Directions to Marshfield

Travel east on I-44 to exit 100. You will follow Spur Drive (MO-38) into Marshfield. You’ll follow the curve left and go into downtown. When you get to Crittenden St., take a right. (There is a hardware store on the corner). You’ll go a block or so before the road comes to a T. Take a left on Commercial St. It gets a little tricky from here.

A short distance up Commercial St. you will take a left onto Walnut St., then an immediate right on to Madison St., then an immediate left onto Elm St. You’ll come to a stop sign that is MO-DD. Follow the curve to the right and you’ll see the high school. The soccer field is behind the school. You’ll pull in to the main entrance and go around the left side of the school and park in the parking lot there.

Saturday, Oct 31

I will be making buscuit sandwhiches for the kids to eat on the bus ride to the game on Saturday. Would someone be willing to send some Gatorade for the players to drink. We need to "fuel" these boys so they will have enough energy to play, especially after all the sickness that several of them have been through. Let me know if you want to help. Email me at thesanders@mchsi.com. Thanks a bunch.........Tonya Sanders

Districts Saturday

I've been getting a lot of emails about the district tournament, so I'll let you know everything that I know. This is how the district seeding shook out:

1. Bolivar

2. Cassville

3. Monett

4. Webb City

5. Carl Junction

6. Marshfield

7. Logan-Rogersville

8. West Plains

9. Aurora

Districts will be held in Marshfield, MO (off exit 100 on I-44). Specific directions to the field will be sent home as well as posted here. Our first match will be against Carl Junction at 1:00 Saturday at Marshfield.(Bus time 9:30) Starting that day, it's win or go home. We'll play again Monday, and the District Championship match will be on Thursday. 

Reminder of Game at Joplin

There will be a game at Joplin Thursday afternoon at 4:00. This is a game we added after the official schedule was printed so some of you may not know about it. The bus will actually be leaving at 2:00. A different time than originally scheduled. The game is scheduled to be Varsity only at the Joplin High School fields, weather permitting. 

Cassville Thursday

The Cardinals will travel to Cassville Thursday night to face the Wildcats on their senior night. Kickoff time has been moved to 6:15 after the seniors are recognized. The bus will leave the high school at 4:00. There will be no JV match. 

Changes for Senior Night

Due to some illnesses, we will be unable to play a JV match tonight. We will play varsity only beginning at 5:30, with the recognition of seniors taking place at halftime. 

Directions to Riverton

Take 7th street west out of Joplin and across the state line into Kansas. You will be on Hwy 66. The first town you will come through is Galena. Continue to follow 66 west 5 miles past Galena. You will be in Riverton. Go through the light and continue west about a half-mile. You will see a blue and gold storage building, turn left just before this building. If you get to the roundabout, you went too far - use it to make a turn around. You will see the soccer field. 

You will probably want to bring your own chairs. 

Late Picture Orders

For any players or parents that want to order team pictures and didn't have the form at practice, you can contact Billy Conroy at casualimages@juno.com, or visit his website at http://www.casualimagesphotography.com/. He also does senior pictures. 

Varsity Only at Thomas Jefferson

The match at TJ on Thursday will be Varsity only at 4:30. The bus will leave at 3:30.

Riverton Game Make-up

The game that was scheduled at Riverton for last Thursday has been rescheduled. We will play this Saturday, Oct. 17 at Riverton. I know this will cause some conflict with other activities such as band. Since we are only playing one varsity match, we encourage band kids to go with the band. We will play with what's left. If there are any other reasons that a player cannot play on Saturday (weddings, family reunions, etc...) please make us aware of that before that time. The bus will leave the high school at 11:30 am. The game will begin at 1:00.

Heartbreaker at Branson

A game that was hard-fought by both sides ended sourly Monday night as the Branson Pirates defeated the Webb City Cardinals 3-2 in overtime. The Cards were ahead 1-0 at the half off a goal by Cody Hawks in the 2oth minute. Hawks, in his first game back from multiple injuries, adjusted well to playing wing midfielder and had some great runs down the line. Persistence paid off as Kyle Handley sent a through ball to Hawks, who beat two defenders and took the shot from 15 yards and put it right past the keeper. 

Handley would be involved on the next goal 10 minutes into the second half as well. Kyle took a corner kick that was headed by Alex Christian to the waiting foot of Jeremy Heuertz. 

Branson made a strong comeback and were able to tie it up on a penalty kick with 20 minutes to go. The Webb defense fought off some tough attacks and made a few of their own, but they failed to materialize and the game was sent into overtime.

In overtime, Branson was awarded a free kick from just outside the penalty box that ricocheted off the near post and hit the far side of the net. 

The Cards continue to play hard despite the players that are still missing. It's exciting to see young players stepping up into new roles and having success. When we get it all put together for districts, we will be tough to beat. Great game fellas.  

Branson Directions

Take I-44 toward Springfield. Take the James River exit (69). Go east and take the Hwy 65 exit south. Soccer matches will be at Branson Jr. High School Campus. From Hwy 65 North of Branson, Take the Bee Creek Road exit (there will be a Home Depot on the hill to your right).  Head East, turn right onto Buccaneer, take the next left to the Jr. High. 

Pictures

Team pictures will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 14th. Players will wear their RED uniforms. Please bring the form sent home with you along with money at that time. 

Thanks,

Coach S

Joplin Tournament Schedule Change

We have a different schedule and location for the Joplin Tournament. The games will be held at Junge Stadium at 800 Junge Blvd. We play both preliminary matches on Friday evening. We play Joplin at 3:30 and College Hieights at 7:30. The bus will leave the school at 2:15. The Championship match will be played at 5:00 on Saturday. Sorry for the late notice on all of this. I guess the weather is wreaking havoc all over.

RIVERTON GAME CANCELLED

We are working on a make up date.

Schedule for Joplin Tournament

The schedule for the Joplin Tournament will be as follows:

Friday vs Joplin @ 6:30 (Bus time 5:00)

Saturday vs College Heights @ 12:00 (bus time 10:30)

Championship game will be at 2:00.

Cards Take 4th at Willard

After a long night Friday night that seemed like it would never end, the Cards edged out the much-improved Logan-Rogersville Wildcats in PKs to get the victory. Austin Doran got the only goal for the Cards during regulation and Alex Christian finished them off with the game-winning PK. This set us up nicely for the challenge that laid ahead on Saturday. 

With five players gone and one injured. The Cards pressed forward to compete with just 13 players knowing that they would have two games to play that day. Our young JV players stepped up and made Willard earn a win. They gave us a pretty good whooping, but for many of those young players, it was their first experience in a varsity match. So, after the butterflies were gone and we had to turn right around and play Monett, we stepped it up a little. Having beaten Monett earlier in the week with a short squad, we were confident that we could win. Our confidence did not supercede their readiness for vengeance as they came out fighting. Once again, Austin Doran and Alex Christian came through for goals in that match, and Austin Sanders did one heck of a job filling in for Thomas Foster in goal. We took a 5-2 loss, but it was a moral victory because we got to see a little fight out of the JV squad that we hadn't seen yet. 

We have a great future ahead of us in the next couple of years. For now, we focus on Tuesday's match at Neosho. We will play one half of JV at 5:00 with varsity to follow. We know they'll want to redeem themselves for the close loss at the Christian County Tournament, so let's be ready!

Coach S

Just want to say a great big thanks to all the parents for stepping up and feeding the team, we actually had more then enough food, but that's ok. We will be sending some of the left-overs with the team to snack on the bus to Neosho and then send drinks to the Joplin tournament and then send the rest with the team on the bus ride to Branson to snack on.
We have been very blessed this year with great kids, great parents and a great coaching staff. Thanks again to everyone.
Now it is time to start thinking about the banquet that will take place after the season is over. We can do tradition catering but after visiting with a few parents I think we should have food that the team wants so be asking your players what their favorite food might be and comment it to this blog and we'll see what the unanimous decision is. For example, Austin Sanders would like Up In Flames specialty pizzas. I think we should keep catering within the Webb City area to support our own economy. So put in your votes!!!

Cards Shut Out Aurora - Improve to 8-4

The Cardinals welcomed the youth players from Webb City Soccer Club in a big way tonight.

Webb City came out playing great possession and dominated from start to finish. Scoring was opened in the 14th minute when Austin Doran landed a penalty kick. Doran would score again 13 minutes later on a 35 yard blast. Alex Christian had a good night as well scoring on a breakaway in the 38th minute and having an assist in the second half on Jace Cooke's goal. Cooke picked up a rebound of Christian's shot and finished it off. Freshman Aaron Tappana got his first varsity goal to end the night. 

In JV action, the Cardinals won a decisive 4-0 victory over the Houn' Dawgs.