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The Beardstown Tiger Varsity Basketball team is pictured with their Second Place Trophy from the Triopia Tournament. The Junior Varsity Tigers also placed Second in the tournament.

Tiger JV and Varsity take second place

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.

Members of the Triopia Tournament All Tournament Team (L/R): from Griggsville-Perry: Wyatt Lipcaman, Michael Myers, Lane Lipcaman. From Triopia: K.J. Beck and Caleb Carpenter. From Carrollton: Konnor Campbell. From Beardstown: Isaac Brockschmidt and Elizah Thomas.

Trojans win twice at Tourney

The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia varsity basketball team went 2-2 to bring home fifth place in their own tournament last week.  The Trojans lost to Beardstown, beat South Fulton then lost to Carrollton in pool play before taking out Rushville-Industry in the fifth-place crossover game.

41st Annual Lady Tiger Classic

For the 41st time since 1982 (the tourney was cancelled due to COVID in 2020) Beardstown will host the Beardstown Lady Tiger Classic girls’ basketball tournament over Christmas break.  It will tip off on Tuesday, December 26.  Twenty-four teams will be in town and over 40 games will be played in two gyms over four days.  Havana and West Prairie will get things started bright and early at 9:00 a.m. in the middle school gym, while action in the high school gym tips off at 9:30 a.m. with Illini Central taking on Roanoke-Benson.  The Rockets, from just northeast of Peoria, are new to the tourney this year, taking the place of another Rocket team, Jacksonville Routt, who surprisingly cancelled their season due to a lack of players.   

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