The Beardstown Tigers took to the road last week to play a couple of West Central Conference games and picked up two victories over Liberty and Brown County. The wins give the hometown hoopsters a conference record of 2-1 and an overall mark of 8-2.
In a Cass County rivalry game last Tuesday, it was the Beardstown Tigers going on the road to Ashland to defeat PORTA-AC Central 53 to 45, giving coach Eric Anderson his first career victory over the Bluejays.
On Thursday, the Tigers hosted Camp Point in a girl-boy double dip and lost to the highly regarded Panthers 52 to 39, the exact same score as Beardstown’s only other loss this year to West Central. BHS is now 6-2 on the season.
The Beardstown High School Wrestling team traveled to Petersburg last Saturday to compete in the Rex Avery PORTA Invite.
At 138 pounds, Maddox Medrano scored three team points. He won by major decision 22-13 to start things then lost by fall at 1:10 and by fall at 2:42. Luis De La Cruz placed 6th and scored 13.5 team points at 144 pounds. He won by fall at 0:53 and 1:16 before losing by fall at 0:39. He then won by technical fall before losing the 5th Place Match by fall at 2:35.
The Beardstown Junior High School boys’ basketball teams had a tough week, losing both games resoundingly to Pleasant Plains at home then dropping two tough ones on the road at Havana. The seventh grade lost 54 to 17 to Plains and 26 to 20 to Havana while the eighth grade fell 44 to 9 to the Cardinals and 32 to 13 to the Ducks.
Two teams from completely different directions from Beardstown, but both with North in their name, were no match for the Beardstown boys’ basketball team last week. On Tuesday, North Fulton made the trip south and the Tigers sent the Wildcats home with a 56 to 46 loss. On Friday, BHS traveled south to White Hall and defeated the Spartans of North Greene High School 48 to 38.
It was a busy week for the Beardstown Tiger Wrestling team with meets last Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. On Tuesday at Deer Creek the Tigers defeated Dee-Mack 36 to 27. Winning for the Tigers were Efren Guijosa at 138 pounds, Luis De La Cruz at 144 pounds, Ryder Hamlin at 215 pounds, and Chunk Dailey at 285 pounds.
The Beardstown High School Wrestling team opened their season last Monday by traveling to Petersburg to take on Bethalto Civic Memorial as well as getting in some junior varsity action against PORTA-AC Central.
Civic Memorial defeated the Tigers 60-18. Individually at 285 pounds Chunk Dailey lost by fall at 2:44. At 113 pounds, Alex Armenta lost by fall at 0:44. Alejandro Rivera lost by fall at 1:49 at 132 pounds. At 138, Josh Severino was defeated by fall at 1:33. At 144 pounds, the Tigers pick
It was a very solid start for the Beardstown boys’ basketball team with a 3-1 record and a second-place finish in their own season opening Tiger Classic tournament. With learning to win close games high on Coach Eric Anderson’s team syllabus this year, close wins over Augusta Southeastern and Brown County and a good effort in the title game against West Central should pay future dividends.
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.
Cross Country Coach Jacki Kelly recently handed out awards for the 2023 Beardstown High School Cross Country team.
She was particularly proud of her team’s academic performance, noting that 100% of the team who were eligible for Academic All-Conference in the West Central Conference, were named to the team. The only athletes who did not get recognized were the freshmen who are not eligible since they do not have a GPA established.