Your favorite non-show me bowl High School Game

[JNreturns]

Springfield Catholic vs. Seneca 1988
Excelsior Springs vs Webb. 1996
Kearney vs. Staley 2009
Lathrop vs. Lamar 2018

All good games...so many more.

 

[Pancho and Lefty]

Should’ve mentioned that one too. Was a dandy. Unreal crowd. Didn’t they both win state that yr? Had something like 10 first team all staters between the two teams??? Or was it 94 I’m thinking of?

I think it was 92 when they both won state. Have a few memories of going and watching SG and Valle in the playoffs. They would be standing several deep around the field at Valle, that dang cannon going off quite regularly. I remember hearing about the Hocker sp? kid coming in and all the yards or tds he had. Valle won fairly handily if I remember correctly. Not sure if it was the same team but Jeremy Hoog was a heck of a an. Ollie Siebert a pinball RB. SG I remember seeing some good teams as well. What a tradition that town has had.

 

[Eagles_Ball]

I think it was 92 when they both won state.

You’ve got me convinced. Hell, I can’t remember what I had for dinner!

 

[HomeyR]

You’ve got me convinced. Hell, I can’t remember what I had for dinner!

I can relate...

 

[Cards1968]

Attended both Webb/Har-Ber games in Arkansas. The atmosphere at the first one at the old field was better than their new digs, but both games were outstanding.

 

[CoachFox-ScreamingEagles]

Lamar over Liberty 2015 -At the Nest, Lamar scores go ahead touchdown in last two minutes of the game. Liberty drives the field to get inside red zone on last play, pass falls incomplete in end zone on final play. Lamar 14 - Liberty 7

Lamar over CJ 2015 - Lamar beats CJ in final CJ/Lamar showdown to win first Big 8 conference Championship. Lamar 56- CJ 34

Lamar 7 Lutheran North 6 2017 -Rainy day, sloppy field. Game is scoreless going into 4th quarter. Cooper Lucas takes direct snap around the right end55 yards for the games first score. Next series, Lutherans QB keeps on zone read around right end for the score. On the PAT Lamar's Dylan Hill blocks the PAT, Lamar holds on to win 7-6 in St Louis.

 

[Team Tiger]

Lamar over Liberty 2015 -At the Nest, Lamar scores go ahead touchdown in last two minutes of the game. Liberty drives the field to get inside red zone on last play, pass falls incomplete in end zone on final play. Lamar 14 - Liberty 7

Lamar over CJ 2015 - Lamar beats CJ in final CJ/Lamar showdown to win first Big 8 conference Championship. Lamar 56- CJ 34

Lamar 7 Lutheran North 6 2017 -Rainy day, sloppy field. Game is scoreless going into 4th quarter. Cooper Lucas takes direct snap around the right end55 yards for the games first score. Next series, Lutherans QB keeps on zone read around right end for the score. On the PAT Lamar's Dylan Hill blocks the PAT, Lamar holds on to win 7-6 in St Louis.

I just get irritated when I think of that 2015 MV game. I have always felt that game should not have been that close. That MV linebacker was incredible but it seemed like Lamar ran the same 2 or 3 plays the entire game.

I still get nervous thinking about that LN game.

 

[LHSTiger81]

Lamar over Liberty 2015 -At the Nest, Lamar scores go ahead touchdown in last two minutes of the game. Liberty drives the field to get inside red zone on last play, pass falls incomplete in end zone on final play. Lamar 14 - Liberty 7

Lamar over CJ 2015 - Lamar beats CJ in final CJ/Lamar showdown to win first Big 8 conference Championship. Lamar 56- CJ 34

Lamar 7 Lutheran North 6 2017 -Rainy day, sloppy field. Game is scoreless going into 4th quarter. Cooper Lucas takes direct snap around the right end55 yards for the games first score. Next series, Lutherans QB keeps on zone read around right end for the score. On the PAT Lamar's Dylan Hill blocks the PAT, Lamar holds on to win 7-6 in St Louis.

I concur. All three.... classics.

 

[_slo_mo_]

I just get irritated when I think of that 2015 MV game. I have always felt that game should not have been that close. That MV linebacker was incredible but it seemed like Lamar ran the same 2 or 3 plays the entire game.

I still get nervous thinking about that LN game.

The Liberty LB #58 Cale Cornman had one of the best individual performances I've ever seen. One of the best Liberty Eagles for sure.

 

[blacktiger]

1986 Dexter over Hillsboro in a playoff game. Earl Wheeler went 16 of 27 throwing the ball for 519 yards. It was a national record at the time.

The 95 SG Valle game was interesting....I was an assistant at Valle and usually scouted on Friday's. The atmosphere at that game was unreal. That game triggered Valle for the rest of the year....

 

[Team Tiger]

The Liberty LB #58 Cale Cornman had one of the best individual performances I've ever seen. One of the best Liberty Eagles for sure.

He was a machine that game. Did he go play anywhere at the next level?

 

[Kenny56]

1986 Dexter over Hillsboro in a playoff game. Earl Wheeler went 16 of 27 throwing the ball for 519 yards. It was a national record at the time.

The 95 SG Valle game was interesting....I was an assistant at Valle and usually scouted on Friday's. The atmosphere at that game was unreal. That game triggered Valle for the rest of the year....

That 95 game was in my wheel house as far as starting to remember games. Although we pride ourselves in being a tight community, that game had a lot of, should I say tensions????

Eagles] youre thinking of the 92’ year. Valle beat Ste. Gen. fairly easily that year along with a few other upper class playoff teams.

 

[LHSTiger81]

He was a machine that game. Did he go play anywhere at the next level?

He went to Missouri Western.
2016: Redshirted
2017: Played in all 11 games with three starts ... recorded 26 total tackles ... had two tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks ... forced one fumble ... broke up two passes and blocked a kick

Then, disappeared from the roster.. Not sure what happened to him or where he went.

 

[ParyGinkel]

You can not tell me that any game was better than the classic I witnessed back in 2016. I was newly retired and itching to get back and pretend I was recruiting like I did in the prime of my day, so I got on my Hog, traveled down to the fertile recruiting ground of Newton County where we missed on studs who decided to go 1-10 at Missouri Southern instead of 8-4 with me, and witnessed the game of a lifetime between Seneca and East Newton. Great players on the gridiron, and great wine in the stands too. Anyways, East Newton finally broke their horrible, unjust losing streak and got back into the win column with a 14-0 pounding of the Seneca Indians, holding Seneca to just 179 yards of total offense, which was still about 100 more total yards than I averaged my last year at Mizzou. But still, the atmosphere there blew away any Lamar vs CJ, Webb vs Joplin, and I'd even say it was better than the showdown between us and that behemoth Mangino back in 2007!! All 100 people there would surely agree with me. I remember calling my wife on the way home and screaming, "THE STREAK IS OVER!!! THE STREAK IS OVER!!".... then I realized it was my ex-wife, and then a nice Greene County deputy let me stay at his place after he pulled me over on my way home, unlike that jerk who pulled me over in Boone County. Best football moment of my life.

 

[shoot90draw]

You can not tell me that any game was better than the classic I witnessed back in 2016. I was newly retired and itching to get back and pretend I was recruiting like I did in the prime of my day, so I got on my Hog, traveled down to the fertile recruiting ground of Newton County where we missed on studs who decided to go 1-10 at Missouri Southern instead of 8-4 with me, and witnessed the game of a lifetime between Seneca and East Newton. Great players on the gridiron, and great wine in the stands too. Anyways, East Newton finally broke their horrible, unjust losing streak and got back into the win column with a 14-0 pounding of the Seneca Indians, holding Seneca to just 179 yards of total offense, which was still about 100 more total yards than I averaged my last year at Mizzou. But still, the atmosphere there blew away any Lamar vs CJ, Webb vs Joplin, and I'd even say it was better than the showdown between us and that behemoth Mangino back in 2007!! All 100 people there would surely agree with me. I remember calling my wife on the way home and screaming, "THE STREAK IS OVER!!! THE STREAK IS OVER!!".... then I realized it was my ex-wife, and then a nice Greene County deputy let me stay at his place after he pulled me over on my way home, unlike that jerk who pulled me over in Boone County. Best football moment of my life.

For the record, this poster is NOT a Doc Guy.

 

[ParyGinkel]

For the record, this poster is NOT a Doc Guy.

I mean, unlike the Doc Guys, I didn't make any of the football stuff up, so that deserves a little credit, since all facts related to this game actually happened. Sorry for having a little fun... However, since this is a discussion between "intelligent" football minds, and I don't want to get immediately labeled as one of "those doc guys", I would have to seriously say that Lamar vs Cassville in 2018 was one of the best games I ever witnessed, period. Those are two programs that have represented the Big 8 so well the past 15 or so years, and that game certainly lived up to the expectations that game should have between two storied programs

 

[Arcola]

I hear you Pary but newbies posting novels is a thread kill. Less is more.
Peace out!

 

[MoSooner69]

A lot of people remember Branson falling to Lutheran North in the Championship game in 89 but many forget their semifinal game vs Warrensburg; a double overtime game won 20-14 by the Pirates. Great game....

 

[Baldguy]

1988 Jasper-Lockwood. Eagles, after a rather dismal first season in the WEMO, scored on the final seconds to come from behind and win the district title. Neither are big schools, but this game is still tucked in somewhere in SWMO football history.

 

[mugriswold]

A lot of Lamar games stand out but the one I always remember or at least the first quarter of the game.

Lamar vs Joplin McAuley Catholic in 2011 Lamar won 71-6. McAuley made the mistake of coop with College Heights Christian and it pushed them up to Class 2, but I think they only gained a few players from the coop.

What was memorable about this district playoff game was how quickly Lamar could score once they got on a roll. McAuley was a spread team that passed the ball and had the ball first and scored after 3 completed passes moved them the down the field.

Lamar ran the ensuing kickoff back for a touchdown and the rout was on. After that for McAuley it was mostly turnovers or 3 and out on incompletions which kept stopping the clock. Lamar ran 10 offensive plays in the first quarter scoring on 7 of those plays. At the time it was a record 56 points in a quarter.

 

[Arcola]

A lot of Lamar games stand out but the one I always remember or at least the first quarter of the game.

Lamar vs Joplin McAuley Catholic in 2011 Lamar won 71-6. McAuley made the mistake of coop with College Heights Christian and it pushed them up to Class 2, but I think they only gained a few players from the coop.

What was memorable about this district playoff game was how quickly Lamar could score once they got on a roll. McAuley was a spread team that passed the ball and had the ball first and scored after 3 completed passes moved them the down the field.

Lamar ran the ensuing kickoff back for a touchdown and the rout was on. After that for McAuley it was mostly turnovers or 3 and out on incompletions which kept stopping the clock. Lamar ran 10 offensive plays in the first quarter scoring on 7 of those plays. At the time it was a record 56 points in a quarter.

If I remember correctly the game was at Southern but Lamar had no locker room access?

 

[Duck_walk]

Late 60s, I was playing Strat-O-Matic football with my brother in the back room while we listened to the Moody Blues on 8-track, threw a look-in-pass to Johnny Roland who broke it for a 25 yard TD and a victory over Bart Starr’s GB Packers.

 

[sw5890]

Those last few years CJ was in the conference there were some really good games between CJ and Lamar

I had little interest in CJ, Lamar or the Big 8 at the time but loved seeing what happened in those particular matches. They were pretty great!

 

[ugaboz]

William Chrisman Staley 2016 what a game and huge upset of the Bears!

 

[mugriswold]

If I remember correctly the game was at Southern but Lamar had no locker room access?

The district game was at Lamar, I do remember the game you mentioned. I think it was a year or two before that game. I remember how quickly the stadium lights went out after the game. The radio station was covering the game and was getting ready to interview the coaches when they turned off the press box lights. It was one of those, we don't care if your post game show is over or not we are out of here!

 

[MoSooner69]

Reeds Spring beating Bolivar and ending their COC winning streak was a special night.. They had got close the two previous years and finally got over the hump.. Beat them again the following year and then the conference went away......

 

[_slo_mo_]

He was a machine that game. Did he go play anywhere at the next level?

Yeah Like @LHSTiger81 said he went to Missouri Western, but he was just an ol boy from the woods so he left after his redshirt FR season and came home for a bit. I think he ended up becoming a welder.

There have been several Cornman's that passed through Mtn. View and they were all huge and very talented athletes but most of em didn't play sports at all. The fact that Cale even played and ended up even getting a full ride to a D2 was a revelation in itself.

 

[LHSTiger81]

Yeah Like @LHSTiger81 said he went to Missouri Western, but he was just an ol boy from the woods so he left after his redshirt FR season and came home for a bit. I think he ended up becoming a welder.

There have been several Cornman's that passed through Mtn. View and they were all huge and very talented athletes but most of em didn't play sports at all. The fact that Cale even played and ended up even getting a full ride to a D2 was a revelation in itself.

No shame in choosing to go on with life. The kid earned my respect, although he isn't required to. I did a little digging and I think he ended up working for a customer of mine in Cabool. Hat's off to him, regardless.

 

[KCFBfanatic]

LSW v. Staley at Staley 4 OT. At the end the fans on both sidelines just kind of sat there in a daze wondering if it really was over. Glad we drove 3 hours to see it. It was an all time classic for me. Don't remember the year but it was Boehm's senior year I believe.

Suprised it took that many posts to get to this game. Phenomenal game.

 

[HomeyR]

William Chrisman Staley 2016 what a game and huge upset of the Bears!

I didn't see that game, but I did see their game vs. NKC that season. Chrisman had a total stud at defensive end that season. I don't remember his name but I believe that he ended up going to Univ. of Texas and saw some playing time right away.

 

[old67mustang]

I was on the broadcast for KS95 of the Owensville at Eldon regular season game in 2017. Final ended up 72-69. Eldon took the lead with two minutes. Both teams were spent and Eldon finally made a stop and held on. A few MSHSAA records were added the book. 5th in total points and Wyatt Ellis had 8 TD's for the Dutchmen. Eldon was 2-4 passing in that game. Not much defense but two really good offenses. My scoring recap in the postgame show took five minutes. They met again in the dist. final in a 70-53 Eldon win.

 

[KCHI]

I was on the broadcast for KS95 of the Owensville at Eldon regular season game in 2017. Final ended up 72-69. Eldon took the lead with two minutes. Both teams were spent and Eldon finally made a stop and held on. A few MSHSAA records were added the book. 5th in total points and Wyatt Ellis had 8 TD's for the Dutchmen. Eldon was 2-4 passing in that game. Not much defense but two really good offenses. My scoring recap in the postgame show took five minutes. They met again in the dist. final in a 70-53 Eldon win.

glad I didnt have to write up the story for sports the next day lol

 

[valle warriors]

Being a Valle guy...some of the best older games:

1992 Valle v SG the most packed I’ve ever seen a game. The film actually does a panoramic view 8 to 10 deep all around. For good reason, two soon to be state champions squaring off.

1995 game was crazy as well. Valle scores on their two plays from scrimmage I believe. SG played great from there out.

1991 I don’t remember the game but it came down a late Valle TD and they decided to go for 2 and won 22-21 I believe.

my earliest vague memories of a football game are from the 1991 semifinal game against Archie. COLD. But I still remember Brad Hocker shirtless and not wearing any layers. I thought he was the biggest baddest dude I’ve ever seen.

a few others in the pantheon:
1989 vs Potosi. Potosi wins on an untimed down Hail Mary to future NFL player Patrick Johnson. They were a class 4 semifinalist that year, Valle would win state.

1993 vs Springfield Catholic: they were #1, came to town feeling pretty confident, got wrecked by a Valle team that finally started to get healthy.

1993 SG v Borgia was fantastic. And it’s on YouTube now. Games aren’t quite like that anymore. Volume up it sounds like the final play of the game for two straight hours.

 

[SonicHedgeHog2]

Jeff City vs Rockhurst semis 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1998 (Ron Cole team). Tremendous games coached by two great coaches.

 

[SonicHedgeHog2]

Jeff City vs SLUH 1984 regular season. Classic.

 

[Kenny56]

Being a Valle guy...some of the best older games:

1992 Valle v SG the most packed I’ve ever seen a game. The film actually does a panoramic view 8 to 10 deep all around. For good reason, two soon to be state champions squaring off.

1995 game was crazy as well. Valle scores on their two plays from scrimmage I believe. SG played great from there out.

1991 I don’t remember the game but it came down a late Valle TD and they decided to go for 2 and won 22-21 I believe.

my earliest vague memories of a football game are from the 1991 semifinal game against Archie. COLD. But I still remember Brad Hocker shirtless and not wearing any layers. I thought he was the biggest baddest dude I’ve ever seen.

a few others in the pantheon:
1989 vs Potosi. Potosi wins on an untimed down Hail Mary to future NFL player Patrick Johnson. They were a class 4 semifinalist that year, Valle would win state.

1993 vs Springfield Catholic: they were #1, came to town feeling pretty confident, got wrecked by a Valle team that finally started to get healthy.

1993 SG v Borgia was fantastic. And it’s on YouTube now. Games aren’t quite like that anymore. Volume up it sounds like the final play of the game for two straight hours.

That Hail Mary was a jump ball in the end zone for PJ right?

 

[Missouri Kid]

Jeff City vs Rockhurst semis 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1998 (Ron Cole team). Tremendous games coached by two great coaches.

Talk about hard hitting physical games. There was no spread offense in those.

 

[justaconcernedcitizen]

2000 C2 Sectional-Willow Springs 22, Stockton 20 OT. Crazy game. Defensive stalemate in the freezing rain/sleet mix. TW Norman was a Illinois recruit for Stockton, Mike Smith was Head Coach and Jon Franks was an assistant. A couple of weeks before Stockton kicked a 40+ yard field goal to beat Fair Grove to keep district hopes alive.

 

[STL_Dan]

Staley v Pattonville - 2017 5A ship
Carthage v Jackson - 2019 5A ship

idk, but they are my favorites anyway

 

[sw5890]

idk, but they are my favorites anyway

Another one I enjoyed was 2007 WC at Carthage playoff. Carthage was only a few years into being an above average team but still hadn't had much (actually any) luck against the Cardinals.

Not a lot of scoring in the game. Both teams didn't give up much. Carthage took a late lead, giving their fans hope. Then nearing the end of the game a WC kid broke free and scored, cardinal fans went wild thinking it was a game winner and the overflowing Carthage side was deflated. But the big TD run left slightly too much time on the clock and Carthage was able to gain enough yards to kick a FG and win by 1.

For a few years it was known around here as 'the kick heard 'round the world', lol.