Friday, May 17, 2013
The Pirates head for a rematch with Hazelwood Central in the state soccer playoffs Tuesday.
In the games Pattonville High School's girls soccer team has lost this season, the team and the Pirates' head coach came to a conclusion. While it may sound cliche, they weren't coming out ready to play. "We all kind of sat down, we had a talk, that was one of the things we needed to fix, and looks like we fixed it," coach Tom Iffrig said Friday night, after Pattonville defeated Parkway Central 3-0 to take home the school's fifth straight district title. Hitting the field ready to play meant winning the first five minutes of the game and Pattonville did just that. Iffrig told his club afterward that the team was on fire. "We came out and misjudged the first ball that came to our backs and let 22 (Ashanti Carey) get in behind us," Parkway …
Friday, March 29, 2013
The team is looking for a fifth straight conference title and to erase a bitter end to the 2012 season.
Weather permitting, the Pattonville High School girls soccer team will get back out on the pitch Friday against Kirkwood for the first time since winning the Ft. Zumwalt tournament last Thursday. The Pirates (3-0) are off to a solid start in what for many programs would have considered a rebuilding year, after graduating a core group of seniors led by Kailey Utley and Mikala McGhee. Utley is playing Division I soccer at West Virginia while McGhee is now playing basketball at Missouri State. Video: Pattonville Head Coach Tom Iffrig Talks About Challenges Ahead in 2013 But the only thing rebuilt at Pattonville would appear to be the new stadium complex where the team will play in pursuit of the team's fifth straight district title. "It’s …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The Pirates opened the 2013 season with a 2-0 win against Howell Central.
The Pattonville Pirate Girls soccer took the pitch for the first time in the 2013 season Monday in a 2-0 win against Howell Central in a match played at Ft. Zumwalt East High School. Kaely Fitterling and Ashanti Carey scored the Pattonville goals. For the first time in years, the Pirate lineup doesn't feature names like Kailey Utley, Mikala McGhee, Kimberly and Kacie Hulse, who all graduated. The last time the Pirates were on the field in a heartbreaking loss to Cor Jesu in the 2012 state quarterfinal. Pattonville Varsity Girls Head Coach Tom Iffrig talked to Patch about moving on without those veteran leaders and the challenge ahead. We'll have a full profile on the team next week. Are you a real fan of the Pattonville Pirates? Vote …
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Controversial call goes against Pirates in emotional 2-1 state quarterfinal loss to No. 1-ranked Cor Jesu Academy.
There were no words Pattonville High girls soccer coach Tom Iffrig could give his players for the heartache they felt after Saturday night’s controversial 2-1 loss to No. 1-ranked Cor Jesu Academy, in a Class 3 state quarterfinal game at Parkway North High School. The Pirates had played a magnificent game against the top-ranked Chargers, and thought they had tied it at 2, with 11 minutes left, when senior Mikala McGhee fired a dynamite throw-in pass toward the Cor Jesu net that somehow wound up in the net and set off a frenzied celebration by the Pattonville team and fans. But while Pattonville celebrated, the officials congregated to make sure they’d each seen the same thing, and that the goal scored was indeed a legal play. Unfortunately…
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Freshman Ashanti Carey's rebound goal in the game's sixth minute lifts Pirates to 1-0 win over valiant Lady Knights.
During the pre-game warm-up before Tuesday's MSHSAA Class 3 girls soccer sectional at Francis Howell North High School, a contigent of male Howell North fans decided it would be fun to heckle Pattonville freshman Ashanti Carey. The hooting and barking towards Carey wasn’t exactly vicious or malicious, but it was pretty loud, and it was the first time anything like that had ever happened to Carey, and for a moment, at least it did distract her. “Oh my God, I thought I was going to cry,” Carey said. “That’s the first time anything like that has ever happened. But my teammates told me to ignore them and that just happens sometimes when a big crowd shows up for a big game like this. So I just tried to calm myself down.” It didn’t take long for…
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Senior scoring dynamo Kailey Utley leads the way with a hat trick, in Pirates 5-0 win over Wildcats.
Pattonville goal scoring dynamo Kailey Utley admitted late in Friday's MSHSAA Class 3 District 5 girls soccer championship game, that she sometimes uses an unusual tactic when she makes her move toward the opposing goal. "Sometimes I close my eyes, and the ball just goes in," is what Utley told teammates who were congratulating her after she scored for the third time in the Pirates district title game showdown against rival Hazelwood West, at the Lou Fusz Soccer Complex. The other Pattonville players laughed when Utley said that, and it's a pretty good bet that she was just joking. But if that statement were true, shooting with her eyes closed was effective for Utley, Pattonville's all-time goal scorer, who delivered in a big way once …
Monday, May 14, 2012
Superfast freshman is among the top scoring underclassmen in the area, and ranks just behind scoring champ Kailey Utley in Pirate goals this season.
MARYLAND HEIGHTS -- All her life Ashanti Carey has heard people tell her she should be running track. Never mind that she has take-your-breath-away kind of speed, people knew that her parents Apollo and Amanda Carey were track stars in high school and college, and they just figured Ashanti should go into the family business, so to speak. So one day not long ago, Ashanti Carey did join a club track team, and in her first real race against real competition, she set a new club record for the 100-meter dash. Like we said, the girl is astonishingly fast. But there was one little problem Ashanti had with running track -- she just didn't like it. "Oh my god, I hated it," she said. "I gave it a try, but I almost had a nervous breakdown or …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Seven Pirate seniors, including three-sport stars Kailey Utley and Mikala McGhee, go out in style with 4-0 over visitors from Wentzville.
PARKWAY NORTH HIGH SCHOOL -- Around this time of year, every year, at high schools all over the country, different sports teams like to take time out and honor their graduating seniors for four years of great play and sportsmanship. But one thing about those Senior Night celebrations is clear -- nobody does it better than the folks from Pattonville High School. Even under uncommon circumstances, like Wednesday night, when a rain-out and field construction at their own campus forced the Pirate girls soccer team to host its Senior Night celebration at rival Parkway North High. It didn’t seem to matter one bit, as the seven Pirate seniors -- Kailey Utley, Mariah Null, Mindy Fitterling, Kacie Hulse, Aubrey Boulicault, Kimberly Hulse, and …
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Idea borne out of a coach shopping for new equipment, has grown into one of the area's best high school soccer events of the year.
CHESTERFIELD -- One day while at a coaching convention in New York three and a half years ago, Pattonville girls soccer coach Tom Iffrig and assistant coach Scott Johnson were walking past a manufacturer's display for its new pink soccer balls and had a wonderful, simultaneous idea. "We both looked at them, and then at the same time, we turned to each other and said, 'we should do a cancer awareness game'," Iffrig said, on Thursday, after Pattonville played in the Third Annual Kicks For Cancer event at Parkway Central High. "We talked to some people about it, and kind of put it together quickly. And now three years later, it's grown into all this." All this, is an event that while still in its infancy, has grown into an occasion that has …
Friday, April 20, 2012
Senior Mikala McGhee's three assists, all on throw-ins, help Pirates get past Wildcats and grab lead in Suburban North Conference race.
CHESTERFIELD -- The third Annual Kicks For Cancer game might've been the biggest one ever. Pattonville and Hazelwood West High Schools hoped the annual meeting between the girls soccer rivals would raise more than $10,000 for cancer research and awareness. This year, the event expanded a bit by adding another game, between West County rivals Parkway Central and Parkway South, which means more possible revenue for the charity, and it would give the Pirates and Wildcats a chance to play at the beautiful new Parkway Central Stadium, where the Colts have a brand-new field turf playing surface. But on that field, the matchup between Pattonville and Hazelwood West remains the same -- the two best teams in the Suburban North Conference, duking …
Gregg Palermo
10:52 am on Wednesday, May 23, 2012
And it is now official, according to Pattonville Head Coach Tom Iffrig. 7:30 pm Saturday at Parkway North. more ›