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June 28, 2011

By Jim Wieners

North County Christian School is an Affiliated Registered School with the Missouri State High School Activities Association but can only compete with MSHSAA member schools during the regular season, not post-season (districts, sectionals, state).

So NCCS is coming off what they may consider one of their most successful school year, 2010-2011, with five Missouri Christian State Athletic Association titles and a second-place finish in another sport. Three of the state titles were won in the spring.

NCCS Girls Soccer pulls off a four-peat in a storybook finish. Attrition reduced the Lady Crusaders to field a short-handed team — 10 players — for a May 7 game against Tower Grove Christian in Joplin. It was reduced to nine with a head injury to Savanah Audrain nearly halfway through the second half and the game was tied at 2-2. The Lady Crusaders responded with four goals two players short — three by Samauri Williams, who also scored in the first half — to secure a 6-2 win.

That same day the Track And Field teams, Boys and Girls, won state titles in their second year of existence. The Girls team won their second consecutive MCSAA State title while the    Boys team won their first a year after finishing second. With no track on campus NCCS has some practices and has all but the MCSAA State meets the past two years on the Florissant Valley campus of St. Louis Community College.

Relay teams were the key to NCCS sweeping the boys and girls titles. Both Boys and Girls won the 4×100-, 4×200- and 4×400-Meter Relays. The Girls also won the 4×800-Meter Relay     while the Boys did not field a team.

The Boys Golf team could have won a state title but fielded only three players for the trip to Joplin, one short of the minimum required to compete for a team title. The three golfers finished in the top 10 in a 36-hole tournament, May 6-7. Evan Heath finished fifth, Ben Farmer was sixth and Tommy Schultz was eighth.

All of the action last May in Joplin took place just a couple of weeks before an F-5 tornado ripped through that Southwest Missouri city. It is unclear if the tornado damaged the facilities that hosted the MCSAA State championships.

Last October, also in Joplin, the Girls Volleyball team won the MCSAA State title. With a 30-3 record the Lady Crusaders won their last 15 in a row.

Last February, also in Joplin, the Cheerleaders won MCSAA State competition while Girls Basketball took home second place in the state tournament.

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