Lady Bulldog soccer No. 3 seed

LEBANON – The Rolla High School girls’ soccer team has been seeded No. 3 for the Missouri Class 2 District 11 Tournament, to be held May 12-15 in Lebanon.

Waynesville was seeded No. 1 while Springfield Glendale was seeded No. 2, Rolla No. 3, Lebanon No. 4, Springfield Central No. 5 and Springfield Hillcrest No. 6.

As the top two seeds, Waynesville and Glendale received first-round byes.

In first-round games set for Monday, May 13 Rolla meets Hillcrest at 5 p.m. while Lebanon takes on Central at 7 p.m.

In semifinal games scheduled for Tuesday, May 13 Waynesville will play the Lebanon-Central winner at 5 p.m. while Glendale meets the Rolla-Hillcrest winner at 7 p.m.

The district championship game is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, May 15.

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Helias clips RHS girls’ soccer, 3-2

ROLLA – Three unanswered goals by Jefferson City Helias was enough to beat the Rolla High School girls’ soccer team 3-2 Tuesday, May 6 at the Kiwanis Club Field.

The Lady Bulldogs, 15-8, took a 1-0 lead five minutes into the game when senior Kaitlin Bramel scored a goal.

However, the Helias Crusaders then tallied three straight goals to take a 3-1 lead early in the second half.

Olivia Cox netted a goal for RHS in the second half.

The Lady Bulldogs were scheduled to host Union on Thursday, May 8 at Kiwanis Field. It will be Senior Night for the Lady ‘Dogs, starting at 5 p.m.

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Unbeaten Waynesville shuts down Lady ‘Dog soccer

ROLLA – The Rolla High School girls’ soccer team was beaten by the undefeated Waynesville Lady Tigers 3-0 in a tight Ozark Conference contest at the Bray Sports Complex.

The game was closer than the final score indicated. Waynesville broke a scoreless deadlock in the latter part of the first half with a goal from junior midfielder Erica Combs, assisted by junior defender Orielle Thomas.

It was a 1-0 game at intermission.

Senior midfielder Shanna Neeley slammed home an unassisted goal in the second half. And senior forward Katie Pritchard ended the Lady Tiger scoring with a goal assisted by Neeley.

Sophomore Adrian Pogue was in goal for Rolla while senior Crystal Hutchinson was in goal for Waynesville.

Rolla won the junior varsity game 5-2. Kaylyn Stoll netted three goals for the jayvee Lady Bulldogs, now 4-2, while Kara Mace and Sara Lowe each had one goal. Lowe, Mace, Stoll and Ashlee Rightnowar each had an assist for the RHS jayvee team.

On Monday Waynesville received the No. 1 ranking in the Southwest Missouri Region. Waynesville was ranked No. 1 in the region, Springfield Glendale No. 2, Rolla No. 3, Lebanon No. 4 and Ozark No. 5.

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Carter’s goal lifts RHS girls’ soccer

ROLLA – The Rolla High School girls’ soccer team completed a rough trip to central Missouri for Hazelwood Central.

Junior Kim Carter scored the game-winning goal with 3:02 remaining in the game to lift the Lady Bulldogs to a 2-1 victory over Hazelwood Central on Saturday afternoon at the Bray Sports Complex.

After a scoreless first half Hazelwood Central took a 1-0 lead four minutes into the second half.

That stayed the score until Jaclyn Standfast gook a pass from Ashley Kerr and scored the tying goal with 16 minutes remaining.

And RHS got the victory when Olivia Cox found Carter with a pass and Carter knocked in the goal at the 3:02 mark.

Adrian Pogue was in goal for the Lady Bulldogs, who improve to 7-2.

It was an 0-2 road weekend for Hazelwood Central, which lost at Waynesville 4-2 on Friday.

No junior varsity game was held on Saturday.

Rolla and Waynesville will meet in a Ozark Conference showdown Tuesday, April 15 at the Bray Sports Complex. Waynesville defeated conference foe Springfield Hillcrest 5-1 on Saturday, April 12, to improve to 8-0 overall and 4-0 in the league.

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RHS girls’ soccer sweeps make-up games

SPRINGFIELD – Due to the recent rainy weather the Rolla High School girls’ soccer team played a pair of varsity as well as two junior varsity games at Springfield on Wednesday, April 9 and swept all o those contests with shutouts.

At Hillcrest High School Rolla shut out the Hillcrest Lady Hornets 6-0. And at Central High the Lady Bulldogs pounded Central 9-0.

That improved Rolla’s overall varsity record to 6-2. The Hillcrest contest was a Ozark Conference game and improved RHS to 2-1 in the league.

Sophomore Adrian Pogue recorded the shutouts for RHS, her fourth and fifth of the season.

Against Hillcrest junior Ashley Kerr had three goals and an assist for the Lady ‘Dogs while sophomore Olivia Cox had two goals and an assist; junior Ellen Spooner had a goal and sophomore Jaclyn Standfast dished out four assists.

In the game against Central Standfast erupted for four goals and two assists to power RHS while junior Kaitylyn Hall had two goals and Kim Carter, Kaitlin Bramel and Cox each had one goal. Cox had two assists and Rachel Zamazanuk, Bramel, Kerr and E. Spooner each had one assist.

Rolla also swept the junior varsity games in shutout fashion, beating Hillcrest 6-0 and Central 10-0. The Rolla jayvee squad is now 3-2.

Caitlin McFarland had four goals and three assists against Central while Sara Lowe had two goals while Kaylyn Stoll, Katheryn McCaulla, Jacey Crain and Taylor Skelton all had one goal. Ashlee Rightnowar had two assists while Stoll, McCaulla, Emily Carroll and Ally Parfet each had one assist.

Against Hillcrest McFarland and Stoll each had two goals while Kayla James and McCaulla each had one. Carroll, Rightnowar and Lowe had assists.

Rolla was scheduled to host Hazelwood Central at noon Saturday at the Bray Sports Complex in a varsity-only contest.

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RHS girls’ soccer falls to Visitation

ST. LOUIS – The Rolla High School girls’ soccer team fell to 4-2 overall by losing to small-school state power Visitation 7-0 Saturday, April 4.

Actually the game was close most of the way. It was 1-0 at halftime before Visitation, ranked No. 4 in the current Class 1 state poll, pulled away after intermission.

Visitation also won the junior varsity game 1-0.

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Kickapoo hands RHS girls’ soccer first defeat

SPRINGFIELD – The Rolla High School girls’ soccer team suffered its first defeat of the season on Thursday, April 3, as the Lady Bulldogs were upended by Springfield Kickapoo 2-1 in Ozark Conference action.

Rolla falls to 4-1 overall and 1-1 in the league.

Kickapoo took a 2-0 lead. Chelsea Russell scored the game’s first goal on a corner kick 20 minutes into the contest, which stood for the halftime score.

Eleven minutes into the second half the Lady Chiefs went up 2-0 on Megan Melugin’s shot form 20 yards out. Two minutes later Rolla got its lone goal, as Ellen Spooner scored off a long throw-in from Kaitlin Bramel.

Kickapoo also won the junior varsity game 3-0. The jayvee Lady ‘Dogs drop to 1-1.

Rolla is scheduled to play at Visitation on Saturday, April 5, with jayvee action starting at noon and the varsity contest to follow.

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RHS girls’ soccer opens league play with win

SPRINGFIELD – A goal by Jackie Standfast with 18 minutes remaining allowed the Rolla High School girls’ soccer team to stay undefeated on the season, as the Lady Bulldogs clipped Springfield Parkview 1-0 in Ozark Conference action on Tuesday, April 1.

Kaitlin Bramel assisted on Standfast’s goal.

Adrian Pogue was in goal for RHS. It was the third shutout of the season for the Lady Bulldogs, now 4-0 overall and 1-0 in league play.

Rolla also won the junior varsity game 3-0. Sydni Kaden netted two goals while Kaylen Stoll added one. Kara Mace had two assists and Ashlee Rightnowar had one. It was the season-opener for the jayvee Lady ‘Dogs.

Rolla is scheduled to play at Springfield on Thursday against Kickapoo, with jayvee action starting at 5 p.m. and the varsity contest to follow.

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Lady ‘Dogs send strong message with 3-0 start

ROLLA – The Rolla High School girls’ soccer team sent an early message with its performance in the second annual Central Federal Savings & Loan Classic on Friday and Saturday, March 21-22.

That message: the Lady Bulldogs are going to be a handful this spring.

Rolla allowed just one goal and went 3-0 in an impressive field to win its own event, held at Kiwanis Field at the Bray Sports Complex.

On Friday sophomore midfielder Jaclyn Standfast scored a late goal to give the Lady ‘Dogs a 2-1 victory over Washington.

And on Saturday Rolla won twice in shutout fashion, stopping Springfield Catholic 1-0 in the morning and later in the afternoon downing Columbia Hickman 2-0.

Catholic finished second in the tourney standings while Hickman was third and Washington fourth.

In other games, it was Catholic and Hickman playing to a 1-1 tie; Hickman and Washington playing to a 1-1 tie and Catholic stopping Washington 5-0.

Against Washington Standfast got the game-winner on an assist from junior forward Ashley Kerr. In the first half sophomore forward Olivia Cox scored on an assist from junior midfielder Kim Carter.

Sophomore Adrian Pogue was in goal for RHS.

In Saturday morning’s game against Catholic, state-ranked in the small-school division, senior midfielder Kaitlin Bramel scored the lone goal off an assist by Standfast.

After a scoreless first half against Hickman, Kerr opened the scoring with a goal off an assist by Bramel. Freshman midfielder Ellen Spooner tallied the second goal on a Standfast assist.

Pogue was again in goal.

The 3-0 weekend result left RHS head coach Mike Howard with an even 500 career victories as a head coach, counting both boys’ and girls’ soccer.

The Lady Bulldogs are scheduled to play again Tuesday, April 1 in Springfield against Ozark Conference foe Parkview, with the junior varsity game starting at 4:30 p.m. and the varsity contest to follow.

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