By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high baseball team has won two of its first three games. The team is averaging more than 10 hits per game. M-S decisioned Urbana, 17-5. Raymond Long had three hits and drove in three runs. Teammates with two hits apiece were Mason Orton, Braden […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com There’s something new – besides the head coach – within the Mahomet-Seymour volleyball team this year. Captains. “We did not have a captain last year because our previous coach wanted everyone to learn how to be a leader/captain,” junior Ainsley Ranstead said. Ranstead and senior Amber […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Freshman Ainsley Winters carded the low score for Mahomet-Seymour in Thursday’s three-school girls’ golf meet at Lincolnshire Fields Country Club, in Champaign. She fired a 49 and ended in sixth individually. As a team, M-S was second with a composite of 221. Meet champion St. Thomas […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s Sam Mitchaner fired an 87 and was the second-place sophomore in Monday’s season-opening golf meet at Urbana Country Club. As a team, M-S placed eighth in the 16-team field. The Bulldogs’ composite was 371. Meet champion Champaign Central finished with a 323. Grant Harvey and […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Mahomet Music Festival will have a hometown flavor this weekend. When Onoleigh Pommier takes the stage on Saturday at 6:10 p.m., it will serve as a homecoming for the 2015 Mahomet-Seymour High School graduate. “Growing up in Mahomet, the River Festival was always a very […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Mahomet-Seymour football program is on the move. There is no sauntering to reach the practice field. “That’s part of their conditioning,” first-year head coach Jon Adkins said. “As soon as their stuff is on, they jog out there.” Adkins is among the joggers. “I wouldn’t […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com After a year of reconstruction and renovation, the pond and waterfall area at Mabery Gelvin Botanical Garden is nearly ready to re-open. Tuesday was devoted to the laying of approximately 8,000 square feet of sod that will surround the one-half acre pond. A private re-dedication for […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Homer Soda Fest is being revived. In Mahomet. An event which began in 2012, but is on hiatus this year, will resume in 2020 at the Mahomet-Seymour High School parking lot on the south side of the building. A committee of about 10 persons will […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Coaches often talk about their athletes learning life lessons through the sports in which they participate. Mahomet-Seymour first-year varsity football coach Jon Adkins put that principle into practice this summer. He asked squad members who were interested in serving as team captains to submit an application […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Clad in a cornucopia of colors, nearly 500 runners descended on Mahomet last weekend. The draw was the 24th version of Run Mahomet, a fundraiser for the Mahomet Area Youth Club featuring races at various distances. Some competitors were there hoping to achieve a first, the […]
