The Beardstown Middle School Wrestling Team hosted their first home meet of the season last Thursday and swept the contest. They slipped past Auburn 47 to 33 and crushed the Havana Ducks 72 to 24 to move to 8-2 on the season. On Saturday the young Tigers finished in 9th place out of 18 teams at the Jacksonville Middle School Wrestling Tournament. Individually, Jude Dawson
The Beardstown Tiger Wrestling team capped a busy week and the calendar year by participating in the prestigious Abe’s Rumble in Springfield. Earlier in the week the Tigers competed in a girls meet at Jacksonville and a Junior Varsity match at Springfield Southeast.
Layla Garcia and Daisy Gil took to the mats for the Lady Tigers in the very first Jacksonville Girls’ Tourney and had a very good day. Daisy finished in Fourth Place at 120 pounds while Layla won the Consolation Championship at 135 pounds.
For the first time in several years the Beardstown Tigers played on the fourth and final day of the Williamsville Holiday Tournament. The Tigers rebounded from a tough opening round loss to Delavan to beat Deer Creek Mackinaw and Illini Central and earn a birth in the Consolation Championship game. Beardstown ran completely out of gas in their fourth game in four days in the championship tilt and fell badly to Tremont.
Some rough shooting games combined with the usual tough competition of the Lady Tiger Classic led to the host school going 1-3 in the tourney. The Tigers had already faced all four teams they played, and the results were the same in each contest the second time around.
The second halves of games last week were very, very good to the Beardstown boys’ basketball team. The first halves, well, not so much.
Beardstown trailed Abingdon-Avon (A-Town) 31 to 25 at the half and came roaring back to win 64 to 45 at home on Tuesday.
The Beardstown Lady Tiger basketball team is hoping to use the Christmas Holiday to regroup and then get hot and make a run in the Lady Tiger Classic.
The break comes at just the right time for BHS as they are on a five-game losing streak and have already played seventeen games just thirty-eight days into the season. Road losses to Brown County and Williamsville and a home defeat at the hands of Quincy Notre Dame has dropped the Lady Tigers below .500 on the season with eight wins and nine losses.
In a Cass County rivalry game last Tuesday, it was the Beardstown Tigers going on the road to Ashland to defeat PORTA-AC Central 53 to 45, giving coach Eric Anderson his first career victory over the Bluejays.
On Thursday, the Tigers hosted Camp Point in a girl-boy double dip and lost to the highly regarded Panthers 52 to 39, the exact same score as Beardstown’s only other loss this year to West Central. BHS is now 6-2 on the season.
The Beardstown Lady Tiger basketball team split a pair of games last week, winning on the road at South Fulton then falling at home to Camp Point Central-Southeastern as part of a girl-boy double header against the Panthers. Beardstown now has a record of 8-5 on the season.
The Beardstown High School Wrestling team traveled to Petersburg last Saturday to compete in the Rex Avery PORTA Invite.
At 138 pounds, Maddox Medrano scored three team points. He won by major decision 22-13 to start things then lost by fall at 1:10 and by fall at 2:42. Luis De La Cruz placed 6th and scored 13.5 team points at 144 pounds. He won by fall at 0:53 and 1:16 before losing by fall at 0:39. He then won by technical fall before losing the 5th Place Match by fall at 2:35.
The Beardstown High School Wrestling team opened their season last Monday by traveling to Petersburg to take on Bethalto Civic Memorial as well as getting in some junior varsity action against PORTA-AC Central.
Civic Memorial defeated the Tigers 60-18. Individually at 285 pounds Chunk Dailey lost by fall at 2:44. At 113 pounds, Alex Armenta lost by fall at 0:44. Alejandro Rivera lost by fall at 1:49 at 132 pounds. At 138, Josh Severino was defeated by fall at 1:33. At 144 pounds, the Tigers pick