A strategic defensive adjustment by coach Eric Anderson and an increase in intensity for the Beardstown boys’ basketball team turned a five-point halftime deficit into a 72 to 52 runaway home win over the Western Wildcats in the Tigers only game last week.
Roger Lauder, Cass County Emergency Director, spoke to the city council Tuesday, February 6th regarding the Cass County All Hazard Mitigation Plan.
First, he wanted to explain to the council the meeting of mitigation. For the purpose of disaster management, mitigation is the process of taking action before a disaster occurs to reduce its impact and risk whether it be structural or non-structural. Having this plan in place opens the county and/or city up to mitigation dollars offered through the federal government. If the county/city does not have such a plan
The Beardstown Lady Tigers picked up a conference win and a nice momentum builder heading to regionals with a 46 to 43 road win last Thursday over the Mendon Unity Mustangs. The Mustangs were 15-11 prior to the loss and had beaten the Tigers 43 to 27 on November 18 and 42 to 29 in the Lady Tiger Classic. Beardstown opened the week with a tough 55 to 54 conference road loss to Liberty on Tuesday.
The Beardstown Tiger Varsity wrestling team will be sending four wrestlers on to the boys’ sectional meet at Olympia High School on February 9th and 10th. The top three finishers at each weight class in Regionals advance to the Sectional Meet.
Six parked vehicles were damaged at the JBS parking lot early Wednesday morning.
According to Beardstown Chief Martin Coad, a suspect, for whatever unknown reason, crashed into six vehicles around 7:15 a.m., then left the vehicle and disappeared. The vehicle was still running when he left.
Many items were discussed at special Beardstown Council meeting held Tuesday, January 30th
Speed bumps will become a thing of the past in Beardstown in residential areas. An ordinance regulating speed bumps will be voted on at the next city council meeting on February 6th. Any current speed bumps in residential areas will be removed and no further speed bumps will be allowed. The only speed bumps that will be allowed within city limits are the ones in parks, on private property and businesses.
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.
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.
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 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...