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Ethan Heller slides safely into third for Beardstown. Photo by Brockschmidt

Beardstown Tigers thump West Prairie Cyclones

The Beardstown baseball team opened last week with a convincing win over West Prairie before dropping decisions to PORTA-AC Central and New Berlin. With the two wins and one loss the Tigers’ record now sits at 9-11.

At home last Tuesday, BHS pounded out sixteen hits in a 20 to 10, six-inning win over West Prairie.  It was just 1-0 in favor of the Tigers heading to the bottom of the third inning when the hometown offense exploded for twelve runs to run the score to 13-0. The Cyclones struck right back though, getting six of their own in the top of the fourth. A three-run bottom by the Tigers made it 16-6 after four. West Prairie scored one in the fifth and three in the sixth to cut the margin to 16-10, but Beardstown ended it early with four in the bottom of the sixth.

Jared Perez launches the shot put for the BHS at the Annual Tiger Relays. Photo by Brockschmidt

Conference track results for Tigers

The Beardstown Tiger Track team had a nice showing in their first adventure in the West Central Conference Championships including conference champions in Marcos Laurencio, Georgia Brown and Laetitia Kanda. As a team the girls finished fourth and the boys finished fifth out of seven teams.

Vanessa Nunez delivers the pitch in home softball action against Augusta Southeastern. Photo by Brockschmidt

Pretzels sneak by Lady Tigers

The Beardstown Lady Tigers lost twice last week, including a heartbreaker to New Berlin on Wednesday, when the Pretzels scored to win in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the seventh.  On Tuesday, Beardstown fell by the ten-run rule to Augusta Southeastern.

Shortstop Vanessa Nunez steps on second to get the first out of a nifty double play for BHS.

Lady Tigers smack down Hornets

It was a good week for the Beardstown Softball Team as they played better ball and picked up a win over Brown County and lost in close games to Camp Point and Quincy Notre Dame.  The Lady Tigers now sit at 4-17 on the year.  

Drone shots of a huge transformer being relocated, Monday, April 29, from the Burlington Northern Rail Yard to the new solar farm near Concord. Specialized hauling equipment was required to carry and transport. The wheels on the two trailers are independently steerable, which allowed it to make the corner at 15th and Wall. Pictured here is at the Intersection of Hwy 67 and 125. Traffic was delayed during the process. Jack Fearneyhough photos

Huge transformer being relocated

Drone shots of a huge transformer being relocated, Monday, April 29, from the Burlington Northern Rail Yard to the new solar farm near Concord. Specialized hauling equipment was required to carry and transport. The wheels on the two trailers are independently steerable, which allowed it to make the corner at 15th and Wall.  Pictured here is at the Intersection of Hwy 67 and 125.  Traffic was delayed during the process.

Baseball

Tigers split with Quincy Teams

Two trips to the Gem City were on the schedule for Tiger Baseball last week as Beardstown traveled to Quincy to take on the Quincy High Blue Devils on Monday and the Raiders of Quincy Notre Dame on Wednesday.  The Tigers surprised the Devils, getting a dramatic 7 to 6 come from behind victory. A late charge was not enough against the Raiders as Beardstown fell 5 to 3 to fall to 8-9 on the year.

The senior members of the BHS Track Team and their families were recognized at Senior Day last week.

Tiger Track Seniors honored

Beardstown High School recognized their senior track athletes at a home meet last week.  

Christy Domitien, Gavin Epping, CJ Evans, Emma Ford-DeWitt, Karim Gomez, Deyvi Javier, Delma Salazar, and Chris Tchaklizo were all thanked for their contribution to Tiger Track.

Track

Beardstown Junior High Track action

The Beardstown Tiger Junior High team was on the track competing twice last week.  

On Monday they were at Rushville for the six-team Big 5 Conference meet with the seventh-grade boys placing second and the eighth graders taking third. The seventh and eighth grade girls’ teams both placed fifth. Thursday the Tigers traveled to Williamsville for a four team meet with the boys bringing home second place as a team on both levels and the girls taking second in the eighth grade and fourth in the seventh grade.

Xixi Marquez scores for BHS despite four Riverton defenders and the goalie between her and the goal.

BHS Soccer Seniors recognized

In a testament to just how quickly the spring sports season and time in general goes, the Beardstown girls’ soccer team celebrated senior day last Saturday.  

Lady Tigers Noemi Munoz, Xixi Marquez, Gaby Lucha, Ashley Gil-Molinero, Saray Chaparro and Estefani Ayala were recognized at halftime of the Riverton game for their contribution to Beardstown Soccer. In the game, the Tigers took out a week’s worth of frustration on the Hawks, winning 10 to 1.  Beardstown scored five goals in each half of the much-needed win. Senior Xixi Marquez poured in four goals while fellow senior Ashley Gil-Molinero had two. Junior Brandy Mendoza also had a monster game, notching four goals of her own.  Gil-Molinero had two assists and Leslie Sanchez, Marquez and Mendoza all had one.

A gaggle of geese sun themselves beside the water next to the soccer fields at the Beardstown Park District. Photo by Nick Krohe

Geese in the sun

A gaggle of geese sun themselves beside the water next to the soccer fields at the Beardstown Park District. Photo by Nick Krohe