Tom Davidson, Ozark Tigers, Reaches 600 Wins

Tom Davidson, and daughter Morgan, Ozark Tigers (2011 May)

Congratulations to Coach Tom Davidson on reaching 600 wins in his career tonight. He came into the game with an 8-7 record this season, his fourth with the Lady Ozark Tigers who also delivered his 500th win. Tom earned his 500th victory on April 1st, 2008 when the Tigers defeated the visiting Catholic Fightin’ Irish [...]

6th Annual Southwest All-Star Game Tonight!

Join us for tonight’s High School All-Star game, being hosted at Springfield Catholic High School for the first time. The game features the best graduating high school seniors in this region, as chosen by Steve Ole Olson of SGFsoccer.com, who covered over 50 games this Spring season, and Eric Sorlie of Springfield SC. Nominations were [...]

Republic Tigers Hire Mike Hines As Soccer Coach

Coach Mike Hines, kneeling with Coach Hodge and Lentz

The Kickapoo Chiefs have offered a second coach to the regional ranks with long-time assistant Mike Hines hiring as the Head Coach for the Republic Tigers. Hines will move from the Brown and Gold to the Orange and Black at Republic High School. The Ozark Tigers were the most recent beneficiaries of Kickapoo’s largess when [...]

Southwest Soccer All-Stars Take The Field This Evening

UPDATE – the games will be played tonight. A little rain won’t stop us. Lightning and flooding would but I suspect we’ll avoid those possibilities and will enjoy the cooling effect a bit of rain will offer. We’ve got a full day today folks. Turn your radio on this morning, Thursday at 9:30am. Catch All-Stars [...]

Nelson Morgan – A Pulaski County Soccer Pioneer

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A son’s letter… The people who founded youth soccer, maintained it and now run it in the Waynesville-St.Robert area are numerous and otherwise unrecognized volunteers. Richland, Laquey, Dixon, and Crocker all owe a debt of gratitude to these people, for creating local interest in the sport and guiding them in the creation of their own [...]

This Week in Springfield Soccer

My first priority this week is to be around to take in Tom Davidson’s 500th career win. The Tigers host West Plain’s tonight at 4:30 pm so that’s where I’ll start. Nick Schmitt will once again offer an in-depth article on Tom’s career so look for that this week as well. The latest info I’ve [...]

Ozark Tigers Defeat Harrison Goblins

The Lady Tigers shook off the cold and a tenacious Lady Goblins squad to even their record this season at 1-1. The 2-1 win came as a result of a pair of goals by sophomore Megan Gunnells, both created and assisted by senior Erica Hogan (pictured). The first came in the 31st minute as Hogan [...]

Springfield Soccer Weekend Update

It’s my anniversary folks. Not directly, the calender never quite cooperates. How can Easter be over already? I’m entering my 4th year of coverage of high school, club and college soccer in the region with tonights game between Springfield Catholic and Kickapoo. It was the first game I covered in 2005 when I started this [...]

This Week In Springfield MO Soccer

Rolla Bulldogs

Welcome to Spring soccer folks. The girls high school season is scheduled to begin this evening with Jefferson City Helias visiting Lebanon to take on the Yellowjackets. If the weather cooperates. I’m still working on getting schedules into my calendar so I can begin regular coverage but there’s one important story to point to this [...]

A Call to Service – High School Soccer Referees Needed

This story has been contributed by Tom Davidson, Head Coach at Ozark High School. I have had the privilege of coaching our great game at the high school level for 17 wonderful years. In that time I have seen several different changes. One area I have seen very little change is in our current referee [...]

NSCAA Convention 2008 – Rogers, Howard & Davidson

NSCAA Convention 2007 - Rogers, Davidson & Howard

It’s that time of year again. The NSCAA Convention just ended and the Ozark Conference was well represented. Jeff Rogers (Glendale), Mike Howard (Rolla) and Tom Davidson (Ozark) are pictured at the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Annual Convention which was held in Baltimore, Maryland again this year. Jeff, Mike and Tom…The 3 most [...]