By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs reached the 20-win mark on Tuesday (Jan. 18) by shutting out Charleston, 82-0, and Lincoln, 62-12, in Apollo Conference dual meets at Mattoon. M-S is 20-3 overall and 3-0 in the Apollo. Bulldog wrestlers had a cumulative 25-3 record for the night, winning 12 bouts […]
Author: Fred Kroner
Last-second shot clinches win for Mahomet-Seymour
By Fred Kroner Byron Lynch made a tie-breaking three-point shot with 3.9 seconds remaining on Tuesday (Jan. 18) as Mahomet-Seymour won a non-conference boys’ basketball game at home over Washington, 54-51. Lynch hit a team-high 13 points. M-S and Washington were tied, 36-36, after three quarters and were deadlocked, 51-51, […]
M-SJHS volleyball rebounds to defeat Normal Chiddix
By Fred Kroner Both the Mahomet-Seymour seventh-and eighth-grade volleyball teams rebounded from a loss at home to Normal Kingsley on Wednesday (Jan. 12) with victories at home against Normal Chiddix on Thursday (Jan 13). The seventh-graders topped Chiddix, 25-16, 25-22, a day after losing to Kingsley, 25-12, 25-17. The eighth-graders, […]
Mattoon tops Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s short-handed Bulldogs (minus three players who have started or played significant minutes) suffered a 55-45 Apollo Conference boys’ basketball loss at Mattoon on Thursday (Jan. 13). Blake Wolters made a team-high 13 points and grabbed six rebounds. He also had three assists. Jake Waldinger tallied a […]
M-S snaps two-game losing streak with win over Sacred Heart
By Fred Kroner Ivie Juarez and Cayla Koerner each scored 14 points on Thursday (Jan. 13) as the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball team snapped a two-game losing streak with a 53-37 non-conference victory at home over Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin. Juarez also pulled down a team-high eight rebounds. M-S jumped into a […]
Bulldogs win every event at Olympia meet
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour won every event on Thursday (Jan. 13) at Stanford Olympia and swept a meet against two opponents. M-S amassed 167 points. Olympia had 47 points and Lincoln finished with 16 points. Three Bulldogs captured wins in two individual events: Aron Varga (200-yard individual medley and 500-yard […]
Mahomet-Seymour places second at Marty Williams Invitational
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s wrestling team placed second on Saturday (Jan. 15) in its own 24-school Marty Williams Invitational. The Bulldogs totaled 450 ½ points and were exactly one point behind meet champion Naperville Central. Three M-S grapplers won their individual weight classes. Junior Caden Hatton won three of his […]
Mattoon tops Mahomet-Seymour
By Fred Kroner For the third time in the last four games, the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball team played Mattoon. For the third time in the last four games, M-S lost to the Green Wave. The Tuesday (Jan. 11) game at Mahomet was settled in favor of Mattoon, 45-30. The Bulldogs […]
Bulldog swimming places ninth at Centennial Invitational
By Fred Kroner Max Katz won the diving competition and Aron Varga was the runner-up in the 100-yard breaststroke on Saturday (Jan. 8), leading the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ swimming team to a ninth-place finish in the 13-school Centennial Invitational. Varga also placed fourth in the 200-yard individual medley. Katz was 16th […]
M-S wrestling finishes fourth at Bloomington Invitational
By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs opened their 2022 wrestling season on Saturday (Jan. 8), finishing fourth in the 13-school Bloomington Invitational. First-place Homer had 302 ½ points. The Bulldogs ended with 203 points. Four M-S competitors advanced into championship matches in their weight classes. The school had two champions. At […]