The Virginia-Triopia Junior High girls basketball teams wrapped up their regular seasons with three games last week. The season ended entirely for the seventh graders when they lost in the opening round of the Class 2A regional 25 to 14 to Mendon Unity at Mt. Sterling.
It was off to Scott County for four days of basketball in the Junior High School version of the Winchester Tournament for the Triopia Trojan junior high boys’ basketball team last week. When the smoke cleared, both the seventh and the eighth-grade teams had won two games and lost two games. Both teams handled Carrollton and North Greene rather easily and lost to West Central and Brown County with the seventh graders dropping two thrillers.
Arenzville Village Board approved the purchase of a jon boat and trolling motor that will be used to sound a lagoon that needs to have a sludge removed. The sludge has been a problem for several years. The boat and motor will determine the areas that are in most need for dredging.
The Triopia Junior High boys’ basketball program picked up three wins out of four games last week to open their season the right way. Things started in ultra-exciting fashion as the 7th grade squad pulled out a one-point victory on the road at South County, snake biting the Vipers 27 to 26. Howe poured through 18 points to lead the Trojans to the win. Werries added six points and Sager chipped in with three.
Three wins last week for the Virginia-Triopia seventh grade girls basketball team pushed their record to over .500 for the season at 10-8. A couple of tough losses for the eighth-grade squad dropped their record to 10-7 on the year.
As host of the IHSA Sectional Tournament the Triopia-Virginia Lady Trojan Volleyball team had every intention of also competing in this year’s action. Unfortunately, that dream came to an end at the hands of
It was a good week for the Virginia-Triopia Junior High Girls’ Basketball team as they picked up three wins out of four games between the seventh and eighth grade teams. The younger Birds knocked off Griggsville-Perry 36-21 and lost to Brown County 32-11 to bring their record to 7-8 on the year.
All three Cass County high school volleyball teams finished up their regular seasons last week and will be competing in regionals this week.
Beardstown wrapped up their season with two home matches. On Monday, the Tigers fell in a tough three set match to West Central 25-17, 19-25, 18-25. Against a talented Brown County team on Thursday in the Annual Volley for the Cure match, the Tigers treated a nice crowd to a good comeback in game two but fell in straight sets 15-25, 22-25. Beardstown, now 9-25 on the season and seeded 11th in the regional, was scheduled to take on the 5th seeded Macomb Bombers at their place on October 23 to open postseason play.
Arenzville: October 31 - Town Trick or Treat, 6:00-8:00 p.m. | Ashland: October 29 - Halloween Parade lineup starts at 3:00 p.m. and will go from Editor Street to the Fire House followed by Trunk or Treat on Yates Street in front of City Hall.
It was a great night of raising money, recognizing cancer survivors and high school volleyball last Thursday in Concord at the Annual Volley for the Cure game between Triopia-Virginia and Beardstown.