Author: Fred Kroner
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MSJHS boys’ basketball opens season with tournament win, girls continue to shine
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade boys’ basketball team opened the season by winning its own tournament last week. The Bulldogs opened with a 39-23 victory over Mount Zion on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Jack Gallier with 13 points and Braden Pagel with 12 points were the top M-S scorers. “Great game to start the season,” M-S… Read more
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Young Bulldog runners finish strong at IHSA State Meet
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com With an all-underclassman lineup – including four sophomores – Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ cross-country team had a 58-second split among its top five runners and placed 11th in Saturday’s Class 2A state meet at Peoria’s Detweiler Park. The Bulldogs weren’t on the state’s radar when the season started, but ended with a flourish.… Read more
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M-S Swimming celebrates Senior Night with a win
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Olivia McMurry won two individual events and was part of one winning relay on Wednesday as Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ swimming team celebrated Senior Night by winning a triangular meet at Stanford Olympia. M-S totaled 141 points. Runner-up Olympia had 124 points and third-place Jacksonville Routt ended with 61 points. McMurry was the winner… Read more
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Bulldogs will take time to look back on accomplishments of 2019 volleyball season
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Maybe it will be next week. Perhaps it will be next month. It might not even be that soon, but there will assuredly come a time when Mahomet-Seymour’s varsity volleyball players look back on a season of firsts, a lengthy list of noteworthy achievements and smile about a job well done. Before… Read more
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MSJHS 7th grade girls’ basketball on 11-game win streak
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade girls’ basketball team reeled off its 11th consecutive victory on Monday, Nov. 4, defeating Normal Parkside 34-14. Selah Campion led M-S with 10 points. Kylie Waldinger and Ellie Dallas chipped in with nine and seven points, respectively. During its winning streak, M-S (16-2) is allowing an average of 11.0 points… Read more
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M-S Swimming finishes second at Apollo Conference meet
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Girls’ swimming M-S finished second in Saturday’s Apollo Conference Triangular Meet at Charleston, but won more events than either of the other two competing schools. The Bulldogs had double individual wins from Eden Oelze and Olivia McMurry. Oelze was victorious in the 200-yard individual medley (2 minutes, 37.55 seconds) and the… Read more
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Bulldog runners dig deep to place over race favorites
By FRED KRONERfred@mahomet news.com Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ cross-country team took care of business on Saturday in the Class 2A Bloomington Sectional, held at Maxwell Park in Normal. The Bulldogs were in an 18-school field which included eight state-ranked teams, according to the final runnerspace.com poll. “Going into the sectional we were ranked anywhere from fourth to… Read more
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M-S Volleyball captures 3A Regional Title
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Thursday was a night for treats and Mahomet-Seymour’s volleyball team received one of the sweetest ones possible. For just the second time in the past 23 years, M-S captured a regional championship in volleyball. Since 1996, the school’s only other postseason hardware in volleyball was a regional title secured by the 2015… Read more
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Turk breaks school record, M-S takes first at Danville
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour girls’ swimming improved its season record to 13-3 by winning a triangular meet in Danville on Tuesday. The Bulldogs totaled 114 points and outscored the host Vikings (94 points) and Charleston (54 points). M-S had a record-shattering performance from diver Payton Turk. She broke the school record score for six dives,… Read more
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Record-setting soccer season comes to end
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The best boys’ soccer season in Mahomet-Seymour history came to an end on Tuesday with a 3-2 loss to Morton in a Class 2A Bloomington Sectional semifinal match. The Bulldogs end with a 17-5-4 record and the school mark for wins in a season. After falling behind 1-0, M-S rallied and held… Read more