The MSHS Speech Team finished in fourth place out of 11 schools participating in the IHSA Regional speech tournament at Normal Community West High School on Feb. 5. All participating MSHS students advanced to the final round of competition and eight events will advance to the Sectional round of competition […]
Month: February 2022
Bulldogs rally in fourth quarter to defeat Effingham
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour used a 22-12 fourth-quarter spurt on Saturday (Feb. 5) to grab an Apollo Conference boys’ basketball victory at Effingham. The Bulldogs prevailed, 54-41, after carrying a 32-29 lead into the final period. Blake Wolters led M-S with 18 points and six rebounds. Wyatt Bohm scored nine […]
Bulldogs win Regional Championship
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour won its seventh consecutive Class 2A wrestling regional championship – eight if the unofficial 2021 meet is included – on Saturday (Feb. 5) in its own gymnasium. In the eight-school event, the Bulldogs accumulated 229 points. Runner-up Normal West ended with 205 points and third-place Centennial […]
Mahomet-Seymour wins Illini Prairie Conference Invitational
By Fred Kroner Aron Varga won the 200-yard individual medley on Saturday (Feb. 5), helping Mahomet-Seymour win team honors in the seven-school Illini Prairie Conference Invitational at Stanford Olympia. His time was 2 minutes, 12.04 seconds. The Bulldogs amassed 265 points and edged Bloomington Central Catholic (260). Trailing the two […]
Local districts make decisions on requiring masks after temporary restraining order issued
Students in the Mahomet-Seymour School District had the option of wearing a mask—or not—as they came to school Monday morning. The change came on the back of a temporary restraining order granted Friday by Sangamon County Circuit Court Judge Raylene Grischow in response to a lawsuit brought to the court […]
Athlete of the Week: Quenton Rogers
Junior Quenton Rogers has stepped up for the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team during the second half of the season. At the turn of the New Year, Rogers scored a season-high 20-points and grabbed five rebounds in a win over Rantoul. Since then the 6’3” junior has left his mark in […]
Uniting Pride provides community, celebration for LBGTQIA+ community
Every human needs a place to belong. And yet, throughout all of time, groups of people have been separated from the whole, been made to feel as though they are less than, and even, many times, intimidated to be who they were born to be. The Mahomet-Seymour community felt a […]
Commentary: This snow is the chance for kids to be kids
There are two things I remember about snow as a child: one I considered good and the other I considered bad. We’ll start off with the bad. It seems it snowed more in rural Indiana in the 1980’s than it does now. The chance of a white Christmas was likely, […]
Ergonomics with Christie Clinic
By: Christine Benway, PT, MPT, CEAS, OCS Ergonomics is defined as the relationship between the human capabilities and our work demands. What this means for most of use is, how well does your body hold up to the physical stress of your job. To some, it can be as hard […]
M-S indoor track kicks off season with wins
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour swept the top two positions on Monday (Jan. 31) in an indoor non-scored season-opening boys’ track and field meet at home against Fisher. Cole Marshall was a three-event winner for the Bulldogs. He took top honors in the long jump (18 feet, 8 inches), the 60-meter […]