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) […]
By Fred Kroner Eden Oelze and Olivia McMurry each won an individual event and helped a relay to victory on Saturday (Oct. 30) as the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ swimming team placed second in a three-school meet at Charleston. Oelze won the 100-yard butterfly, stopping the clock in 1 minute 6.69 seconds. […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high girls’ basketball teams registered a sweep on Monday (Nov. 1) at Normal Parkside to improve their overall records to 15-1. The seventh-grade Bulldogs handled the Parkside Pythons, 30-10, with Courtney Fonte hitting 12 points and Hannah Martin contributing seven points. The eighth-grade Bulldogs held […]
