By Fred Kroner Cayla Koerner’s buzzer-beater capped Mahomet-Seymour’s comeback from a 15-point halftime deficit on Monday (Feb. 22) as the Bulldogs edged visiting Mattoon 63-62 in an Apollo Conference girls’ basketball contest. Mattoon, which had beaten M-S by seven points earlier this month, built a 35-20 halftime cushion in the […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Eli Warren scored seven of his team-high 18 points in overtime on Wednesday (Feb. 24) as the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team pulled away from Taylorville, 48-42, for an Apollo Conference win at home. The teams were tied 40-40 after regulation. Warren also had a team-high five […]
Trey Peters tallied a team-high 16 points on Wednesday (Feb. 10) as the Bulldogs overpowered Champaign Edison in Mahomet, 44-26. Luke Dyer scored 13 points. “We were able to create turnovers and play pretty solid defense throughout the game,” coach Doug Ingold said. On Thursday (Feb. 18), Dyer sparked the […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high girls’ volleyball teams each needed three sets to secure wins on Wednesday (Feb. 17) at Clinton. The seventh-grade team rebounded from a loss in its previous match by putting away the Maroons, 25-20, 22-25, 25-23. Ava Hewitt’s seven-point run from the service line […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Megan Montgomery doesn’t exist; not in the traditional sense of someone who possesses an identification confirming her name and address. And yet, the Mahomet resident is very real. The ultimate proof comes in the forms of the readers of her recently-published novel, “WELL…THAT WAS AWKWARD.” Megan […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ swimming team won a triangular meet on Thursday (Feb. 18) to improve their season record to 3-1. M-S won five individual events and two relays en route to the team triumph. M-S amassed 127 points, Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin had 116 points and Lincoln totaled 36. […]
By Fred Kroner Cayla Koerner and Savannah Orgeron combined for 34 points on Thursday (Feb. 18) at Lincoln, but the other Mahomet-Seymour players were limited to four points as the Railsplitters captured a 48-38 victory. The teams were tied, 8-8, after one quarter. By halftime, Lincoln had created a 21-14 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball Sophomore Blake Wolters came off the bench on Friday (Feb. 19) to score a team-high 14 points and help Mahomet-Seymour to a 60-55 boys’ basketball upset at 11th-ranked (Class 3A) Lincoln. Wolters netted 4 of 5 three-point shots that he attempted. Zach Carr […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The success stories are what keep Jackie Butler going. Her involvement with It Takes a Village began in 2012, when she and her daughter, Heather Denam, founded the Mahomet-based organization to help those in need. “We had hair bows recently,” Butler said. “A woman came in […]
By Fred Kroner Unbeaten Effingham (7-0) broke away from a 33-33 halftime deadlock on Wednesday (Feb. 17) to hand the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team a 69-62 Apollo Conference loss at home. Effingham led 19-14 after one stanza before the Bulldogs pulled into a halftime tie with a late 8-0 run […]
