By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs placed second on Saturday (Oct. 17) in a seven-school girls’ cross-country meet at Monticello’s Lodge Park that featured five schools that were ranked last week in the milesplit.com state poll. Meet champion Monticello (ranked first in Class 1A) had a composite score of 31 points. […]
Author: Fred Kroner
Bulldog rise to the challenge in Monticello
By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs placed second on Saturday (Oct. 17) in an elite seven-school boys’ cross-country meet at Lodge Park, in Monticello. Five schools were state-ranked last week in the milesplit.com poll. The team champion was St. Joseph-Ogden (ranked 12th in Class 1A) with 47 points. M-S (ranked 11th […]
Mahomet-Seymour Tennis season comes to an end, pick up final win at GCMS
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Both of Mahomet-Seymour’s doubles teams finished 1-1 in the Class 1A Champaign Central girls’ tennis sectional that ended on Saturday (Oct. 17) at the Lindsay Courts and were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Gwen Tee and Avery Sanborn opened the postseason with a comeback 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 […]
Risley: “Everyone is just happy to be on the court and to see one another”
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com One segment of the high school athletic scene has not changed significantly in the seven months since COVID-19 caused the sporting landscape to be overhauled. When given a chance, the teen-aged athletes are still making memories. Throughout the state, sports which were not considered in-season this […]
Anna Lagacy takes first in 100-yard breaststroke at Urbana
By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs dropped an 85-55 decision at Urbana on Wednesday (Oct. 14) in their final dual meet of the regular season. Junior Anna Lagacy was the lone M-S swimmer to win an individual event. She prevailed in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1 minute, 27.43 […]
Bulldog Tennis tops Lincoln and Charleston
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour won all three doubles matches on Tuesday (Oct. 13) to post a 6-3 dual-meet triumph at Lincoln. Amalie Fried and Emma Clements were victorious at No. 1 doubles, 6-1, 6-2. Also winning in straight sets was the No. 3 duo of Molly Fried and Jadyn Hannah, […]
Mahomet-Seymour boys’ cross country wins Apollo Conference meet
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Led by five all-conference performers, Mahomet-Seymour’s state-ranked boys’ cross-country team reigned supreme on Tuesday (Oct. 13) in the Apollo Conference meet at Eastern Illinois University, in Charleston. M-S, ranked 11th in the most recent milesplit.com state poll (released on Wednesday, Oct. 14), had a five-runner composite […]
Mahomet-Seymour Junior High Intrasquad competes in “Spectacular” at 13 Acres
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com More than six dozen Mahomet-Seymour junior high cross-country runners participated in the season-ending Intrasquad Spectacular on Tuesday (Oct. 6) at 13 Acres Park. It was a necessary event for a squad that featured more than 140 participants this season between the boy’ and girls’ programs. “Early […]
After rare diagnoses, Make-A-Wish gives Bailey Nunn hope
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The first telltale sign was an insatiable thirst for water. When Mahomet teen-ager Bailey Nunn’s craving didn’t pass, his mom scheduled an appointment with his pediatrician. “It was very extreme,” Tonya Nunn said. “He would wake up multiple times through the night because he was so […]
McCoy, Ross, Lagacy, Minick and Heaton pick up wins in LeRoy
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Sophomore Kiera McCoy won two events on Friday (Oct. 9), leading Mahomet-Seymour to an 89-43 dual-meet victory over St. Thomas More in a girls’ swimming meet at the LeRoy Replex. McCoy was triumphant in the 200-yard individual medley as well as the 100-yard butterfly. She also […]