Following their opening round win, the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia boys basketball team lost two straight at the Winchester Invitational Tournament to bow out with a 1-2 mark. In round two, the Trojans were swept away by the pressure defense of the Griggsville-Perry Tornadoes. An elimination game against Cass County neighbor PORTA-A-C Central followed with the Trojans falling in a close contest.
The Triopia Junior High basketball teams continued to stack wins onto an already impressive season resume last week. The seventh grade Trojans beat A-C Central badly and lost a heartbreaker to South Fulton to move to 14-7 on the season. The eighth graders rolled to victory over both the Knights and the Rebels to improve to a stellar 17-4 on the year.
The Beardstown Tiger eighth grade basketball team picked up a much-needed win last week on the road at South Fulton. Beardstown held on to win a thriller 23 to 21. A rough start doomed the seventh grade Tigers in a 34 to 25 loss to the Rebels.
PORTA-A-C Central went 3-1 in the 101st Winchester Invitational Tournament to secure a Fifth-Place finish. After their opening round win over North Greene, the Bluejays faced off against eventual tourney champion West Central and fell 69 to 46. A 43 to 35 win over Triopia followed. PORTA-AC won the 5th Place game over Hardin Calhoun by a score of 54 to 47.
Following a very successful two-day 88 Hoops Classic basketball tournament, members of the BASA Black Attack and the BHS Tigers pose after their Classic capping game. In a game that was fun for everyone involved, the Black Attack won an exciting, high scoring affair over the varsity Tigers by three points.
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia basketball programs picked up some much-needed rest following the Lady Tiger Classic and the Waverly Holiday Tournament as the girls played just one game last week and the boys played two, waiting until Thursday to get back into action. The girls suffered a disappointing loss on the road at Rushville/Industry on Tuesday. The boys squeezed in a WIVC win over Pleasant Hill before an opening round win over Carlinville in the Winchester Invitational Tournament on Saturday.
Following an overly busy holiday, the BHS boys’ and girls’ basketball squads each played just one game last week. The boys’ game originally scheduled for January 2 at West Hancock has been moved to January 18.
The Tigers traveled to Clinton for a New Year’s shootout on Saturday and knocked off Cornerstone Christian out of Bloomington 67 to 49.
They played a game at home and a game on the road last week, but the result was the same each time for the Beardstown seventh and eighth grade boys’ basketball teams as they lost all four contests. On Tuesday, at home the Tigers lost to West Central and on Thursday on the road they fell to Griggsville-Perry.
Following their only loss of the season over the Christmas holiday, the PORTA-AC Central Lady Bluejays are right back on track with a four-game winning streak including three last week. All four of the wins were by over twenty points. Coach Eric Kesler has the Jays at 18-1 on the season.
The Beardstown Middle School Wrestling Team hosted their first home meet of the season last Thursday and swept the contest. They slipped past Auburn 47 to 33 and crushed the Havana Ducks 72 to 24 to move to 8-2 on the season. On Saturday the young Tigers finished in 9th place out of 18 teams at the Jacksonville Middle School Wrestling Tournament. Individually, Jude Dawson