Author: Fred Kroner

By Fred Kroner Henry McMurry was the top individual finisher for the Mahomet-Seymour eighth-grade boys’ track and field team on Saturday (April 30) at the 12-team Mount Zion Invitational. He ran the 1,600-meter race in 5 minutes, 13.81 seconds and placed second. In the same race, Bulldog teammate Ethan Peterka was third (5:14.69). One M-S… Read more

By Fred Kroner One eighth-grader and two seventh-graders won individual events for the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ track and field team on Saturday (April 30) at Mount Zion. Madalyn Marx was dominant in the eighth-grade 400 meters, winning by 1.79 seconds. Her time was 1 minute, 3.46 seconds. Seventh-graders who won events were Ayla Finfrock and Hannah… Read more

By Fred Kroner Playing a match on Wednesday (May 4), for the third day in a row, the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ soccer team wrapped up an unbeaten season against Apollo Conference foes by blitzing Taylorville, 10-0, at Middletown Field. In the team’s Senior Night farewell, the 10 goals – and all 10 assists – were spread… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour raised its baseball winning streak to six games on Wednesday (May 4), shutting out Maroa-Forsyth, 7-0, on the Trojans’ home field. Carter Johnson pitched a masterful four-hitter in his six-inning stint, walking two and striking out five. Evan Ruzich worked a hitless seventh inning and notched two strikeouts. The pitchers were… Read more

By Fred Kroner Jonah Singer’s second-place finish in the 1,600-meter race on Friday (April 29) was the top performance for the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ track and field team at the Spartan Classic, in St. Joseph. Singer’s time was 4 minutes, 31.32 seconds. In the same race, Bulldog teammate Kyle Nofziger took seventh in 4:47.59. Nofziger was… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour fielded the winning 3,200-meter relay in the Friday (April 29) Urbana girls’ track and field invitational. Bulldogs Ava Boyd, Chloe Bundren, Elizabeth Sims and Chloe Allen finished in a time of 10 minutes, 20.10 seconds. Boyd and Bundren were each the runner-up in one individual event.  Boyd took second in the… Read more

By Fred Kroner Home runs by Carter Selk and Carter Johnson powered Mahomet-Seymour to a 6-5 win at home over Peru St. Bede on Saturday (April 30) in a Strikeout for Cancer Benefit for Ty Andracke, the 7-year-old son of long-time M-S coach Eric Andracke. Selk slugged a two-run homer in the third inning to… Read more

By Fred Kroner Karley Yergler pitched a three-hit shutout and struck out 17 batters on Thursday (April 28) as the Mahomet-Seymour softball team escaped with a 1-0 win on the road at St. Joseph-Ogden. The win was the 14th of the season for Yergler. She has reached double figures in strikeouts in 12 games. M-S… Read more

By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs placed second on Tuesday (April 26) in a six-school girls’ track and field meet in Mahomet. Mount Zion was first (207 points). M-S registered 116 points. M-S had three event winners. Sophomore Ava Boyd led a trio of Bulldogs to the top three spots in the 800 meters (2 minutes,… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour won nine relay events on Tuesday (April 26) and cruised to team honors in the six-school Pontiac Relays. M-S collected 198 points. Runner-up Pontiac ended with 172 ½ points.  The Bulldogs won three varsity relays, including one that is not contested in most meets, a 4,000-meter distance medley that starts with… Read more