Missouri Class 1 Girls Soccer – Catholic vs Trinity In The Final

Natalie Smid and Shelby Hatz celebrate the game-winning goal

Springfield Catholic – 1 St Vincent Indians – 0 Words can’t do justice to the game played today by the Fightin’ Irish. Coach Ben Timson called upon 17 players today and each brought their A game, consistently battling for 50/50 balls and making the run to support their teammates. Led in the middle by Natalie [...]

Class 1 District 6 – Catholic Advances To Quarterfinals

Shelby Hatz, Catholic (2011) after scoring game winner

At Springfield Catholic HS #1 Springfield Catholic – 4 #2 Greenwood Blue Jays – 0 The Fightin’ Irish turned up their offensive engines early as the Jay’s opened with their most important field player in goal this evening. The rivalry always leads to a hard fought game and while Shelby Hatz slotted home what would [...]

Springfield Catholic Wins, Ole Feels Reflective

Friday Night At JFK Stadium

Springfield Catholic – 3 Kickapoo Chiefs – 1 Despite the weather, there was a nice crowd out this evening for the annual derby between Catholic and Kickapoo. Once again the Chief’s tested their opponent early and it took a quality save by Rachel Cook, pushing McKenna Adam’s hard shot over the crossbar in the first [...]

Tuesday Soccer Report

Bekah Bade, Catholic scoring from a corner kick

Springfield Catholic – 10 Neosho Wildcats – 0 The Wildcats ran into a buzzsaw tonight at Cooper #1 as the Irish wasted no time attacking the goal, scoring 3 goals in the first 10 minutes. The scoring pace slowed but the game still finished in the 60th minute this evening as Bekah Bade slotted in [...]

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 Final

Springfield Catholic Fightin’ Irish – 7 Joplin McAuley Warriors – 1 7th Shelby Hatz runs onto a cross by Maddy Rennet to open the scoring 17th Hatz again, on a breakaway after a bad bounce puts a ball thru the defense near midfield 25th Smid one times a ball from the spot, from a cross [...]

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. [...]

Wednesday’s Southwest Missouri High School Girls Soccer Report

Catholic Fightin’ Irish – 1 Greenwood Blue Jays – 0 In a tight game that saw both teams getting into their opponents box, it was a set piece that made the difference in the first half. At the midway mark, Catholics Natalie Smid’s corner kick fell into a crowd near the back post and it [...]

Tuesday Ozark Conference High School Girls Soccer Report

Glendale Falcons vs Rolla Bulldogs – will be played tomorrow at 5pm Mt View Liberty Eagles – 7 Pleasant Hope Pirates – 3 With only 9 players, the Eagles went out and got the victory last night. While the Coach wanted to forfeit, the Kids said No…. Emmie Vines scored 4 and Shelly Renegar scored [...]

Tuesday’s Southwest Missouri High School Girls Soccer Report

The Waynesville vs Joplin game scheduled for today was canceled due to the services for Waynesville’s Patrick Clegg. A make up date will be announced soon. Lebanon Yellowjackets – 1 Rolla Bulldogs – 0 The game-winning goal was scored by Hannah Winkel with 5 minutes left, assisted by Emily Boyer. The Yellowjackets accomplished step one [...]

Thursday High School Girls Soccer Report

For those of you sneaking peeks during commercials of the Mizzou game, sorry for the lack of photos. Flickr got 98% done and stalled, so I left my office. This is getting updated at Maria’s with a traditional margarita and the Mizzou game to keep me company – go Memphis (says the UMR grad). I’ll [...]