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Ethan Heller lowers his shoulder on his way to the end zone.

BHS Tigers stung by BCHS Hornets

The Beardstown Tiger football team had a great chance to finish off a stellar comeback last Friday night against Brown County at Mt. Sterling.  In fact, BHS had a couple of great opportunities to score the winning points, but in the end some excellent goal line defense from the Hornets and too many Tiger mistakes sent Beardstown to a heartbreaking 24-22 loss.  A plethora of penalties, bad snaps and fumbles allowed the Hornets to score the game’s first three touchdowns.  Jack Anderson caught a 23-yard pass to give the Hornets a 6-0 lead in the first quarter then scored on an 11-yard run with 11:54 left in the second quarter and a 1-yard plunge with 5:36 left to make it 18-0 in favor of Brown County.

“They’re not gonna catch him!” Elizah Thomas of the Tigers is on his way to a 47 yard touchdown in Beardstown’s win over Triopia.

Tigers win black and blue trophy

On an absolutely beautiful fall evening, the play on the field may not have always been pretty, but in the end the Beardstown Tigers had to feel great about picking up their third win of the year while spoiling Triopia’s homecoming with a 38 to 12 victory.  

In addition to bringing home the highly sought-after “Black and Blue Trophy,” the Tigers moved that much closer to the five wins needed for a playoff berth.  A valiant Trojan team kept the game close through the first half, but the Beardstown defense shut them out in the second half and slowly pulled away.

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Tigers outlast Rockets – BHS over Routt 46-44 in a wild one!

In a tale of two halves, the BHS Tigers did just enough in the second half to survive a valiant comeback attempt by the Routt Rockets and pull out a wild 46 to 44 home win last Friday night.  The Tigers built a 30-6 lead in the second quarter and led 30-14 at the half but failed to cover two onside kicks and gave up three touchdowns in the first three minutes of the third quarter to fall behind 38-30.  BHS still trailed 44-38 going into the fourth quarter.  With 10:20 left in the game, however, Tiger QB Ethan Heller willed his way to a 34-yard touchdown run, breaking several tackles along the way and followed it up with the 2-point conversion run to give the orange and black a 46-44 lead.  Although the scoring ended there, the excitement did not.

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BHS, Triopia, PORTA/A-C lose big

It was a week that is best quickly forgotten for area football fans as the three Cass County teams were beaten by a combined score of 156 to 6.  Beardstown traveled to Camp Point and were held to zero yards of offense in a 60 to 0 shellacking.  Central meanwhile racked up 343 yards of total offense.  It was 26 to 0 after one quarter and 46 to 0 at the half with Panther coach Brad Dixon taking a knee to end the half rather than run up the score.  Both teams played their JV squads almost exclusively in the second half with things not getting much better for the Tigers other than the swift ending due to the running clock.  The lone bright spot for BHS was the play of freshman Shadrach Mahfina who played good minutes in both halves and led the Tigers with seven solo tackles and six assists to serve notice that he will be a good varsity player sooner rather than later.  Beardstown, now 1-2 on the season, will look to get back on track at home this Friday night against 2-1 Routt Catholic.  The Rockets lost to Hardin Calhoun to open the season then beat North Greene and Triopia.

Tiger tailback Christy Domitien turns the corner on his way to a 75-yard touchdown run in Beardstown’s win over Pleasant Hill. Photo by Brockschmidt

Tigers top Wolves

It certainly was not easy, but in the end the Beardstown Tiger football team came home from Pleasant Hill last Friday with a 34-14 win to move to one-one on the season. A relentless Christy Domitien, despite hobbling on a gimpy ankle late in the game, had a couple of great runs out of the QB position by Elizah Thomas and Ethan Heller and some timely turnovers keyed the Orange and Black victory.

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Trojans fall to Hawks

The Triopia-Virginia-Meredosia football team fell to 1-1 with a Saturday night loss to Carrollton. The Hawks scored on a 58-yard run in the first quarter and a three-yard run in the fourth and their defense did the rest in the 14-0 win over the Trojans in Carrollton.

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Trojan Football wins opener

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Running back Christy Domitien prepares to meet a tackler head on during the Tigers season opening loss to Carrollton.

Hawks outlast Tigers in football opener

By Jason Brockschmidt Sports Editor     An opening night filled with commotion and uneven play from both teams ended in a 16 to 8 loss… Login to continue reading Login…

Front row (L/R): Tyrese Sykes, Owen Cook, Jean Luc Aplogan, Abraham Hernandez, Gustavo Cortes, Gavin Hopkins, Payton McCoy, Parker McCoy. Second row: Gunner Looker, Ryder Hamlin, Zach DeSollar, Victor Solano, Ethan Heller, Vincent Sweeney, Carter Davis, Colby DeSollar. Third row: Abraham Diaz, Brayden Wellenkamp, Ryan Evans, Parker Bell, Maurizio Surratt, Jayden Stephenson, Zach Meyer. Fourth row: Jacob Melton, Caleb Hobrock, Bradley Locklear. Top row: Braxton Baer, Rylan Alhorn, Purav Patel, Gavin Epping, Elizah Thomas, Christy Domitien, Leonel Lopez, Shadrach Mahfina, Chris Tchacklizo.

BHS Football has some holes to fill

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PORTA/AC Football  – Looking for a winning season!

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