Tigers

BHS Boys’ and Girls’ Golf Teams reload

After a down year number wise last season, the Beardstown High School golf teams have reloaded, and Coach Isaac Riddle believes success will follow. The...

BHS Tiger Soccer is ready to roll

Long time assistant coach Francisco Hernandez wasted little time in putting his mark on the Beardstown High School Soccer program, leading the Tigers to...

Golf

Ross places 3rd at Mt. Sterling

The Beardstown Tiger Golf Team opened their season last Wednesday with a five-team, 9-hole meet at Rolling Greens Golf Course in Mt. Sterling.  Senior...

The 2024 BHS Tigers Football Team looks to return to the playoffs after missing out last season.

Playoff return is Tigers’ goal

Following two straight 5-4 regular seasons and two trips to the playoffs in the first two years of the Elliot Craig era in Beardstown, the Tigers fell...

It’s a race for the ball during the opening soccer practice of the year for the Beardstown Tigers.

BHS Varsity Soccer practice begins

It’s a race for the ball during the opening soccer practice of the year for the Beardstown Tigers. | A battle for the ball during varsity soccer...

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Jr High Tiger Softball Starts July 29

Practice for the 2024 Beardstown Lady Tiger Junior High softball team will begin on Monday, July 29.  

The team is for Beardstown students in grades six through eight. The first game is scheduled for August 7...

Baseball

Tiger Baseball, Softball All-Conference Selections

The West Central Conference recently named their 2024 All Conference Selections for baseball and softball and several Beardstown Tigers made the grade in their first year in the conference.  

Tiger senior Gustavo Cortes was one of twelve unanimous selections on the eighteen-man First Team All-Conference Baseball team. Freshman Colby DeSollar was one of nine who received Honorable Mention recognition.

The 2024 BHS Track and Field award winners from left to right are, Diana Huerta, Emma Ford-Dewitt, Marcos Laurencio, Gerardo Ruiz-Gonzales, and Joel Sosa.

BHS Track and Field Awards

The Beardstown girls’ and boys’ track and field teams recognized several athletes at the season ending awards banquet.

According to girls’ coach Jacki Kelly, “this season the girls track team finished with 14 athletes. The girls had a great season, with individuals bringing home hardware from every medal meet we competed in. Although we were bumped to 2A, the girls tied for 10th place out of 16 teams at sectionals. They were a team of fourteen girls competing with schools that had rosters with up to seventy-five athletes.”

The Beardstown Middle School contingent of (L/R) Kellen Brown, DeWade Gaffney, Ashten Guzman and Ola Quigley are pictured after the "Walk of Champions" before they left for the IESA State Track and Field Championships.

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.  

BHS college signing day

BHS College Signing Day

BHS recently held their college signing day with the athletes pictured all signing to continue their athletic careers in college. (L/R): Isaac Brockschmidt, Quincy College Basketball; Elizah Thomas, Culver Stockton Basketball; Christy Domitien, Western Illinois University Football; Exauce Mulumba, Illinois College Soccer; Delma Salazar, Lincoln Land Community College Basketball. Coaches in back (L/R) are BHS boy’s basketball, coach Eric Anderson, BHS Football coach, Elliott Craig, BHS soccer coach, Francisco Hernandez and BHS girl’s basketball, coach Jimmy Maltby.