After falling at home to the Havana Ducks in a close one to start the week, the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia baseball team reeled off three straight wins to improve to 9-14 on the year. The Trojans beat North Greene and South Fulton on the road, then took down Rushville at home to finish the week in style.
Three wins and one loss for the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia softball team last week improved their season record to 11-6. The Lady Trojans got home wins over Routt and Greenfield, a road win over North Greene and lost at home to a very good Pleasant Hill team.
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia baseball team shut out the Pleasant Hill Wolves but lost to the Routt Rockets last week to move their season record to 6-13.
On Monday at home, the Trojans scored a run in the bottom of the first against Jacksonville Routt but did not score again in a 7 to 1 loss. The Rockets took the lead for good with four in the second and added three in the seventh to sew it up. The big blue had just five hits with Jacob Cook and Gameli White having two each and Cooper Parrish having one and driving in the only run. Brock York walked and scored for the Trojans.
High School Track
It was a busy week for the Virginia-Meredosia-Triopia high school track team with three meets last week.
On Monday the Redbirds hosted North Greene and Carrolton in a triangular with the girls winning the meet and the boys placing third. Faith Wingert placed second in the 100 and the 200 and fourth in the high jump, TaShia Allen was third in the 100 and second in the shot put, Payten Petefish was third in the 200 and second in the triple jump, Keylie Degroot won the 400 and the 800, Kaylee Beck won the 1600 and the 3200, Adelea Anderson was second in the 1600 and the 300 hurdles, Ashton Stanberry won the 110 and the 300 hurdles, Olivia Hughes placed second in the 110 hurdles, Olivia Lutrell was third in the discus and fourth in the shot put, Marilyn Behrends was second in the high jump, and Ava Petefish won the long jump and the triple jump.
The Virginia-Meredosia-Triopia varsity track teams participated in the very competitive Rob Garcia Invitational last week at Rushville with the girls placing ninth out of fifteen teams and the boys finishing fourteenth out of fourteen.
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia softball team saw their six-game winning streak snapped last week, dropping two tough contests to quality opponents. The Lady Trojans fell 11 to 6 to a sixteen-win Hardin Calhoun team on Monday then fell to a ten-win Pittsfield squad 4 to 2 on Friday. Triopia is now 8-5 on the season.
Evan Bell hit a double to drive in Brock York and Grant Fricke in the third inning and propel the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia baseball team past the Calhoun Warriors 2 to 1 in a Western Illinois Valley Conference game. The weather limited the Trojans to just one game last week and the win improved their record to 5-12 on the season.
The Virginia-Meredosia-Triopia High School track teams competed in two meets last week. On Monday the boys placed eighth out of nine teams and the girls placed third out of eight teams at the Tom Johnson Invitational at Pittsfield. Jack Parlier placed fourth in the high jump, Brady Seymour took sixth in the high jump and seventh in the shot put, Braden Hutson was sixth in the long jump and Cristian Provo placed seventh in the triple jump. Ta’Shia Allen was second in the 100 meters, Faith Wingert was third in the 100 and second in the 200, Ava Petefish was first in the triple jump, third in the long jump and second in the 400 meters, Payten Petefish was fourth in the long jump and fifth in the triple jump and the 200 meters, Ashton Stanberry placed third in the 300 hurdles and fourth in the 100 hurdles and Kaylee Beck was third in the 3200 and sixth in the 1600. The 4x100 relay team of Wingert, Stanberry, Ava Petefish and Allen won their race.
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia softball team took full advantage of the good weather last week, by going a perfect 5 and 0 to run their season record to 8-3.
They started things off by pounding Brown County in Mt. Sterling 18 to 2. Mylee Tracy gave up just two hits and struck out nine in the five inning blow out. Addison Rohn had two hits and three RBIs and Gabby Myers had two hits and two RBIs. Lindy Parlier, Rhianna Lovekamp, and Rilyn Waid all added a base hit in the win.
It was a rough week for the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia baseball team as they suffered four losses against just one win. Two of the losses were by one run, they were allowed just one hit in the third loss and had only two hits in the last one.