Author: Fred Kroner
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M-SJH continues winning ways over Rantoul
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high school girls’ basketball teams continued their winning ways on Monday. Both squads were victorious in games against Rantoul. The seventh-graders posted a 33-2 triumph. The team’s top scorers were Kylie Waldinger (nine points), Ellie Dallas (seven points) and Talia Francom (six points). The eighth-graders reached a season’s high for… Read more
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M-S Swimming in top four at Urbana Invitational
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Eden Oelze and Olivia McMurry each secured top four finishes in two individual events and helped two relays placed among the top four in Saturday’s Urbana University High Invitational. M-S placed second in the eight-school meet. Chicago University High was the team champion, scoring 413 points. The Bulldogs had 316 points. Third-place… Read more
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Bulldogs end season with win over Peoria Richwoods
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com A late-game rally on Friday enabled the Bulldogs to salvage an 18-17 triumph over Peoria Richwoods and end the season with one more victory than in 2018. The Bulldogs concluded the year on a three-game winning streak and are 4-5 overall in coach Jon Adkins’ first year as head coach. Last year’s… Read more
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M-S Cross Country Teams earn Sectional berth
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Girls’ Cross Country The Bulldogs ran second to Bloomington in Saturday’s Class 2A Metamora Regional and earned a team berth in the sectional at Bloomington on Saturday, Nov. 2. Bloomington finished with a team score of 48 points. M-S totaled 59 points. Third-place Urbana had 77 points. “We had a great… Read more
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Mahomet-Seymour Soccer wins fifth-ever Regional Championship
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s fifth-ever regional championship in boys’ soccer came courtesy of a Friday win over an opponent the Bulldogs had lost to by three goals in the regular season. M-S gained a measure of revenge on Friday, blanking Urbana 1-0 on the Tigers’ field. The victory not only moves coach Jeremy Davis’ team… Read more
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M-S Volleyball clinces Apollo Conference Title
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs concluded the regular-season on Tuesday with a 25-17, 25-16 Apollo Conference triumph at Charleston. The victory clinched the conference championship for the Bulldogs. The last outright conference title in volleyball for the Bulldogs was in 2005, when the school was a member of the Corn Belt Conference. M-S is 28-7… Read more
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New records set in Bulldog Regional Semifinal win
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com A record-setting performance highlighted Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ Class 2A soccer regional semifinal win on Tuesday at Urbana. The Bulldogs netted a season-high 10 goals while posting their fifth shutout of the season in a 10-0 conquest of Danville. The victory enabled coach Jeremy Davis’ 16-4-4 team to tie the school record for single-season… Read more
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Young Bulldog Cross Country team ends on high note, girls’ basketball still going strong
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com One of the youngest cross-country teams in the history of the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ junior high school program is also one of the best. With six seventh-graders and one eighth-grader making up the roster for last Saturday’s IESA Class 3A state meet at Normal’s Maxwell Park, the Bulldogs captured eighth place in the… Read more
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M-S season ends at 1A Sectional
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The M-S season ended at the Champaign Central Class 1A Sectional on Saturday, but only after the Bulldogs established a new school-record for points scored in the postseason. M-S ended in a tie for fifth place in the 12-school event with 12 points. All four Bulldog entries won a match. Both singles… Read more
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M-S unbeaten in Apollo Conference
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Apollo Conference champion M-S completed an unbeaten run through league matches on Thursday with an 8-1 win at Taylorville in the regular-season finale. Colten Brunner, Jake Janda and Kadyn Jones each scored two goals. Charlie Moore and Eli Warren had one goal apiece. Moore’s goal was the first of his prep career.… Read more