Rough patch for Lady Tiger Softball
Coinciding with the loss of starting catcher, lead off hitter and resident spark plug, Ola Quigley, due to an injury, the Beardstown Middle School...
Junior High
Season opener for Knights Baseball
The AC Central-PORTA Junior High baseball team opened their season last week, splitting a pair of games with Brown County. The AC Central “A” team (AC...
Tourney Title for Lady Tiger Softball
The climb to the top of the Central Illinois Junior High softball food chain has been swift, as expected, by the Beardstown Lady Tigers. In year three...
Triopia-Meredoisa-Virginia Jr. High Softball starts season
The Meredosia-Chambersburg-Triopia-Virginia (MCTV) Junior High softball team opened a rebuilding season last week with two losses at home. The Lady...
Cookout to benefit Virginia School Band
Recognizing the importance of music’s role in education, Virginia Masonic Lodge members are working to raise money for the Virginia Junior/Senior High...
Triopia-Virginia-Meredosia Junior High Signups
Sign ups and practices have been set for all Triopia, Virginia, and Meredosia junior high students interested in playing baseball or softball...
Brown places fifth at State finals
Beardstown’s Kellen Brown finished fifth in the state at the eighth-grade level in the pole vault at the IESA State Track and Field Championships held last Saturday in East Peoria.
Tracy heading to State
Mylee Tracy will represent the Virginia-Triopia-Meredosia Redbird girls track and field team in two events at the IHSA State Finals starting Friday, May 17 at Eastern Illinois University. Tracy placed second in the 400 meters and third in the 200 meters while beating the qualifying time at the Class 1
Four Jr. High Tiger tracksters headed to State
Four Beardstown Junior High track and field athletes have qualified for the IESA State Track and Field Finals May 17 and 18 at East Side Center in East Peoria.
Seventh graders Wade Gaffney, Ashten Guzman, and Ola Quigley and eighth grader Kellen Brown qualified by virtue of their performance at the Class 3A Sectional in Maroa last Saturday. Gaffney placed second and met the qualifying height in the high jump, Guzman placed third in the pole vault and met the qualifying height, Quigley placed third in the long jump, meeting the qualifying distance and Brown won the pole vault to advance.
Beardstown Junior High Track action
The Beardstown Tiger Junior High team was on the track competing twice last week.
On Monday they were at Rushville for the six-team Big 5 Conference meet with the seventh-grade boys placing second and the eighth graders taking third. The seventh and eighth grade girls’ teams both placed fifth. Thursday the Tigers traveled to Williamsville for a four team meet with the boys bringing home second place as a team on both levels and the girls taking second in the eighth grade and fourth in the seventh grade.