The Drury men’s soccer team will be hosting a 3 on 3 soccer tournament on Sunday, April 14th with the registration deadline set for April 1st.
The tournament will be held at Harrison Field, North Summit Avenue, on the Drury campus.
For those interested in having a team, cost is $125 per team (3 games guaranteed) and ages are U8-High School. Please contact Andrew Bordelon for addition information at abordelon @drury.edu.
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With summer around the corner, busy moms are already planning things to keep their soccer players busy. Drury University is offering summer camps for many different soccer levels. There is an early registration discount for the residential academy camp. Information regarding the camps is available on the Drury University Soccer Academy website.
Little Panther half day camp-June 17-20, 2013.The little ones will be taught proper techniques through Games and contests. Campers are encouraged to bring a snack and drink each day. Ball and T-shirt included.
Panther full day academy-June 17-20,2013. This program focuses on technical skills, small sided games, contests, and tactical development. All day campers will go swimming on Drury’s Natatorium. Campers can bring or have the option of purchasing a lunch. Ball and T-shirt included.
Jr. Residential Camp-June 28-30, 2013 Ages 9-13-This curriculum will develop the technical skills and tactical awareness of the competitive soccer player through numerous different fun and challenging activities. All members of the Drury coaching staff will be coaching alongside current Drury University Soccer Players.
Girls Residential Academy-July 12-15,2013. Ages 13-18. The residential academy is a specialized technical course designed for the player to achieve their maximum potential. Emphasis will also be placed on specific tactical & technical match related situations in regards to team play. This Academy will also provide a special classroom session for the players to help prepare them for the college recruiting process
Boys Residential Academy-July 19-20, 2013. Ages 13-18. The residential academy is a specialized technical course designed for the player to achieve their maximum potential. Emphasis will also be placed on specific tactical & technical match related situations in regards to team play. This Academy will also provide a special classroom session for the players to help prepare them for the college recruiting process.
Drury Men’s Soccer will host an Identification Development Camp for area high school boys on February 16-17 at Harrison Stadium. Cost for the camp is $100, with lunch provided.
Registration will be held from 9 to 9:30 a.m. The morning training session will be from 9:30 to 11:30, lunch and recruiting talk from 11:30 to 1:30 and the afternoon scrimmages from 1:30 to 3:30. For more information, call Andrew Bordelon at (417) 873-7830. Bordelon can be reached by email at abordelon@drury.edu. The registration form can be found online, along with payment information.
The DU Men’s Soccer program is coming off a 12-5-2 season that saw them climb as high to No. 5 in the nation in the NCAA-II national poll. It led to a Great Lakes Valley Conference post-season tournament berth( for the fifth consecutive year )and their second NCAA-II Tournament bid in the past four seasons.
Via Drurypanthers.com:
Drury v UMSL 2012 File Photo
Their season seemingly cut short with back-to-back losses to close it out, the Drury men’s soccer Panthers received a second chance on Monday when they learned they received a bid to the NCAA-II ChampionshipsDrury (12-4-2) is the No. 5 seed in the Midwest Region and will play No. 4 seed Notre Dame (Ohio) in a first-round match this Friday in Kansas City with a 6 p.m. start. The winner will face top seed and Great Lakes Valley Conference champion Rockhurst on Sunday at 1 p.m., also in KC. Saginaw Valley State is the No. 2 seed and Quincy the No. 3 seed in the region.
The Panthers, thought what began as such a promising campaign had come to a close when they dropped a 2-0 decision to Missouri Science and Technology at home in the regular season finale, followed by a 1-0 setback to sixth-seed Missouri-St Louis, also at home, in the opening round of the GLVC Championships.
“We had an idea, even after the UMSL game, that there was an outside chance of us making it, but it was a real longshot,” Drury coach Ryan Swan said. “We were following (scores) all weekend, and the right results happened for us.”So now, a team that was ranked as high as No. 5 nationally in the NSCAA poll last month gets a fresh start against a fresh face – Notre Dame (14-5), which lost 1-0 to Saginaw Valley State in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship match.
The Falcons from South Euclid, Ohio, have outscored their opponents 50-22 on the season. They played one GLVC foe, defeating Indianapolis 2-1 on the road in the season opener. Tom Owens and Erik Beattie have scored 10 goals each to lead Notre Dame.
Drury will be going to the NCAA-II tourney for the second time in the program’s history, after making the field in 2009, when the Panthers advanced to the Sweet 16, also under Swan.And it’s a Panthers squad that will be refreshed and rejuvenated, after having taken the last week off from training.
“I think it really could be a plus,” Swan says. “We were carrying around a few (injuries) the last few games, had some guys struggling and battling through it, and I think the time off will help. I think there’s also that devastation you go through when your season ends. So to be given a second life, so to speak, it’s just lifted up everybody.”
Should Drury win twice in Kansas City this weekend, the Panthers would head to Tahlequah, Okla., and the campus of Northeastern State for the next two rounds. This year’s finals are to be held November 29-December 1 in Evans, Georgia.
Drury’s Nick Ammann and UMSL’s Clay Stocker fight for the ball.
In a hard fought game, the nationally ranked Drury Soccer Panthers fell to University of Missouri St Louis in double over time. With the win, UMSL moves to the GLVC semifinals in Kansas City next weekend.
Via Drury Panthers: Thomas Mihalczo’s deflected shot from 15 yards out bounced into an empty net seven minutes into overtime, lifting sixth-seed Missouri St. Louis to a 1-0 upset of third-seed Drury in the quarterfinals of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s Soccer Championships at Harrison Stadium/Curry Sports Complex.
Nationally 17th-ranked Drury, with its second straight loss, likely ended its season with a 12-4-2 record.
After the teams battled for 90 scoreless minutes of regulation, Mihalczo took advantage of wide open space created when DU junior defender Adam Heiligenstein was pulled down by a Triton on the move deep in Panthers’ territory.
Play continued, and Panthers freshman keeper Blake Andrews then came out of the goal to try to stop the UMSL surge, and got a hand on Mihalczo’s shot … but not enough to keep it from trickling into the open goal and sending the Tritons into a celebration.
Matt Hutchison,Drury,moves the ball up the field.
UMSL avenged a 2-1 overtime loss to the Panthers on the same field on September 30.This time, DU outshot the Tritons 11-9, with each team managing three shots on goal.
Tritons keeper Patrick Ream had three saves in picking up the shutout.
Drury vs UMSL-September 2012 File Photo
Via Drury Panthers.com:
Coming off an attention-getting home loss to Missouri S & T to close the regular season, the Drury men’s soccer Panthers will try to bounce back quickly when they play host to Missouri-St. Louis in a first-round Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships match on Sunday.
Start time is 1 p.m. for the matchup at Harrison Stadium in the Curry Sports Complex between the third-seeded Panthers (12-3-2) and the sixth-seeded Tritons from UMSL (10-6-1).
Drury, ranked 17th in last week’s NSCAA national poll, came from behind to defeat UMSL 2-1 in overtime at Harrison on September 30. The Panthers were down 1-0 at halftime after a goal by the Tritons’ Matt Burris, but used an own-goal by UMSL to tie it in the 74th minute, then Shane Woods‘ score off a penalty kick at 1:05.03 for the victory.
Woods, who returned after a four-game absence (ankle) to see some time against S & T in Wednesday’s 2-0 loss to the Miners, leads the Panthers with eight goals. Matt Hutchison, Scott Stiffler and Brett Steere have six goals each, and Nick Ammann has five goals and a team-leading six assists.
Drury has outscored its opponents 49-13 on the season, but finished the regular season being outscored 5-3 in its last three matches, when the Panthers went 1-2-0.
UMSL, 3-0-1 in its last four matches to close the season, has seven goals from Tyler Collico and four goals by Chris Pearson. The Tritons have outscored their opponents 24-13, including 9-2 in their last five matches.
Drury and UMSL are tied 6-6-2 in the all-time series.
Sunday’s winners will advance to the tourney’s semifinals and finals next Friday and Sunday at the site of the highest remaining seed after the opening round.
Great Lakes Valley Conference leaders Drury and Rockhurst met Friday night in Kansas City. The #5 Drury Panthers lost to the 16th ranked Rockhurst Hawks, 1-0. The game summary is available from the Drury Panthers:
The No. 5 Drury’s soccer Panthers suffered a 1-0 loss at 16th ranked Rockhurst in a showdown of the conference’s top two teams here on Friday evening at Bourke Field.The Panthers are now 11-2-2 overall and 9-2-2 in the GLVC while 16th-ranked Rockhurst improved to 12-2-2 overall and 10-2-1 GLVC.
The first half was a scoreless one where the defenses clamped down with just six combined shots, DU with two and Rockhurst with four. The games only goal came at the 56:36 mark by Mark Magee assisted by Nick McDonald and Sean Verbanic.
Offensively the edge went to Rockhurst who outshot the Panthers 13-6 with eight of those on goal for the Hawks and one on goal for DU. Brendan Langford took a DU team high three shots.DU freshman keeper Blake Andrews matched his career high with seven saves.
Drury returns home to host William Jewell in a key GLVC contest Sunday (2:30 p.m.) at Harrison Stadium in the Curry Sports Complex. William Jewell downed Missouri S&T this evening 2-0. The Panthers will close out the regular season by hosting Missouri S & T in an 8:30 p.m. match on Wednesday, October 24 to be televised by Mediacom Connections
Drury Panthers reports that: Drury’s soccer Panthers will take a No. 5 national ranking into a showdown weekend of Great Lakes Valley Conference matches as the new National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll was released on Tuesday.
Coach Ryan Swan‘s Panthers, 11-1-2 on the season after wins last weekend over Southern Indiana (2-1) and Kentucky Wesleyan (7-0), moved up two spots to pick up their first Top 5 national ranking since reaching as high as No. 2 during the 2009 season.
That status will receive a stiff test on Friday night (7:30 p.m.), when Drury visits 16th-ranked Rockhurst (11-2-2) in Kansas City in a showdown between the top two teams in the GLVC standings. The Panthers are 9-1-2 in the league while Rockhurst is 9-2-1.
Quincy (10-1-3) is No. 11 in this week’s poll, giving the GLVC three teams in the Top 25, more than any other conference in the nation.
In official NCAA statistics this week, Drury ranks tied for first – with Rockhurst – in assists (42), No. 2 nationally in total points (134), third in goals scored (46) and fifth in total offense (3.29 goals per game). The Panthers are also fifth in goals-against average (0.54).
Freshman keeper Blake Andrews is ninth individually with his goals-against average (0.607) and 21st in save percentage (0.826).
After the Friday match at Rockhurst, Drury returns home to host William Jewell in a key GLVC contest Sunday (2:30 p.m.) at Harrison Stadium in the Curry Sports Complex. The Panthers will close out the regular season by hosting Missouri S & T in an 8:30 p.m. match on Wednesday, October 24 to be televised by Mediacom Connections 22.
Join the Drury Soccer Panthers this weekend, as they host Southern Indiana on Friday night , 7:30 p.m. at the Lake Country Soccer stadium field. Drury returns to their home field Sunday afternoon, at 2:30, to play Kentucky Wesleyan. Join the Panthers Sunday as they honor their seniors, Nicholas Fish and Andrew Klump.
Drury panthers notes: It’s a big weekend of attempting to hold serve for the Panthers (9-1-2 overall, 7-1-2 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference) to set up a big showdown weekend down the road when they visit third-place Rockhurst in Kansas City (Friday, October 19) before coming home to play league-leading William Jewell here on Sunday (Oct. 21). Jewell, which leads DU by percentage points, and Rockhurst have home matches with Bellarmine and McKendree this weekend.
Southern Indiana comes in at 8-4 overall and 7-3 in the league, while Kentucky Wesleyan is 0-12 and 0-10 before playing at Missouri S & T this Friday.
The Drury men’s soccer Panthers climbed this week to No. 8 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Top 25 national poll released on Tuesday, thanks to two victories last weekend.
Drury debuted at 19 in last weeks rankings. The Panthers are No. 1 in the NSCAA’s Midwest Regional rankings, ahead of Rockhurst, Saginaw Valley State and Quincy.
Drury is at home for matches on Oct. 12 vs. Southern Indiana at the Lake Country Soccer field and on Oct. 14 vs. Kentucky Wesleyan at Harrison/Curry for Senior Day festivities.
| 1 | Drury DH Missouri-St. Louis 2-1 OT; DH Maryville (Mo.) 5-0; | 8-1-1 | |
| 2 | Rockhurst DH Illinois-Springfield 5-1; TH Quincy 0-0; | 7-1-2 | |
| 3 | Saginaw Valley State LH Ohio Dominican 2-3; DH Notre Dame (Ohio) 3-2; | 7-2-1 | |
| 4 | Quincy LA William Jewell 1-3; TA Rockhurst 0-0; | 7-1-2 | |
| 5 | Notre Dame (Ohio) DA Ashland 2-1; LA Saginaw Valley State 2-3; | 7-2-0 | |
| 6 | Ashland LH Notre Dame (Ohio) 1-2; DA Lake Erie 2-0; | 6-2-1 | |
| 7 | Bellarmine DA Lewis 2-0; DA Wisconsin-Parkside 2-0; | 6-2-1 | |
| 8 | Ohio Dominican DA Saginaw Valley State 3-2 OT; DA Northwood (Mich.) 5-0; | 6-3-1 | |
| 9 | William Jewell DH Quincy 3-1; DH Illinois-Springfield 3-0; DA Southwest Baptist 3-0; | 8-2-0 | |
| 10 | Missouri-St. Louis LA Drury 1-2 OT; DA Missouri Science & Technology 1-0 OT; | 6-3-0 | |
| 10 | Cedarville LH Davis & Elkins 0-3; |
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