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The Beardstown Tiger Varsity Basketball team is pictured with their Second Place Trophy from the Triopia Tournament. The Junior Varsity Tigers also placed Second in the tournament.

Tiger JV and Varsity take second place

Both the Beardstown Junior Varsity and Varsity boys’ basketball teams took Second Place at last week’s Triopia Tournament.  The JV team played some of its best ball of the year in going 3-0 in pool play.  They won a nailbiter over the host Trojans 41 to 40 to open the tourney.  A 48 to 34 win over South Fulton and a 61 to 52 win over Carrollton would follow before the young Tigers would get blasted 71 to 24 by a very talented Hardin Calhoun team in Saturday’s championship game.

Members of the Triopia Tournament All Tournament Team (L/R): from Griggsville-Perry: Wyatt Lipcaman, Michael Myers, Lane Lipcaman. From Triopia: K.J. Beck and Caleb Carpenter. From Carrollton: Konnor Campbell. From Beardstown: Isaac Brockschmidt and Elizah Thomas.

Trojans win twice at Tourney

The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia varsity basketball team went 2-2 to bring home fifth place in their own tournament last week.  The Trojans lost to Beardstown, beat South Fulton then lost to Carrollton in pool play before taking out Rushville-Industry in the fifth-place crossover game.

Bluejays

PORTA/AC Central boys’ and girls’ hoops roundup

The beat goes on for the PORTA/A-C Central Lady Bluejays as they won their only game last week to improve to 23-1 on the year.  The boys’ team meanwhile split a pair of home games to remain over .500 on the season at 11-9.

Bluejays

PORTA/A-C Boys take fifth at WIT

PORTA-A-C Central went 3-1 in the 101st Winchester Invitational Tournament to secure a Fifth-Place finish. After their opening round win over North Greene, the Bluejays faced off against eventual tourney champion West Central and fell 69 to 46. A 43 to 35 win over Triopia followed. PORTA-AC won the 5th Place game over Hardin Calhoun by a score of 54 to 47.

Trojans

Boys and girls Triopia Varsity hoops

The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia basketball programs picked up some much-needed rest following the Lady Tiger Classic and the Waverly Holiday Tournament as the girls played just one game last week and the boys played two, waiting until Thursday to get back into action. The girls suffered a disappointing loss on the road at Rushville/Industry on Tuesday. The boys squeezed in a WIVC win over Pleasant Hill before an opening round win over Carlinville in the Winchester Invitational Tournament on Saturday. 

Delmar Salazar drives the lane for BHS as Aubrey Vogel (right) and Carson Arthalony converge for the Bluejay defense.

BHS boys and girls basketball results

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.

BJHS Tigers get swept away by Tornados

They played a game at home and a game on the road last week, but the result was the same each time for the Beardstown seventh and eighth grade boys’ basketball teams as they lost all four contests. On Tuesday, at home the Tigers lost to West Central and on Thursday on the road they fell to Griggsville-Perry.

Good luck! Tristan Belleville shakes hands with an Auburn Trojan prior to their wrestling match.

Beardstown Jr and Sr High Wrestling results

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

Bluejays

Bluejays in winner’s bracket at WIT

The PORTA-AC Central Bluejays have won their last two games including an opening round win in the 101st Winchester Invitational Tournament.  Prior to last week, the Jays had dropped three out of four games.  They lost 53 to 33 in the first game of the Williamsville Holiday Tournament, then knocked off Roanoke Benson 54 to 40 in round two before their tourney ended at the hands of Tremont 66 to 58.  A 46 to 29 loss to highly ranked Illini Bluffs followed before the Jays would right the ship.  

Triopia Junior High Basketball

The Triopia Junior High Basketball teams continued to add to an already impressive resume with five wins out of six games last week.  The eighth grade swept all three of their games while the seventh grade lost to Hardin Calhoun but defeated North Mac and Carrollton St. Johns.