Author: Fred Kroner

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s state-ranked Bulldogs were the dominant team in the Saturday (Oct. 30) Decatur IHSA Class 2A boys’ cross-country sectional meet at Hickory Point Golf Course. With its top five runners completing the 3-mile course within 57 seconds of one another, coach Neal Garrison’s Bulldogs zipped to their seventh team sectional championship in… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s football Bulldogs get to play one more home game. At least. The immediate reward for a 50-8 thrashing of Jacksonville on Saturday (Oct. 30) at Frank Dutton Field in a first-round Class 5A IHSA playoff game was the chance to return home. M-S (10-0) will host Troy Triad (8-2) in the… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour swept past Centennial, 25-15, 25-12, on Tuesday (Oct. 26) in a Class 3A IHSA regional volleyball semifinal match in Mahomet. The victory was the 19th in a row for the Bulldogs. Avery Allen garnered 12 kills. Caylee Folken had 12 assists. Libby Bodine finished with 12 digs. Grace Rodebaugh contributed four… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A popular question has been swirling around Mahomet faster than the autumn leaves in recent weeks. Does the high school football team have the talent to win a state championship? To me, that is not the real question, but I will address that one first and then tackle what I perceive… Read more

By Fred Kroner Both the seventh-grade and eighth-grade girls’ basketball teams at Mahomet-Seymour improved their season records to 14-1 with victories on consecutive days to start the week. On Monday (Oct. 25), M-S prevailed twice at Rantoul Eater and followed that up on Tuesday (Oct. 26) by winning two more games at home over Mattoon.… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour junior Eden Oelze broke the school record in the 500-yard freestyle on Saturday (Oct. 23) in a three-school girls’ swimming meet between Apollo Conference schools at Lincoln College. Oelze’s winning time was 5 minutes, 59.80 seconds. She was also triumphant in the100-yard butterfly. Oelze was also a member of two victorious… Read more

By Fred Kroner Three Mahomet-Seymour volleyball juniors landed spots on the all-tournament team after the Bulldogs won their own 16-team Mahomet-Seymour Invitational on Saturday (Oct. 23). Headlining the 12-player honor team were Bulldogs Libby Bodine, Caylee Folken and Grace Rodebaugh. M-S won all five of its matches to tie the school record for wins in… Read more

By Fred Kroner With three of the top five runners, Mahomet-Seymour outdistanced the field at Olney Central College on Saturday (Oct. 23) to win its eighth boys’ Class 2A regional cross-country title in the past 11 years. On a day when all of the Bulldog runners were seniors, the team leaders were Joseph Scheele, Kyle… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour sophomore Ava Boyd won a regional cross-country championship on Saturday in a photo finish at the Olney girls’ Class 2A meet. Boyd and Centennial sophomore Brooklynn Sweikar each ran the 3-mile course at Olney Central College in 19 minutes, 13.78 seconds. The winner was determined by going to the thousands of… Read more

By Fred Kroner It took 100 years – plus another 28 days – for a football team from Mahomet to gain revenge on the gridiron athletes from Bloomington High School. Until the schools met on Friday (Oct. 23) in Mahomet, the only football game against the two non-conference opponents was played on Sept. 24, 1921… Read more