From the monthly archives: "August 2012"
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Ozark Tigers block Glendale

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The Ozark Tigers played host Thursday night to the visiting Glendale Falcons from Springfield MO.

It was a warm, windy night as the first wave of Tropical Storm Issac was entering the Ozarks area. The Tigers were preparing to play their second game of the season.  Glendale was opening their Fall season with only five returning players from last year’s Varsity team.

After Glendale allowed an early goal off a scrambled ball in the box, that was headed into the net by Ozark Sophomore Hunter Wallace in the sixth minute, the first half came to a close with the score Ozark 1, Glendale 0.

Glendale’s Head Coach Jeff Rogers must have given his boys a lively talk during the break, as Glendale came out swarming the Ozark back line and goal keeper in the second half.

T.J Shelton GK Ozark, stops a ball shot by Glendale’s #10 Andy Hill.

Ozark’s regular starting goal keeper, Junior Hunter Earnest, was setting the game out after he hyper-extended his right arm earlier in the week.  No worries tonight though,  as Freshman Keeper TJ Shelton stopped the Falcon storm dead in its’ tracks.  TJ stopped 12 shots on goal in the second half to give Ozark it’s second victory of the season.

Ozark Head Coach Tom Davidson was pleased with the way his team played Thursday evening.  ”After playing a very even first half, we just couldn’t get the ball out of the back field in the second half. I give Glendale alot of credit for the way they played in the second half.  So much of soccer is about getting a result.”  Ozark certainly got the result.

Ozark’s Jakob Neidig #9 and Glendale’s Evan Garrad #23 both go for the ball.

TJ Shelton is the Soccer In The Ozarks man of the match.

The Ozark Tigers will face the Parkview Vikings on September 5th at 6:30 in Sprinfield, MO.  Glendale plays Pembroke Hill on Friday August 31st at 7:00 pm on the new artificial turf at Glendale High School.

High School Boys Soccer Scores

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Thursday saw some great high school boys soccer games in Springfield, MO and the surrounding areas. Here are some of the soccer scores.

Nixa 8, West Plains 1

FIRST  HALF: Nixa Goal 1:  Austin Engleman, assisted by Zac Chism; West Plains Goal  1: Joey Block, unassisted; Nixa Goal 2: Robert Neathery, assisted by Engleman; Nixa Goal 3: Engleman, assisted by Neathery; Nixa Goal 4: Jacob Bratcher, assisted by Chism  SECOND  HALF: Nixa Goal 5: Trustin Baker, assisted by Bratcher; Nixa Goal 6: Chism,  assisted by Quinton Monnig; Nixa Goal 7:   Neathery, assisted by Monnig; Nixa Goal 8: Sebastian Marcos, PK

Nixa is now  1-0,  West Plains is 0-3.
Nixa JV 6, West  Plains 1.  Goals by Trustin Baker (3), Joey Clem, Andrew Brink and Hunter  Powley.  Assists by Lance Moore, Clem (4), and Ryan  Berg.
Nixa takes on  Pembroke Hill at Home on Saturday at 11am, it is a Varsity Only  Contest.
Bolivar 2 Greenwood 1
Bolivar hosted Greenwood this Thursday evening, at 4:30. Bolivar’s first goal came in the 12 minute with a break away by Joey Davolt, the second goal came in the 27 min  by Gage Mossman.  The goal for Greenwood was made in the  43 minute by Nick Hogan, assisted by Skylar O’Neal.  Greenwood’s goalkeeper, Evan Loyd, posted 13 saves, while Bolivar keeper posted 5 saves.
Greenwood next plays Springfield Central on 09/05/12, 4:30pm, at home
Bolivar will play Logan Rogersville on 09/04/12, in Rogersville.
Monett 8 Aurora 0
Monett’s Individual game stats:
# 10 Fransisco Morales had 1 goal and 2 assists
# 11 Eddie Aceves had 3 goals and 1 assist
#4   Juan Salas had 2 goals and 1 assist
#8   Luis Gonzalez has 1 goal and 1 assist
#9   Jario Rueda had 1 goal and 1 assist
Monett will take on Cassville at home on 09/04/12 at 4:30pm.
Aurora will play at Marshfield on 09/06/12 at 5pm
Helias Catholic 5 Camdenton 0
Camdenton will next play at Kickapoo High School on 09/04/12 at 5pm
Helias Catholic plays at home against St. Francia Borgia, 09/06/12 at 7pm.
Fair Grove 2 Marshfield 1
Marshfield will play at Catholic at 4:30 on 09/04/12.
Fair Grove travels to Dixon at play on 09/04/12 at 4:30pm.
Central Springfield 0 Neosho 1
Central will next play away at Greenwood, 09/05/12 at 4:30pm
Neosho will take on Carthage at home on 09/05/12 at 5pm
Willard 0 Joplin 5
Willard takes on Webb City at home, 09/04/12 at 4:30
Joplin will play Waynesville at home, 09/04/12 at 4:30

Springfield Demize Players Sign Pro Contracts

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The Springfield Demize have announced the signing of two players in professional soccer leagues across the pond.  “We are very excited to have two more Demize players playing at the next level.” Stated Chris Hanlon, General Manager of Springfield Demize.

Collin Helmrich, a recent graduate of  Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne (a Division I college in Indiana), came to the Springfield Demize this summer with one goal in mind. He wanted to build his resume over the summer by playing in the United Soccer Leagues, with the hope that it would take him to the next step in his playing career.  Collin not only helped the Springfield Demize to victories over the Des Monies Menace, Colorado Foxes, KC Brass and WSA Winnipeg, but he had five goals and three assists in 15 games played during the 2012 campaign.  Two of his goals were game winners. The most memorable goal coming against the KC Brass in a 2-1 victory at the Overland Park Soccer Complex.  “Collin was a key player in the success the team had this summer, and his attitude and work ethic reflect well on the type of professional player he is on his way to becoming”, added Hanlon.

Collin Helmrich takes the ball against the KC Brass at LCS Cooper 1

During his senior year at IPFW, Collin was named to the All-Summit League First Team.  While starting in all 20 games for IPFW, he recorded eight goals, 21 points and five assists. He ranked second in the Summit League in all three categories this past season.

After finishing the PDL season in July, Collin got an invitational tryout in Iceland with first division side Tindastoll. Collin then signed with Tindastoll (after clicking the link, be sure to have the page translated to English).  This past week Collin recorded another game winning goal for Tindastoll, and was named to the first division’s team of the week. ( Round 18 ).  His four appearances in the league this season, have already netted him two goals.

Peter Higgins, a former Drury soccer standout and Springfield Demize Player, has signed to play professionally in his native Ireland.  The 24-year-old Higgins,  from Kilkenny Ireland, has joined the Waterford United Football Club.

Higgins was a midfielder for the Panthers from 2007-10.  Peter was  a three-time All-Great Lakes Valley Conference selection, and garnered First Team honors as a junior and senior. Higgins started 68 of 69 games in his DU career, finishing with five goals (including four game-winners) and 11 assists. He was instrumental as a junior for a Panthers’ squad that finished 21-2, won the program’s first GLVC Championship and was ranked as high as No. 2 nationally in NCAA Division II.

Peter Higgins

During his collegiate career Peter played for both the Springfield Demize PDL and PASL teams during the 2009 and 2010 seasons.  Peter was also a part of the USL Combine in 2011, where the top 92 PDL players compete for the chance to showcase their skills to top professional teams both in the US and abroad.

When discussing the USL and PDL leagues, Chris Hanlon adds, “The United Soccer League’s Premier Development League can provide the platform for professional claiber players to get exposure at the next level.  A good demonstration of this is last year’s MLS draft saw 2/3 of the selected players with PDL playing experience.  The USL combine is another example of the opportunites that playing for Springfield Demize can provide to southwest Missouri’s top soccer players.”

Congratulations to  both Collin Helmrich and Peter Higgins for achieving their goals!

 

Soccer Score Recaps and Games of Interest

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August 28th High School Boy’s Soccer Scores

Camdenton 4 West Plains 3

Hillcrest 1 Waynesville 5

Lebanon 0 Joplin 7

High School Boy’s Soccer Games for August 30th

Helias Catholic at Camdenton High School   5pm

Glendale at Ozark High School     5pm

Greenwood at Bolivar High School   4:30pm

West Plains at Nixa     4:30pm

Fair Grove at Marshfield     5pm

Aurora at Monett    4:30pm

Carthage at Webb City  5pm

Please check with the school or team website for times,locations,and possible cancellations.

MSU Men’s Soccer Win Over UMKC

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The Missouri State men’s soccer program got its first victory of the 2012 season Tuesday, shutting out UMKC 3-0 on the road at Durwood Soccer Stadium as reported by missouristate.com. With the win, the Bears snapped their two-game losing streak against the Kangaroos and improved their all-time series record to 17-4-0. In the past two meetings, MSU has outscored UMKC 8-1.
Looking to get onto the scoreboard in the 19th minute, midfielder Parker Maher nearly connected from 35 yards out, but hit the crossbar. Seconds after the missed scoring opportunity, junior Jared Gain caught UMKC goalkeeper Connor Sparrow off guard and sent a shot from 25 yards out into the top left corner of the net for the first goal of the evening.
Just 62 seconds later, the Bears were back in UMKC territory and ready to strike again. A series of quick passes from the Bears’ attack led to an open Eric Martin on the play and Missouri State’s second goal. Martin trapped a one-touch pass from Gain and snuck the shot past Sparrow. It was the senior’s first goal of the season and second of his career. Both Gain and sophomore Jack Roberts were credited with an assist.
Missouri State tacked on another goal with 32 seconds remaining in the first period. Freshman Jon Boyack found himself in the right place at the right time as he rebounded a deflected shot inside the box and tapped it in to increase the Bears’ lead to 3-0. Boyack registered his first career goal in a Missouri State uniform.
UMKC looked to get on the board in the second half, but a strong Missouri State defense secured the shutout and denied the Roos’ a goal on seven shot attempts.
Sophomore goalkeeper Andrew Riggs matched a career-high with four saves, three of which came in the first half.
Martin and Maher led the Bears with two shots apiece, while the Kangaroos outshot the victorious Bears 10-7 on Tuesday.
Missouri State returns to the pitch on Friday at the University of Central Arkansas Tournament. The Bears first match of the tourney is set for 1:30 p.m. against Oral Roberts, followed by a Sunday meeting with Lipscomb at 12 p.m.

Springfield Area High School Boys Soccer Scores

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August 27th

Varsity High School Boys

Carl Junction 2 Monett 1

Eddie Aceves scored the goal for Monett.

Middle School Boys:

Cherokee 5, Pershing 2.

Nixa 5, Carver 1.

August 28th

Varsity High School Boys

New Covenant 0, Greenwood 1.

Evan Loyd GK credited with the shutout.

Republic 2, Monett 3

Eddie Aceves, Misael Cordero, and Jario Rueda scored for Monett. Fransisco Morales and Misael Cordero were credited with assists for Monett

Webb City 1  College Heights 6

Chandler Johnson scored for Webb City. Assist goes to Aaron Tappana.

 

Missouri Women’s Soccer Ranked 10th in Nation

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Soccer America’s Top 25 Poll has the Mizzou Tigers Soccer team ranked at #10 this week after a 3-2 win over California, in Berkely California. Missouri was ranked #13 in last weeks Soccer America poll.

The Tigers also come in at 18th in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) poll, 20th in the Soccer Times poll and are ranked as the top team in the South Region by the NSCAA.

Mizzou women’s soccer returns home this weekend for two contests. The Tigers face Arizona State on Friday, Aug. 31 at 6:30 p.m. and Tennessee Tech on Sunday, Sept. 2 at 1 p.m.

Missouri S&T Women’s Soccer Comes to Springfield

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The Missouri S&T Lady Miners open their season this Friday 08/31, at the Drury Invitational. They will play Wayne State at 5pm Friday, at Harrison Stadium. Washburn will be the Lady Miners next opponent at Harrison Stadium at noon on Sunday.

Lady Miner Soccer Coach Joe McCauley offered his insights on this young Lady Miners Team in a recent article on Miner Athletics.com. There are only a handful of returning starters. Almost three quarters of this team’s roster is Freshmen and Sophomores

“It is a young team, but I think we’ve got a strong group of leaders,” he said. “Our chemistry and energy is very good. They’re doing a good job of buying into what we’re trying to do and build from. I think that’s going to help us a lot this year in terms of how we develop the team and grow for the future. These things are going to help put us in position to get back to the conference tournament.”
S&T returns three goalkeepers from last year in sophomores Kaitlyn Deister (St. Louis, Mo./Visitation Academy) and Madison Gibler (Kansas City, Mo./Staley) and redshirt freshman Carrie Levy (Columbia, Mo./Rock Bridge ). Deister appeared in six contests, five of those were starts, going 2-3 with a pair of shutouts and had a goals against average of 1.17. Gibler appeared in two contests and finished with a record of 1-1 in those appearances. Levy and newcomer Karen Nightingale (Ellisville, Mo./Marquette) will also battle for the starting keeper’s job.
The back line will be anchored down by sophomores Kacey Ludwig (McKinney, Texas/McKinney) and Sabrina Hostler (St. Louis, Mo./Cor Jesu Academy). Ludwig appeared in 15 games last season while Hostler, a transfer from Saint Louis University, appeared in 16 games last season for the Billikens making eight starts with a goal and an assist last season.
McCauley feels the midfield will be a strength for the ball club with the veteran presence of seniors Colleen Lewis (St. Louis, Mo./Nerinx Hall Academy) and Lauren Todd (Raytown, Mo./Raytown South). Juniors Kimberly Ekholm (Houston, Texas/Cy-Springs ), Kirstin Kurilla (Edwardsville, Ill./Edwardsville) and Kelsey Salzman (Blue Springs, Mo./Notre Dame de Sion) have played a significant amount of time there as well over the last two seasons. Ekholm and Kurilla each contributed a goal last season while Salzman appeared in all 16 contests. Sophomore Sammy Minea (Leawood, Kan./Blue Valley North ) will be a contributor in the midfield as well.
Up top, the Lady Miners will have to replace the top two scorers from last year in Leah Williams (Lawrence, Kan./Free State) and Melissa Young (Jefferson City, Mo./Helias). This is an area where McCauley expects the entire team to help carry the load.
”We’re not like certain teams that have key players they go to,” he said. “That’s not who we are. We need to depend on everybody to help carry the load and that’s what’s going to help us win games. We need everybody to do their part to push us forward”.

The Lady Miners open Great Lakes Valley Conference play 09/07/12, against the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Their first home game will be on Friday, September 14 against Saint Joseph’s College beginning at 5 p.m.

 

 

MSU Women’s Soccer Falls to Indiana in 4-1 Road Defeat

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The Missouri State women’s soccer team (2-3-0) began a four-game road trip with a 4-1 loss at Indiana (3-1-0) in Bloomington, Ind., on Sunday afternoon. The match marks the first time this season that the Bears’ defense has allowed more than one goal, per missouristatesoccer.com.

“We played pretty good at times today,” said head coach Rob Brewer. “We fought hard throughout the game and you have to give credit to our players with this being the fifth game in nine days. We can learn a lot from today’s match and I think we will continue to get better from it.”

After garnering an early shot attempt, the Bears fell behind in the 15th minute of play. Indiana was able to get a pass over the Bears’ backline and get an offensive player free in front of the net. She drilled a shot to the back post to give the Hoosiers a 1-0 lead.

The Bears’ defense continued to battle as Indiana kept on the offensive pressure, but IU doubled the advantage in the 35th minute. A brief scramble in the box led to the second Hoosier goal.

Missouri State’s best offensive chance of the first half came in the 40th minute as the Bears got back-to-back shots from Michelle Mayne-Nicholls and Shelby Stewart. Stewart’s shot was tipped over the net by the IU keeper to give MSU its first corner of the match.

The deficit widened in the 55th minute. IU’s Rebecca Candler added her second goal of the match to put the Bears behind, 3-0. Just over a minute later, the Hoosiers added a fourth goal.

Missouri State kept battling and it paid off in the 63rd minute. Molly Brewer created a turnover deep in Indiana territory. She registered a shot on goal that was saved by new IU goalkeeper Sarah Stone. But she was unable to control the ball and Shelby Stewart put home the rebound to get the Bears on the board. It was Stewart’s second goal of the season, tied for the team lead. The assist was the first of Brewer’s career.

The Bears were outshot in the match, 18-8. Shelby Stewart and Rachel Weimer each tallied two shots to lead the Bears’ attack. Brewer, Mayne-Nicholls, Kelsey Goff and Lauren Wendt accounted for the remainder of the MSU shots.

The match marks just the third time the Bears have played an opponent in the Big Ten (Indiana (0-1), Iowa (0-0-1), Minnesota (0-1)). The last match versus a Big Ten school was a 1-1 draw against Iowa on Sept. 16, 2005.

Missouri State will continue the road swing on Friday with a visit to Tulsa to take on the Golden Hurricane at 5:30 p.m. The Bears will then play Oral Roberts on Sunday (Sept. 2) at 1:00 p.m. The road trip ends with a match at Kansas (Sept. 7) before MSU returns to Plaster Field for a three-game home stand beginning on September 9 with a 1:00 p.m. match against SIU Edwardsville.

Mizzou Women’s Soccer Beats California, 3-2

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Here is a great recap of the game from mutigers.com:

The No. 13 University of Missouri soccer team scored three second half goals to post a 3-2 win over No. 15 California Sunday afternoon in Berkeley, Calif. The win improves Mizzou’s record to 3-0 on the season, while the Bears fall to 2-2.

The Bears struck first in the ninth minute when they were awarded free kick deep in their offensive half. The kick was sent into the box, where Ifeoma Onumonu one-timed a shot that went beyond the outstretched arms of Sauerwein for a 1-0 Cal advantage.

Mizzou’s offense finally found the back of the net when Adeshigbin knotted the score at 1-1 just six minutes into the second. The senior dribbled the ball down the left side and unleashed a 16-yard yard that deflected over Cal’s goalie for a 1-1 game. The tally was the third of the season for Adeshigbin to tie her for the team lead.

Senior Haley Krentz gave Missouri its first lead of the game, 2-1, when she scored her first goal of the season in the 58th minute. Junior Danielle Nottinghamsent a long cross to Krentz in the right side of the box. Krentz sent a low shot across the goal and into the lower left netting.

Cal tied the match at 2-2 in the 74th minute when Betsy Hassett’s low shot went to the right of Sauerwein for a Bear goal.

The Tigers countered less than two minutes later off a corner kick. Krentz lofted a ball to the far post, where Raymer headed the ball back at the goal and past the Cal goalie for a 3-2 Mizzou lead. The tally was the second of the season for Raymer, including her second game-winning goal in as many games.

The Bears pressed in the final minutes of the game but Mizzou’s defense held to preserve the victory.

Both teams recorded 19 shots and six corner kicks in the game

Sauerwein made seven saves in net for the Tigers.

Mizzou returns home to Walton Stadium next weekend with a pair of home contest. On Friday, Aug. 31 the Tigers host Arizona State at 6:30 p.m., followed by a 1 p.m. game against Tennessee Tech on Sunday, September 2nd.