Monday - Chicken penne pasta, buttered beets, three-bean salad, melon, garlic bread, milk. Tuesday - Porky Buger on bun, baked beans, tossed salad with dressing, tropical fruit, milk. Wednesday - Bratwurst on bun, potato salad, sauerkaurt, sugar free fruit, milk. Thursday - Roast chicken, garlic potatoes, corn, pineapple upside down cake, bread, milk. Friday - Sweet & sour chicken, brown rice, cole slaw, peaches, fortune cookie, bread, milk.
The weather turned out beautifully last Wednesday for the annual Beardstown Junior High Tiger Relays. With seven teams making up a very competitive field, Beardstown finished in fourth place as a team in both the boys’ and girls’ contests.
Led by a first-place finish from the 4x100 and 4x200 relay team and Mylee Tracy in the 400-meter dash, the Virginia-Merdosia-Triopia girls track team placed second in the Western Illinois Valley Conference Track Meet.
The Beardstown Area Special Athletes participated in the Spring Games last week at Glenwood and will be sending eleven athletes to State competition at Bloomington later this summer.
Austin Taggart won first in the 200-meter run and second in the standing long jump, Phillip Baer placed fourth in the softball throw, April Balance placed second in the 400-meter walk and third in the softball throw, Trisha Barnett placed third in the 100-meter run and first in the softball throw, Matthew Bradbury won first in the 400 walk and the mini-javelin, and Dallas Burton won the 100-meter walk and placed third in the softball throw.
The Beardstown baseball team opened last week with a convincing win over West Prairie before dropping decisions to PORTA-AC Central and New Berlin. With the two wins and one loss the Tigers’ record now sits at 9-11.
At home last Tuesday, BHS pounded out sixteen hits in a 20 to 10, six-inning win over West Prairie. It was just 1-0 in favor of the Tigers heading to the bottom of the third inning when the hometown offense exploded for twelve runs to run the score to 13-0. The Cyclones struck right back though, getting six of their own in the top of the fourth. A three-run bottom by the Tigers made it 16-6 after four. West Prairie scored one in the fifth and three in the sixth to cut the margin to 16-10, but Beardstown ended it early with four in the bottom of the sixth.
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia Lady Trojan softball team took full advantage of their only game last week, shutting out the South Fulton Lady Rebels 12 to 0. The Lady Trojans are now 12-6 on the season.
The PORTA-AC Central baseball team won four straight games last week to push their winning streak to six games overall. Wins over Auburn, Beardstown, Williamsville, and Pawnee moved the Bluejays’ season record to 16-9.
Two more losses last week have the PORTA-AC Central softball team in the midst of a five-game losing streak. The Lady Bluejays fell 5 to 2 at Auburn and 11 to 4 at home to Williamsville and are now 11-9 on the season.
Against the Trojans, PORTA-AC scored a run in the top of the first to take the lead but a three-run second inning by Auburn turned out to be the difference. The Bluejays added a run in the third, but Auburn tacked on insurance runs in the bottom of the third and in the sixth. The Trojans outhit the Jays 14 to 3 on the afternoon. Aubrey Vogel had two hits, including a triple, and scored both Bluejay runs. Gabbi Branson had the other hit while Karlie Hoke had an RBI and Bailey Dahmer walked twice.
The Beardstown Tiger Track team had a nice showing in their first adventure in the West Central Conference Championships including conference champions in Marcos Laurencio, Georgia Brown and Laetitia Kanda. As a team the girls finished fourth and the boys finished fifth out of seven teams.
The Beardstown Lady Tigers lost twice last week, including a heartbreaker to New Berlin on Wednesday, when the Pretzels scored to win in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the seventh. On Tuesday, Beardstown fell by the ten-run rule to Augusta Southeastern.