By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour Junior High wrestling team has a 15-1 dual-meet season record with 13 wins in a row. In a 13-day stretch between Thursday (Jan. 25) and Tuesday (Feb. 6), the Bulldogs won 11 dual meets. Eight of them were away from home. On the 25th, M-S […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Jackson Golden hit 12 of 14 free throw attempts and scored 20 points on Saturday (Feb. 10), but the Mahomet-Seymour Junior eighth-grade boys’ basketball team dropped a 56-48 decision to Markham Prairie in an IESA Class 4A state quarterfinal game at Taylorville. Preston Clark scored 10 […]
By Fred Kroner Two Mahomet-Seymour wrestlers qualified for the Class 2A IHSA state tournament based on their performances at the M-S Sectional on Saturday (Feb. 10). Senior Gage Decker (157 pounds) and sophomore Justus Vrona (126 pounds) will continue on individually. Decker won three of his four sectional bouts and […]
By Fred Kroner Three of the four Mahomet-Seymour athletes who competed in the Peoria Richwoods girls’ wrestling sectional on Saturday (Feb. 10) qualified for state. Keeping themselves in contention were sophomore Kalista Granadino (who won four of six matches at 115 pounds and placed fourth), senior Isabelle Leyhe (who pinned […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ basketball team led after each of the first three quarters Friday night (Feb. 9), but couldn’t hang on in the end and suffered a 75-66 loss at Taylorville. M-S led, 19-11 after one quarter, 44-34 at halftime and 58-54 after three quarters. Cade Starrick […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com In a girls’ basketball season that could best be described as turbulent, Mahomet-Seymour’s regular-season finale on Thursday (Feb. 8) will be remembered strictly for what happened on the court, not off the court. Barely 24 hours after the M-S program endured the resignation of a second […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ basketball team dropped its fourth consecutive game on Monday (Feb. 5) at home, losing to state-ranked Normal Community, 54-23. The top Bulldog scorers were Ellie Dallas and Adaline Eisenmann, with five points apiece. Hannah Creel, Reese Gallier and Kylie Waldinger all contributed three points. Addie […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Jackson Bohm compiled a massive double-double on Tuesday (Feb. 6) as the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball rallied to defeat Urbana at home, 61-60, in a non-conference game. Bohm posted team-high totals of 17 points and 15 points for the Bulldogs, who trailed, 45-40, entering the fourth period. […]
By Fred Kroner Led by four individual champions, the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High wrestling team took top honors on Saturday (Feb. 3) in their own Bulldog Invitational. M-S amassed 264 ½ points to win the title in the 16-school event. The Bulldogs champions were Noah Snyder (19-5 at 135 pounds), Nino […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A furious fourth-quarter rally on Monday (Feb. 5) enabled Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade boys’ basketball team to secure a berth in the IESA Class 4A state quarterfinals. The Bulldogs overcame a four-point deficit in the final period to edge Crete-Monee, 37-35, in the sectional championship game in the […]
