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Mahomet-Seymour wins Bulldog Invitational
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.…
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Bode and Moen lead M-SJHS to sectional win
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…
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Bulldog end sectional race with team honors
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.…
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Commentary: Kroner looks back on career as he is inducted into National Wrestling Hall of Fame
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.…
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Mitchems open Harvest Valley Veterinary Services
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…
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Andy Warner to National Wrestling Hall of Fame
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Andy Warner didn’t feel like he had a lot of athletic options as he entered Champaign Central High School in the fall of 1968. “I was not tall enough for basketball and I was too small for football,” Warner said. One option was enough. He chose a sport that was suitable…
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M-S tennis wins five singles matches against STM
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ tennis team won five singles matches in straight sets on Thursday (Oct. 6) and edged St. Thomas More, 5-4, in its regular-season finale at the Illini Grove courts. At No. 2 singles, Emily Young dropped Natalia Andino-Guerra, 6-3, 6-1. Young has won her last three matches. At No. 3 singles,…
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Mahomet-Seymour soccer loses conference match
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ soccer team will end the season with six consecutive matches away from home. Four of those matches will be played this week. The second road trip in the series was on Thursday (Oct. 6) and resulted in the Bulldogs losing a 1-0 decision at Mount Zion to drop to 8-1-1…
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Bulldogs place 10th at Metamora Invitational
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ cross-country team finished in 10th place on Saturday (Oct. 8) in the 24-school Metamora Runnin’ Red Invitational. Team-leader Ava Boyd ended in 22nd place individually with a 2.94-mile time of 18 minutes and 35.20 seconds in a race with 230 competitors. Boyd was one of eight Bulldogs who logged their…
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Bulldogs place 8th at Metamora Invitational
By Fred Kroner Led by sophomore Blake Dillman, the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ cross-country team placed eighth on Saturday (Oct. 8) in the 22-school Metamora Runnin’ Red Invitational. Dillman crossed the finish line in 16 minutes, 18.40 seconds for a 2.94-mile course. The Bulldogs ran in a tight pack with the team’s top eight runners finishing within…