The Virginia-Meredosia-Triopia High School Track Team opened their season on the road last week at Beardstown with a five-team, boys only meet. Although the Redbirds placed fifth as a team, they did have several promising individual finishes. Brady Seymour placed third in the shot put, fourth in the 110 hurdles and tied for fifth with Jack Parlier in the high jump. Parlier added a seven
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia boys' basketball coaching staff and cheerleaders are pictured with the North Team who they helped to victory in the 44th edition of the Country Financial West Central Illinois All-Star Classic.
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia Trojan football team officially has a new head coach. The school board has hired Cody Winkelman as head coach for the high school team for the 2025 season. Winkelman replaces Adam Brockhouse, who coached the Trojans for five seasons. Both coaches played for the Trojans. Winkelman served as an assistant coach at Beardstown from 2011-2016 and has been an assistant on Brockhouse’s staff at Triopia for the past three years. He also served as an assistant coach on the high school basketball team this past season and has taught special education at Triopia since 2020.
Following a tough loss to Illini West on the road to open the season, the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia softball team picked up a nice win over an always tough Havana team at their place.
The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia baseball team had a busy first week, taking advantage of the weather to play three games, winning one and losing two in the process. They lost their opener on the road at Illini West, beat Camp Point in a good game at home, then lost to Peoria Heights in a close one at home.
Congratulations go out to several Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia basketball players for being named All-Conference in the Western Illinois Valley Conference.
For the boys, junior Caleb Carpenter and senior K.J. Beck were named WIVC Second Team All-Conference. Named Second Team WIVC All-Conference for the girls were sophomores Mylee Tracy and Lucie Dion and junior Addison Rohn.
The Triopia Lady Trojan eighth grade volleyball team’s season ended one game short of the state tournament.
Triopia faced off against Kinderhook-Western in the Our Saviors Sectional Championship game on Monday, March 11. The Trojans lost 25-12, 25-16 to end their season at 16-9. Kinderhook moves on to the Class 1A State Tournament with a record of 19-3.
The AC Central seventh grade volleyball team are the 1A Regional Champions. The Knights, seeded #1 in their own regional, followed an opening round bye with a regional semifinal win over fifth seeded Springfield St. Agnes 25-16, 25-9. In the Championship game last Thursday, the Knights took down #2 seed Springfield Calvary in a thriller, 22-25, 25-18, 25-22, to win the title and advance to Sectionals. They were scheduled to play undefeated Carrollton St. John’s at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 4 in Virginia. The eighth-grade team was the number four seed in the Calvary Regional and were eliminated from post season play in the opening round by Jacksonville Our Savior by scores of 25-20, 25-16.
Playing for the second time in a week, the Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia boys basketball team lost again to the South County Vipers, this time ending the Trojan’s season in the regional semi-final game. The loss followed an opening round crushing of Brown County by the Trojans.
Three of the four Cass County seventh grade volleyball teams’ seasons ended last week in regional play.
The only surviving team did not play, as AC Central is the #1 seed in their own regional and received a bye in Saturday’s opening round. They were scheduled to play in the regional semifinal on Tuesday, February 27 against fifth seeded Springfield St. Agnes. The AC Central eighth grade team is the four seed in the Calvary Regional and open play on Saturday, March 2 at 9:00 a.m. against Jacksonville Our Savior. If they win, they play the host team later in the day at approximately 12:00 p.m.