The 2023 Dawson Duals Champions, the Beardstown Middle School Tigers! Beardstown swept to the title, defeating Warrensburg Latham 46-42, Stephen Decatur 71-24, Lincoln 60-45, and Seneca 66-42. The young Tiger grapplers are now 6-2 on the season
In their final game before a long Christmas break, the Beardstown Junior High boys’ basketball teams dropped a pair of games to Camp Point Central.
The Beardstown seventh and eighth grade boys’ basketball teams each picked up their first win of the season in an exciting night of basketball at home against AC-Central.
The younger boys jumped out to an early lead and cruised to the win. The Tigers led 10 to 3 after one an
The Beardstown girls’ seventh grade basketball team’s season ended in the first round of the 3A regional at Camp Point last Saturday at the hands of Quincy St. Peter by a score of 31-10. Rounding out the regular season, the young Lady Tigers lost to Liberty 42-12 and to Rushville-Industry 21-10.
The Beardstown Junior High boys’ basketball teams got off to a busy start playing three games each last week in the annual season opening Rushville-Industry Tournament. It was a tough start for the Tigers as neither the seventh nor eighth grade teams were able to come away with a win.
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.
Although it was not the final result that he had hoped for, Beardstown eighth grader Liam Hymes did the town proud with his finish at the Illinois Elementary School Association Class 2A Cross Country State Championship Meet last Saturday.
The Tiger defense is in hot pursuit of a Panther from Camp Point in the final junior high football game of the season.
On Tuesday, September 26, the Beardstown Middle School Cross Country team traveled to Liberty to run in the Liberty invite. The boys’ team took fifth place and the girls’ team brought home tenth place. On the very tough Liberty course, several athletes were able to clinch a new personal best. Elsa DeWitt shaved thirteen seconds off her two-mile run. Jomary Rodriuez shaved 1:27 off her previous best. Liam Hymes finished his race 13 seconds faster than his best time, placing 14th and earning another medal. Oscar Cortes cut 27 seconds off his previous best race time. Santiago Quintana was 29 seconds faster, John Haverback shaved 12 seconds off his time, Uriel Torrijos-Gil was 42 seconds faster than his best time. According to Coach Kelly, “all in all, the athletes did a great job representing the Beardstown Tigers on a tough course.”
The finish may have been disappointing but the final results of the season and the journey there were fantastic for the Beardstown Middle School softball team as they finished the year placing fourth in the Class 2A IESA State Softball Tournament. In just year two of the BMS softball redux, the Lady Tigers have served notice they will be a player on the state scene by bringing home a state trophy. Beardstown opened State Tournament play at Champions Field in Normal in impressive fashion, defeating Princeton Logan 7 to 0 in the opening quarterfinal game. Scheduled for Friday morning, a needed rainstorm hit the Bloomington-Normal area Thursday night and continued until all games were moved to Saturday, meaning the quarterfinal winners would have to play two games in one day.