Lady Redbirds win tourney
With a 21 to 20 win over the host Pretzels, the Virginia Lady Redbird 8th grade girls’ basketball team won the New Berlin Tournament. The win brought the 8th grade squad’s record to 7 and 1 on the season.
Sports
Hymes headed to State in Cross Country – Huerta takes 3rd in West Central Conference
Liam Hymes is headed to the Illinois Elementary School Association State Cross Country Meet. He will run on Saturday, October 14 at Maxwell Park in Normal, Illinois.
Mustangs shut out Tigers – BHS Football drops homecoming game
Boasting an offensive and defensive line averaging around 230 pounds and sporting several backs and receivers at or over the 200-pound mark, the Mendon Unity Mustangs put their size and strength to good use in a dominating 35 to 0 win over Beardstown on homecoming.
Busy week for Triopia Volleyball
Busy was an understatement for the kind of week the Triopia volleyball team had last week as the varsity team played eight games in five days. The odyssey began with a very tough three-set loss to
Three wins for BHS Soccer
A very young Beardstown High School boys’ soccer team rolled to three wins last week to push their season record to 10-4-3 with regional play set to begin this Friday, October 13 at East Side Center in East Peoria.
Tigers Junior High Football
The Tiger defense is in hot pursuit of a Panther from Camp Point in the final junior high football game of the season.
BHS Tigers stung by BCHS Hornets
The Beardstown Tiger football team had a great chance to finish off a stellar comeback last Friday night against Brown County at Mt. Sterling. In fact, BHS had a couple of great opportunities to score the winning points, but in the end some excellent goal line defense from the Hornets and too many Tiger mistakes sent Beardstown to a heartbreaking 24-22 loss. A plethora of penalties, bad snaps and fumbles allowed the Hornets to score the game’s first three touchdowns. Jack Anderson caught a 23-yard pass to give the Hornets a 6-0 lead in the first quarter then scored on an 11-yard run with 11:54 left in the second quarter and a 1-yard plunge with 5:36 left to make it 18-0 in favor of Brown County.
Virginia-Triopia Jr. High Basketball
Yes folks, that thump, thump thump you have been hearing at the local schools is the sound of basketballs bouncing in the gym as the sports first season, junior high girls, has officially gotten started. For the Virginia-Triopia Redbirds that meant a busy start to the season with three games in the opening week. The 7th grade girls got off to a 1-2 start losing to Winchester 36-4 and AC Central 35-15 before righting the ship and knocking off Jacksonville 30-21. Scoring leaders in the three games were A. Petefish with 14 total points, M. York with nine, A. Wessler with seven, N. Wessler with five, K. Hardwick and S. Wells with four, and H. Clement and P. Angelo with two points each.
BHS and PORTA/A-C Volleyball results
Three wins and two losses last week has the PORTA-AC Central volleyball team sitting pretty with a 12-5 overall record and a 4-1 mark in the Sangamo Conference. The Lady Bluejays opened the week with a 25-15, 25-16 conference win over Auburn on the road. Jayce Privia had eight kills and seven digs, Cassie Cox had three aces and four blocks, Mikaela Clary had three aces, Chloe Maltby had seven digs and Caitlyn DeFreezer had 13 assists in the win.
Four more wins for Triopia Volleyball
It was a busy week for the Triopia-Virginia high school volleyball team as the Lady Trojans picked up wins over South County and Griggsville-Perry on Tuesday and Thursday and then split four games on Saturday at the Rushville Invite.
Triopia made short work of South County winning in straight sets 25-7, 25-14. Anna Miller had five kills and Chelsea Bell and Payten Petefish each had four. The Lady Trojan Junior Varsity squad suffered their first loss of the year in a close three set decision, 25-22, 12-25, 25-22. Triopia also breezed past the Tornadoes of Griggsville-Perry, winning 25-9, 25-12. Lindy Parlier led the way with 15 service points and 17 assists. The JV won 25-14, 25-14 and are now 17-1-1 on the season.