By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Six Bulldogs won both matches on Thursday as Mahomet-Seymour opened its Apollo Conference wrestling schedule with a split at Effingham. The Bulldogs (15-1 overall) defeated the host school 73-6 before losing to Mattoon 37-32 in a match decided by the final bout. In the most-recent Illinois Best […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com With balanced scoring continuing to be a bonus, the Mahomet-Seymour seventh-grade boys’ basketball team extended its winning ways with three victories by margins of nine, or fewer, points. The team’s winning streak was at 17 games before Thursday’s 40-35 loss to Champaign Jefferson. The seventh-graders are 17-3 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Grant Coleman is not a basketball player who focuses on records and individual milestones. The Mahomet-Seymour senior was not immediately aware of the significance of the game he had on Tuesday at Mattoon. He knew he had scored 44 points – that knowledge was hard to […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Explanation is not the same as justification. Sometimes they can be polar opposites and have no relationship or relevance to each other. Consider the story of a young man who was raised in a small – but growing – midwestern community. He lived in the same house […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The unbeaten Bulldogs (14-0) maintained their state ranking (21st in Class 2A) in the weekly poll released on Tuesday by The Illinois Best Weekly. M-S returns to action tonight at Effingham and then will return home on Saturday to host the Marty Williams Invitational, which will start […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mount Zion put a halt to Mahomet-Seymour’s four-game winning streak in girls’ basketball on Monday, posting a 53-40 victory over the Bulldogs in their own gym. Durbin Thomas scored a team-high 11 points and made a career-high three three-pointers. Other top point-makers for the Bulldogs were Savannah […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Senior Grant Coleman registered a school-record performance on Tuesday at Mattoon. The 6-foot-7 Coleman shattered a 48-year-old school scoring record by notching 44 points in 24 minutes against the Green Wave. M-S hammered Mattoon 73-37. Coleman was 16 of 24 from the field, including 5 for 7 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com In the battle for first place in the Apollo Conference on Friday, visiting Lincoln dealt Mahomet-Seymour its worst loss of the boys’ basketball season, 70-51. “We got down early and were not able to recover,” M-S head coach Ryan Bosch said. “I thought we could handle […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Weather conditions prevented the Bulldogs from competing in a tournament at Sycamore, but instead they joined the field at Prairie Central on Saturday and captured team honors in the 17-school event. M-S amassed 252 points to outdistance the runner-up host school, which ended with 212 points in […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs remained unbeaten in Apollo Conference action on Tuesday on the road, rallying to handle Effingham 71-67. Grant Coleman converted 13 of 15 free throws and tossed in a game-high 30 points. It was his third 30-point game of the season. “We played very inconsistent to […]
