The schedule maker was not very kind to the Beardstown Tiger varsity boys’ basketball team last week sending them on the road to two very tough to win at venues. Both games were conference games for the Tigers, who are the newest members of the West Central Conference, at Hamilton against West Hancock and at Quincy Notre Dame. Both places are historically tough to win at and although Beardstown played tough, they could not pick up a win.
The Beardstown Lady Tigers won twice last week against familiar foes to improve to 11-12 on the season. They knocked off Pleasant Hill for the second time this year last Thursday at home on senior night, 31 to 26, as both teams were as cold as the weather. On Saturday they opened play in the Carrollton Lady Hawks Invitational with a convincing 65 to 38 pounding of Payson-Seymour, their third victory over the Indians this season.
It was a very busy week for a Beardstown Tiger varsity wrestling team that is battling through a recent rash of illness and injury. The Tigers took on Lanphier and Riverton in a make up contest held in the high school commons on Wednesday. They were right back at it on Thursday, traveling to Auburn to battle the Trojans who are honorably mentioned in the state rankings along with Shelbyville and Hillsboro. On Saturday, Beardstown was in Petersburg to take on the 8th ranked PORTA-AC Bluejays, Vandalia, and Monticello.
The 2023-2024 version of the Beardstown Tigers did former Coach Bob Hembrough proud, pounding arch-rival Rushville-Industry in the newly minted Bob Hembrough Tiger Den Gymnasium.
With the winter storm cancelling meets for both teams last Tuesday, the Beardstown High School and Junior High School wrestling teams each competed just once last week.
Following an overly busy holiday, the BHS boys’ and girls’ basketball squads each played just one game last week. The boys’ game originally scheduled for January 2 at West Hancock has been moved to January 18.
The Tigers traveled to Clinton for a New Year’s shootout on Saturday and knocked off Cornerstone Christian out of Bloomington 67 to 49.
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.