Author: Fred Kroner

By Fred Kroner Playing on back-to-back days, the Mahomet-Seymour baseball team earned back-to-back wins and captured a Class 3A regional championship. The Bulldogs didn’t allow a run in their first two postseason games after shutting out Bloomington,10-0, in the Saturday (May 28) title game on the Bulldogs’ field. Blake Wolters (8-0) continued his dominant junior… Read more

By Fred Kroner Two of Mahomet-Seymour’s entries in the IHSA boys’ track and field state meet, at Charleston, qualified for the finals. Junior discus-thrower Robert Byron had the fourth-best qualifying mark in his specialty after a toss of 157 feet, 9 inches in the prelims on Friday (May 27). He was 8 feet, 6 inches… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Meredith Johnson-Monfort lettered in soccer four years while attending Mahomet-Seymour High school. At the University of Illinois, Johnson-Monfort earned three varsity letters in soccer. As a high school athlete, she set the (since-broken) school record for goals scored in a season and in a career. As a college athlete, Johnson-Monfort tallied… Read more

By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour girls’ soccer team scored the first and the last goals in the Tuesday (May 24) Class 2A sectional semifinal match against Rochester at Chatham Glenwood. But Rochester scored more goals in between and salvaged a 3-2 triumph, putting an end to the Bulldogs’ season. M-S took the early lead on… Read more

By Fred Kroner Karley Yergler’s third no-hitter of the season – and her second against Rantoul – propelled the Mahomet-Seymour softball team into the Class 3A regional finals in a Wednesday (May 25) semifinal game where the Bulldogs tied their single-season record for wins. Yergler and the Bulldogs knocked off Rantoul 15-0 at home for… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s Auggie Gaudio and the 800-meter relay won state medals in the IESA boys’ eighth-grade state track and field meet, which ended on Saturday (May 21) at the east Side Centre, in East Peoria. Gaudio ran fourth in the 1,600 meters. His time was 4 minutes, 46.68 seconds. The 800-meter relay wound… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade girls’ 1,600-meter relay team finished second on Saturday (May 21) in the IESA track and field state meet at the East Side Centre, in East Peoria. The foursome of Ayla Finfrock, Emma Busch, Anniston Huff and Hannah Martin was timed in 4 minutes, 28.20 seconds. First-place Chatham Glenwood’s winning time… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour zipped into a 6-0 halftime lead in a Saturday (May 21) Class 2A regional championship girls’ soccer match at Bloomington. The quick getaway made all the difference as most of the second half against Bloomington was canceled by inclement weather, making the 6-0 margin the final score. Cayla Koerner hit four… Read more

By Fred Kroner Abbey Akers pitched Mahomet-Seymour to victory on Thursday (May 19) in the regular-season finale, a 6-2 triumph at home over Decatur MacArthur. In seven innings, Akers yielded four hits, walked one and struck out a season-high10 batters.  Chloe Truax and Jenna Wade each had two hits for M-S. Both of Wade’s hits… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s first-year boys’ tennis program won a match in singles and one in doubles on Friday (May 20) in the Danville Class1A Sectional. In singles, M-S’ Connor Hirsbrunner opened the postseason with a 6-4, 7-5 decision over Liam Underwood, from Schlarman Academy. Hirsbrunner was eliminated in the second round by Brandon Hood,… Read more