By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Dawson Finch and Jordan Veldman each collected three hits and Finch earned the pitching victory on Friday as the Mahomet-Seymour Bulldogs outscored visiting Rochester, 12-8, in a non-conference baseball contest. Veldman and Finch were each 3-for-4 at the plate. Teammates Rick Bohlen and Jon Latham had two […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Jessi Nurmi decided to take the full plunge. There was no easing into her distance running debut on Saturday. Until she stepped to the starting line for the 11th-annual Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon, the Mahomet resident had never raced more than 10 kilometers at any one time. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Many of us look at life as right or wrong, yes or no, this way or that way. We tend to overlook the middle ground, the section that includes some of this and some of that. Kathy Bennett, the school librarian at Lincoln Trail Elementary from 1989-2014, […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Brooke Benson and Haley Lester each scored twice and Maddy Wade had a goal and three assists on Tuesday as Mahomet-Seymour maintained its unbeaten record in Apollo Conference matches with a 6-1 Senior Night verdict at home over Charleston. The match’s first goal was scored by M-S’ […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mackenzie Moore and Maddy Wade each scored two goals on Saturday as the Bulldogs topped Champaign Central, 7-1, in a non-conference girls’ soccer match. M-S is 15-1 overall. Other Bulldogs who scored were Brooke Benson and Grace Lietz. M-S also had an own goal. Cayla Koerner had […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The message is getting through loud and clear. Brianna Suits and her peers at St. Joseph-Ogden are talking about it. So are Mahomet-Seymour teen-agers Addi Jones and Avery Seaman. Scott’s Law is one they carry in their minds as they operate vehicles. Suits learned about it in […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Coach Nic DiFilippo’s 250th career baseball win on Wednesday came courtesy of a shutout. Mahomet-Seymour traveled to Peru St. Bede and two Bulldog pitchers combined for the 13-0 win. The shutout was the team’s second of the spring. DiFilippo is in his 13th year as head coach […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Stan Bergman paid his dues to pursue an interest he knew could turn into a passion. He devoted more than half a decade — six years, to be exact — to working for free so that he could get involved with volleyball as a coach. In his […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs posted two baseball wins by the 10-run rule on Saturday at Mount Zion. Kobe Essien and Ben Greenberger picked up pitching wins in the 13-2 and 12-1 Apollo Conference sweep. Five Bulldogs had hits in both games: Dawson Finch, Kyle Kinney, Jon Latham, Quinn Miller […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com It took more than a decade, but Pat Brumfield’s tenure as a bus driver finally exceeded her time as a bus rider. In all, the Mahomet-Seymour graduate has spent 30 years on the big, yellow school busses. Raised in rural Mahomet with her siblings, the former Pat […]
