Category: Local

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ soccer team opened its week with back-to-back road victories. On Monday (Oct. 10), the Bulldogs secured a 2-1 win at Normal Community. On Tuesday (Oct. 11), M-S handled Effingham, 9-0, to maintain their slender lead in the Apollo Conference. Against Normal, Nolan Wheeler’s team-best 23rd goal snapped a 1-1 second-half… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ cross-country team finished third in the seven-school Apollo Conference girls’ cross-country meet at Mattoon’s Lake Land College on Tuesday (Oct. 11). Meet champion Mount Zion totaled 32 points. Runner-up Effingham ended with 60 points and M-S was third with 70 points. The Bulldogs’ leaders in the 3-mile race were junior… Read more

By Fred Kroner Five Mahomet-Seymour runners placed among the top 12 on Tuesday (Oct. 11) as the Bulldogs ran away with team honors in the boys’ Apollo Conference cross-country meet at Mattoon’s Lake Land College. The composite score for M-S in the seven-school event was 49 points. Runner-up Lincoln had 66 points and third-place Taylorville… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahomet.news.com Mike Peters and Josh Anderson teamed up to win the two-day Better Ball Tournament on Sunday (Oct. 9) at Lake of the Woods. They combined for rounds of 65 and 67, for a 132. Two other duos also carded 132s, but Peters and Anderson prevailed in a one-hole playoff. Finishing tied… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahomet.news.com Two golfers recorded hole-in-ones on consecutive days on the 17th hole at Lake of the Woods. Both occurred during the facility’s weekend Better Ball Tournament. On Saturday (Oct. 8), George Epley aced the hole, which played at 169 yards. His feat was witnessed by Miles Epley, John Wagner and Matt Johnson.… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade girls’ basketball team captured the title in its own four-team round-robin tournament on Friday (Oct. 7), handing Tolono Unity a 41-16 loss. Courtney Fonte and Hannah Martin each netted eight points to lead the Bulldogs. Payton Steers added a season-high seven points. M-S continued its winning ways on Tuesday (Oct.… Read more

By Fred Kroner Tate Bode and Cody Moen placed among the top six runners individually on Saturday (Oct. 8) in the IESA Class 3A boys’ cross-country sectional at Lake of the Woods, leading Mahomet-Seymour to the team championship in the 17-school race. Bode was the individual runner-up in the 116-runner, 2-mile race, completing the course… Read more

By Fred Kroner With all five scoring runners finishing among the top one-fourth of the runners in the IESA Class 3A girls’ cross-country sectional at Lake of the Woods on Saturday (Oct. 8), Mahomet-Seymour ran away with team honors in the 15-school race. The sectional champion Bulldogs had a composite team score of 60 points.… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com My introduction to wrestling occurred in my sophomore year of high school. Our P.E. coach, Randy Bowman, did four-week units on a variety of activities. In the late fall of 1970, he conducted a unit on wrestling. This was probably easy for him as he was the Mahomet-Seymour varsity wrestling coach.… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Once upon a time (where have you heard that before?) there was a young man and a young lass whose fairy tale dreams really did come true. Twice. Meet Mahomet’s Kyle and Kirby Mitchem. They are husband and wife as well as the new owners of what was previously known as… Read more