West Plains Zizzer Soccer

All-Ozark Conference selections were made last week and announced this week. Here are the results.

1st Team All-Ozark Conference

Lane Chapman, Senior - Kickapoo
Ryan Moses, Senior - Kickapoo
Skyler Russell, Junior - Kickapoo
Chris Tombridge, Senior - Kickapoo
Devon Newport, Senior - Glendale
Ryan Squires, Senior - Glendale
Graham Basecke, Senior - Glendale
Tyler Sinnott, Senior - Rolla
Andrew Chism, Senior - Rolla
Max Duncan, Junior - Joplin
Tim Griffin, Senior - Parkview
Bryce Collier, Senior - Hillcrest
Grant Bollig, Senior - Lebanon
Jeff Dorhauer, Junior - Camdenton
Eric Iverson, Junior - Waynesville

2nd Team All-Ozark Conference

Tyler Bennett, Senior - Kickapoo
Caleb Collier, Senior - Kickapoo
Brock Ruggeri, Senior - Kickapoo
Ian Newport, Senior - Glendale
Ryan Partch, Senior - Glendale
Chris Maddox, Junior - Glendale
Justin Schubring, Senior - Rolla
Stephen Moorkamp, Senior - Rolla
Matt Medley, Senior - Parkview
Kyle Kutz, Senior - Parkview
Blake Aggus, Senior - Joplin
Jon McDermid, Senior - Joplin
Rayder Bennett, Sophomore - Camdenton
Gehrig Haberstock, Sophomore - Waynesville
Ben Ballhorn, Senior - Hillcrest
Kyle Street, Senior - Lebanon
Klay Norman, Junior - West Plains

Honorable Mention All-Ozark Conference

Cody Martin, Junior - Rolla
Parker Maher, Freshman - Joplin
Levin Parker, Senior - Joplin
Jared Moore, Junior - Parkview
Jon Malter, Junior - Parkview
Drew Whitney, Senior - Camdenton
Ian Kennedy, Junior - Kickapoo
Jeremy Rutledge, Senior - Waynesville
Jordan Pitts, Junior - Glendale
Patrick Baltz, Junior - Glendale
Alec Martinez, Sophomore - Glendale
Jordan Perrone, Senior - Lebanon
Christian Mitchell, Senior - Lebanon
Michael Freeman, Junior - Hillcrest
Mitch Easter, Junior - Hillcrest
Dylan York , Sophomore - West Plains
Nathan Moore, Senior - West Plains

I am a little behind on this one, but here it is.

First Team All-District

Willis Zirchsky – Marshfield- defender – senior.
Ethan Jernigan – Marshfield – forward – senior
Robert Martin – Marshfield – midfield- senior
Klay Norman – West Plains – defender - junior
Humberto Morales – Monett – midfield - senior
Mauricio Trujillo – Monett – forward - junior
Uriel Rueda – Monett – midfield - junior
Uziel Franco – Cassville – forward – senior
Luis Ortega – Cassville – mid - 12
Austin Doran – Webb – Midfield - junior
Matt Magana – Bolivar- Forward – sophomore
Bradley Stillwagon – Bolivar – midfield – junior
Kyle Slagle – Bolivar – defender – junior
Landon Grider – Bolivar – defender – senior
Dale Baker – Bolivar – GK – senior
Josh Sprenkle – Carl Junction – defender – senior
Brandon Kennedy – Carl Junction – forward – junior
Nathan Wilson – Carl Junction – forward - senior

Second Team All-District

Colten Harden – Marshfield – midfield – sophomore
Craig Obermaier – marsh – midfield - senior
Dylan York – West Plains – defender – sophomore
Brenden Williams – L.R. – midfield - sophomore
Jose Lopez – Monett – Forward - junior
Abraham Mejia – Monett – Defender - sophomore
Cory Wilbanks - Cassville – defender - senior
Matt Angel – Cassville – defender - junior
Michael Rush – Cassville – GK - senior
PJ Armstrong – Webb – forward - junior
Ethan Krisek – Aurora – D - senior
Al Dohmen – monett – GK - junior
Mitchell Waters – Bolivar – forward – freshman
Ryan Ladd – Bolivar – defender – senior
Seth Hopwood – Bolivar – defender – junior
Nii Kpakpo Abrahams – Carl Junction – midfield – junior
Juan Rojo – Carl Junction – midfield - junior

Honorable Mention All-District

Eddie Lovan – Marshfield – defender - senior
Nathan Moore - West plains – midfield – senior
David Evans – West Plains – midfield - senior
Wes Bird – Rogersville – forward - senior
Michael Kean – monett – defender - senior
Bill Townsend – monett – defender - sophomore
Caleb Wilbanks – Cassville – defender - junior
Bryan Schroeder – Cassville – midfield - junior
Kyle Handley – Webb – midfield - sophomore
Josh Wegrzyn – Aurora – Defender - senior
Jake Condren – Bolivar – midfield - senior
Carlo Frassetto – Bolivar – midfield - senior
Patrick Chism – Carl Junciton – defender - senior

Congrats Boys!

The Missouri State Bears fell to the Creighton Bluejays 1-0 in the Championship Game of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. The Championship Game was broadcast on Fox Sports Midwest. The Bluejays, currently ranked #2 in the nation, claimed the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Bears season ended with the loss. Former Zizzer Soccer standout, Nick Dryden was named Player of the Game for the Bears.

Congratulations Nick!

Former Zizzer Soccer Standout, Nick Dryden and the Missouri State Bears will be on Fox Sports Midwest at 1:00pm Sunday in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Championship Game. The Bears defeated Eastern Illinois 4-1 in the First Round on Wednesday. This evening (Friday) the Bears defeated the Drake Bulldogs who are ranked #22 (NSCAA) in the country. The match was tied 1-1 after Two Overtimes. The Bears prevailed 4-1 in the Penalty Kick Shootout to advance to the Title game on Sunday. The Bears will face the Creighton Bluejays who are ranked #2 (NSCAA) in the country. Back on October 21st, the two teams battled to a 0-0 Tie. The winner of the game will receive an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.

For more information check out the MVC website.

Good Luck! Go Bears!!

The end of the season soccer banquet has been scheduled for Tuesday, November 18 at 6:30pm. The banquet will be held in the WPHS Cafeteria. We will be having tacos. If you haven’t got your information paper, see Coach Schmitt or Coach Brown.

Former Zizzer Soccer Standout, Nick Dryden, scored the game winning goal for the Missouri State Bears Saturday Night against Eastern Illinois University (Photo by Steve Olson of SGFsoccer.com).

To see more photos of the game by Steve Olson, including Nick being mobbed by his teammates, click on the photo.

Here is the report from the Bears website:

Men’s soccer defeated the Eastern Illinois Panthers 1-0 at Plaster Field in the Bears’ final regular season conference game. The Bears finished regular season conference play with a 3-1-1 record.

The Bears (6-8-4) came into the game looking to bounce back after a disappointing nonconference loss at UMKC on Tuesday (Oct. 28). The Bears released their aggression early with a barrage of shots and outshot the Panthers by a 9-4 margin in the first half.

The Bears and Panthers battled through two periods of scoreless soccer despite 24 combined shots in regulation. Kyle Windmueller led all shooters with five shots on the night.

The Bears finally broke the scoreless tie when Nick Dryden received a corner kick from Gerard Barbero and slipped it just inside the right post for the game winning goal with 3:45 remaining in overtime. The goal was Dryden’s first of the season and Barbero’s second assist.

The Bears will be in action again on Thursday (Oct. 9) at Plaster Field when they take on Tulsa in their final regular season game at 7 p.m.

Congratulations Nick! Good Luck the rest of the season.

The 2008 Soccer Season came to a close on Saturday as the Zizzers lost to the Cassville Wildcats in the First Round of District play. Going into the game the Zizzers knew Uziel Franco was the key to the Wildcats offense. Unfortunately, the Zizzers weren’t able to contain him. Franco scored all 6 goals for the Wildcats enroute to a 6-0 Victory. Just four minutes into the game Franco ripped a shot off the crossbar, just missing a goal. Six minutes later, he would get goal number one on a hard shot from a difficult angle on the right side. In the 15th minute, Franco worked a give-and-go with Luis Ortega on the left side and fired a shot past Anthony Holt to make it 2-0 Wildcats. The Zizzers, who started out slow, began to play with a little more energy as the half went along, but they couldn’t get anything on the scoreboard. In the 31st minute, Franco made it 3-0 when he ran onto a ball that bounced over the Zizzer defense. As Holt came out to try to make a play, Franco tapped it over Holt and into the goal. Just two minutes later Franco capped the first half scoring with a blast from about 20 yards out that hit off Holt’s hands. The halftime score was 4-0 in favor of the Wildcats.

In the second half, the Zizzers played hard, but couldn’t generate many great offensive chances. In the 16th minute of the half, the Zizzers were called for tripping Franco in the penalty box resulting in a penalty kick. Franco converted the kick for his fifth goal of the game. Three minutes later, Franco got his final tally to make the score 6-0. The Zizzers continued to fight until the final whistle. The final game for six Seniors (David Evans, Anthony Holt, Tony Meza, Nathan Moore, Seth Phegley, and Jesse Wright) was also the first Varsity game for a couple of Freshmen (Justin Casillas and Jonathon Hanshaw). The Seniors will be missed as they have provided us with some great moments. Thank you boys, it has been a pleasure working with you! For the returning players, some well deserved time off, will be followed by numerous opportunities to start working toward next season.