Author: Fred Kroner

By FRED KRONER fred@mahomet.news.com Mahomet’s Ryan McClure registered his third career hole-in-one on Wednesday (June 29) at Lake of the Woods. He used a 9-iron to ace the 154-yard 14th hole. He was playing a Pro V1 ball. His feat was witnessed by Chris Edmondson, Jason Troyer and Josh Sullivan. Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Monticello’s Doug Benson recorded his first hole-in-one on Tuesday (June 28) at Lake of the Woods, in Mahomet. Benson used a 5-iron to ace the 147-yard 14th hole. He was using a Pinnacle ball. His feat was witnessed by Vic Cox, Randy Neeb and Don Butler. Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Wrestling Four athletes representing the Mahomet-based Illinois Top Dawgs Wrestling team emerged as national champions and earned AAU All-American accolades after the conclusion of the three-day, 43-team Disney Duals in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday (June 19). The unbeatens for the Top Dawgs were Brennan Houser (12-0 at 182 and 195… Read more

Two of Mahomet’s favorite Fourth of July celebrations are set. The Champaign County Forest Preserve will host this year’s Freedom Fest on July 1 at Mahomet’s Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. Starting at 4 p.m. Music will fill the air. Following a tribute to service men and women fireworks will “Light up the Lake”… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Neal Garrison, who has coached boys’ cross-country and served as a guidance counselor at Mahomet-Seymour High School for the past 20 years, has resigned. The M-S Board of Education is expected to act on his resignation at the Monday evening (June 20) meeting. Garrison, who will continue to live in Mahomet,… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour junior Blake Wolters, a Purdue recruit who rewrote a chunk of the school’s single-season baseball record book this spring, was selected as a Class 3A All-State first-teamer by the Illinois Coaches Association. Wolters broke the single-season strikeout record (115) and tied the mark for pitching wins in a season (10). He… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour senior softball pitcher Karley Yergler is the first Bulldog ever chosen to the Illinois Coaches Association Class 3A All-State first team. As a junior, Yergler and senior Aubrie Shore were the second and third M-S athletes ever chosen to the ICA Class 3A softball All-State second team, joining 2011 graduate Jamie… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com When Brooks Coetzee III committed to playing baseball at Notre Dame, the Mahomet-Seymour athlete wasn’t joining a program that was prominent on the national scene in the sport. When his freshman year in college (2019) ended with a 24-30 team record, it marked the fourth consecutive year that Notre Dame baseball… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Years from now, when the conversation ball gets tossed to the subject of high school sports in 2022, a prominent topic will be the Mahomet-Seymour softball team. That is the history-making and record-setting 2022 Bulldog softball team.  It’s the one that elevated a program which had never won as much as… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Softball A season of unparalleled firsts won’t end with the most coveted one – a state championship – but not even a 3-0 loss to Chicago St. Ignatius in the Class 3A state semifinals on Friday (June 10) at Peoria can put a damper on Mahomet-Seymour’s most successful softball season… Read more