By Fred Kroner The season-long winning streak continues for the Mahomet-Seymour eighth-grade boys’ basketball team, but it ended on Tuesday (Dec. 19) for the seventh-grade squad. The eighth-graders registered their 18th consecutive win of the season with a 50-26 victory at Bloomington, but the seventh-graders suffered a 57-36 loss. The […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade girls’ basketball team came home from Normal Parkside on Thursday (Dec. 14) with a fourth-place IESA state finish. The Bulldogs held an early lead against Bolingbrook Jane Addams, but wound up on the short end of a 38-22 score. M-S led 8-6 after one […]
By Fred Kroner Five Bulldogs earned top-eight finishes on Saturday (Dec. 16) in the 29-school Mascoutah Invitational. The top M-S finisher was junior Brock VanDeveer, who was 6-1 at 190 pounds and placed third. He posted two pins, one in 3:44. Gideon Hayter was fifth (106 pounds), Colton McClure was […]
By Fred Kroner Four days after winning the school’s first-ever dual meet in girls’ wrestling, Mahomet-Seymour’s program brought home its first hardware on Saturday (Dec 16) from the Joe Bee Girls’ Invitational, in Springfield. With five Bulldogs placing among the top five, the Bulldogs secured the third-place trophy. Team honors […]
By Fred Kroner Owen Kearns and Aron Varga each won an individual event and helped a Mahomet-Seymour relay to victory on Saturday (Dec. 16) in the 16-school Bloomington boys’ swimming invitational. Kearns won the 200-yard freestyle in 1 minute, 50.79 seconds. Varga was victorious in the 200-yard individual medley (2:03.01). […]
By Fred Kroner Reese Gallier dropped in a season-high 22 points on Saturday (Dec. 16), but the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball team came up just short in a 52-51 overtime loss to Eureka in the first St. Joseph-Ogden girls’ shootout. Gallier also bagged five three-pointers and made 5-of-6 free throw attempts. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour fell behind, 37-2, at halftime on Friday (Dec. 15) and suffered a 62-17 Apollo Conference loss in a boys’ basketball game at Lincoln. The Bulldogs committed 23 turnovers in the loss. The only M-S points before the third quarter came on a basket by Jackson […]
By Fred Kroner For the second consecutive meet, senior Owen Kearns broke a school record for the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ swimming team. In a Tuesday (Dec. 12) meet at Centennial against Champaign Central and Danville, Kearns lowered the M-S mark in the 100-yard backstroke to 57.74 seconds. The previous standard (59.11) […]
By Fred Kroner Behind the early scoring exploits of sophomores Jackson Bohm and Landyn Hannah, the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team raced past Taylorville, 66-18, at home on Tuesday (Dec. 12). Bohm hit nine points in the opening quarter and Hannah netted eight as M-S zipped into a 24-3 lead after […]
By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour girls’ wrestling team swept all five matches on Tuesday (Dec. 12) at Clinton, earning a 30-0 victory in the historic first girls’ dual meet in school history. Four Bulldogs won by pin: Kalista Granadino (at 115 pounds in 28 seconds), Isabelle Leyhe (at 125 pounds […]
