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| May 11, 2006 News Tribune Lady Jays drop a decision to Kickapoo By Tom Rackers
The Jefferson City Lady Jays are so close, they can touch it. Now it's a matter of finding that touch. “It's all the final touch,” Lady Jays coach Chris Miller said after Jefferson City dropped a frustrating 1-0 decision to the Kickapoo Lady Chiefs on Wednesday night at a soggy 179 Soccer Park. “Other than that, we're there. We're playing as well as we have all year long.” It was the second 1-0 loss this week for the Lady Jays. “We've had two games that haven't gone our way,” Miller said. “I think we're playing as well as we have all year long. A play here and there has cost us. “This has been a good week for us, we just can't back off because we haven't gotten the result we've wanted. Unfortunately, it counts in the loss column, but I haven't been disappointed with the way we've been playing. “I just know that it's frustrating for everyone on that bench.” As in all one-score defeats, there were several things that could have changed the final decision. The Lady Jays had five outstanding scoring chances in the second half, only to come up empty. “The opportunities were there, we just didn't do the last part of it,” Miller said. The Lady Jays had two shots just trickle through the front of the goal and past the post early in the half. “That's the way it works sometimes,” Miller said. In the final 10 minutes, three Lady Jay chances were turned away. RaShonda Stanley had the first on a great individual drive down the field. The junior lined a shot at the Kickapoo net that the keeper got a hand on to tap it away. Taylor Looten had the other two chances - a liner right at the keeper, then a header on a corner kick that the Kickapoo keeper had to go way up to keep out of the net. “Taylor got up and hit that well,” Miller said. “But that's indicative of how things have been going for us. When you're going well, those find a corner or trickle in somehow. “And when you're struggling, they don't.” Kickapoo (18-6) got the game's lone goal eight minutes into the second half, scoring from outside the box. “The girl hit it well obviously,” Miller said. “And if you put it on goal, good things can happen. “It came down to one play on the defensive end and us not being able to finish off the chances we had.” The Lady Jays (13-8-1) will close out the regular season Thursday at Wentzville Timberland. Both the JV and varsity games will start at 5 p.m. The Lady Jays won Wednesday's JV game 2-0. Hannah Mantle scored one goal for Jefferson City, the other game on an own-goal. Mariah McClain was in goal in the shutout. May 06, 2006 News Tribune Controlling the pace helps the Lady Jays post a 3-1 victory over Waynesville By Tom Rackers It came down to tempo. “We controlled the pace a little bit more than they did,” Lady Jays coach Chris Miller said after Jefferson City topped the Waynesville Lady Tigers 3-1 on Friday at the 179 Soccer Park. “If we got into a track meet with them, it wouldn't have been pretty.” But they weren't running laps, they were playing soccer. “Athletically, they are really good,” Miller said. “They've had a lot of success this season and you can see why.” The Lady Tigers had the better of play in the early going, but the Lady Jays were able to survive some early miscommunications on the defensive end because of good saves by Jessie Sanderson. The tide started to turn with the play of Abby Lloyd and Katie Denning. “Abby and Katie did a good job of winning balls and finding feet,” Miller said. “That helped us calm down.” Jenna Steiner scored the first of three straight goals for the Lady Jays midway through the first half after Jefferson City matriculated the ball down the field. “It was a real nice combination all the way up the field,” Miller said. “The ball never stopped moving and if you can keep the ball moving and the people moving, you can find openings.” Steiner completed the drive with a liner from the left side. “It was a real nice polite finish,” Miller said. Kelsey Sanders snapped her recent scoring skid with about four minutes to go in the half. “I'm not so sure how big that elephant was on her, but it was getting pretty big,” Miller said. The score came after Sanders came up with a turnover in front of the Waynesville net. “It happened so fast, I'm not sure she had a chance to think about it,” Miller said. “She was able to turn and hit that thing so fast.” Converting turnovers into goals is a key for the Lady Jays. “We have to be more efficient about taking advantage of mistakes teams make,” Miller said. The Lady Jays made it 3-0 with about 12 minutes to go in the game on a score by Erica Ferguson. “That was a great goal,” Miller said. “I was so happy to see someone who works as hard as she does and doesn't get to play as much I'm sure she would like have a goal like that. “That was one everybody on the sideline was happy about.” Waynesville (16-3) got its score with about eight minutes to play. The Lady Jays (13-6-1) will travel to Hazelwood West for a rescheduled varsity-only contest at 5:15 p.m. Monday before hosting Kickapoo for Senior Night on Wednesday. In the JV game Friday, the Lady Jays scored a 4-0 victory as Jayme Chapman tallied two goals. Lynna Wood and Rachel Bates had one each, while Mariah McClain got the shutout in goal. Apr 23, 2006 News Tribune Lady Jays fall to Lee's Summit in championship game By Tom Rackers The Jefferson City Lady Jays entered the Capital City Soccer Invitational with high hopes of winning the title. For the third time in four years, the Lady Jays advanced to the title game, only to come up a win short. “It's our tournament,” Lady Jays coach Chris Miller said after Jefferson City fell 3-0 to the Lee's Summit Lady Tigers in the championship game Saturday afternoon at the 179 Soccer Park. “We're in it to win it, we're not just here to host it and let somebody else win.” The scoreless game turned on a single play midway through the second half when the Lady Jays were called for a foul in the box to set up a Lady Tiger penalty kick. “It's 0-0, the ball's played behind a girl ... I don't know,” Miller said. “I know that a body flew in the box.” Lady Jays keeper Jessie Sanderson was able to get a hand on the penalty shot, but the ball trickled past her to give the Lady Tigers the lead. “There was a play that changed the game and we had to change things up after that and try to manufacture something and things got away from us,” Miller said. Miller was a little philosophical about the game-changing call. “We've been living right for awhile, had some things go our way,” he said. “Things even out.” Down by a goal, the Lady Jays had to shift into attack mode, while the Lady Tigers added a fourth defender to counter.. The move to concentrate more on the offensive end left the Lady Jays shorthanded in the back and the Lady Tigers were able to add two goals in the final 10 minutes. “Once we pushed people up to get an extra attacker, there's really no difference between 1-0, 2-0, 3-0,” Miller said. “When you're playing for a championship, you have to do something.” The defense was the key element in Saturday's 1-0 semifinal win over Park Hill South. “Park Hill South is a lot more difficult to defend than Lee's Summit,” Miller said. “No disrespect to (Lee's Summit), but they use a lot of individual stuff and that's not what beat us. “Their best player couldn't beat Rashonda (Stanley) all game long and she tried all game long. “But their style works for them.” Emily Downing had the goal against Park Hill South, heading home a pass by Jenna Steiner. “I'm not disappointed in the effort, we had a pretty good weekend,” Miller said. “I know the girls are disappointed, but there are games after this one.” The Lady Jays (10-5-1) are back in action at home Tuesday against Sedalia before taking on Helias on Thursday. ----------------- April 19, 2006 Columbia Tribune Kewps stonewalled again - Jays’ Sanderson shuts out Hickman. By PHILIP BATSON Jessie Sanderson is proving to be the ultimate foil for the Hickman girls soccer team. The Kewpies might have had three goals on any other day, but Sanderson, Jefferson City’s first-team all-state goalie, corralled every attempt that came her way in the Jays’ 2-0 win last night at Cosmo Park. "I’ll tell you what," Jefferson City Coach Chris Miller’s "keeper is tops," Hickman Coach Jon Strodtman said. The game was called after 46 minutes when lightning and rain began to move in. "You’re always glad to get a win - that’s certainly good - but I’d rather play 80 minutes and see how it turned out," Miller said. The Jays (8-4-1) have beaten the Kewpies (6-2-2) twice and outscored them 5-1 in those meetings. Hickman almost took the lead in the opening minute when midfielder Meredith Scheneman fired a shot from 25 yards out on the right wing that seemed destined for the upper left corner. Sanderson backpedaled and dove, deflecting it off the crossbar before she scrambled to cover the rebound. "From our viewpoint, it was cornered," Strodtman said. "She was airborne, and it looked nice, and she made a great stop." Six minutes later, Sanderson made another diving save on a cross by Scheneman, but the ball popped out of her hands. Michelle Lowery appeared to have an easy tap-in, but Jefferson City’s Sam Cummings blocked the shot on the goal line. "It could have been 3-1, 3-2 easily," Miller said. "They had a lot of pressure on us. The turning point was Jessie being able to make some plays for us." After surviving Hickman’s early push and missed chances, the Jays quickly capitalized on their opportunities. Emily Downing deflected home a cross from Jenna Steiner in the 14th minute after the ball slipped through Hickman goalie Bess Frissell’s hands and found Downing at the back post. The Kewpies, who hadn’t played in 10 days, appeared sluggish and out of sync in the first half, which led to Jefferson City’s second goal. The Kewpies failed to mark Rashonda Stanley’s run into the middle of the box, and the defender headed home a perfect corner kick from Katie Denning in the 21st minute. "We’ll have to make some changes and hopefully get our act together before we see them in districts, and that’s when it really counts," Strodtman said. Sanderson continued to stamp out the few offensive chances the Kewpies mounted when she made a diving save on a shot from Kelsey McClure in the 36th minute. Sanderson again stopped Scheneman five minutes into the second half when she got a hand on Scheneman’s close-range effort to deflect it off the left post. --------------------- Sunday, April 16, 2006 Quincy Herald-Whig By Matthew Sprague Despite playing twice in a span of five hours Saturday, Jefferson City's girls soccer team showed comparable speed to, if not more than, both Quincy High School and Quincy Notre Dame. The way the Lady Raiders were attacking, though, it didn't matter. QND outshot Jefferson City 12-5 en route to a 3-0 win. The Lady Jays responded by shutting out QHS 2-0 at Flinn Stadium a few hours later. "I think we had some good speed, too," QND coach Mark Longo said. "The first 25 minutes, I thought we played well, but their speed kind of caught up with us. For the last 10 minutes or so, I thought they were the better team. "We subbed a lot more than they did, though, and I think that eventually wore them out." Erin Thomas began the scoring by sidestepping two defenders to her right, going back left and putting a shot past goalkeeper Jessie Sanderson's outstretched arms at the 16:44 mark for a 1-0 QND lead. "When I got to the ball, I looked to see if there was anybody else around ... so I saw the gap between two defenders and decided to go between them," Thomas said. The score would hold until early in the second half, when Denise Dreyer deflected a high shot by Andria Carroll into the net with a little more than 31 minutes left in the half. Mercedee Esterlein added a late unassisted goal to round out the scoring. Goalkeeper Natalie Siebers was credited for three saves, but wasn't challenged often, thanks to the Lady Raiders' (4-2-2) constant attack negating Jefferson City's speed on both sides of the ball. Still, Lady Jays coach Chris Miller was satisfied to leave Quincy with a split. "We were pretty much terrible the first game," Miller said. "It was probably good for us to come out and play again ... because we stunk up the field in the first game. I'm glad our kids decided to have a little pride and not have that be what we left up here today." It seemed to Blue Devils coach Bill Sanders, though, that QHS (5-2-3) was the team that had played two games Saturday. "They just beat us," Sanders said. "Today, the better team won. It had nothing to do with anything else, they just beat us." Jefferson City had some extra time to recover from the loss at QND, as lightning delayed the scheduled 3:15 p.m. start of the Quincy game 30 minutes. Once play started, however, the Lady Jays didn't wait long to get on the board. Freshman Taylor Looten took a cross from Jenna Steiner and beat Quincy goalkeeper Jenny Williams on her left side 12 minutes, 23 seconds in. With 8:32 left in the first half, Steiner rounded out the scoring with a perfect diving header past Williams off a dump-in pass from Kelsey Sanders. The Lady Jays' speed was apparent in both games, but was only an advantage against the Blue Devils, who were outshot 10-6. "We didn't possess the ball very well," Sanders said. "We were flat, we weren't moving our feet. When you (do that), it gives them an easy chance to flight the ball back to their forwards all the time. And their forwards are good." Despite the two first-half goals, Williams was tough in net for the Blue Devils, picking up eight saves — many of them diving. ---------- Sunday, April 16, 2006 News Tribune Lady Jays get first win over Quincy QUINCY, Ill. - Jefferson City defeated Quincy 2-0 on Saturday, the first time the Lady Jays have beaten them in school soccer history. Both of the goals came in the first half. Taylor Looten got the Lady Jays on the board in the 13th minute on an assist by Jenna Steiner. Steiner had the second score in the 32nd minute, diving to head home a kick off a restart by Kelsey Sanders. Jessie Sanderson got the shutout for the Lady Jays, stopping six shots, including a breakaway with about 15 minutes to play. In their opener Saturday, the Lady Jays dropped a 3-0 decision to Quincy Notre Dame. The Lady Jays (7-4-1) will play Tuesday at Hickman before hosting the Capital City Tournament next Friday and Saturday. In JV action Saturday, the Lady Jays fell 2-0 to Quincy Notre Dame and played to a scoreless tie with Quincy in a weather-shortened game. ------------ Friday, Apr 14, 2006 News Tribune Lady Jays blank Hannibal By Tom Rackers One of these days, the Jefferson City Lady Jays are going to break out with a big offensive game. Even though they won, that day wasn't Thursday. “We're going to have to keep plugging away and manufacture as many as we can,” Lady Jays coach Chris Miller said after Jefferson City blanked Hannibal 2-0 at the 179 Soccer Park. “We weren't very sharp.” The Lady Jays were fresh from a 1-all tie against Rock Bridge on Tuesday and the intensity was down a couple of notches from that one. “Anytime you come off a game against one of the big three (Helias, Rock Bridge and Hickman), the next game is always a little shaky,” Miller said. “But that's really no excuse. When you're controlling the pace of the game like we were, we should have scored more. “But we're young and a lot of the shots we were getting weren't really all that dangerous.” The Lady Jays were dangerous in the first half, with Jenna Steiner scoring both of the game's goals. The senior got her first about 15 minutes into the game, putting back a rebound after a corner kick. Corner kicks have been one consistent part of the Lady Jays' offense this season. “Good thing we work on those, I guess,” Miller said. Steiner's second goal came about 10 minutes later to cap the game's scoring. In the second half, the Lady Jays had a mix of some good shots and some not-so-good. "We'll shoot it, we just aren't sure where it's going all the time,” Miller said. Two of the better opportunities came on a header by Kayla Morgan on a ball off the crossbar and on a long liner by Steiner off a corner kick. But others were sailing way wide of the net or far up on the two-story chainlink fence behind the net. “Our mechanics are off on a lot of our shots,” Miller said. “They go over the top or we try to hit them too hard to go through six defenders and the keeper. “But it was a comfortable game at that point and we weren't playing with a lot of intensity.” Jessie Sanderson picked up the shutout in goal. The Lady Jays (6-3-1) are back in action Saturday in a pair of games at Quincy, Ill. Jefferson City will take on Quincy Notre Dame before facing Quincy. In the JV game, Hannah Mantle had the goal in the Lady Jays' tie at 1 with the Lady Pirates. ---------------------------------------------- April 12, 2006 Columbia Tribune Despite Late Spark, Bruins Can Only Tie Lauren Kelly generously lists herself as being 5 feet tall. But there isn’t a lot of conviction behind that claim by the sophomore forward for the Rock Bridge girls soccer team. (More - Click on hot link.) ---------------------------------------------------- Apr 12, 2006 News Tribune Lady Jays tie Rock Bridge By Tom Rackers Logic might dictate you'd rather be playing offense with a steady 20 mph wind at your back. Tuesday night, that logic sailed away like a piece of paper in a tornado. “Sometimes that wind holds things up a little bit and makes it tougher on the keeper,” Lady Jays coach Chris Miller said after Jefferson City finished in a tie at 1 after overtime with the Rock Bridge Lady Bruins at the 179 Soccer Park. “With the wind at your back, a lot of times the bail just sails right to the keeper or the other players.” Both scores Tuesday came into the wind. The Lady Jays got on the board midway through the first half. On a corner kick, Katie Denning was able to boot the ball to the front of the net despite the wind. Rashonda Stanley was there to tap it in. “The neat thing about that was (Stanley) was able to concentrate enough even though the corner went over the top of a couple of players,” Miller said. The Lady Jays ran the play just like it was designed. “To score, we're going to have to do it off of set plays and it's good to get one like that,” Miller said. The Lady Bruins got their goal into the same net with 25 minutes to play and the game went to the extra periods. Both teams had their chances in the overtimes. Two times, the Lady Jays saw the ball go through the hands of the Lady Bruins keeper, only to see it wind up short of the goal line. “We got a couple of gifts there we didn't take advantage of,” Miller said. “We were getting our chances and anytime you play in a game like this and get eight or nine or 10 chances like we did, that's pretty good because sometimes you can go all game and only get one or two..” On the other end, Lady Jays keeper Jessie Sanderson made a couple of outstanding saves of her own, including a diving stop. “It's always good to have her back there,” Miller said. It was the type of game you'd expect between the Lady Jays, ranked No. 15 in the latest Class 2 state poll, and the Lady Bruins, just one point behind them. “I think both teams played very hard and after kind of a slow start, it turned into a fun game to watch,” Miller said. The Lady Jays (5-3-1) are back in action Thursday against Hannibal at the 179 Soccer Park. The JV game will start at 5 p.m., followed by the varsity contest around 6:45 p.m. ----------------------------------- Despite late spark, Bruins can only tie Columbia Tribune By PHILIP BATSON Wednesday, April 12, 2006 JEFFERSON CITY - Lauren Kelly generously lists herself as being 5 feet tall. But there isn’t a lot of conviction behind that claim by the sophomore forward for the Rock Bridge girls soccer team. Kelly’s conviction comes in her play. Her lack of height was no barrier as she scored the Bruins’ only goal, on a header, in Rock Bridge’s 1-1 tie with Jefferson City last night at 179 Soccer Park. "She’s a little spark plug out there," Rock Bridge Coach Marc VanDover said. "She’s a spark. She just guts it out, and she’s got some wheels." Kelly sparked the Bruins in the 56th minute, when she redirected an Erin Bucko cross into the left corner of the net. Bucko sent the cross in from the right wing, and the ball floated over Jefferson City goalie Jessie Sanderson and the first line of attackers and defenders at the near post. That left Kelly alone in the middle of the box for the finish. "When Erin kicked it, I could just feel something that it was coming straight towards me, and I got a head on it," Kelly said. The cross was one of many dangerous balls Bucko played from the right side as the Rock Bridge (4-3-1) attacked the Jays (5-3-1) from the flanks. "She was amazing out there," Kelly said. "She had so many crosses. A lot of times, we try to work it up the middle, and I think Jeff City was expecting that, but when we hit out wings it just opened up the whole field for us." Bucko and Kelly almost connected in the 81st minute to win the game when Bucko sent in a cross that found Kelly alone at the far post, but her header sailed just over the top of the crossbar. Kelly was left to carry the Bruins’ attack while fellow forward Claire Schaeperkoetter dealt with asthma problems and was a shell of her usual self. Even after her near-miss to start overtime, Kelly almost sent the Bruins home with a win twice more. Her best attempt came in the 90th minute when she stole the ball on the right side of the Jays’ box. Kelly fired a shot toward the far post, but Sanderson got one hand up to block the ball and then caught the ball before it crossed the goal line. "It takes a lot to beat her," Jefferson City Coach Chris Miller said. "As hard as that was, it takes something special to get by her. She’s the reason why we’re able to stay in games, because we have some trouble scoring." Despite decent possession and ball movement in the first half, the Bruins fell behind in the 26th minute on a goal by Jefferson City defender Rashonda Stanley. Stanley was left unmarked in the middle of the box and volleyed in a corner kick by Katie Denning. VanDover, though, was pleased with the play of his defense and how it reacted after giving up the goal. The Bruins allowed just five shots on goal for the game and forced the Jays to attempt the majority of their shots from long range. "They just played magnificent," VanDover said. "We got a goal scored on us, but improvement-wise, they have done so much better." The Jays could have won the game twice in the final 10 minutes, but long shots by Denning and Jenna Steiner rebounded into the middle of the box and were not followed up by any Jays. Both teams were at less than full strength. Jefferson City’s leading scorer, Kelsey Sanders, played just five minutes while dealing with the effects of taking a knee to the head in practice Monday. Meanwhile, Rock Bridge midfielder Alex Litofsky went down with a left ankle injury in the 53rd minute and had to be carried off of the field. 4/5/06 News Tribune: Lady Jays shut out Moberly in soccer , By Tom Rackers The biggest hurdle Jefferson City goalkeeper Jessie Sanderson may have faced Tuesday night? Boredom. The two-time all-state selection never had to touch the ball in action at the 179 Soccer Park as the Lady Jays topped the Moberly Lady Spartans 1-0. “That may have been the easiest shutout for a goalkeeper in history,” Lady Jays coach Chris Miller said. The Lady Spartans weren't able to get the ball near Sanderson the entire game. Moberly moved the ball as deep as the top of the box only once in each of the halves. While Moberly couldn't get the ball deep into Jefferson City territory, the Lady Jays weren't exactly clicking on the offensive end themselves. “We were just out of sync for some reason,” Miller said. “Sometimes, you just have nights like that in soccer.” The Lady Jays kept the ball in the Lady Spartans end of the field in the first half, but just couldn't convert. “We'd move the ball, then something would happen and the play would fall apart,” Miller said. After a scoreless first half, the Lady Jays broke on the board early in the second. Kelsey Sanders got the goal off a free kick that just eluded the grasp of the Lady Spartans' goalie. That took the pressure off the Lady Jays, who kept the Lady Spartans at bay the rest of the way. “Fortunately, our defense was strong,” Miller said. “A lot of the credit has to go to our backs for keeping the ball away from Jessie.” The Lady Jays (4-1) are back in action this weekend at the Kickapoo Tournament. Jefferson City opens against Raytown South on Friday before playing a pair of games Saturday. -------------------------- March 18, 2006, News Tribune: Lady Jays hoping for another big year in girls socccer By Tom Rackers The Jefferson City Lady Jays have never won back-to-back district soccer championships. And Jefferson City has never won a district title when the tournament is in Columbia. The Lady Jays are the defending district champs and this season's tournament will be in Columbia. Hmmm ... the young Lady Jays will be looking to buck some trends in 2006. “We're trying to break some new ground with some new faces,” Lady Jays coach Chris Miller said. The Lady Jays lost eight seniors from the district championship squad and have just six seniors on this year's team. It's a young group. “Most of them aren't able to drive yet,” Miller said. “At least not without Mom or Dad in the car.” But the district tournament is far down the road. And last year's district crown is in the rearview mirror. “From day one, we've stressed last year's season ended last year,” Miller said. “We're not defending anything. There's nothing to defend, we won it and it's over. This year, there are six teams capable of winning and we've got to be hungry to do that.” The cupboard isn't bare, not when you have two-time all-state goalkeeper Jessie Sanderson back for her junior season. “She has the ability to change the game, keep you in the game,” Miller said. “You can get a little spoiled with her back there.” Miller preaches strength at both ends of the field. “You've got to have someone who can put it in and someone who can stop it,” Miller said. With Sanderson, they're strong at one end. And Kelsey Sanders, last year's leading scorer with 17 goals as a freshman, is back at the other. “She got some of those last year because we had a lot of experience around her, players other teams had to respect,” Miller said. “I don't think she's going to sneak up on anybody this year.” Sanders just joined practice after being with the Lady Jays basketball team through their Final Four run. “She has the potential to break open some games for us,” Miller said. Also penciled in as starters are midfielders Jenna Steiner, a senior, along with sophomores Abby Lloyd and Katie Denning. The rest of the lineup is in flux. “The girls are pestering me, wondering if they're going to start,” Miller said. “The way our team is, we've got a lot of different approaches we can take. “There's too much there. I don't want to cut that off before it has a chance to grow.” Rashonda Stanley, a junior, will be the anchor on the defensive end, Miller said. She will be joined by seniors Melinda Rickard and Caitlin Johnson, and juniors Jesse Pollard and Sam Cummings. “They're kids that don't get their names in the paper all that much, but they have to do their jobs so the rest of the players can do their job,” Miller said. Also in the midfield mix are juniors Brittany Stegeman, Kayla Morgan and Brittney Juckette. Andria Musso and Sasha Zimmerman-Lopez, both seniors, will start up front. Erica Ferguson, a senior who like Sanders is just out of basketball, will also see some time. The Lady Jays lost more than half of their 71 goals from last season. “We're looking for people to fill that role,” Miller said. “We're going to have to spread it out. But it seems like it's contagious, when you get one or two people rolling, they all seem to pick it up.” And there are plenty of candidates to fill spots. “There's not a big dropoff from player No. 5 to No. 30,” Miller said. “As many good kids as we have, we're going to give them all a shot at it.” There will be plenty of opportunities early. The Lady Jays open the season in the Bi-State Shootout in St. Louis, with single games scheduled Monday through Wednesday. Depending on how they do in those three games, the Lady Jays could play again Thursday and Friday. “If you ever want to get anywhere in the playoffs, you've got to be prepared for what you're going to see,” Miller said. “This is going to be a challenge for us early on, it's almost like a free beginning to the season.” The Lady Jays will open their home season against Moberly on Tuesday, April 4. |
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| April 16, Quincy Herald-Whig |
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| April 19 - Columbia Tribune: Hickman’s Liz Gayer battles Jefferson City’s Emily Downing for the ball during the Jays’ 2-0 victory last night at Cosmo Park. |
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| April 19 - Columbia Missourian: Hickman's Megan Darter heads the ball against Jefferson City's Kelsey Sanders. |
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| April 22: A quartet of Jefferson City Lady Jays - (from left to right) Rashonda Stanley, Taylor Looten, Sasha Zimmerman-Lopez and Abby Lloyd - chase the ball during Saturday's title game against Lee's Summit in the Capital City Soccer Invitational at the 179 Soccer Park. All four scored goals during the tournament. (Shaun Zimmerman/News Tribune photo) |
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