The Beardstown Tiger baseball team opened the 2024 season with a 6 to 2 home loss to Canton.
Each team could manage just three hits, but two walks and two hit-batters in the Little Giant’s second inning let them push across five runs while Beardstown did not get on the board until single tallies in the fifth and seventh. Canton added an insurance run in the sixth.
The Beardstown High School track team won first place in a boys only home meet last week featuring five teams.
The Tigers 106 points easily outdistanced second place Havana’s 87 points and third place Brown County’s 84 points. Jacksonville Routt finished fourth and Virginia-Meredosia-Triopia came in fifth.
The good news for the Beardstown Lady Tiger Softball Team is that they picked up their first win of the season last week over the North Greene Spartans. The bad news was the Tigers played four total games, losing the other three to fall to 1-4 on the young season.
The Beardstown High School Track teams opened their season last Thursday, March 14, by competing at the Spoon River Indoor Invitational at Illinois College. The Tigers got off to a great start in both running and field events. Several athletes brought home their first medals of the season, while others set new personal records. Some athletes went to the starting line for the first time.
The Beardstown Lady Tiger Soccer team is off to a strong start to the 2024 season. Coach Francisco Hernandez and the girls traveled to Springfield last week for four games in the Lutheran Tournament.
Beardstown dropped a tough one in the opener, losing to Athens 3 to 1 on Monday. The Lady Tigers bounced right back in game two, beating host Springfield Lutheran 8 to 0 on Tuesday. On Thursday, BHS won a real barnburner over Unity Christian of Decatur, sneaking away with a 1 to 0 victory. The Lady Tigers wrapped up a 3-1 week to start the season with a convincing 7 to 0 win over Taylorville on Friday.
Four more Beardstown Tiger wrestlers have qualified for State Tournament action. Two high school freshman/sophomores and two junior high wrestlers placed in the top four in the Sectional Tournament to advance. The Illinois Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association sponsors the Fresh/Soph State Tournament and Beardstown’s Alex Armenta, and Maddox and Alcantar Medrano all qualified for the Sectional held at Granite City. Armenta, wrestling at 106 pounds, lost by technical fall to the number one seed from Cahokia in round one and fell again by tech fall in round two to bow out of the tourney.
A poor start, red hot free throw shooting by the opponent, a failure to defensive rebound and a missed call by the referees, all combined to contribute to the season ending loss in the first round of the regional by the Beardstown Tiger varsity basketball team. On the road at Illini West, the Tigers fought back from a cold start and had a late lead but could not hold on to it in losing a heartbreaker 46 to 45 to the Chargers.
The Beardstown High School freshman-sophomore and the Beardstown Middle School wrestling teams competed in Regional Tournament action last week with a host of Tiger grapplers qualifying to move on to the Sectional Tournament.
The Beardstown Tigers salvaged a rough week by blasting the Havana Ducks 71 to 44 on Senior Night last Friday.
A hearty pot of Duck soup is just what the Tigers needed after road losses to Payson-Seymour and Pittsfield. Beardstown ended the week with a 19-9 record including 4-4 in the West Central Conference
Beardstown junior wrestler Garrett “Chunk” Dailey will join an impressive list of Tiger grapplers who have earned the right to wrestle on the grandest of stages, the Illinois High School State Wrestling Tournament.
Dailey placed fourth in the Olympia Sectional at 285 to punch his ticket to the big dance at the State Farm Center on the campus of the University of Illinois starting Thursday, February 15.