Panthers claw young Tigers
In their final game before a long Christmas break, the Beardstown Junior High boys’ basketball teams dropped a pair of games to Camp Point Central.
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Redbirds split with Lewistown
The Virginia Redbird junior high basketball teams split a pair of games with Lewistown last week, losing a heartbreaker in the seventh-grade contest.
Virginia was in command of the opener until the final frame, taking a 6 to 1 lead after one quarter and a 17 to 7 lead at the half. An eight all tie in the third quarter left the lead at ten at 25 to 15 going into the fourth. That’s when the wheels came off for the Redbirds and the Indians rallied to outscore them 14 to 3 to win 29 to 28. Paxton P. had nine points, Tylan C., and Cooper L. each had six, Dace M. had five and David B. had two in the very tough loss.
Triopia Junior High hoops
A couple of tough losses on the road at Mendon were quickly put in the rearview mirror by the Triopia Junior High basketball team with two resounding home wins over Havana.
Against Unity in the seventh-grade game, the Colts jumped out of the gate and took a 13 to 0 lead after a quarter. It was 23 to 7 at the half in favor of Mendon. The Colts continued to stretch the lead in the second half and cruised to a 38 to 17 win. Werries scored four, while Howe, Seymour and Lomelino all scored three and Crews added two points in the loss.
Lady Bluejays are on fire
The PORTA-AC Central Lady Bluejays stayed red hot and moved to 14-0 on the season with three wins in the Riverton Christmas Tournament last week. PORTA-AC destroyed Litchfield and Pana then defeated North Mac by twelve points, their closest game in a month.
Losing streak for Lady Tigers
The Beardstown Lady Tiger basketball team is hoping to use the Christmas Holiday to regroup and then get hot and make a run in the Lady Tiger Classic.
The break comes at just the right time for BHS as they are on a five-game losing streak and have already played seventeen games just thirty-eight days into the season. Road losses to Brown County and Williamsville and a home defeat at the hands of Quincy Notre Dame has dropped the Lady Tigers below .500 on the season with eight wins and nine losses.
Lady Trojans bring home two wins
Two wins for the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia girls basketball team last week over Payson-Seymour and Liberty pushed their record to 7-4 as they prep for this week’s Lady Tiger Classic. The Lady Trojans made a second half push to defeat the Indians 48 to 29 and held on in the fourth to beat the Eagles 40 to 36.
41st Annual Lady Tiger Classic
For the 41st time since 1982 (the tourney was cancelled due to COVID in 2020) Beardstown will host the Beardstown Lady Tiger Classic girls’ basketball tournament over Christmas break. It will tip off on Tuesday, December 26. Twenty-four teams will be in town and over 40 games will be played in two gyms over four days. Havana and West Prairie will get things started bright and early at 9:00 a.m. in the middle school gym, while action in the high school gym tips off at 9:30 a.m. with Illini Central taking on Roanoke-Benson. The Rockets, from just northeast of Peoria, are new to the tourney this year, taking the place of another Rocket team, Jacksonville Routt, who surprisingly cancelled their season due to a lack of players.
Big week for young Trojans
Both the 7th and 8th grade Triopia boys’ basketball teams swept their way to three wins in three games last week. The young Trojans beat Pleasant Hill, Beardstown, and Rushville/Industry. The 7th grade is now 9-4 on the year while the 8th grade sits at 11-3 for the season.
BJHS Basketball results
Facing two tough teams last week, the Beardstown junior high boys’ basketball teams lost all four contests.
On Monday at Macomb, the Bomber seventh grade squad knocked off the Tigers 44 to 24. Beardstown fell behind early, 12 to 3 after a quarter and fought hard to stay in the game in the second quarter as the lead was 22 to 11 at the half. A tough third quarter put the Tigers down 32 to 13 heading to the final frame. Beardstown did get six guys in the scoring column with DeWade Gaffney netting seven, Ashten Guzman scoring six, Brayden Piotrowski and Tucker Sorrells each notching four, Oliver Davis getting two and Uriel Gil hitting a free throw for one. Individual scoring was not available for the eighth-grade game, but the Tigers took it on the chin by a score of 39 to 13.
Beardstown Wrestling results
The Beardstown Tiger wrestling team hosted a triangular meet last Thursday and lost two close matches to Pittsfield and Macomb.
Against the Saukees, Pittsfield prevailed over the Tigers by a score of 40 to 30. Winning Beardstown wrestlers were Luis De La Cruz by fall at 0:43 at 138 pounds and Maddox Medrano by fall at 1:19 at 144 pounds.