Season opener for Knights Baseball
The AC Central-PORTA Junior High baseball team opened their season last week, splitting a pair of games with Brown County. The AC Central “A” team (AC...
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Bomber comeback eliminates Tigers
When two evenly matched baseball teams play the outcome, many times, comes down to just a couple of plays, maybe a lucky break here or a bad bounce there.
Beardstown Baseball’s 11/12 All Stars stay alive
Bouncing back in emphatic fashion from an opening round loss to Macomb, the Beardstown 11/12-year-old baseball All Stars are still alive in District play. A tough game one loss to the Bombers sent the Tigers to the loser’s bracket where they took out more than an ounce of frustration on Pike
Tiger Baseball All-Stars win twice
The Beardstown 9/10-year-old All Star team won their first two games of District play, becoming one of two unbeaten teams. They were set to battle 2-0 Pike County on Tuesday July 2 in Beardstown at Bill Cowen Field in Schmoldt Park for the right to move to the championship game. They got there by sneaking by Macomb 2 to 0 and defeating Brown County 11 to 5.
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.
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.
Pretzels end Bluejays’ run
The best season in quite some time for the PORTA-AC Central baseball team ended with a 5 to 3, Regional Semifinal loss to the New Berlin Pretzels. The Bluejays lost to the Pretzels 12 to 1 on April 22 which spurned PORTA-AC onto a great finish to the season. They end the year with a mark of 21-10.
Tigers drop three
It was not the way coach Brian Dour or Beardstown wanted to end the regular season as the Tigers dropped three straight games last week by ten plus runs each to end the regular season on a four-game losing streak. The losses, against three quality teams, dropped the Tigers to 9-14 on the season. They will look to rebound in regional play where they were scheduled to open at QND on Monday, May 13.
Trojans bring down Pretzels
The Triopia-Virginia-Meredosia baseball team picked up one win against two losses last week to end the regular season with a record of 10-16. They opened the week with a tight 2 to 0 loss to PORTA-AC, then got a nice 4 to 0 win over New Berlin in ten innings then fell flat in the season finale, losing to Pittsfield 15 to 0.
Twenty-Win Season for Bluejay Baseball
An incredible ten-game winning streak has carried the PORTA-AC Central baseball team to a 20-9 regular season record becoming the first Bluejay team in the last twenty years to reach the twenty-win milestone.
The Jays started the season slowly and were 5-5 at the end of March and 10-8 in middle of April. Following a disheartening loss to New Berlin on April 22 the team turned things around and has not lost since.