The Parkview Lady Vikings opened their season on Friday night with a 7-0 win over Carthage. The Vikings’ potent offense picked up where they left off last year, anchored by mainstays Shelby Stewart and Jessica Maerz. Maerz scored and had an assist, and Stewart scored as well. Kelsey Loderhose picked up two of her own, and Mckenzi Payton dominated the midfield for the majority of the game, getting into the offense as well by hammering in a ball that came out of the box on a misclear.

While the Vikings were clearly lead by their seniors and a few key juniors, the freshmen were able to get into the mix as well. Aubrey Durst and Amy Greene both started on the back line and held their own quite well, and Emily Courtney played solid at outside mid for the injured Melanie Allen. Senior keeper Caylin Manary picked up the shutout in goal.

Steve Olson of www.sgfsoccer.com was at the game, and wrote up a report of his own. It’s always good to get extra press, so thank Steve for coming when you see him at games (he’ll be the one on the sidelines holding a camera, and most likely walking around barefoot when it warms up). For those that don’t know, “Ole” is the reason we have a website, and the only consistent, reliable, midwest soccer news source around.

Scoring Summary: Kelsey Loderhose 2g, Jessica Maerz 2g 1a, Shelby Stewart 2g, Mckenzi Payton 1g Caylin Manary shutout.

The Junior Varsity squad won their opener 5-0, with four different people getting into the scoring action. After hammering the goal for the first half, Amanda Leckrone received a forty yard pass from Marissa Deffenbaugh, and was able to score with a few minutes left to give the Vikings a 1-0 lead. Leckrone was later able to score again, as was Mary Langebartel, Alex Shupert, and Keyuna Mays. Maddie George earned the shutout in the net.

The JV photo above was taken by Joe George (Maddie’s dad). Joe has been at essentially every game the last few years, taking pictures and sending them to me so I can get them up on the website. Click on the “comments” link on this article to find out how you can view more of Joe’s PHS Soccer photos.

Scoring Summary: Amanda Leckrone 2g, Mary Langebartel 1g, Alex Shupert 1g, Keyuna Mays 1g, Maddie George shutout.

The next Parkview game is on Tuesday against the Nixa Eagles. The match is at 4:00pm on the PHS Grass Field, with the Junior Varsity match scheduled first, and the Varsity to follow around 5:45pm.