By Fred Kroner Shooting woes proved costly for the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team on Tuesday (March 9) in a 63-36 Apollo Conference loss to Teutopolis. The Bulldogs made just 6 of 18 free throws (33 percent) and only 2 of 14 three-point attempts (14.3 percent). Beyond that, M-S coach Ryan […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Sam Henrichs and Nate Lundstrom each had hat tricks on Tuesday (March 9) as Mahomet-Seymour’s defending Apollo Conference boys’ soccer champions opened the 2021 season at home with a 9-0 shutout over the newest Apollo member, Teutopolis. M-S led at halftime 7-0. Besides the three goals, […]
By Fred Kroner The top-seeded Bulldogs (11-1) will end a 10-day layoff on Saturday (March 13) in the semifinals of a Class 4A IESA regional tournament which it will host. M-S will open tournament play against either fourth-seeded Charleston or fifth-seeded Mattoon, who play in a Friday (March 12) quarterfinal […]
By Fred Kroner The top-seeded Bulldogs opened the seventh-grade Class 4A IESA regional tournament at home on Monday against Charleston – the same team they had played two days earlier in the regular-season finale. M-S suffered no letdowns and defeated four-seeded Charleston in straight sets, 25-21, 25-10. In the opening […]
By Fred Kroner The M-S seventh-grader boys’ basketball team raised its winning streak to four with a series of recent wins. The Bulldogs started the month with a 42-33 conquest at Rantoul on Monday (March 1). Cade Ashby hit a team-high 13 points. Jackson Bohm and Nolan Franz each contributed […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs had their top team scoring output of the season on Thursday (March 4), overpowering Paris Crestwood 63-5 in the M-S gymnasium. The home team put up 19 first-quarter points. The previous team high for points in a game was 50. Gavin Hammerschmidt scored a […]
By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team concluded a 3-0 week with wins on successive nights. On Friday (March 5), won at Taylorville, 63-39, and on Saturday (March 6), M-S won at home over Mattoon, 67-55. When the Bulldogs previously played those opponents, they had beaten Taylorville in overtime […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Freshman Aron Varga and junior Max Katz each won two individual events and helped two relays emerge victorious on Saturday (March 6) as Mahomet-Seymour claimed team honors in the unofficial Apollo Conference boys’ swimming meet at the Mattoon YMCA. M-S amassed 119 points. Runner-up Charleston had […]
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 […]
