Missouri High School Soccer: Girls Class 1 District 11 Preview

Rebecca Mayus, Springfield Catholic (2011)

Girls soccer has a new alignment this year. For those who missed my earlier story, MSHSAA has set up three equal classes with 16 Districts each (8 previously in Class 1 and 2). The intent is to offer Sectional and Quarterfinal games for every class. That also means there are twice as many District Champions [...]

Girls Season Begins In 4 Weeks

Natalie Smid celebrates Bekah Bade's game-winner

The final Club tournaments of the season wrapped up yesterday, with over 100 area girls from three Clubs (Springfield SC, Missouri Elite FC and Total Prodigy) competing in the Showcase of the South. Gorgeous weather and pretty good results in Little Rock for our girls, look for reports as they come in. Now they focus [...]

Missouri Class 1 Girls Soccer Southwest/Central Regional Honors

Tillie Bill, Southern Boone Co Eagles (2010)

The Missouri Soccer Coaches Association has released their Class 1 Southwest/Central Regional Honors Player of the Year – Tillie Bill, Southern Boone Co-Offensive Players of the Year – Shelby Hatz and Natalie Smid, Springfield Catholic Co-Defensive Players of the Year – Carsen Baron and Rebecca Mayus, Springfield Catholic Co-Goalkeepers of the Year – Rachel Scott [...]

Maddy Esther and 10 Catholic Players Are Class 1 All-State

Springfield Catholic Girls Soccer, 2010 State Champions

The Missouri Soccer Coaches Association has release their 2010 Girls Class 1 All-State recognition. Player of the Year – Tillie Bill, Southern Boone Offensive Player of the Year – Abby Lappe, St. Vincent Co-Defensive Player of the Year – Carsen Baron and Rebecca Mayus, Springfield Catholic Goalkeeper of the Year – Taylor Zerbe, Trinity Coach [...]

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 [...]

What’s Coming – All Stars, Stats, District Recognition

Just a heads up on a few things to look for. I’m working hard to 1. Get the Girls Southwest All-Stars announcement done soon. Another day or two! 2. District, Conference and Regional recognition should start trickling out. The Coaches don’t release District until all teams in the District are done playing so some of [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

SGFsoccer.com Names First All-Ozarks Freshman Squad

A common theme the past two seasons has been the increasing quality of the players who are advancing to the high school ranks. I wrote about it May 1st when I interviewed Natalie Smid and Rachel Scott of Springfield Catholic. I still remember the job that Ozark’s freshman did last year when the Tigers Opened [...]

Waynesville Tigers Earn Second Straight Ozark Conference Crown

Waynesville Tigers – 7 Parkview Vikings – 0 Katie Pritchard scored 4 goals this evening, reaching a regional milestone. She now has 167 goals for her career, tying her with Anne Felts of the Rolla Bulldogs as the most prolific scorer in Southwest Missouri. Michaele Fulmer of KC O’Hara owns the state record with 204 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Springfield Catholic Irish Shut Out Kickapoo Chiefs

It can’t be called a surprise, or even an upset necessarily, but the Class 1 Springfield Catholic squad visited their Class 2 neighbors and earned a 1-0 victory tonight. The goal was scored by senior Anne Prenger, on a 50 yard direct kick that appeared to surprise the Kickapoo goalkeeper, dropping in front of her [...]

Missouri Girls Soccer Statewide Preseason Poll Results

GIRLS SOCCER PRESEASON POLL (03-14-08) Class 2 Rank Team Points 1 Incarnate Word Academy (5) 103 2 St. Teresa’s (2) 94 3 Nerinx Hall 85 4 St. Joe’s Academy 82 5 Lee’s Summit North 70 6 Lafayette 66 7 Ft. Zumwalt West 65 8 Ursuline 53 9 Cor Jesu 31 10 Hazelwood West 30 11 [...]