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 […]
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Mahomet-Seymour takes second at Class 2A IHSA Sectional, Sims places fifth
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 […]
Bulldogs place fourth at Class 2A Sectional Meet
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 […]
Risley: “Don’t worry about things out of your control”
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 […]
Bosch and Risley weigh in on IHSA basketball decision
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com High school basketball in Illinois doesn’t have a green light, full-speed-ahead option, but there was more optimism in the state on Wednesday than there was on Tuesday. A second consecutive day of surprises greeted coaches, players, parents, school administrators and fans on Wednesday (Oct. 28). One […]
Bulldogs capture Class 2A IHSA Regional Title
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The state-ranked Bulldogs’ boys’ cross-country team lived up to expectations on Saturday (Oct. 24), dominating the 11-school Class 2A IHSA regional field at Taylorville. Mahomet-Seymour’s team title was its first in the sport since 2016. All five of M-S’ scoring runners finished among the top 15 […]
Mahomet-Seymour girls’ cross country captures 16th Regional title
By Fred Kroner Led by two top-five runners, and five teammates who ran within 47 seconds of one another, Mahomet-Seymour was the dominant team on Saturday (Oct. 24) in the Taylorville Class 2A IHSA girls’ regional cross-country meet. Overall for M-S, the regional crown was the 16th in school history […]
MSJHS boys win IESA Class 3A sectional title, Auggie Gaudio finishes first
By Fred Kroner By the time the M-S boys toed the starting line for the Thursday (Oct. 15) IESA Class 3A sectional cross-country meet at 13 Acres Park, they had extra motivation supplied by the dominating performance of the school’s girls’ team. “The boys’ team knew that they were up […]
Bulldogs take top 7 spots at IESA Class 3A sectional meet
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A perfect score in cross-country means a school had the first five finishers in a meet. On Thursday (Oct. 15), the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ cross-country program achieved perfection-plus in a five-school IESA Class 3A sectional meet at 13 Acres Park. Schools were allowed to enter up to […]
Mahomet-Seymour looking at virtual option for Veteran’s Day
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Veteran’s Day will be here soon (Wednesday, Nov. 11), but how that will look at area school districts is still somewhat unsettled. Mahomet-Seymour is changing the look of its traditional Veteran’s Day ceremony, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but St. Joseph-Ogden, Oakwood and Heritage are […]