Beardstown’s Daisy Gil is headed to the IHSA Girls Wrestling Sectionals. She qualified by going 4-1 and by placing third at 120 pounds in the first ever girls wrestling Regional Tournament. For the last two years, the IHSA hosted separate sectionals and a state tournament for girls, but numbers have grown so dramatically that they had to put in regionals across the state this year.
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The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia varsity basketball team went 2-2 to bring home fifth place in their own tournament last week. The Trojans lost to Beardstown, beat South Fulton then lost to Carrollton in pool play before taking out Rushville-Industry in the fifth-place crossover game.
Both the Beardstown Junior Varsity and Varsity boys’ basketball teams took Second Place at last week’s Triopia Tournament. The JV team played some of its best ball of the year in going 3-0 in pool play. They won a nailbiter over the host Trojans 41 to 40 to open the tourney. A 48 to 34 win over South Fulton and a 61 to 52 win over Carrollton would follow before the young Tigers would get blasted 71 to 24 by a very talented Hardin Calhoun team in Saturday’s championship game.
The Beardstown Lady Tigers lost their final two games of the Carrollton Tournament, falling short of a chance at fifth place in the tough fifteen team field. After their opening round win over Payson-Seymour the Tigers faced off against number one seeded Father McGivney High School out of Glen Carbon. The Catholic Griffins had their hands...
With the junior high boys’ basketball season well into postseason play, only a couple of local teams remain in the mix while a couple of squads bowed out last week.
The Beardstown eighth grade team finished off their season in the first round of the Pittsfield Regional with a 46 to 9 loss to top seeded Athens. The Warriors bolted to a 19 to 0 first quarter lead in the easy win. It was 28 to 2 at the half and 31 to 9 after three quarters. Brandon Figueroa had six points, Carter Ross scored two and Erick Mejia notched one in the season ending loss for the Tigers.
The letters S and F spelled bad news last week for the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia girls basketball team as the Trojans lost to South Fulton and South Fork to fall to 11-12 on the year.
The week started with a disappointing 54 to 48 loss to a 5-19 South Fulton team at home. The Rebels led all the way, but the second quarter was the difference in the game. It was 15 to 13 in favor of South Fulton after one quarter which they expanded to a 37 to 23 lead at the half. The Lady Trojans cut the deficit to 48 to 37 after three quarters and fought hard in the fourth but fell just a little short. One high note for Triopia was nine players getting on the scoreboard. Mylee Tracy led the way with eleven. Ava Petefish had nine, Gabby Myers had seven, Addison Rohn had six, Lucie Dion had five, Eve Crawford had four and Raye Greenstreet and Lilly Pate each had two.
Two more wins at home last week have the PORTA-AC Central Lady Bluejays flying high with a 24-1 season record. A tough conference win over Stanford Olympia to start the week gives the Jays a 4-0 Sangamo Conference mark. PORTA-AC closed the week with another dominating win, this one over Bloomington Central Catholic.
Beardstown School Board held a discussion on what to do with the Grand Avenue building. One decision was clear, it will not be sold.
Superintendent Brent O’Daniell gave a spreadsheet to all board members showing the cost of several options for the building. Right before the move to the new building, a couple of the heating/cooling systems had quit working. So, a new HVAC system will need to be installed. Asbestos removal will also need to be done.
The Ashland Fire Protection District Board and Fire Chief Shane Hall continued the discussion from last month on obtaining body armor for firefighters. The district had gotten three quotes for possible purchases and discussed the various options offered as far as protection versus mobility.