By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs opened their wrestling season on Saturday (Nov. 27) by splitting two dual meets at Edwardsville. Five M-S competitors were 2-0 for the day. Winning twice, without receiving a forfeit, were sophomore Tallen Pawlak, at 138 pounds, and junior Brennan Houser at 195 pounds. Pawlak defeated […]
By Fred Kroner Three games into the boys’ basketball season, the Mahomet-Seymour team had a 1-2 overall record, but was five points away from a 3-0 start. In Game 4 on Saturday (Nov.27), the Bulldogs and Belleville Althoff were locked in a 42-42 tie entering the final quarter. This time, […]
By Fred Kroner Blake Wolters scored 33 points on Monday (Nov. 22) as the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team opened the season at home with a triple-overtime 86-79 victory over Centennial. The game was part of the Lincoln Round Robin Tournament. Wolters drained three three-point shots and also pulled down a […]
By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs split two eighth-grade boys’ basketball games last week, winning at home over Charleston and losing at Normal Parkside. In its final pre-Thanksgiving game on Monday (Nov. 22), the eighth-graders rolled past Normal Chiddix at home, 55-19. On Monday (Nov. 15), Parkside prevailed, 36-26. Landyn Hannah […]
By Fred Kroner For the fourth consecutive year that the IESA has conducted postseason tournaments in girls’ basketball for junior high schools, Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade squad won a regional championship. The Bulldogs continued the streak on Tuesday (Nov. 23), gaining revenge for a regular-season loss to Champaign Edison by topping the […]
By Fred Kroner Led by tournament Most Valuable Player Cayla Koerner, the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball team took first place in the season-opening Prairie Central Hawk Tournament. Koerner, a senior, amassed 68 points, 29 steals and six rebounds as the Bulldogs were unbeaten in the event. M-S dispatched host Prairie Central, […]
By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball team opened its season with back-to-back wins in the Prairie Central Hawk Tournament. The Bulldogs dispatched East Peoria, 72-12, on Monday (Nov. 15) and overpowered Chillicothe IVC, 55-25, on Tuesday (Nov. 16). Cayla Koerner tallied 15 first-quarter points in the opener and ended […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Within the entirety of the Mahomet-Seymour football team this year were a series of small groups. Small, but mighty groups. Powerful groups. When everything was put together, the offensive and defensive units were a cohesive group of outstanding players with more than half of them on […]
By Fred Kroner Eighth-Grade Night was a major success for the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High girls’ basketball teams on Monday (Nov. 15). Playing in their regular-season home finale, the eighth-graders took care of Champaign St. Matthew, 31-10, to reach the 20-win mark for the season. Ava Yeakel tallied a game-high 17 […]
By Fred Kroner The seventh-grade Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team has posted wins in two of its last three games, including a 37-35 triumph on Tuesday (Nov. 16) at home over Charleston. Three Bulldogs reached double figures in scoring against Charleston. Paxson O’Malley netted 13 points, Bryson Tiefenthaler tossed in 12 […]
