Missouri State Lady Bears Spring Season

Missouri State Bears vs Missouri S&T

The Lady Bears opened their Spring season this afternoon with 90 minutes of soccer on the fast and windy Plaster Stadium pitch. Facing off against D2 Missouri S&T, the Spring season allows the teams to work on some projects and take out their energy against another team rather than their teammates. Working in three 30 [...]

Overtime Penalty Kick Ends Women’s Soccer Season in MVC Championship Match

Ashley Washburn, Missouri State Bears (2014)

OMAHA, Neb. – The Missouri State women’s soccer team (10-6-3, 4-1-1) battled the top-seeded Creighton Bluejays (15-3-2, 5-1-0) into overtime of the MVC Tournament Championship match in Omaha, Neb. on Sunday afternoon. Creighton’s Erin Gunther scored on a penalty kick in the 98th minute to give the Bluejays the title and a 2-1 win. Tara [...]

Missouri State Lady Bears Soccer Undefeated In Conference

Jessica Teahan, Missouri State Bears (2012) grabs the ball

NORMAL, Ill. – The Missouri State women’s soccer team (8-4-2, 2-0-1) battled the preseason conference favorite Illinois State (5-6-1, 1-1-1) to a scoreless draw in Normal, Ill., on Sunday afternoon. Missouri State junior goalkeeper Jessica Teahan saved all six shots she faced. The shutout is her fourth of the season and 11th of her career [...]

Missouri State Bears Fall At North Texas, Play Friday At Home

Brooke Williams, Missouri State Bears (2014)

DENTON, Texas – The Missouri State women’s soccer team dropped its season opening match at North Texas, 2-1, this afternoon in Denton, Texas. With temperatures near 100 degrees and heat indices even higher, the Bears battled the Mean Green and the elements to open the season. It didn’t take the Bears long as freshman Brooke [...]

Shelby Stewart Named Female High School Athlete of the Year

Parkview Vikings, April 2010

Stewart has been named Female Prep Athlete of the Year by the News-Leader high school sports reporters. Shelby is #21 in this photo, with Melanie Allen, Holly Messick, Jessica Maerz & Kelsey Loderhose in the background, seen celebrating a late game-winner over Camdenton in April this year. In addition to her skill, Stewart, a forward [...]

Congratulations To Aiken, Stewart and Donson

The High School basketball All-Star game was played Saturday. The teams are split between City schools and Area schools. There were three Southwest Soccer All-Stars who also played in the basketball event. Chris Aiken, Greenwood Blue Jays, played for the City team which won 97-95 after three OT’s. Doesn’t look like Chris scored in the [...]

Jess Maerz Named POY In Ozark Conference Girls Soccer

COACH of YEAR – Clint Nurnberg, Parkview Vikings PLAYER of YEAR – Jessica Maerz, Senior midfielder, Parkview Vikings

Missouri Class 3 All-District 11 Girls Soccer Honors

Lauren Moats, Nixa Eagles (2012)

2010 Class 3 All-District 11 Girls Soccer Teams Coach Of the Year – Evan Palmer * Player Of the Year – Lauren Moats * Defensive Player of the Year – Kristin Miller Offensive Player of the Year – Emily Cline Keeper Player of the Year – Paige Hemphill * Represents a Unanimous selection *

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 [...]

Big O Sports Features The Parkview Vikings

Kelsey Loderhose, Parkview Vikings (2011)

Nice to see the local sports magazine feature the Girls High School game. Writer Logan Hoffman (Drury 2008) offers a look at the team and one of it’s key players, Jessica Maerz, in a story on pages 26-27. Click on this link and then navigate to the page to read the story. As Jessica notes, [...]

Ozark Conference Girls Soccer – Parkview Remains Undefeated

Kaylee Stephens (2011) battles Anna Withers (2011)

Kickapoo Chiefs – 1 Parkview Vikings – 2 (2nd OT) In a game that probably sealed Parkviews position not only at the top of the Ozark Conference (now 6-0) but also a Top 2 seed within Class 3 District 11, the Vikings defense continued to flex but not break while the offense came through in [...]

Ozark Conference Girls Soccer – Vikings Remain On Top

Parkview Vikings Celebrate Jessica Maerz (#9) game-winner

Parkview Vikings – 2 Camdenton Lakers – 1 Camdenton’s Ashleigh Paschel opened the scoring, placing a shot into the left side-netting about 10 minutes into the first half. Parkview tied the game about five minutes later, with Shelby Stewart sprinting onto an Anna Withers through ball and touching the ball past the Camdenton keeper then [...]

Monday Soccer – West Plains Surprises Marshfield

Caylin Manary, Parkview Vikings (2010)

Marshfield Blue Jays – 0 West Plains Zizzers – 1 (2nd OT) She’s back! Sophomore Tasha Ugbah, who played a 10 minute shift in the second half for her first minutes of the season, came on at the start of the second overtime in the scoreless tie at Marshfield and got the game winner in [...]

Tuesday Ozarks Conference Soccer

Bailey Millington (Glendale 2010) challenged by Katie Shannon (West Plains 2010)

Glendale Falcons – 3 West Plains Zizzers – 0 The Falcon’s offense came out with their usual flair this evening but keeper Sammi Phegley and her defense applied some old-fashioned elbow grease to their effort and were rewarded with some luck as well. Freshman Courtney Cox cleared a ball off the line minutes into the [...]

Friday High School Soccer – Vikings And Zizzers Win

Parkview vs Greenwood, April 2010 by J George III

Parkview Vikings – 4 Greenwood Blue Jays – 1 Parkview got first-half goals from junior Molly Robb and senior Shelby Stewart, but still found themselves chasing the ball at times due to effective ball movement through the Greenwood midfield. Greenwood senior Maddy Esther capitalized at the end of the first half, beating a Parkview defender [...]