Brown places fifth at State finals
Beardstown’s Kellen Brown finished fifth in the state at the eighth-grade level in the pole vault at the IESA State Track and Field Championships held last Saturday in East Peoria.
Mylee Tracy at girls state
The track and field season ended for the Virginia-Meredosia-Triopia track teams last week.
For the girls, Mylee Tracy represented Redbird nation very well at the Class 1A IHSA State Track and Field Championships. Tracy qualified in both the 200 meters and the 400 meters and traveled to Charleston for preliminaries last Thursday. The top nine finishers in the prelims advanced to the finals and ninth place came in with a time of 26.12 in the 200 meters. Tracy’s time of 26.6 was good enough for 15th place. In the 400 meters, ninth place had a time of 59.24. Mylee’s time of 103.78 put her in 24th place.
Routt brings down Trojans for Regional Baseball Title
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia baseball team fought their way to the Regional Title game but fell short to a very good Jacksonville Routt team, losing 11 to 2. The Trojans reached the title game by beating a good Brown County team 6 to 1 in the regional opener. Triopia finished 11-18 on the season.
Title game heartbreaker for Lady Tigers soccer
Playing in their first ever Regional Championship Game, the Beardstown Lady Tiger Soccer team lost a heartbreaker.
On the road last Saturday at Monmouth-Roseville against the host Titans, Beardstown lost 1 to 0. In a classic defensive battle, neither team could dent the net until a late penalty kick from the Titans gave them the game’s only goal and a trip to the Sectional game at Williamsville. Monmouth-Roseville improved to 13-4-3 with the win.
Raiders knock out Tigers
The Beardstown Tiger baseball season ended with a first round, 10 to 4 regional loss at Quincy Notre Dame. QND only had two more hits than the Tigers, but Beardstown committed four errors to one miscue for the Raiders.
BHS College Signing Day
BHS recently held their college signing day with the athletes pictured all signing to continue their athletic careers in college. (L/R): Isaac Brockschmidt, Quincy College Basketball; Elizah Thomas, Culver Stockton Basketball; Christy Domitien, Western Illinois University Football; Exauce Mulumba, Illinois College Soccer; Delma Salazar, Lincoln Land Community College Basketball. Coaches in back (L/R) are BHS boy’s basketball, coach Eric Anderson, BHS Football coach, Elliott Craig, BHS soccer coach, Francisco Hernandez and BHS girl’s basketball, coach Jimmy Maltby.
Walk off loss ends Lady Tiger season
A tough season for a young Beardstown Softball team ended with another heartbreaking walk off loss.
The Lady Tigers fell to Macomb in the opening game of the regional as the Bombers scored in the bottom of the seventh to win 4 to 3. It was the third straight time the girls lost in walk off fashion and the sixth time on the year. Beardstown finished 8-21 on the year but won four of their last six and with any kind of luck in close games could have won several more.
Olympia stops Lady Bluejays
The Stanford Olympia Spartans beat PORTA-AC Central in the second round of regional play 10 to 0 to end the Bluejay’s softball season at 12-11. PORTA-AC did get revenge on arch-rival Athens for a 13 to 1 April loss by knocking the Warriors off in round one of the regional by a score of 10 to 8.
Numerous Bluejays are State bound
A very successful boy’s track and field season continued for PORTA-AC Central as the Bluejays placed second as a team in the Class 1A Rushville Sectional and will be sending a host of athletes to the IHSA State Finals starting Thursday, May 23 at Eastern Illinois University.
AADM compete in final meet
Dance team members from the AADM Dancettes Team attended their forth and final regional competition with Applause Talent in Davenport, IA. on May 10th-12th. The studio dance team performed 15 routines choreographed by AADM teachers, Laura Evans, Emery Maliongas, and Ciara Hibbs.