Wrestling

Garrett “Chunk” Dailey gets a pin for the win at the IHSA State Wrestling Tournament. The Tiger junior finished up a great season but did not place, going 1-2 in the tournament.

Dailey wins one at State – Tiger Wrestling results

Beardstown’s Garrett “Chunk” Dailey picked up one win against two losses at last week’s IHSA State Tournament in Champaign.  

The burly junior, wrestling at 285 pounds, lost his first match by fall to David McCarthy of Chicago De LaSalle High School.  McCarthy would go on to place 5th overall in the state.  In the next day’s wrestle back bracket, Dailey won by fall in 1:39 over Jared Claunch of Bryon.  Just over an hour later Chunk’s season ended in a heartbreaker as he lost a 2-1 decision to Roy Phelps of Chicago Hope. Although the final defeat was a tough one to swallow, Dailey will be back on the mats for the Tigers next year.

Beardstown's Garrett Dailey (far right) placed fourth in the IHSA Wrestling Sectional at Geneseo and will wrestle in the State Tournament starting Thursday, Feburary 15 in Champaign.

Dailey is State bound – BHS and BJHS Wrestling Results

Beardstown junior wrestler Garrett “Chunk” Dailey will join an impressive list of Tiger grapplers who have earned the right to wrestle on the grandest of stages, the Illinois High School State Wrestling Tournament. 

Dailey placed fourth in the Olympia Sectional at 285 to punch his ticket to the big dance at the State Farm Center on the campus of the University of Illinois starting Thursday, February 15.

Four Tigers advance to Sectional

The Beardstown Tiger Varsity wrestling team will be sending four wrestlers on to the boys’ sectional meet at Olympia High School on February 9th and 10th. The top three finishers at each weight class in Regionals advance to the Sectional Meet.  

Beardstown’s Daisy Gil placed third in the inaugural Girls Wrestling Regional and will advance to Sectionals in Geneseo on February 9.

Tiger Wrestling results: Gil headed to Sectionals

Beardstown’s Daisy Gil is headed to the IHSA Girls Wrestling Sectionals. She qualified by going 4-1 and by placing third at 120 pounds in the first ever girls wrestling Regional Tournament.  For the last two years, the IHSA hosted separate sectionals and a state tournament for girls, but numbers have grown so dramatically that they had to put in regionals across the state this year.  

Gunner Looker takes down a Lanphier Lion for the Tigers in high school wrestling action.

Big week for Tiger Wrestling

It was a very busy week for a Beardstown Tiger varsity wrestling team that is battling through a recent rash of illness and injury.  The Tigers took on Lanphier and Riverton in a make up contest held in the high school commons on Wednesday.  They were right back at it on Thursday, traveling to Auburn to battle the Trojans who are honorably mentioned in the state rankings along with Shelbyville and Hillsboro.  On Saturday, Beardstown was in Petersburg to take on the 8th ranked PORTA-AC Bluejays, Vandalia, and Monticello.

Maddox Medrano gets really low as he prepares to attack for the Tigers in home wrestling action against Warrensburg-Latham.

BHS & BJHS Tiger Wrestling results

With the winter storm cancelling meets for both teams last Tuesday, the Beardstown High School and Junior High School wrestling teams each competed just once last week.

Good luck! Tristan Belleville shakes hands with an Auburn Trojan prior to their wrestling match.

Beardstown Jr and Sr High Wrestling results

The Beardstown Middle School Wrestling Team hosted their first home meet of the season last Thursday and swept the contest.  They slipped past Auburn 47 to 33 and crushed the Havana Ducks 72 to 24 to move to 8-2 on the season.  On Saturday the young Tigers finished in 9th place out of 18 teams at the Jacksonville Middle School Wrestling Tournament.  Individually, Jude Dawson

Pictured on the left are the Tiger JV Wrestlers after their match in Springfield (L/R): CJ Evans, Caleb Hobrock, Bradley Locklear and Carter Davis. Pictured on the right are Layla Garcia (left) and Daisy Gil who wrestled at the first annual Jacksonville Girls Wrestling Tournament.

Tiger’s wrestle at Abe’s Rumble

The Beardstown Tiger Wrestling team capped a busy week and the calendar year by participating in the prestigious Abe’s Rumble in Springfield.  Earlier in the week the Tigers competed in a girls meet at Jacksonville and a Junior Varsity match at Springfield Southeast.  

Layla Garcia and Daisy Gil took to the mats for the Lady Tigers in the very first Jacksonville Girls’ Tourney and had a very good day.  Daisy finished in Fourth Place at 120 pounds while Layla won the Consolation Championship at 135 pounds.

The 2023 Dawson Duals Champions, the Beardstown Middle School Tigers! Beardstown swept to the title, defeating Warrensburg Latham 46-42, Stephen Decatur 71-24, Lincoln 60-45, and Seneca 66-42. The young Tiger grapplers are now 6-2 on the season

BJHS Wrestling team is the 2023 Dawson Duals Champions!

The 2023 Dawson Duals Champions, the Beardstown Middle School Tigers! Beardstown swept to the title, defeating Warrensburg Latham 46-42, Stephen Decatur 71-24, Lincoln 60-45, and Seneca 66-42. The young Tiger grapplers are now 6-2 on the season

Bradley Locklear pins his man for the win for the Tigers in home wrestling action.

Beardstown Wrestling results

The Beardstown Tiger wrestling team hosted a triangular meet last Thursday and lost two close matches to Pittsfield and Macomb.  

Against the Saukees, Pittsfield prevailed over the Tigers by a score of 40 to 30.  Winning Beardstown wrestlers were Luis De La Cruz by fall at 0:43 at 138 pounds and Maddox Medrano by fall at 1:19 at 144 pounds.