Since we had many hogs raised on our farm, it wasn’t unusual to hear Mother yell, “Get to work kids, the sows are out!” She knew they were loose because they would walk right up to our living room’s bay window and peer in.
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In a Cass County rivalry game last Tuesday, it was the Beardstown Tigers going on the road to Ashland to defeat PORTA-AC Central 53 to 45, giving coach Eric Anderson his first career victory over the Bluejays.
On Thursday, the Tigers hosted Camp Point in a girl-boy double dip and lost to the highly regarded Panthers 52 to 39, the exact same score as Beardstown’s only other loss this year to West Central. BHS is now 6-2 on the season.
PORTA-AC Central’s boys varsity basketball team had a rough go of it last week, losing both games on the schedule.
On Tuesday, the Bluejays fell to Cass County rival Beardstown at home in a closely contested game, 53 to 45. The very next day the Jays had to travel to Franklin and take on South County, falling 45 to 30 to the Vipers.
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia Trojans dropped a tough WIVC game at arch-rival Routt to open last week then came back to blast the Liberty Eagles on Friday at home.
At the Routt dome, the Rockets slowly pulled away from the Trojans to pick up a 43 to 32 victory. Routt led 13 to 7 after a quarter and 23 to 13 at the half. They made it 37 to 25 after three quarters then took the air out of the ball in the fourth, allowing the Trojans to cut into the lead by just a single digit in the low
The beat goes on for the PORTA-AC Central Lady Bluejay basketball team as they picked up four more wins last week to move to 9-0 on the season. The girls knocked off Pittsfield and North Fulton on the road before winning twice on Saturday over Carlinville and Sullivan in the Red Kettle Showcase at Lincoln Land College.
There was only one game on the docket last week for the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia Lady Trojans. Unfortunately, it ended in a loss 44 to 28 loss to West Central in an important Western Illinois Valley Conference game.
The Beardstown High School Wrestling team traveled to Petersburg last Saturday to compete in the Rex Avery PORTA Invite.
At 138 pounds, Maddox Medrano scored three team points. He won by major decision 22-13 to start things then lost by fall at 1:10 and by fall at 2:42. Luis De La Cruz placed 6th and scored 13.5 team points at 144 pounds. He won by fall at 0:53 and 1:16 before losing by fall at 0:39. He then won by technical fall before losing the 5th Place Match by fall at 2:35.
The Beardstown Lady Tiger basketball team split a pair of games last week, winning on the road at South Fulton then falling at home to Camp Point Central-Southeastern as part of a girl-boy double header against the Panthers. Beardstown now has a record of 8-5 on the season.
The Beardstown Junior High School boys’ basketball teams had a tough week, losing both games resoundingly to Pleasant Plains at home then dropping two tough ones on the road at Havana. The seventh grade lost 54 to 17 to Plains and 26 to 20 to Havana while the eighth grade fell 44 to 9 to the Cardinals and 32 to 13 to the Ducks.