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MSFPA Winter Workouts Registration is here! These are the fundamental skill training sessions for girls ages 6-12. We host WW a few Sundays a month from October – March. Winter Workouts are held at the Field House, which is connected to the Mahomet-Seymour High School. This is a great place for your daughter(s) to build… Read more

By Isabella Zarate “I didn’t set out to write novels.” Mahomet resident, Cherie Roberson, shares her thoughts as she anticipates the release of her debut novel, Man in the Mist. “People often ask if I dreamed of becoming an author. The short answer is ‘No,’ but the longer answer is ‘Maybe and I didn’t know… Read more

By Fred Kroner Both the seventh- and eighth-grade Mahomet-Seymour Junior High girls’ basketball teams opened their seasons on Tuesday (Sept. 13) with road victories. The seventh-graders started their junior high careers with a 34-11 triumph at Champaign Franklin. Katie Hunter scored 12 points and Audra Martin added six points. The Bulldog eighth-graders scored off the… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high boys’ cross-country team swept to victory on Saturday (Sept. 10) in the 53-team Parkside Invitational, at Maxwell Park in Normal. M-S had a composite score of 87 points. Runner-up Glenwood ended with a score of 158 points. In a field of 369 runners, six Bulldogs secured top-40 finishes, including… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high softball season came to an end on Tuesday (Sept. 13) with just its second shutout loss of the season in 18 games. Top-seeded Champaign Edison blanked the second-seeded Bulldogs, 10-0, in an IESA Class 3A regional championship game at Zahnd Park, in Champaign. Addison Schulze was the lone Bulldog… Read more

By Fred Kroner Seventh-grader Marco Casillas fired a no-hitter for the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High baseball team on Wednesday (Sept. 7) as part of a 13-0 Bulldog victory at Champaign Franklin. He helped his own cause by driving in three runs and stealing two bases. In four innings, Casillas walked three and struck out seven. Logan… Read more

By Fred Kroner Eighth-grader Sophie Park placed second on Wednesday (Sept. 7) in the IESA sectional girls’ golf tournament at Wolf Creek, in Pontiac. Park carded a 90 to capture runner-up honors in a tournament that had participants from 25 schools. M-S seventh-grader Makenna Peterka finished in a tie for 11th after firing a 105.… Read more

By Fred Kroner Five Mahomet-Seymour runners finished among the top 20 on Saturday (Sept. 10), helping the Bulldogs to a runner-up finish in the 45th-annual Lee Halberg  boys’ cross-country invitational, in Springfield at Lincoln Park. Normal Community won team honors with 68 points. M-S was just behind, with 69 points. In third place in the… Read more

By Fred Kroner In a field of 408 runners, Mahomet-Seymour’s Ava Boyd placed 20th on Saturday (Sept. 10) in the Class 2A division of First to Finish girls’ cross-country meet at Peoria’s  Detweiller Park. Boyd’s 3-mile time was 18 minutes, 51.6 seconds. Chole Bundren ran 83rd and posted a season personal best of 20:25.3. Other… Read more

By Fred Kroner In its most decisive girls’ tennis victory of the season, Mahomet-Seymour bested Kankakee Bishop McNamara, 8-1, on Thursday (Sept. 8) at the Illini Grove courts. M-S won all six singles matches in straight sets. Two Bulldogs – Claire Johnson (No. 4) and Adella Bird (No. 6) did not lose a game. Johnson… Read more