Editor’s Note: First Published Dec. 2019. Updated Nov. 12, 2020. By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com For many, Aubrie Shore’s story started as a high school freshman at Mahomet-Seymour. As a ninth-grader in the spring of 2018, she rewrote the school record books for home runs in softball for a season (13) and […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour athletes still don’t know when the high school basketball season will start, but they learned one piece of information on Tuesday. They know when the season won’t begin. The previous Monday, Nov. 16 target date for preseason practices to get under way, as established by […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It was just an off-hand comment. Megan (Schumacher) Williams was serious when she spoke, but she was also intending to show how impressed she was with the startup business that a friend’s parents were opening in Mahomet. In December, 2018, Williams attended the open house for […]
By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour Cross-Country Club took on a new identity for its final postseason race of the year on Saturday (Nov. 7) and exceeded the expectations of the state’s experts on the sport. Competing in Chillicothe at the unofficial Class 2A girls’ cross-country state meet, the seven runners […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com They called themselves members of MSDP – standing for Mahomet-Seymour Distance Project – and on Saturday (Nov. 7), seven students from the high school completed their season-long project. Running in the unofficial state cross-country meet – unofficial because it was sponsored by ShaZam Racing and not […]
By Fred Kroner Students from Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School, representing the M-S Bulldog Club, placed ninth on Sunday in the unofficial girls’ junior high state cross-country meet, in Chillicothe. The invitation-only event was sponsored by ShaZam Racing, and was held as a one-class event. Twenty-one full teams participated. The seven […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Six students from Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School competed in the unofficial boys’ state cross-country meet on Sunday at Chillicothe and combined for a fifth-place finish in a meet with 18 teams. Since it was not an IESA event, they couldn’t officially represent the school, but were […]
By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs had one top-five runner on Saturday (Oct. 31) in a Class 2A girls’ cross-country sectional at Olney Central College. Elizabeth Sims covered the 3-mile course in 19 minutes, 15.49 seconds and placed fifth in a field with 115 participants. Sims was the first junior to […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs finished the IHSA portion of their boys’ cross-country season on Saturday (Oct. 31) in a Class 2A sectional meet which featured four of the state’s top 11-ranked teams. M-S placed fourth in the 15-school event, a finish that in previous years would have qualified […]
By FRED KRONER Fred@mahometnews.com New day. Same story. Different chapter. The ongoing saga featuring the sport of basketball, the Illinois High School Association, the Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker added more fodder to a confusing week on Thursday. A quick review: –On Tuesday, Pritzker announced […]
