coach [...]

2009 Missouri Class 1 Central And Southwest All-Region Team

Player of the Year: Tillie Bill, Southern Boone Co-Offensive POY: Shelby Hatz, Springfield Catholic Co-Offensive POY: Natalie Smid, Springfield Catholic Co-Defensive POY: Rebecca Mayus, Springfield Catholic Co-Defensive POY: Carsen Baron, Springfield Catholic Goalkeeper of the Year: Rebekah Dowd, Southern Boone COY-Private: Ben Timson, Springfield Catholic COY-Public: Chris Miller, Southern Boone Position Player Year School D [...]

2009 Central Ozarks Conference Girls Soccer All-Conference Team

All Central Ozarks Conference 1st Team Maddy Renner, Senior, Midfielder, Catholic Shelby Hatz, Sophomore, Forward, Catholic Rebecca Mayus, Sophomore, Defender, Catholic Natalie Smid, Sophomore, Midfielder, Catholic Jody McFarlen, Senior, Forward, Bolivar Sara Scott, Senior, Goalkeeper, Bolivar Jonna Welch, Sophomore, Forward, Bolivar Ashley Honeycutt, Junior, Defender, Marshfield Alex Cantrell, Sophomore, Midfielder, Marshfield Michelle Crawford, Senior, Forward, [...]

Missouri High School Girls Soccer: Class 1 Quarterfinals

Springfield Catholic – 2 Southern Boone Eagles – 1 Sophomore Natalie Smid scores early in the 1st half, and later assists Jessica Bowman who scores in the 26th, helping to send Catholic to the Final 4 for the first time since 2002. Southern Boone gets a goal by captain Tillie Bill in the 68th minute. [...]

Missouri High School Girls Soccer: Class 1 District 6 Semifinal Round

#3 McAuley Warriors – 4 #2 Greenwood Blue Jays – 3 In a game that mirrors the regular season match up between these two schools, it was McAuley that storms back from a 3-1 deficit to first tie, and finally win the match this evening. A replica of Greenwood’s results at McAuley in late April. [...]

Tuesday’s Southwest Missouri Girls High School Soccer Report

Neosho Wildcats – 2 (2nd OT) Willard Tigers – 1 With a lineup loaded with seniors, including captain Shelby Murray (#4, pictured on the ball), the Wildcats are off to their best start in recent memory winning their 3rd game in 4 days following a 2-0-1 weekend in Christian County. The Wildcats opened the scoring [...]

Logan-Rogersville Wildcats Win 1st Game In 2nd OT

Logan-Rogersville Wildcats – 2 (2nd OT) Carthage Tigers – 1 The Wildcats earned their first win in their first game Monday on a set piece midway through the second overtime period. It was scored by junior Najee Donson (otherwise known as babbiboo32), on a shot just inside the 6-yard box, after a fine cross by [...]

Springfield Catholic Wins Class 1 District 12 Title

I’ll let the Bolivar Liberator website tell the story It took Catholic 60 minutes to score the winning goal against a stingy Liberator defense tonight in the class 1 district final. Tara Bailes scored the game winner with a penalty kick shot. The call and the goal took the momentum away from the Lady Liberators [...]

Waynesville Tigers Continue Their Run Through SW Region

Waynesville Tigers – 4 Springfield Catholic – 2 3 It was an offensive battle at the Irish field Tuesday evening with all of the goals, save one, scored in the first half. Catholic’s dynamic freshman forward Shelby Hatz, assisted by Rachel Herron, gave the home team their only advantage on the evening in the 7th [...]

Springfield Catholic Wins in PK’s Over Glendale Falcons

Springfield Catholic – 2 (PK’s) Glendale Falcons – 1 In one of the most competitive and entertaining games of this season, the Southeast side rivals went toe-to-toe this evening in a classic battle. With the wind at their backs to start the game, Catholic applied plenty of pressure and had the first real opportunity when [...]

Tuesday Game Reports

Waynesville Tigers – 4 Joplin Eagles – 0 Rolla Bulldogs – 4 Lebanon Yellowjackets – 0 Junior Ashley Kerr opened the scoring with a goal in the 36th minute from a long throw by senior Kaitlin Bramel for what turned out to be the game-winning goal. In the second half, Sophomore Jaclyn Standfast scored a [...]