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.
Drury's Nick Ammann and UMSL's Clay Stocker fight for the ball.
In a hard fought game,the nationally ranked Drury Soccer Panthersfell to University of Missouri St Louis in double over time. With a win in this game,UMSL moves to the GLVC semifinals in Kansas City next weekend.
The Drury Panthers (12-3-2, 10-3-2, .733) received the No. 3 seed in the 2012 GLVC Soccer tournament after falling to Missouri S&T 2-0 in its regular-season finale on Wednesday. By finishing in the Top 4, Drury will host a first round playoff game on Sunday.
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.
Welcome back, Matt Hutchison. Just in time, as it turned out.
Hutchison, who'd missed the past four games with a concussion, returned to score two goals including the game-winner in the second overtime as nationally fifth-ranked Drury Panthersrallied for a 3-2 Great Lakes Valley Conference victory over William Jewell Sunday afternoon at Harrison Stadium/The Curry Sports Complex.
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.
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.
Join the Drury Soccer Panthers this weekend, as they hostSouthern Indiana on Friday night, 7:30 p.m.at the Lake Country Soccer stadium field. Druryreturns to their home fieldSunday afternoon, at 2:30, to play Kentucky Wesleyan. JointhePanthers Sunday as they honor their seniors, Nicholas Fish and Andrew Klump.
Via DruryPanthers.com Off to a 6-1-1 start to the season, the Drury men's soccer Panthers cracked the national Top 25 for the first time in three seasons when they made their debut at No. 19 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll released Tuesday.
Coach Ryan Swan's Panthers were fueled into the poll by a 2-2, double-overtime draw on Sunday at No.
Drury women's soccer coach Alf Bilbao has announced the signing of Ciara
O'Brien to a national letter-of-intent to compete for the Panthers beginning with the
2012-13 season.
O'Brien is a defender from St. Angela's Ursuline in Waterford City, Ireland. She has represented
Ireland in the U14, U15, U17 and currently at the U19 levels, and competed in the U17 European
Championship final against Spain, as well as in the U17 World Cup.
The Elite ID camp is a specialized technical course designed for the player to achieve their
maximum potential. This camp is ideal for the player who is interested in playing at Drury
University. Seminars held during this camp will include a college recruiting seminar, as well as
functional training sessions to prepare the individual player for college level soccer.
Soccer standout Stephen Conner and women's golf standout Katrina Choate were
named the recipients of the annual Dr. Edsel Matthews Award at Wednesday night's "Panther Pride"
Awards Banquet held at the Findlay Student Center.
The two seniors picked up the prestigious honors for their athletic and academic excellence over
the course of their careers.
This week was all about conference tournaments for the Marquette, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Green Bay women's soccer teams.
The Golden Eagles cruised into the semifinals of the Big East Conference tournament, while the Panthers earned the right to play host to the Horizon League semifinals and final next weekend after extending their amazing run of regular-season titles.
The 2012 season kicked off across the nation for NCAA Division I women's soccer teams this
weekend, with Marquette scheduled to take on another nationally ranked foe, UW-Milwaukee playing
its first matches under new coach Greg Henschel and UW-Green Bay coach
Trevor Warren looking to get his team's offense going after a frustrating 2011
season.
The NCAA Division I women's soccer season kicks off Friday, and all four Wisconsin teams will be
in action on their home turf on opening night.
Rivals UW-Milwaukee and Marquette play host to Milwaukee Cup matches, and both teams will be
starting their first seasons without players who have been integral over the past few years.
UW-Milwaukee and Marquette each won conference titles, each advanced to the second round of the
NCAA tournament and each had four players named to National Soccer Coaches Association of America
women's all-region teams.
The Panthers' trio of senior forward Sarah Hagen (Appleton North), senior midfielder
Keara Thompson and junior goalkeeper Jamie Forbes were all first-team selections on
the All-Great Lakes Region team, while junior midfielder Helen Steinhauser made the second
team.
Soccer fans in Milwaukee have two NCAA Division I tournament matches to choose from Saturday
night, as both No. 12 Marquette and 15th-ranked UW-Milwaukee are playing host to first-round
games.
Both teams are in the tournament for the fourth straight year and the eighth time since 2001 –
coincidentally, each team has qualified in the same years in that time.
UW-Milwaukee celebrated another Horizon League championship on its home field Sunday, now the
Panthers will wait to see where they end up in the 64-team NCAA tournament bracket.
City rival Marquette also will learn its NCAA tournament assignment when the field and pairings
are announced Monday.
Marquette made sure it heads into the postseason firing on all cylinders, racking up yet another shutout as it remained unbeaten since early September.
UW-Milwaukee, meanwhile, came up with a victory that was big on two fronts: First of all, it was over state rival UW-Green Bay, and secondly it moved the Panthers into a tie for first place in the Horizon League with just one week of matches remaining.
Jamie Bladen's 50th-minute goal for UW-Milwaukee on Wednesday night was the first for the Panthers against the University of Wisconsin since 2007.
It also was enough to give his team its first win over its state rival in seven years.
Bladen cleaned up from close range after the Badgers couldn't clear the ball out of the box after a free kick, and freshman goalkeeper Connor Revsbeck made five saves for the clean sheet in his first career start in Milwaukee's 1-0 win at the McClimon Complex.
Falling behind UW-Milwaukee seemed to flip a switch for the University of Wisconsin women's soccer team Wednesday night.
The 13th-ranked Badgers seized control of the match after giving up the opening goal in the 58th minute, getting a 78th-minute equalizer from sophomore Kodee Williams and a 96th-minute game-winner from Joana Bielefeld (Brookfield Central) to rally past the Panthers 2-1 in a non-conference match watched by 1,116 at Engelmann Stadium.
It was a pretty good weekend for the Marquette, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Green Bay men's soccer
teams, with five wins and just one loss among the sides.
The Golden Eagles remained unbeaten, while the Panthers extended their winning streak to three
games and won their own tournament. The Phoenix, meanwhile, had a thrilling double-overtime victory
on Friday night, but lost a key player to injury and settled for their second straight 1-1-0
weekend after losing Sunday.
What an opening weekend it was for the Marquette, UW-Green Bay and UW-Milwaukee men's soccer
teams, with a show-stopping finish, inaugural victories for new coaches, a school record and the
best start for one team in 12 years.
Catch up on all the action in our weekly review of the Golden Eagles, Phoenix and Panthers.
The Marquette women's team won its annual matchup with city rival UW-Milwaukee on Friday night,
but that was the only bright spot on the weekend for the Golden Eagles, Panthers and UW-Green
Bay.
Catch up on all the action for all three teams in our weekly review.
The UW-Milwaukee women's soccer team might have a new coach, but the Panthers will head into the
season in the same position they've been for the past 12 years: As the Horizon League favorite.
Conference coaches put Milwaukee atop their annual preseason poll for the 13th consecutive
season, this time in a tie with Detroit.
UW-Milwaukee stayed in-state – and in its own conference – to find its newest men's soccer
coach.
Neenah native Kris Kelderman is leaving UW-Green Bay after one season to become the
seventh coach in Panthers history, multiple sources familiar with the situation said Tuesday.
Kelderman couldn't be reached for comment and an email to Kathy Litzau, the UW-Milwaukee
associate athletic director who oversees the men's soccer program, wasn't immediately returned.
UW-Milwaukee stayed in-state – and in its own conference – to find its newest men's soccer
coach.
Neenah native Kris Kelderman is leaving UW-Green Bay after one season to become the
seventh coach in Panthers history, multiple sources familiar with the situation said Tuesday.
Kelderman couldn't be reached for comment and an email to Kathy Litzau, the UW-Milwaukee
associate athletic director who oversees the men's soccer program, wasn't immediately returned.
The newest member of the UW-Milwaukee women's soccer coaching staff has a unique resume.
Kristen Weiss was named an assistant coach for the Panthers under new coach Greg
Henschel on Tuesday, joining UWM after two-year stints at both Clemson and Maryland in the
Atlantic Coast Conference.
All is quiet on the expansion front with no new team set to join the league in 2013.Â
Nevertheless, there are a number of potential expansion candidates waiting in the wings. Last
week, the Minnesota legislature voted in a stadium bill to keep the Vikings in Minnesota. The
stadium project is expected to cost almost a billion dollars.
Curtis Weir scored directly off a corner kick in the 59th minute as DePaul
topped host UW-Milwaukee 1-0 in a men's exhibition match Monday at Engelmann Stadium.
"I was very pleased with today's performance," Kris Kelderman said in a news
release following his first match as Panthers coach.
As expected, the UW-Milwaukee men's soccer team's 2012 roster looks a lot different than it did
a few months ago.
Kris Kelderman's squad for his first season as Panthers coach includes five
transfers, five freshmen who weren't part of the team's announced recruiting class in February and
two former players who have returned to the program.
Co-hosts Gabon looked like it was going to be headed to their best showing in any ACN when Eric
Mouloungui shot them into the lead in the 55th minute. But Mali had other ideas as Cheick Diabate
equalized in the 84th minute. At the end of extra time, with the two teams deadlocked, the fate of
the match was decided on PK shootout.
Group C: African Cup of Nations Preview (Gabon, Morocco, Niger, Tunisia) is a post from: Just
Football
We've looked at Demba Ba and friends in Group A and contemplated Côte d'Ivoire in Group B.
Just Football's team-by-team African Cup of Nations 2012 group
previews continues now with a look at Group C.
CHARLOTTESVILLE – Senior forward Will Bates scored twice, including a game-winning penalty kick in the 89th minute, to lift Virginia to a 2-1 win over No. 23 High Point Tuesday night at Klöckner Stadium. The Cavaliers improve to 6-5-1 with the victory, while handing the Panthers (10-1-1) their first loss of the season and snapping their 16-match unbeaten streak.
I've updated my calendars for the area teams I'll be tracking this season. All of the teams are
in action this weekend and there are some interesting games on tap. Here are the current schedules
for the Labor Day weekend. Check the schools website to be certain before heading out during this
weekends weather.
Oregon had five first-team all-conference selections after going unbeaten to win just its second
Southern Badger Conference girls soccer title this spring – and only one has completed her
eligibility.
The junior trio of defender Kayla Kaeppler, midfielder Kara Jahn and forward
Lauren Hughes and freshman midfielder Kelsey Jahn all made the top team for the
Panthers along with senior defender Morgan Johnson.
UW-Milwaukee men's soccer coach Chris Whalley and assistant Ben Shepherd have been
placed on administrative leave, athletic director Rick Costello confirmed Monday.
Costello declined to say why the action was taken against Whalley and Shepherd, who have led the
Panthers' program for the past two seasons.
David Nikolic, a Milwaukee native who spent 18 years in the UW-Milwaukee program, was
named the Great Lakes Region women's assistant coach of the year by the National Soccer Coaches
Association of America.
Nickolic and head coach Michael Moynihan left the Panthers last month to take the same
positions at Northwestern.
The season ended for the UW-Milwaukee and Marquette women's soccer teams against Big Ten
Conference teams Friday in North Carolina, along with the careers of two players whose
accomplishments over the past four years will be prominently featured in the NCAA Division I record
book.
Senior Sarah Hagen (Appleton North) scored on the final touch of her career, curling in a
free kick from 19 yards out in the 90th minute, but it was the only shot on goal for the
15th-ranked Panthers in their 2-1 loss to Ohio State in an NCAA tournament second-round match in
Durham, N.
