Tigers

Lady Tigers

Beardstown Middle School Basketball

The Beardstown Middle School girls’ basketball season is underway with both the 7th and 8th grade Tiger teams off to a rough start with neither team able to pick up a victory over the first two weeks of the season.  

    The 7th grade lost to Virginia 23-10 with Ola Quigley scoring four points for the Tigers to open the season.  They then lost to West Prairie 13-9, AC Central 24-7, Brown County 28-6 and Lewistown 35-4.  Most recently they fell to West Central 45-14 as Quigley scored 10 of the 14 Tiger points.

Beardstown’s Liam Hymes races on a slick and muddy course at the IESA State Finals Meet.

Hymes does Beardstown proud

Although it was not the final result that he had hoped for, Beardstown eighth grader Liam Hymes did the town proud with his finish at the Illinois Elementary School Association Class 2A Cross Country State Championship Meet last Saturday.

football

Mustangs shut out Tigers – BHS Football drops homecoming game

Boasting an offensive and defensive line averaging around 230 pounds and sporting several backs and receivers at or over the 200-pound mark, the Mendon Unity Mustangs put their size and strength to good use in a dominating 35 to 0 win over Beardstown on homecoming.

Defender Edwin Basaldua sends the ball out of the scoring zone for Beardstown.

Three wins for BHS Soccer

A very young Beardstown High School boys’ soccer team rolled to three wins last week to push their season record to 10-4-3 with regional play set to begin this Friday, October 13 at East Side Center in East Peoria.  

The Tiger defense is in hot pursuit of a Panther from Camp Point in the final junior high football game of the season.

Tigers Junior High Football

The Tiger defense is in hot pursuit of a Panther from Camp Point in the final junior high football game of the season.

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.

Track

Beardstown Cross Country

On Tuesday, September 26, the Beardstown Middle School Cross Country team traveled to Liberty to run in the Liberty invite.  The boys’ team took fifth place and the girls’ team brought home tenth place. On the very tough Liberty course, several athletes were able to clinch a new personal best. Elsa DeWitt shaved thirteen seconds off her two-mile run.  Jomary Rodriuez shaved 1:27 off her previous best.  Liam Hymes finished his race 13 seconds faster than his best time, placing 14th and earning another medal.  Oscar Cortes cut 27 seconds off his previous best race time. Santiago Quintana was 29 seconds faster, John Haverback shaved 12 seconds off his time, Uriel Torrijos-Gil was 42 seconds faster than his best time. According to Coach Kelly, “all in all, the athletes did a great job representing the Beardstown Tigers on a tough course.”