Archive for July, 2008
October in July
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008For those of you that need a football fix, MoSports has a rather lively discussion going on right now about the best Missouri high school football team ever. The main local team getting discussed, and put forth by some as ‘the’ team, is the 1980 Parkwood Bears from Joplin. Still the fourth highest [...]
Class 1 all-state girls soccer team & rankings
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008One of the things that makes soccer unique among sports is how sometimes a loss can elevate your teams profile more than a win. The Catholic Lady Irish ended their season with a loss to St. Dominic. Losing 2-0 but controlling the game most of the way. That resulted in the team actually rising a [...]
Class 2 all-state girls soccer team & rankings
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008The all-state girls soccer teams have been out for a while but I hadn’t gotten to posting them. So here they are. A little disappointing for sure as the Ozarks only garners 5 out of 57 total selections. And only one first team placing. Lorin Opfer of Glendale grabs that spot. Waynesville’s Katie Pritchard and [...]
All-OzarksSports Baseball Team
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Now that the professionals have had their say, I’ll take my crack at it. And unlike others, I’ll tell you how I’m gonna go about this. So here are my totally unscientific & highly flexible guidelines.
Class counts only in how dominant the player was relative to players from the same class. So if a class [...]