The Missouri State High School Soccer Coaches Association (MSHSSCA) has announced its first class of Hall of Fame inductees including De Smet Jesuit coach, Greg Vitello.
When it comes to outstanding high school boys soccer coaches & programs, there is no place in the nation stronger than the St. Louis metropolitan area.
Like most everyone else at CBC on Tuesday night, the Cadets senior was in disbelief after sophomore teammate Devin Boyce drilled a descending ball off the De Smet crossbar from 20 yards out.
In a Metro Catholic Conference soccer game at Chaminade, the host Red Devils could do no wrong, and the visiting Spartans of De Smet struggled to do much right.
In an opening half that produced several good chances for each team, the Quincy Blue Devils slipped by the host De Smet Spartans for the Bracket B title.
Brian Hail was not the biggest player on the DeSmet soccer team. Nor the fastest or even the most skilled. He did not lead the Spartans in scoring, and he was not a team captain.
A pair of area seniors, DeSmet’s Louie Berra and Ursuline’s Maddie Friedmann, have been named National Soccer Coaches Association of America all-Americans.
Greg Vitello has coached soccer at DeSmet since 1968.In a career that has included many honors, the veteran coach just added a fifth state high school championship to his lengthy resume of accomplishments.
The Spartans jumped on Oakville with a pair of first-half goals and went on to a 2-0 victory over the Tigers in the Class 3 title match Saturday night at Blue Springs South High in suburban Kansas City.
DeSmet Spartans advance to the Class 3 State Championship game thanks to Prince Kabadeh overtime goal to give the Spartans a 2-1 double overtime win against Lee's Summit West.
The Lee’s Summit West boys soccer team lost a dramatic 2-1 double-overtime heartbreaker to DeSmet in the Missouri Class 3 semifinals Friday night at Blue Springs South High School.
The talented junior forward scored the game-winning goal in DeSmet's 1-0 victory over Francis Howell to propel the Spartans' to the Final Four of the Class 3 state tournament this weekend.
The Jackson boys soccer team stuck with powerhouse De Smet Jesuit for most of Tuesday's Class 3 sectional on a night better suited for lounging on the couch by a fire.
Louie Berra scored early in the match and teammates Prince Kabadeh and B.J. Tucker added second-half goals as DeSmet slipped and sloshed to 3-0 Class 3 sectional soccer victory Tuesday at Jackson.
Relentless. That was the word Parkway Central soccer coach John Theobald used to describe DeSmet after the host Spartans steamrolled his Colts 4-0 Monday in the Missouri Class 3 District 2 semifinals.
Marquette was unbeaten through its first 21 games this season. But DeSmet gave them a taste of their own medicine when it visited the Mustangs on Saturday and posted a 3-1 victory.
Sometimes you just have to grind it out. That is what the visiting DeSmet soccer team did Tuesday evening in a 2-1 come-from-behind St. Louis Soccer Classic victory at Parkway Central.
DeSmet entered the week No. 1 in the STLhighschoolsports.com large-schools rankings, winners of eight straight, and ranked No. 19 nationally by ESPN RISE.
The DeSmet soccer team dominated from start to finish Saturday afternoon against the Zionsville (Ind.) Eagles. Still, the Spartans managed only a 2-0 victory.
De Smet Spartans Soccer coach Greg Vitello felt his team could have performed better against the Vianney Golden Griffins Saturday in the CBC Soccer Tournament on Saturday. But the Spartans still did enough to manage a 2-0 victory.
SLUH’s win, coupled with DeSmet’s 2-0 victory over Vianney in Saturday’s early game, gives the tournament title to DeSmet for just the third time in 35 years. The Spartans also won in the event’s first year, 1977, and in 1996.
Justin Bilyeu connected on a header off a corner kick with just over 16 minutes remaining to lift CBC to a 2-1 victory over rival DeSmet Thursday night at the Anheuser-Busch Center in the second day of pool play of the 35th annual CBC Tournament.
With just over four minutes remaining in a tie game with top-ranked SLUH, the DeSmet junior midfielder found the ball at his feet, a sliver of daylight in front of him and let his foot fly from 25 yards away.
The visiting Spartans, ranked second among STLhighschoolsports.com large schools, scored early in each half and added another goal with less than 20 seconds to play before halftime in a solid 3-1 win over the third-ranked Tigers.
Since finishing third at state in 2008, the DeSmet soccer team has taken its relative lumps as a young squad trying to compete in the rugged Metro Catholic Conference.
