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Bobcats End Tough Week with Second Win
On Monday, April 8, the Bobcats traveled to Westmont and lost to the Sentinels in a low-scoring 2-1 seven-inning contest. On the mound, Trevor Stout had 6 strong innings, only allowing 1 unearned run, on 3 hits. In relief, Chase Maher gave-up a walk-off single to end the game, while taking the loss. Beecher scored…
Lady Bobcats Sweep Donovan in Doubleheader Shutouts
By Jim Piacentini The Lady Bobcats faced the Donovan Wildcats on their home field in a conference doubleheader on Tuesday, April 9, which resulted in two awesome wins. The Bobcats came out swinging their bats and took the doubleheader 17-0 and 13-0. In the first game, everyone on the team pitched in. Evelyn Jablonski went…
Tough Week for Bobcat Baseball
On Monday, April 8, the Bobcats traveled to Westmont and lost to the Sentinels in a low-scoring 2-1 seven-inning contest. On the mound, Trevor Stout had 6 strong innings, only allowing 1 unearned run, on 3 hits. In relief, Chase Maher gave-up a walk-off single to end the game, while taking the loss. For Beecher,…
Lady Bobcats Crush Ottawa 9-1
By Jim Piacentini On Wednesday, March 27, the Lady Bobcats came out swinging against the Ottawa Pirates in front of the hometown fans. Scoring 3 runs in the first inning, they set the pace of the game, which resulted in the 9-1 non-conference win. On the day, the Lady Bobcats tallied 14 hits and were…
Bobcats Lose to Herscher
By Jim Piacentini It was a cold cold and windy day on Wednesday, March 27, but both the Beecher Bobcats and the Herscher Tigers came out swinging. At the end on of the third inning, the game was tied 3-all. But by the fourth, there was a decided change, as Herscher went around the batting…
Bobcats Beat Watseka, 7-6
On Tuesday, March 12, in a non-conference contest on the home diamond, the Bobcats beat the Watseka Warriors, 7-6, in six-and-a-half innings of play. AJ Snell earned his first pitching victory of the year, striking out 9 Warriors in 4 innings of work. On the day, Snell, Quinton Allen, and Nathan Diachenko each had two…
Bobcats Made History
By Jeff Vorva “Sad that the ride is over, but what a ride it was!” That sentence found on the Beecher Basketball’s X social media page, complete with the exclamation point at the end of it, put the exclamation point on a wild and historic boys’ hoops season. It was a season that came to…
State Season’s Only Undefeated Team Ends in Loss
By Andrea Arens By all accounts, the Beecher Bobcats were the team to watch. Undefeated and moving in to the Elite 8 Super-Sectional, the Bobcats knew their up-coming game would be a tough one, and tough it was! The first quarter included back-and-forth leads and showed the Bobcats weren’t ones to be dismissed, as the…
Bobcats Make Elite 8; Super-Sectional Action March 4
By Jim Piacentini Friday, March 1, with the Clifton Sectional Championship on the line, first period scoring was tough for both the Bobcats and the Fieldcrest Knights. Neither team seemed to have a direct line to the basket, as the first quarter was tight, leaving the Bobcats leading by only four, 13-9, as the…
Beecher Wins Sectional, Moves on to Elite 8
By Jeff Vorva The dream season continued for Beecher’s boys basketball team in the sectional. The Illinois High School Association Class 2A Clifton Central Sectional featured four red-hot teams that had not lost in the 2024 calendar year. The hottest of the hot was Beecher, which won the sectional with a 60-43 victory over Fieldcrest…
Bobcats Keep Rolling; Take Sectional Semi-Final, 61-51
By Jim Piacentini On Wednesday, February 28, in Clifton Sectional Semi-final competition, the Beecher Bobcats (33-0) faced the Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin Blue Devils (29-4). In the 61-51 win, they will advance to the Sectional Championship on Friday, March 1, when they face the Fieldcrest Knights from Minonk, who have a record very similar to the Bobcats, at…
Two Regionals Won On the Same Night; Beecher Sitting at 32-0
By Jeff Vorva Its rare enough for Beecher and Manteno’s boys basketball teams to win a regional. But for both teams to win one on the same night? That had not happened before, until February 23. Manteno (27-4) won its second regional in school history and first since 2006 with a 48-31 victory over Wilmington…
Bobcats Trounced Chicago Carver
By Jim Piacentini In Westmont Regional Semi-final competition on Wednesday, February 21, the Beecher Bobcats trounced Chicago Carver, 82-51, while preserving their perfect 31-0 record. For this game, it was all Bobcats, who came out on fire. There just was no stopping them. Beecher kept the heat on and took control of both the offensive…
Lady Bobcats Finish Year Third in RVC
By Jim Piacentini The Lady Bobcat Basketball Team headed to Manteno on Monday, February 12, to take on Coal City in regional semi-final action, but the Coalers were too much for the Bobcats in this one, which resulted in a 22-53 loss. Beecher was outscored 27-13 in the first half and just couldn’t get anything…
BOBCATS: RVC Champs, Only State Undefeated Team!
By Jim Piacentini In a big game, with titles and records on the line, the Beecher Bobcats came out, set the tone, and didn’t stop. Beecher took a demanding lead against St. Anne in the first quarter, 22-6. By half time, the Bobcats were ahead 45-20, and then ran away with the ball in the…
Bobcats Continue Perfect Record!
By Jim Piacentini On Friday, February 9, in RVC semi-final action at The Den, Beecher faced Grant Park and kept their perfect record intact – winning 73-44. The Bobcats came out of the gate in full force and held a 22-14 lead at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, they ran…
Bobcats Set School Record with 27 Wins!
By Jim Piacentini Tuesday, February 6, the Bobcats provided the home fans with a huge win plus a new record, as the Bobcats beat the Reed-Custer Comets, 80-50. The game goes into the record book as Beecher’s 27th win for the season, while setting a new record! The Bobcats came out of the gates hitting,…
