A strategic defensive adjustment by coach Eric Anderson and an increase in intensity for the Beardstown boys’ basketball team turned a five-point halftime deficit into a 72 to 52 runaway home win over the Western Wildcats in the Tigers only game last week.
Beardstown’s Daisy Gil is headed to the IHSA Girls Wrestling Sectionals. She qualified by going 4-1 and by placing third at 120 pounds in the first ever girls wrestling Regional Tournament. For the last two years, the IHSA hosted separate sectionals and a state tournament for girls, but numbers have grown so dramatically that they had to put in regionals across the state this year.
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.
The Beardstown 7th grade boys’ basketball team lost in the opening round of the regional to end their season last Saturday. The eighth seeded Tigers fell to number one Pleasant Plains 48 to 13. Both the seventh and eighth grade teams finished up regular season play last week with losses to PORTA and Waverly.
The schedule maker was not very kind to the Beardstown Tiger varsity boys’ basketball team last week sending them on the road to two very tough to win at venues. Both games were conference games for the Tigers, who are the newest members of the West Central Conference, at Hamilton against West Hancock and at Quincy Notre Dame. Both places are historically tough to win at and although Beardstown played tough, they could not pick up a win.
It was a very busy week for a Beardstown Tiger varsity wrestling team that is battling through a recent rash of illness and injury. The Tigers took on Lanphier and Riverton in a make up contest held in the high school commons on Wednesday. They were right back at it on Thursday, traveling to Auburn to battle the Trojans who are honorably mentioned in the state rankings along with Shelbyville and Hillsboro. On Saturday, Beardstown was in Petersburg to take on the 8th ranked PORTA-AC Bluejays, Vandalia, and Monticello.
With the winter storm cancelling meets for both teams last Tuesday, the Beardstown High School and Junior High School wrestling teams each competed just once last week.
The Beardstown Tiger eighth grade basketball team picked up a much-needed win last week on the road at South Fulton. Beardstown held on to win a thriller 23 to 21. A rough start doomed the seventh grade Tigers in a 34 to 25 loss to the Rebels.
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.
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.