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Monday, June 1
Study for Finals & Rest

Tuesday, June 2
4:00pm
Training

Wednesday, June 3
1:00pm
Last Day of School. Dismissed 2 hours early!

4:00pm
Training

Thursday, June 4
Time TBA
Final Four Walk Through

5:00pm
Team Dinner & A Movie @ Jeni Frewin’s

Banquet Reservation Deadline

Friday, June 5
10:45am
Bus Leaves From Glendale

7:00pm
Glendale vs. Incarnate Word

Saturday, June 6
1:00pm or 6:00pm
Final Game of the Season

Sunday, June 7
Rest!

Monday, June 8
6:00-8:30pm
Team Banquet at Mille’s

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The bus will depart from Glendale at 10:45am on Friday.

The team will be staying at the Pear Tree Inn in Fenton. 1100 South Highway Drive. Phone: 636-343-8820.

Parents will be responsible for booking their own hotel rooms. The site of the Final Four, the AB Center, is located in Fenton. As of yesterday only a few smoking rooms remained at the Pear Tree Inn in Fenton. If that is where you would really like to stay, it would not hurt to call to see if any rooms have been released.

Some families have already booked rooms at the Drury Inn & Suites in Fenton. 1088 South Highway Drive. 636-343-7822. It is practically next door to the team’s hotel.

Admission at the A-B Center will be $7 per day and parking will be $2 per day.

Other soccer things of interest in St. Louis next weekend:

• Springfield Catholic has advanced to the Final Four in Class 1. Many of the Springfield Catholic players are Falcons friends and soccer club teammates. They will play at 1:00pm on Friday. If they win, they will play at noon on Saturday. If they lose, they will play at 11:00am on Saturday.
• Saint Louis Athletica, the Women’s Professional Soccer team, will play Sky Blue FC on Sunday at 3:00pm at Ralph Korte Stadium.

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Allen Vaughan writes in today’s News-Leader about the history of the girls state soccer tournament. His facts are a bit off (read the comments), but his conclusion rings true:

Still, history isn’t everything. Sure, there’s a chance that St. Louis number could be 33-0 [sic] after this weekend. But just know, if one of our local teams pulls it off, it will be history.

How have Springfield area teams performed in the girls state soccer championships?

1999: Catholic – 4th (1A-3A)
2001: Ozark – 4th (1A-3A)
2002: Kickapoo – 4th (4A)
2003: Catholic – 3rd (Class 1)
2004: Catholic – 2nd (Class 1)

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Last week during one of Coach Rogers’ interviews on Jock 98.7, he pondered how many times the boys and girls soccer teams at a school had been to the Final Four in the same academic year. That pondering resulted in a research assignment.

The answer: Having both the boys and girls soccer teams at a school advance to the Final Four in the same academic year happens regularly for the smaller schools, but it is a rarity in the state’s largest class.

Glendale is the first school in the state’s largest class to get it’s boys and girls soccer teams to the Final Four in the same academic year since the girls expanded to more than one class during the 1998-99 school year. Francis Howell North (1994-95) and Oakville (1989-90) accomplished the feat when the girls had a single class. This year, the girls were divided into three classes for the first time.

Advancing two teams to the Final Four from the same school happens regularly in the state’s smaller classes. St. Dominic has done it three times. Duchesne and O’Hara have done it twice. This year, in addition to the Falcons, the feat has been accomplished by three schools in Class 1: Trinity Catholic, St. Pius X (KC), and Springfield Catholic.

The feat is less common in the state’s largest class due, at least in part, to the dominance of single-sex parochial schools, especially in girls soccer.

The question that can’t be answered from the data is how many of these schools had the same coach for the boys and girls teams. Aside from Coach Rogers, I’m reasonably certain that it has been done by Greg Koeller at St. Dominic, but I don’t know about the others.

The data for this analysis was pulled from the 2006-2007 MSHSAA Records Book & Yearbook and the MSHSAA Web site.

Corrections and additional information are welcomed.

2008-09
Glendale
Trinity Catholic
St. Pius X (KC)
Springfield Catholic

2007-08
Duchesne

2006-07
St. Dominic

2004-05
St. Dominic

2003-04
O’Hara

2002-03
Cape Notre Dame
O’Hara

2001-02
St. Charles West
Helias

1995-96
St. Dominic

1994-95
Francis Howell North

1989-90
Oakville

1988-89
Duchesne

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The Falcons defeated the Jefferson City Jays, 2-0, in a state quarterfinal match and have advanced to the state Final Four for the first time in the program’s history. The Glendale boys also advanced to the Final Four in the fall.

Match Stats: Molly Brewer (1G), Emily Jordan (1A), Emily Cline (1G), Katie Brewer (1A).

The Falcons will play the defending state champion Incarnate Word Red Knights  at 7:00pm on Friday, June at the AB Center in Fenton. Incarnate Word defeated the Falcons last year in the state quarterfinals.

If the Falcons win, they will play for the state championship at 6:00pm on Saturday. If the Falcons lose, they will play in the consolation game at 1:00pm.

Travel details will be posted shortly.

No practice on Monday. We will practice on Tuesday at 4:00pm.

Final Four Pairings

In a departure from the norm, three of the four teams in the Final Four are public schools.

Pattonville Pirates vs. Lee’s Summit North Broncos
Incarnate Word Academy Red Knights vs. Glendale Falcons

STLtoday: Incarnate Word Tops Nerinx Hall

Updates

• SGFsoccer: Glendale Heads to State
• News-Leader: Glendale Soccer Tops Jeff City to Advance to Final Four
• SGFsoccer: Flickr Photos
• News-Leader: Glendale Girls Advance to State Soccer Semifinals
• Lady Jay Soccer: Picasa Photos
• News Tribune: Lady Jays Fall in Quarters
• Glendale Soccer: Flickr Photos

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The webmaster has laid his hands on a 3G wireless network card and will attempt to do live updates from Rolla using CoverItLive. Perhaps they can even been seen in South Africa.

Kickoff is at 2:00pm.

Update: It was an interesting experiment. I had not used a 3G card before and I had never used CoverItLive for an actual event. It would have been nice to work from a table. The only real problem was that I got a nice sunburn on the back of my hands which looks really odd since I was wearing long sleeves. I wish I had publicized it earlier.

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