Sports

Soccer

BHS Soccer Season Ends

Despite playing under a first-year head coach and having only two seniors, the Beardstown High School soccer team advanced to the Regional Championship game this season.  

    Unfortunately, a very good Peoria Christian Chargers team ended the Tigers’ season there.  The Chargers jumped out to a 2-0 lead at halftime and added an insurance goal in the second half to get a 3-0 shutout victory over BHS. Peoria Christian, now 21-4-2 on the year, knocked off Rock Island Alleman 4-0 in the sectional semi-final and were scheduled to face Quincy Notre Dame for the sectional title on October 24.

Lady Tigers

Beardstown Middle School Basketball

The Beardstown Middle School girls’ basketball season is underway with both the 7th and 8th grade Tiger teams off to a rough start with neither team able to pick up a victory over the first two weeks of the season.  

    The 7th grade lost to Virginia 23-10 with Ola Quigley scoring four points for the Tigers to open the season.  They then lost to West Prairie 13-9, AC Central 24-7, Brown County 28-6 and Lewistown 35-4.  Most recently they fell to West Central 45-14 as Quigley scored 10 of the 14 Tiger points.

Red Birds

Lady Redbird Basketball action

The Virginia-Triopia Lady Redbird junior high basketball teams hosted their own tournament last week with both the 7th and 8th grade winning one game and losing two.  

Congratulations go out to Hallie Clement and Kenzie Meyer for winning awards at the tournament.  Hallie was selected to the six-person 7th grade All-Tournament Team and Kenzie was selected for the 8th grade Defensive/Team Leader award.

Congratulations to the Tigers’ (L/R) Alora Logan, Brandy Mendoza, and Shelby Goodrich for making the All-Tournament Team at the Beardstown Volleyball Tournament.

Lady Tigers take 2nd in Beardstown Tourney

It looks like a little home cooking was just what the Beardstown High School volleyball team needed. Following a stretch where 9 out of 10 games were on the road and the Lady Tigers went just 2-8,

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Two times the titles for Bluejay Volleyball

The PORTA-AC Central Lady Bluejay volleyball team continues to play excellent volleyball, winning tournaments over back-to-back weekends at Beardstown and Waverly.  Counting a win the week before the Beardstown Tourney and two wins between the tourneys, the Lady Bluejays are riding a ten-game win streak and sit at 24-6 on the season.

Red Birds

Lady Redbird Jr High Basketball Results

It was a tough week for the Virginia-Triopia Lady Redbird Junior High basketball team as they were only able to pick up one win out of four games between the 7th and 8th grade teams.

Beardstown’s Liam Hymes races on a slick and muddy course at the IESA State Finals Meet.

Hymes does Beardstown proud

Although it was not the final result that he had hoped for, Beardstown eighth grader Liam Hymes did the town proud with his finish at the Illinois Elementary School Association Class 2A Cross Country State Championship Meet last Saturday.