By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Not all 6-foot-7 high school basketball players are created equally. Some are most comfortable – or only comfortable – with their back to the basket and playing in the low post. Others are adept on the perimeter, agile enough to handle the ball and adequate enough to […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade girls’ basketball team concluded the regular season at home on Monday by overpowering Champaign St. Matthew 42-13. It was the 13th consecutive victory for the seventh-graders, who were led by Selah Campion with nine points. Teammates Kylie Waldinger and Ellie Dallas each scored six points. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Nate McFall still has half of his high school baseball career ahead of him. And yet, the Mahomet-Seymour junior catcher has a good idea of where he’ll spend the four years following his high school graduation in 2021. McFall committed to Division I Western Carolina, in Cullowhee, […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ swimming team had a record-breaking end to a record-breaking season. The Bulldogs placed fifth in Saturday’s Urbana Sectional and broke school records in four events. No M-S competitors met the times needed to qualify for state. Two of the individual marks were established by freshman […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade boys’ basketball team opened the season by winning its own tournament last week. The Bulldogs opened with a 39-23 victory over Mount Zion on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Jack Gallier with 13 points and Braden Pagel with 12 points were the top M-S scorers. “Great game […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com With an all-underclassman lineup – including four sophomores – Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ cross-country team had a 58-second split among its top five runners and placed 11th in Saturday’s Class 2A state meet at Peoria’s Detweiler Park. The Bulldogs weren’t on the state’s radar when the season started, […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Olivia McMurry won two individual events and was part of one winning relay on Wednesday as Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ swimming team celebrated Senior Night by winning a triangular meet at Stanford Olympia. M-S totaled 141 points. Runner-up Olympia had 124 points and third-place Jacksonville Routt ended with 61 […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Maybe it will be next week. Perhaps it will be next month. It might not even be that soon, but there will assuredly come a time when Mahomet-Seymour’s varsity volleyball players look back on a season of firsts, a lengthy list of noteworthy achievements and smile about […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade girls’ basketball team reeled off its 11th consecutive victory on Monday, Nov. 4, defeating Normal Parkside 34-14. Selah Campion led M-S with 10 points. Kylie Waldinger and Ellie Dallas chipped in with nine and seven points, respectively. During its winning streak, M-S (16-2) is allowing […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Girls’ swimming M-S finished second in Saturday’s Apollo Conference Triangular Meet at Charleston, but won more events than either of the other two competing schools. The Bulldogs had double individual wins from Eden Oelze and Olivia McMurry. Oelze was victorious in the 200-yard individual medley (2 […]
