May 6, 2010

 Neosho pro­motes Schoonover
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  NEOSHO — Neosho ele­vated assis­tant Jared Schoonover to become its new head foot­ball coach on Tues­day.
  Schoonover replaces Shawn Flan­ni­gan, who is bound for Rogers (Ark.). Schoonover han­dled the play-calling duties for a Wild­cats offense last sea­son that aver­aged 38 points a night.
  Schoonover pre­vi­ously coached five years at Ben­tonville (Ark.).
  Neosho has won back-to-back dis­trict championships.

• 

 

---

February 5, 2010

Mis­souri South­ern State reels in four COC recruits
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  JOPLIIN — Webb City’s Brax­ton Baker and Bart Starkey and Neosho’s Matt Bridges and Addi­son Rain­wa­ter will next be team­mates.
  They all signed let­ters of intent ear­lier this week to con­tinue their grid­iron careers at Mis­souri South­ern State. Baker is a run­ning back, Bridges a cen­ter and Rain­wa­ter and Starkey are line­back­ers.
  Also, Webb City defen­sive back Boo Rodgers signed with South­ern Illinois-Carbondale.

• 

 

---

Foot­ball sched­ules filled
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence foot­ball teams who have released their 2010 sched­ules are Bran­son, Carthage, Hol­lis­ter, Nixa and Reeds Spring.
Bran­son
  Week 1 — Carthage; Week 2 — Cassville; Week 3 — @ Webb City; Week 4 — @ Repub­lic; Week 5 — @ Willard; Week 6 — Ozark; Week 7 — Neosho; Week 8 — Spring­field Parkview; Week 9 — @ Spring­field Kick­apoo; Week 10 — @ Nixa
Carthage
  Week 1 — @ Bran­son; Week 2 — Ozark; Week 2  — @ Willard: Week 4 — @ Nixa; Week 4 — Neosho; Week 6 — @ imag­ine Col­lege Col­lege Prep Char­ter; Week 7 — Repub­lic; Week 8 — Webb City; Week 9 — @ Carl Junc­tion: Week 10 — McDon­ald County
Hol­lis­ter
  Week 1 — @ Marsh­field; Week 2 — Buf­falo; Week 3 — @ Spring­field Catholic; Week 4 — Boli­var; Week 5 — @ Reeds Spring; Week 6 — Rogersville; Week 7 — @ Stock­ton; Week 8 — Straf­ford; Week 9 — Fair Grove; Week 10 — @ Ash Grove
Nixa
  Week 1 — Cam­den­ton; Week 2 — @ Repub­lic; Week 3 — @ Mon­ett; Week 4 — Carthage; Week 5 — @ Webb City; Week 6 — @ Neosho; Week 7 — Spring­field Kick­apoo; Week 8 — @ Ozark; Week 9 — Willard; Week 10 — Bran­son
Reeds Spring
  Week 1 — @ Wil­low Springs; Week 2 — Boli­var; Week 3 — @ Rogersville; Week 4 — Fair Grove; Week 5 — Hol­lis­ter; Week 6 — @ Buf­falo; Week 7 — Marsh­field; Week 8 — Aurora; Week 9 — @ Mt. Ver­non; Week 10 — @ Spring­field Catholic
 

• 

 

---

February 12, 2010

Nixa’s Keeney among those to sign let­ters of intent
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  Nixa’s Jor­dan Keeney will con­tinue his foot­ball career at Cen­tral Mis­souri State, after sign­ing a let­ter of intent with the Mules.
  Keeney, the Cen­tral Ozark Con­fer­ence Large Schools Divi­sion Offen­sive Player of the Year last fall, is expected to stay at run­ning back for Cen­tral Mis­souri State.
  The Eagles’ Skyler Brown, an offen­sive line­man, signed with Ottawa (Kan.).
  Ozark’s Tom Ligion signed with Arkansas State’s track team and hopes to com­pete in the decathalon.
  The Tigers’ Keaton Pat­ter­son, a line­backer, signed to play foot­ball at South­west Bap­tist.
  Carthage’s Trevor Hole signed with Evan­gel and plans to play foot­ball and com­pete in track. 

• 

 

---

April 16, 2010

Knob Noster’s Phillips to join Pirates
COCPrepSports.com Staff
  BRAN­SON — Bran­son has hired Knob Nos­ter head foot­ball coach Ed Phillips as an assis­tant coach and weight train­ing teacher.
  Phillips, a Buf­falo grad, pre­vi­ously coached at Lock­wood. He replaces Ron Mar­tin, who resigned after 24 sea­sons with the Pirates.
  “Ed pos­sesses the kind of char­ac­ter that is going to make him a great fit in the Bran­son com­mu­nity and the Bran­son school dis­trict,” ath­letic direc­tor Tony Berry said.

• 

 

---