Two long road trips last week resulted in two wins for the Beardstown baseball team, pushing their record to 4-2 on the year. On Friday the boys pounded Pleasant Hill-Western 15 to 3 in five innings and on Saturday, the Tigers made a huge seventh inning comeback to knock off West Hancock 11 to 6.
It was a very impressive performance from the PORTA-AC Central boys’ track team last Friday afternoon on the campus of Western Illinois University for the Lee Calhoun Invitational. The Jays won First Place in the very competitive, eighteen team event, outscoring second place Monmouth-Roseville by 21.5 points, 97 to 75.5. The Lady Bluejays finished in fourteenth place out of seventeen teams.
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia baseball team started last week with a home win over Griggsville-Perry then dropped both ends of a Saturday doubleheader at home to Greenfield-Northwestern and PORTA-AC Central. The Trojans are now 3-8 on the season.
The PORTA-AC Central Lady Bluejay softball team and senior pitcher Gabbie Branson certainly made the most of their only opportunity to play last week.
Branson tossed her first career perfect game as the Lady Jays destroyed the Riverton Hawks 18 to 0 at Riverton. Branson struck out ten batters in her four-inning perfecto, while also going 1 for 2 with two RBIs and two runs scored. PORTA-AC had just seven hits but took advantage of fifteen free passes from the Hawk pitching staff.
It was an exciting last week of baseball for the PORTA-AC Central Bluejays with a nine-inning loss, an eighth inning win, and a two-hit shut out win. The 2-1 week moves the Jays record to 7-6 on the season.
Mother Nature wiped out the beginning of the week, but the Jays got back in action on Friday when they traveled to Riverton and battled the Hawks on another cool and misty afternoon. Riverton took the early lead with three runs in the bottom of the first, but the Jays tied it up in the top of the second on three consecutive singles by Hunter Roberts, Brody Landon and Jett Kerrick, and a sacrifice fly by Barrett Morse. Kendall Davis, who got the start on the mound, settled in, and kept Riverton scoreless over the next five innings, striking out eight. On offense, the Jays had multiple chances, outhitting Riverton 11 to 6
The Virginia-Meredosia-Triopia high school girls’ track team won a four-team meet in Jacksonville last week while the boys’ team finished fifth out of five teams.
The girls’ team dominated the sprints with Mylee Tracy, Faith Wingert, and Ta’Shia Allen going 1, 2, 3 in the 100-meters and Ava Petefish getting sixth. In the 200 meters, Wingert placed first, Tracy was second, Payten Petefish was fourth, Allen was fifth and Sophya Ogden was sixth. The 4x100 relay team of Wingert, Ava Petefish, Stanberry and Allen placed first and the team of Adelea Anderson, Olivia Hughes, Payten Petefish, and Shariya Randall placed third.
AJ’s Bar & Grill in Arenzville is under new ownership.
Susan Campbell recently purchased the business located at 301 West Frederick Street. Campbell also owns Tyson’s Restaurant in Beardstown.
Two people were transported to an area hospital following a crash at 9:35 p.m. Friday, March 29 in Arenzville.
According to Cass County Sheriff’s report, Willard Transbarger, 80, Arenzville, was driving a 2008 Ford F-150 truck that ran a stop sign at at the Arenzville Road and Main Street. The vehicle went through the intersection southbound into a business parking lot. The truck then ran head-on into a dirt embankment and rolled over onto its top. Transbarger and a passenger, Carol Transbarger, 79, also of Arenzville, were transported.
An A-C Central senior received a full 4-year scholarship to Eastern Illinois University totalling $120,000.
Lainey Bartels, Chandlerville, received the Pemberton Presidential Scholarship that will cover her room and board plus full tuition for four years. Bartels plans to major in public relations with a minor in pre-law, then attend law school.
Thank you to everyone who sent in Easter drawings and coloring pages to decorate our window! It made our office so much more festive and colorful!
-The Cass County Star-Gazette Staff