By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Football is back. “I wasn’t sure that we would get to this point,” St. Joseph-Ogden football coach Shawn Skinner said. He has had plenty of company in the Doubters’ Club since the start of the 2020-21 school year began in August without the traditional fall sports […]
By Fred Kroner Durbin Thomas had the hot hand on Monday (March 1) as the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball team completed a come-from-behind win at home over Mount Zion. The Bulldogs swept the season series from their Apollo Conference rivals, 46-43. The Bulldogs captured a 12-point win the first time the […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Braden Finch and Luke Koller each registered double-doubles on Tuesday (March 2) as Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ basketball team completed a season sweep of Apollo Conference rival Mount Zion. The Bulldogs posted a 57-50 victory on their own home court. M-S won the previous meeting by 18 points. […]
By Fred Kroner The M-S seventh-grade boys’ basketball team extended its winning streak to five games before it came to a halt. The last win in the streak was on Monday (Feb. 22), a 30-4 triumph at Champaign Franklin. Jackson Bohm led a balanced attack with eight points. Landon Hannah […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade boys’ basketball team followed up on an overtime loss with its most dominating win of the season. M-S dropped a 39-36 decision on Monday (Feb. 22) at Champaign Franklin, but responded on Thursday (Feb. 25) with a 49-13 triumph at home over Tolono Unity. […]
By Fred Kroner The season-long unbeaten streak for the eighth-grade Mahomet-Seymour girls’ volleyball team was stopped on Thursday (Feb. 25) at Monticello. M-S dropped a 25-19, 25-23 decision. The Bulldogs fell behind 6-2 in the first set and trailed 22-14 in the second set. The Bulldogs did pull into a […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour won 9 of 12 events – including a sweep of the three relays – and outpointed Urbana on Saturday (Feb. 27) in a boys’ dual swimming meet at the Urbana Aquatic Center, 101-81. After six events, the Bulldogs trailed by a point. Two Bulldogs, Aron Varga […]
By Fred Kroner Since the second half of the Apollo Conference girls’ basketball schedule has started, there has been one consistent element for Mahomet-Seymour’s team. The opponents the Bulldogs lost to during the first round, they have beaten in the rematch. The team M-S had defeated earlier, it lost to […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour registered its most significant win of the boys’ basketball season on Friday (Feb. 26), earning a 62-61 victory at Effingham. Effingham was ranked 10th in the state in Class 3A and had won its first 10 games before the Bulldogs snapped the streak. Eli Warren […]
By Fred Kroner Freshman Owen Kearns won two individual events on Tuesday (Feb. 23), helping the Bulldogs to a runner-up finish in a three-school boys’ swimming meet at Lincoln College. Kearns was victorious in the 200-yard freestyle and the 500-yard freestyle. Springfield rolled up 134 points to capture team honors. […]
