By Fred Kroner Sophie Zerrouki’s dream of playing college volleyball started at the same time she began learning the sport. She was in fourth grade. In the eight years that followed, Zerrouki switched club programs and underwent a transition with a new head coach at Mahomet-Seymour High School. She also […]
By Fred Kroner In the final analysis, two factors were the key contributors to Mahomet-Seymour playing its final football game of a record-setting season on Saturday (Nov. 13) at Morton. The Bulldogs’ offense did some good things. But, just not enough. The Bulldogs’ defense kept the turnover battle even and […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Haylie Orton – who signed a letter-of-intent on Wednesday to play volleyball at Illinois College – has discovered that it is possible for two negatives to equal one positive. The Mahomet-Seymour senior learned that is especially true if the negatives happen to occur in sequence. As […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Fifty-five years ago, the leading receiver on the Southeast Missouri football team was Chuck Koerner. His 699 receiving yards that season (1966) was the second-best total at the university between 1962 and 1987. Koerner played his home games for the Redhawks at Houck Stadium, an 11,015-seat […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade girls’ basketball team raised its winning streak to 16 games after rolling up four road victories in a six-day span. On Tuesday (Nov. 9), M-S topped Prairie Central, 33-16. On Monday (Nov. 8), the Bulldogs overpowered Monticello, 36-9. Lily Bosworth put up 10 points against […]
By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour seventh-grade boys’ basketball team won its own round-robin tournament to start the season, before suffering a loss in their fourth game. M-S opened with a 38-36 decision over Mount Zion on Tuesday (Nov. 2), sparked by a team-high 23 points from Paxson O’Malley. Eli Dyer […]
By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour girls’ cross-country team finished 24th on Saturday (Nov. 6) in the 28-school girls’ Class 2A IHSA cross-country state meet at Detweiller Park, in Peoria. Sophomore Ava Boyd and junior Callie Jansen were the top Bulldog finishers. Boyd ran the 3-mile course in a personal-best 18 […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s top five runners had a split of 56.43 seconds on Saturday (Nov. 6), helping the Bulldogs to an eighth-place finish in the 28-school boys’ Class 2A IHSA state cross-country meet at Detweiller Park, in Peoria. Senior Kyle Nofziger was the team leader, covering the 3-mile course […]
By Fred Kroner The swim season ended for the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ team on Saturday (Nov. 6) at the Urbana Sectional, but the Bulldogs gave their best. In a 22-school meet, M-S had entries in 11 events and in nine of those events, the individuals or relays established season-best times. The […]
By Fred Kroner The spectacular plays are the ones the fans remember and the ones that compel them to cheer wildly. A 92-yard kickoff return to start the game and an 82-yard interception return early in the second half were two of the important crowd-pleasing touchdowns on Saturday (Nov. 6) […]
