Junior High

Junior High Basketball Action – B’town, Triopia & Virginia Results

Due to the holiday, each of the area Junior High basketball teams played only one game last week.  Beardstown Tigers: Beardstown played on the road at Rushville on Monday with both teams dropping a tough one. The 7th graders trailed 8 to 7 after a quarter and 13 to 9 at the half before cutting the deficit to just one at 17 to 16 after three quarters. The Rockets would outscore the young Tigers 6 to 2 in the final frame to take the win 23 to 18.

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Redbirds Take Down Tigers – Virginia Junior High Boys Action

   It was a tough go for the Virginia Junior High boys’ basketball team with both the seventh and eighth grade going 1-3 in a busy last week. There was some consolation in the fact that the victory did come over Cass County rival Beardstown on Tuesday.  

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Virginia-Triopia Junior High girls basketball

The Virginia-Triopia Junior High girls basketball teams wrapped up their regular seasons with three games last week.  The season ended entirely for the seventh graders when they lost in the opening round of the Class 2A regional 25 to 14 to Mendon Unity at Mt. Sterling. 

Virginia Junior High boys hoops results

A busy week of basketball did not produce the results the Virginia Junior High boys’ basketball team was hoping for last week as both the 7th and 8th grade teams lost two out of three games.  There was some solace in the fact that the only win for each squad came against Cass County rival AC-Central.

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Three wins for Lady Redbirds – Virginia-Triopia Junior High Basketball

It was a good week for the Virginia-Triopia Junior High Girls’ Basketball team as they picked up three wins out of four games between the seventh and eighth grade teams. The younger Birds knocked off Griggsville-Perry 36-21 and lost to Brown County 32-11 to bring their record to 7-8 on the year.

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Lady Redbird Basketball action

The Virginia-Triopia Lady Redbird junior high basketball teams hosted their own tournament last week with both the 7th and 8th grade winning one game and losing two.  

Congratulations go out to Hallie Clement and Kenzie Meyer for winning awards at the tournament.  Hallie was selected to the six-person 7th grade All-Tournament Team and Kenzie was selected for the 8th grade Defensive/Team Leader award.

The Beardstown Middle School softball team is all smiles and headed to the State Tourney after a 3 to 0 Sectional Championship win over Havana.

Lady Tigers are State bound! – Middle School Softball in final 8

The Beardstown Tiger Middle School softball team is advancing to the IESA Softball State Tournament.  

The Tigers won the Regional Championship with a 4 to 1 victory over Pikeland and captured the Sectional Title with a 3 to 0 win over Havana last Saturday.  They will be the opening game of the Class 2A State Tournament, playing against Princeton Logan at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, September 22 at Champions Field in Normal.  There will be a student fan bus going to the game with enough interest.  For information and for ticket purchase information go to the Beardstown CUSD # 15 Facebook page.

Redbird Baseball

Season ends for Redbird Baseball – Virginia-Triopia-Meredosia Middle School

After blasting eighteen hits and scoring eighteen runs in an opening round win in the IESA Class 2A baseball regionals, the Virginia-Triopia-Meredosia middle school baseball team’s bats fell relatively silent in a semi-final loss to Athens.  The Redbirds scored three runs in the first two innings but did not score again and the Warriors pulled away for a 13 to 3 win to end the season for VTM.  In the opening round game, the Redbirds put Illini Central away early, exploding for fifteen runs in the bottom of the first and cruising to an 18 to 3 win.  They added three in the bottom of the third to end it early.  Graycen Embley, Natha Ayres, Cosmo Browning, Charlie Roegge, Avery Neathery and Nate Strubbe, all banged out two hits in the win.  Ryker Howe, Ben Meyer, Chase VanMeter, Austin Thurman, Parker Kinstle and Carson Nergenah, all chipped in with one base knock.

Softball

Young Tigers in Regional Championship

The Beardstown Middle School softball team was not about to let what happened to them last year happen again.  A year ago, the number one seeded Tigers were upset in their opening game of Regional play.  This year the top seeded Tigers will take a 16-1 record into the Regional Championship game against Pittsfield Pikeland.  The title tilt was scheduled for Tuesday September 12.  Beardstown reached the championship game by virtue of a 3 to 1 win over Quincy Catholic last Saturday.

A-C Central Knights Baseball

A-C/PORTA Knights baseball action

Three wins and two losses last week moved the AC-Central/PORTA junior high baseball team’s record to 11-4 on the season as post season play quickly approaches. The Knights started the week by pounding out nineteen hits in a 13 to 3 win over St. Agnes. AC-Central scored in every frame of the six-inning win. Will Kerrigan and Colton Nelson each had three hits, Calob Cass, and Tate Karrick each had two, including a home run and Max King, Braxton Stice, Wyatt Hays, and Trenton Bushnell all added two hits. Wesley Sampson had a single for the winners.