(Springfield, MO) --   The Springfield Catholic Fighting Irish and Bolivar Liberators will represent the Ozarks this weekend in St. Louis at the Missouri State High School Soccer Championships.

This will be Bolivar's third trip to the Final Four, but the first in a decade.

This is the second straight year that the Fighting Irish made it to the state semifinals.
Last year Catholic took third in Class 1.
This year's team is 18-and-4 and ranked third in the state.
Irish coach Joe Kofron says his team is ready for Kennedy High out of St. Louis.
"It's nice knowing that we're going to get back there with a little experience.  Last year we got there and didn't really know what to expect.  I think the guys were just happy to be there.  This year they have a different goal in mind, they want to get to that final."

    "We know it wasn't going to be easy going back again.  It's pretty much a once in a lifetime thing, so it's pretty nice to get back and be able play again," says Irish senior Justin Bowenschulte.
"We've been very consistent this year.  We really haven't had that bad game.  Hopefully we won't have it this weekend of course.  I think that's really going to carry over to bringing that experience out on Friday," Kofron adds.

The State Semifinal Schedule:
Class 2 -  Bolivar plays Cape Girardeau Notre Dame at 11 in the morning While in class one, Catholic and Kennedy go at noon.
Class 1 - Catholic and Kennedy play at noon.
       The Missouri State Soccer Bears lose to St. Louis 2-1 in the NCAA tournament.

In College Basektball:

Steve Hesser's Drury Panthers were back on the Weiser Gym hardwood following Monday night's  upset win over Number 3 ranked Southwest Baptist.
Freshman Alex Hall scored 33 points in the opener and the Kickapoo product keeps it going last night against Central Christian.
Early in the game...Andrew Taylor finds hall for the deep three, that puts the Panthers up 5-0.
Later Drury doing it with defense, Dennon Mitchell gets the turnover, he goes the other way for the layup and the foul, into the cheerleaders, Drury up six.
Hall feeling it in the first half, Chase Elliott feeds him, he buries another trey, makes it a 13 point lead.
Coach Steve Hesser's job pretty easy feed it to 33, Hall nails another one, he had 27 points in the first half, finishes with 29.
And Drury wins big 108-81.

The Southwest Baptist Bearcats facing on Mid-American Nazarene, Bearcat center Matt Rogers, the preseason MIAA Player of the Year, and showed why.
SBU looking inside to Rogers, spins into the paint and hits the jumper to get things going.
Later, Rogers hits the jumper from the elbow, then comes back and steals the inbounds pass, dishes it back to Thomas Nrock, he feeds a wide open Rogers who scores another basket; Bearcats by nine.
The offense going through Rogers, he's double teamed, kicks it out to Stephen Cotten, the freshman from Eldon hits the three.
And SBU whips the Pioneers 96-74, Rogers finished with 23 points.