Author: Fred Kroner

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com They called themselves members of MSDP – standing for Mahomet-Seymour Distance Project – and on Saturday (Nov. 7), seven students from the high school completed their season-long project. Running in the unofficial state cross-country meet – unofficial because it was sponsored by ShaZam Racing and not the IHSA – MSDP combined… Read more

By Fred Kroner Students from Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School, representing the M-S Bulldog Club, placed ninth on Sunday in the unofficial girls’ junior high state cross-country meet, in Chillicothe. The invitation-only event was sponsored by ShaZam Racing, and was held as a one-class event. Twenty-one full teams participated. The seven runners from the M-S Bulldog… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Six students from Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School competed in the unofficial boys’ state cross-country meet on Sunday at Chillicothe and combined for a fifth-place finish in a meet with 18 teams. Since it was not an IESA event, they couldn’t officially represent the school, but were running as members of the… Read more

By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs had one top-five runner on Saturday (Oct. 31) in a Class 2A girls’ cross-country sectional at Olney Central College. Elizabeth Sims covered the 3-mile course in 19 minutes, 15.49 seconds and placed fifth in a field with 115 participants. Sims was the first junior to cross the finish line and… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs finished the IHSA portion of their boys’ cross-country season on Saturday (Oct. 31) in a Class 2A sectional meet which featured four of the state’s top 11-ranked teams. M-S placed fourth in the 15-school event, a finish that in previous years would have qualified the school for the IHSA… Read more

By FRED KRONER Fred@mahometnews.com New day. Same story. Different chapter. The ongoing saga featuring the sport of basketball, the Illinois High School Association, the Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker added more fodder to a confusing week on Thursday. A quick review: –On Tuesday, Pritzker announced that high school basketball had… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com High school basketball in Illinois doesn’t have a green light, full-speed-ahead option, but there was more optimism in the state on Wednesday than there was on Tuesday. A second consecutive day of surprises greeted coaches, players, parents, school administrators and fans on Wednesday (Oct. 28). One day after Illinois governor J.B.… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The state-ranked Bulldogs’ boys’ cross-country team lived up to expectations on Saturday (Oct. 24), dominating the 11-school Class 2A IHSA regional field at Taylorville. Mahomet-Seymour’s team title was its first in the sport since 2016. All five of M-S’ scoring runners finished among the top 15 individuals in the 76-runner regional… Read more

By Fred Kroner Led by two top-five runners, and five teammates who ran within 47 seconds of one another, Mahomet-Seymour was the dominant team on Saturday (Oct. 24) in the Taylorville Class 2A IHSA girls’ regional cross-country meet. Overall for M-S, the regional crown was the 16th in school history for the girls’ cross-country program.… Read more

By Fred Kroner By the time the M-S boys toed the starting line for the Thursday (Oct. 15) IESA Class 3A sectional cross-country meet at 13 Acres Park, they had extra motivation supplied by the dominating performance of the school’s girls’ team. “The boys’ team knew that they were up for a great race after… Read more