An excellent season for the Meredosia Chambersburg Triopia Virginia Lady Indians middle school softball team ended in disappointing fashion in the regional semifinals with an 8 to 4 loss to Pittsfield-Pikeland. The Indians lost despite outhitting the Saukees nine to six. MCTV opened regional play with an exciting 9 to 8 win over Camp Point.
The varsity and JV volleyball teams for Triopia-Virginia-Meredosia-Chambersburg won first place at last week’s Meredosia tournament. The varsity finished the tournament undefeated at 5-0 and the JV finished 4-0-1, splitting with South County. Chelsea Bell, Lucie Dion, and Mylee Tracy were selected to the Varsity All-Tournament team from the Lady Trojans.
It certainly was not easy, but in the end the Beardstown Tiger football team came home from Pleasant Hill last Friday with a 34-14 win to move to one-one on the season. A relentless Christy Domitien, despite hobbling on a gimpy ankle late in the game, had a couple of great runs out of the QB position by Elizah Thomas and Ethan Heller and some timely turnovers keyed the Orange and Black victory.
The PORTA-AC Central Boys Golf Team headed west last Tuesday to Scripps Park Golf Course in Rushville for a meet with the host Rockets, the Virginia-Triopia Redbirds and the Havana Ducks. The host Rockets took the win with a team score of 159, led by medalist Reed Fretueg who shot a nifty 1 under 34. The Bluejays followed in 2nd place with a team score of 167. Leading the Jays was Brady Kinney and Griffin McClure who both carded 41 playing the front nine. They were followed by Trace Donnan with 42 and Brody Landon at 43. The JV Jays also played that afternoon and posted some very impressive early season scores. They were led by Kolin Johnson with a 52 and Landon Johnson with a 54. Nash Donnan fired a 55 and Drew Carter rounded out the scoring with a 64. Coach Neil Gurnsey had the following comments after the round. “Hats off to Rushville. They are a good team and Coach Wise is doing a great job with that program. They will make some noise in the postseason. We played well and had a couple guys step up for us today. That is something we will need on a regular basis as the season goes on. I was also very pleased with the scores from our JV team this afternoon. Those guys will be counted on a lot next year and are improving each and every day.” The team currently holds a record of 5 wins and 1 loss.
The BHS Volleyball squad spent last week driving to Augusta for the Southeastern Tournament and what started with a bang faded quickly with three straight losses to end the week. The Lady Tigers’ record now stands at 2-6 on the season.
The Triopia-Virginia-Meredosia football team fell to 1-1 with a Saturday night loss to Carrollton. The Hawks scored on a 58-yard run in the first quarter and a three-yard run in the fourth and their defense did the rest in the 14-0 win over the Trojans in Carrollton.
The Beardstown High School golf team continues to work hard and improve. On Monday August 28 at Shambolee Golf Course in Petersburg, sophomore Mary Escobar led BHS with a score of 62. Last Tuesday, the girls squad traveled to Rolling Greens in Mt. Sterling and brought home second place, led by senior Saray Chaparro. For the boy’s Cade Ross placed 5th individually, shooting a nice round of 42. Coach Riddle commented after the Brown County meet, “Both teams played well and are really making progress.” On Thursday the boys traveled to Plum Creek at Winchester where Grady O’Hara placed second, firing a 43 and Ross finished in the top five with a 45. On Friday at the K’s Creek Invite, playing 18 holes, Ross finished tied for 11th with an 83 and O’Hara was 19th overall with a 90.
The PORTA-AC Central high school volleyball team has started the 2023 season with a 4 and 3 record going 2-3 in the very competitive Springfield Lutheran Invite.
The Lady Bluejays opened the season with a two-set road win over Lewistown, knocking off the Indians 25-23 and 25-18. At the Lutheran Invite, the Jays started with a tough three-set loss to class 3A Chatham Glenwood, losing 25-21, 21-25, 13-15.
The good weather led to a five-game week for the Virginia/Triopia/Meredosia/Chambersburg J.H. Baseball team, and they picked up two wins for their efforts. A nine to three home loss on Monday to Our Saviours of Jacksonville started the week for the Redbirds. Jacksonville outhit the Birds nine to four and Virginia committed three errors in the game. Ryker Howe and Avery Neathery each had two hits and Cosmo Browning drew two walks in the loss.
A 5-0 week for the AC-Central-PORTA junior high baseball team culminated with winning the Virginia Tournament. The Knights started the week with a 13-1 short game win over Illini Central at home. AC scored in all four innings of the game and Trenton Bushnell did not allow a hit while striking out ten batters. Colton Nelson and Calob Cass each had two hits while Tate Karrick, Braxton Stice, Wesley Sampson, Wyatt Hays, Jackson Richard, Owen Gronewold, and Bushnell all had one hit.