Author: Fred Kroner

By Fred Kroner For the fourth consecutive year that the IESA has conducted postseason tournaments in girls’ basketball for junior high schools, Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade squad won a regional championship. The Bulldogs continued the streak on Tuesday (Nov. 23), gaining revenge for a regular-season loss to Champaign Edison by topping the top-seeded Comets 25-19 in the… Read more

By Fred Kroner Led by tournament Most Valuable Player Cayla Koerner, the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball team took first place in the season-opening Prairie Central Hawk Tournament. Koerner, a senior, amassed 68 points, 29 steals and six rebounds as the Bulldogs were unbeaten in the event. M-S dispatched host Prairie Central, 47-24, on Thursday (Nov. 18)… Read more

By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball team opened its season with back-to-back wins in the Prairie Central Hawk Tournament. The Bulldogs dispatched East Peoria, 72-12, on Monday (Nov. 15) and overpowered Chillicothe IVC, 55-25, on Tuesday (Nov. 16). Cayla Koerner tallied 15 first-quarter points in the opener and ended with a game-high 26 points.… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Within the entirety of the Mahomet-Seymour football team this year were a series of small groups. Small, but mighty groups. Powerful groups. When everything was put together, the offensive and defensive units were a cohesive group of outstanding players with more than half of them on each platoon earning some sort… Read more

By Fred Kroner Eighth-Grade Night was a major success for the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High girls’ basketball teams on Monday (Nov. 15). Playing in their regular-season home finale, the eighth-graders took care of Champaign St. Matthew, 31-10, to reach the 20-win mark for the season. Ava Yeakel tallied a game-high 17 points. Lily Bosworth contributed six… Read more

By Fred Kroner The seventh-grade Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team has posted wins in two of its last three games, including a 37-35 triumph on Tuesday (Nov. 16) at home over Charleston. Three Bulldogs reached double figures in scoring against Charleston. Paxson O’Malley netted 13 points, Bryson Tiefenthaler tossed in 12 points and Parker Henry added… Read more

By Fred Kroner Sophie Zerrouki’s dream of playing college volleyball started at the same time she began learning the sport. She was in fourth grade. In the eight years that followed, Zerrouki switched club programs and underwent a transition with a new head coach at Mahomet-Seymour High School. She also went through the recruiting process… Read more

By Fred Kroner In the final analysis, two factors were the key contributors to Mahomet-Seymour playing its final football game of a record-setting season on Saturday (Nov. 13) at Morton. The Bulldogs’ offense did some good things. But, just not enough. The Bulldogs’ defense kept the turnover battle even and did some good things. But,… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Haylie Orton – who signed a letter-of-intent on Wednesday to play volleyball at Illinois College – has discovered that it is possible for two negatives to equal one positive. The Mahomet-Seymour senior learned that is especially true if the negatives happen to occur in sequence. As a sophomore, Orton suffered a… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Fifty-five years ago, the leading receiver on the Southeast Missouri football team was Chuck Koerner. His 699 receiving yards that season (1966) was the second-best total at the university between 1962 and 1987. Koerner played his home games for the Redhawks at Houck Stadium, an 11,015-seat facility that was built in… Read more