Athletes of the week
Grant FrickeTriopia boys basketballScored 12 points including four of six free throws in a 53 to 43 road win over Pittsfield.Photo from Triopia Athletic...
Wrestling
Abe’s Rumble Results for Tigers
After the first round on day one at the prestigious and loaded Abe’s Rumble in Springfield, the Beardstown Tiger Wrestling team made the cut for the top...
Tiger Wrestling recap
With a quadrangular and a triangular in the books so far this season, the Beardstown Junior High School Wrestling Team is off to a two and three start...
Tiger Wrestlers keep winning
The Beardstown Tiger Wrestling team continues to rack up the wins, both individually and as a team. Last week the Tigers defeated Warsaw 58 to 5 and...
Tiger Wrestlers rack up wins
The Beardstown High School wrestling team spent last week racking up the wins, both individually and as a team. During a very busy week, the Tigers had...
Tiger Wrestling opens season
The Beardstown Tiger Wrestling team opened their season on the road last Tuesday at Galesburg in a dual meet with the Silver Streaks and Canton High...
Tiger Wrestling Team is loaded
The 2024-2025 Beardstown Tiger wrestling team is loaded. Veteran head coach Joe Kolb led the Tigers to a 22-16 mark last year and welcomes back a host...
Tiger Wrestlers all get State win
All four Tiger wrestlers representing Beardstown in last weekend’s State Tournament action picked up at least one win. None of the grapplers was able to bring home a medal but all four had very good weekends and great seasons. Beardstown sent two individuals to the Illinois Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association Fresh/Soph State Tournament and two individuals to the Illinois Elementary School Association State Tournament. Brothers Maddox and Alcantar Medrano qualified for the Tigers at the Fresh/Soph level and Jude Dawson and Kellen Brown competed in the junior high event.
Four Tiger Wrestlers are state bound – Fresh/Soph and Middle School Sectional results
Four more Beardstown Tiger wrestlers have qualified for State Tournament action. Two high school freshman/sophomores and two junior high wrestlers placed in the top four in the Sectional Tournament to advance. The Illinois Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association sponsors the Fresh/Soph State Tournament and Beardstown’s Alex Armenta, and Maddox and Alcantar Medrano all qualified for the Sectional held at Granite City. Armenta, wrestling at 106 pounds, lost by technical fall to the number one seed from Cahokia in round one and fell again by tech fall in round two to bow out of the tourney.
Tiger Wrestlers advance to Regionals
The Beardstown High School freshman-sophomore and the Beardstown Middle School wrestling teams competed in Regional Tournament action last week with a host of Tiger grapplers qualifying to move on to the Sectional Tournament.