Author: Fred Kroner

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A perfect score in cross-country means a school had the first five finishers in a meet. On Thursday (Oct. 15), the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ cross-country program achieved perfection-plus in a five-school IESA Class 3A sectional meet at 13 Acres Park. Schools were allowed to enter up to seven individuals in the lone… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Veteran’s Day will be here soon (Wednesday, Nov. 11), but how that will look at area school districts is still somewhat unsettled. Mahomet-Seymour is changing the look of its traditional Veteran’s Day ceremony, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but St. Joseph-Ogden, Oakwood and Heritage are still seeing what will be… Read more

By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs placed second on Saturday (Oct. 17) in a seven-school girls’ cross-country meet at Monticello’s Lodge Park that featured five schools that were ranked last week in the milesplit.com state poll. Meet champion Monticello (ranked first in Class 1A) had a composite score of 31 points. M-S (ranked 25th in Class… Read more

By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs placed second on Saturday (Oct. 17) in an elite seven-school boys’ cross-country meet at Lodge Park, in Monticello. Five schools were state-ranked last week in the milesplit.com poll. The team champion was St. Joseph-Ogden (ranked 12th in Class 1A) with 47 points. M-S (ranked 11th in Class 2A) was next… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Both of Mahomet-Seymour’s doubles teams finished 1-1 in the Class 1A Champaign Central girls’ tennis sectional that ended on Saturday (Oct. 17) at the Lindsay Courts and were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Gwen Tee and Avery Sanborn opened the postseason with a comeback 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 win over at entry from… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com One segment of the high school athletic scene has not changed significantly in the seven months since COVID-19 caused the sporting landscape to be overhauled. When given a chance, the teen-aged athletes are still making memories. Throughout the state, sports which were not considered in-season this fall have been allowed to… Read more

By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs dropped an 85-55 decision at Urbana on Wednesday (Oct. 14) in their final dual meet of the regular season. Junior Anna Lagacy was the lone M-S swimmer to win an individual event. She prevailed in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1 minute, 27.43 seconds. The runner-up was timed… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour won all three doubles matches on Tuesday (Oct. 13) to post a 6-3 dual-meet triumph at Lincoln. Amalie Fried and Emma Clements were victorious at No. 1 doubles, 6-1, 6-2. Also winning in straight sets was the No. 3 duo of Molly Fried and Jadyn Hannah, 6-4, 6-3. At No. 2… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Led by five all-conference performers, Mahomet-Seymour’s state-ranked boys’ cross-country team reigned supreme on Tuesday (Oct. 13) in the Apollo Conference meet at Eastern Illinois University, in Charleston. M-S, ranked 11th in the most recent milesplit.com state poll (released on Wednesday, Oct. 14), had a five-runner composite score of 26 points to… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com More than six dozen Mahomet-Seymour junior high cross-country runners participated in the season-ending Intrasquad Spectacular on Tuesday (Oct. 6) at 13 Acres Park. It was a necessary event for a squad that featured more than 140 participants this season between the boy’ and girls’ programs. “Early in the season, the coaches… Read more