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.
Virginia’s Annual Community BBQ featuring slow smoked pulled pork is a sure sign of spring that will make its appearance this Saturday, March 23.
Presented by the members of the Virginia Masonic Lodge, the event will be held at St. Luke Hall, 170 N. Main St., from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The event will feature the Masonic Lodge’s secret recipe slow-smoked pulled pork plus all the “fixins.”
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 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.
The Masonic Scholastic Bowl started out in 1983 as a small project in northern Illinois. Decades later it has grown to be one the largest of its kind. It has over 330 registered schools to compete from all over the state of Illinois. This high-level academic competition has united thousands of students across this state in their pursuit of intellectual excellence.
It was with much regret that the Virginia School Board accepted the resignation of Jr/Sr High Principal Jake Stewart at its meeting on Monday, February 26th.
Principal Stewart has been at Virginia CUSD #64 for two years. He will be going to PORTA to be principal for third through sixth grade. It was a tough decision but one he made to be closer to family. He will miss the students, staff and community members of Virginia. The board thanked Principal Stewart for all his hard work.
Congratulations to our Virginia Sr and Jr High students of the month. The students are Lindy Parlier, Cristian Provo, and Donnie Eveland.
Lindy is a Junior who is involved in volleyball, softball, student council, NHS, and FFA. Her biggest accomplishment in school is making NHS as a sophomore. Her goals for this year include making high honor roll in all quarters. After High School she hopes to attend a four-year university and enter a pre-med program.