By Fred Kroner Owen Kearns and Aron Varga – the only seniors on the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ swimming team – each won an individual event and helped three relays to first-place finishes on Thursday (Jan. 18) at Urbana. Kearns was the champion in the 100-yard butterfly (54.99 seconds) while Varga was […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ basketball team stormed back from a first-quarter deficit on Thursday (Jan. 18) and defeated visiting Normal University High, 51-47. The win was the first at M-S for head coach Jessi Beachey Hurless, who took over the team in mid-January after previous coach Tom Garriott resigned. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Jackson Bohm was the lone Mahomet-Seymour player to score in double figures on Saturday (Jan. 20) in a 60-35 non-conference boys’ basketball loss at home to Chatham Glenwood. Bohm totaled 15 points and hit two baskets from three-point range. Miles Woolsey scored eight points and Landyn […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ basketball team hit nine three-point shots on Tuesday (Jan. 16), but fell short at home, 63-57, against Washington. Landyn Hannah was the team’s top point-maker. He drained six three-point shots en route to a varsity career-high 22 points. Lucas Dyer achieved a season’s high with […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Two Mahomet-Seymour wrestlers won championships in their weight classes on Saturday (Jan. 13) in the MWI Invitational, helping the Bulldogs to a runner-up finish in the 10-school tournament. Isabelle Leyhe (120 pounds) and Grace Ribbe (190 pounds) won titles in their weight classes. Leyhe (16-2) won […]
By Fred Kroner Both of Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high volleyball teams opened the season by winning two of their first three matches. The eighth-graders opened with back-to-back wins at home, 25-11, 25-13 over Danville North Ridge on Thursday (Jan. 4) and 25-16, 25-21 over Mount Zion on Monday (Jan. 8) before […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high boys’ basketball teams continued to add to their win totals on Thursday (Jan. 11) with a pair of victories at Champaign Jefferson. The eighth-grade Bulldogs captured a 59-18 victory while the seventh-graders were triumphant, 52-26. Both squads have 21-1 overall season records. Tristen […]
By Fred Kroner Four Mahomet-Seymour wrestlers turned in third-place performances on Saturday (Jan. 13) in the 43rd-annual Marty Williams Invitational at M-S. The Bulldogs were the runner-up in the team chase. Normal Community was the meet champion (418 ½ points) and M-S was second (360 points). The top M-S placers […]
By Fred Kroner Aron Varga’s school-record time in the 50-yard freestyle lasted all of two days for the Mahomet-Seymour senior. Varga broke a seven-year-old record on Thursday (Jan. 11), clocking a 22.78-second mark. On Saturday (Jan. 13) in a dual meet at Centennial, teammate Emmett Kearns lowered the 50-yard freestyle […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com In Jessi Hurless’ first game as the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball head coach on Thursday (Jan. 11), the Bulldogs dropped a 62-23 decision at home to Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin. Hurless replaced Tom Garriott, who coached the first 21 M-S games. Garriott resigned, he said, after he “took […]
