Central Ozark All-Conference Soccer Honors, Small Schools

Carsen Baron, Springfield Catholic (2011)

The Missouri Soccer Coaches Association has released their All-Conference Honors for the Small School division of the Central Ozark Conference. The division includes the Class 1 and Class 2 schools that compete in the Central Ozark Conference in Girls soccer. It includes Bolivar, Springfield Catholic, Logan-Rogersville, Marshfield,

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 [...]

Central Federal Rolla Invitational Captured By Catholic

Catholic at Rolla (2008)

The shortened tournament (2 days to 1, 6 games to 4) crowned a champion via points with Springfield Catholic coming out on top. All four teams were 1-1, so a dominant team was not identified at this early stage of the season. Rolla Bulldogs – 0 Washington Blue Jays – 2 Hickman Kewpies – 2 [...]

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 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. [...]

Tuesday Ozarks High School Girls Soccer Report

Parkview Vikings – 4 Joplin Eagles – 0 The first goal of the match game from Shelby Stewart on a shot from distance that snuck in, giving the Vikings a 1-0 lead. Later in the first half Melanie Allen crossed a great ball to Jessica Maerz who was running on and struck the ball into [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Glendale Falcons And Springfield Catholic Advance To Quarterfinal Round

Glendale Falcons – 5 Ozark Tigers – 0 The game opened today in front of a large crowd, happy to be in the sunshine, evenly split between fans of the traditional power and the new upstart coached by a regional icon. With the wind at their back, and memories of their 0-3 loss April 25th [...]