A young Beardstown Tiger softball team continues to struggle to field the ball on defense with an avalanche of errors leading to four losses last weekend in their own Lady Tiger Showcase at Rice and Jones Fields at Roy Roberts Park.
The Beardstown Junior High Track team hit the road to Rushville on a beautiful morning last Saturday and had a very successful day in an eight-team meet. The boys placed fifth in the seventh grade meet and fourth in the eighth grade meet for a fourth-place combined finish. The girls took fourth in the seventh-grade competition and fifth in the eighth grade for a fifth-place combined finish.
Looking to prove who is queen of the area girls’ soccer jungle, the Beardstown Tigers took on two different Panther teams last week, getting a win and a tie. On Friday, the girls were on the road to Virden to take on the Panthers of North Mac. The Lady Tigers doubled them up two to one in both halves to bring home a nice 4-2 win. Xixi Marquez had two goals and an assist to lead Beardstown. Brandy Mendoza and Ashley Gil each had a goal and an assist of their own in the victory.
Two long road trips last week resulted in two wins for the Beardstown baseball team, pushing their record to 4-2 on the year. On Friday the boys pounded Pleasant Hill-Western 15 to 3 in five innings and on Saturday, the Tigers made a huge seventh inning comeback to knock off West Hancock 11 to 6.
With the spring weather wreaking havoc on the schedule, the Triopia-Meredosia-Virgnia softball team was only able to get one game in last week. Even that game was played through a tornado.
The Griggsville-Perry Tornadoes that is, as the Trojans blew them out 12 to 1 to even their record at 3-3 on the season. Triopia bolted to an early lead, scoring four in the first and five in the second before the Tornadoes scored their only run in the top of the third. Triopia added one in the third and two in the fourth to finish it off in five innings. Mylee Tracy went the distance on the hill giving up three hits, walking
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia baseball team started last week with a home win over Griggsville-Perry then dropped both ends of a Saturday doubleheader at home to Greenfield-Northwestern and PORTA-AC Central. The Trojans are now 3-8 on the season.
It was a very impressive performance from the PORTA-AC Central boys’ track team last Friday afternoon on the campus of Western Illinois University for the Lee Calhoun Invitational. The Jays won First Place in the very competitive, eighteen team event, outscoring second place Monmouth-Roseville by 21.5 points, 97 to 75.5. The Lady Bluejays finished in fourteenth place out of seventeen teams.
It was an exciting last week of baseball for the PORTA-AC Central Bluejays with a nine-inning loss, an eighth inning win, and a two-hit shut out win. The 2-1 week moves the Jays record to 7-6 on the season.
Mother Nature wiped out the beginning of the week, but the Jays got back in action on Friday when they traveled to Riverton and battled the Hawks on another cool and misty afternoon. Riverton took the early lead with three runs in the bottom of the first, but the Jays tied it up in the top of the second on three consecutive singles by Hunter Roberts, Brody Landon and Jett Kerrick, and a sacrifice fly by Barrett Morse. Kendall Davis, who got the start on the mound, settled in, and kept Riverton scoreless over the next five innings, striking out eight. On offense, the Jays had multiple chances, outhitting Riverton 11 to 6
The PORTA-AC Central Lady Bluejay softball team and senior pitcher Gabbie Branson certainly made the most of their only opportunity to play last week.
Branson tossed her first career perfect game as the Lady Jays destroyed the Riverton Hawks 18 to 0 at Riverton. Branson struck out ten batters in her four-inning perfecto, while also going 1 for 2 with two RBIs and two runs scored. PORTA-AC had just seven hits but took advantage of fifteen free passes from the Hawk pitching staff.
The Virginia-Meredosia-Triopia high school girls’ track team won a four-team meet in Jacksonville last week while the boys’ team finished fifth out of five teams.
The girls’ team dominated the sprints with Mylee Tracy, Faith Wingert, and Ta’Shia Allen going 1, 2, 3 in the 100-meters and Ava Petefish getting sixth. In the 200 meters, Wingert placed first, Tracy was second, Payten Petefish was fourth, Allen was fifth and Sophya Ogden was sixth. The 4x100 relay team of Wingert, Ava Petefish, Stanberry and Allen placed first and the team of Adelea Anderson, Olivia Hughes, Payten Petefish, and Shariya Randall placed third.