A young Beardstown volleyball team ended a rough season with an opening round loss in regional play. The Tigers lost to tourney host Macomb by scores of 25-5, 25-9. The Bombers would knock off Monmouth-Roseville in the next round then take down defending state champion Quincy Notre Dame to claim the regional crown.
The Beardstown High School Girls’ Cross Country team ended a nice season last Saturday in the Sectional Meet at Elmwood. The Tigers placed 18th as a team under some tough running conditions and will
The Beardstown High School Cross Country Teams had a busy week as they finished off their regular season with two meets and ran in regional competition.
On October 16, they traveled to Emiquon to run in the Havana meet. Diana Huerta and Rosalba Quintana each ran a new personal best and brought home a medal with Diana placing 4th and Rosalba placing 10th. Ashley Gil also ran a season best to finish 13th, Emma Ford-Dewitt finished 15th and Emely Martinez ran a new personal best for the season.
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.
Just when it seemed like the Beardstown Tigers had built some momentum and had a chance to make a game of it with Calhoun, a familiar bugaboo came out to haunt the Tigers.
After falling behind 14 to 0 in the first quarter, the Tigers made a nice offensive drive taking the ball down to the six-yard line where they had it first in goal. Unfortunately, as has happened several times this year, Beardstown could not push the ball across the goal line from in close, turning it over on downs. The Warriors then took the ball the length of the field to score again and make it 21-0, then a flurry of second quarter touchdowns carried Calhoun to a 41-0 victory, ending the Tigers season. BHS finished 4-5 and although one 4-5 squad did make the IHSA playoffs, it was not the Tigers. The Warriors, under former Beardstown coach Aaron Elmore, finish 6-3, and entered the postseason on quite a run, having won their last four games by a combined score of 186-0.
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.
The Beardstown Board of Education met Wednesday, October 18 in the high school library opening with a demonstration from the Robotics group showing two different mechanical robots that the group has been developing after school.
The Beardstown City Council approved an ordinance amending the water, sewer and sewage disposal rates for the city of Beardstown at the October 17th meeting.
Following are the new rates for residential and commercial wastewater customers located within the limits of the city. The basic charge for water usage will be $13.75 for the first 2,000 gallons of water used and then $2.30 additional for each 1,000 gallons used per month (or any fraction thereof).
For those located outside city limits, the charge will be $16.50 for the first 2,000 gallons of water used plus $2.30 for each 1,000 gallons used (or any fraction thereof). For non-water customers, the basic wastewater user charge will be $17.88 per month.
Despite playing under a first-year head coach and having only two seniors, the Beardstown High School soccer team advanced to the Regional Championship game this season.
Unfortunately, a very good Peoria Christian Chargers team ended the Tigers’ season there. The Chargers jumped out to a 2-0 lead at halftime and added an insurance goal in the second half to get a 3-0 shutout victory over BHS. Peoria Christian, now 21-4-2 on the year, knocked off Rock Island Alleman 4-0 in the sectional semi-final and were scheduled to face Quincy Notre Dame for the sectional title on October 24.
The Beardstown Middle School girls’ basketball season is underway with both the 7th and 8th grade Tiger teams off to a rough start with neither team able to pick up a victory over the first two weeks of the season.
The 7th grade lost to Virginia 23-10 with Ola Quigley scoring four points for the Tigers to open the season. They then lost to West Prairie 13-9, AC Central 24-7, Brown County 28-6 and Lewistown 35-4. Most recently they fell to West Central 45-14 as Quigley scored 10 of the 14 Tiger points.