By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Defensive adjustments were needed – and made – before Mahomet-Seymour’s football showdown on Friday (Sept. 29) at Frank Dutton Field against Mount Zion. The Apollo Conference clash matched the final two teams with undefeated records in league play. Mount Zion quarterback Makobi Adams entered the game […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ swimming team won five events on Tuesday (Sept. 26) in a four-school meet at Normal Community and also established two lifetime bests and three season bests. Lainey Howard and Talynn O’Donell were each double winners for M-S. Howard recorded a season-best time of 2 minutes, […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ tennis team started the week with back-to-back shutouts on consecutive days. On Monday (Sept. 25), the Bulldogs blanked McNamara, 5-0, in Kankakee and on Tuesday (Sept. 26), M-S upended Charleston at the Middletown Courts, 9-0. Against McNamara, Claire Johnson was triumphant at No. 1 singles […]
By Fred Kroner Avery Allen landed 10 kills and Ellie Dallas handed out 10 assists on Tuesday (Sept. 26) as the Mahomet-Seymour volleyball team ripped off a 25-11, 25-10 win at Paxton-Buckley-Loda. Allen also served three aces and totaled three digs. Dallas had four digs to go with two aces. […]
By Fred Kroner Sophomore Kelton Hennesy and junior Reis Claybrooke fired 73s on Wednesday (Sept. 27) in the Centennial Class 2A boys’ golf regional tournament at the University of Illinois Orange course. They tied for second individually in the 55-player field and helped the Bulldogs advance to the Peoria Sectional […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Senior Nolan Wheeler registered a double hat trick – six goals – on Monday (Sept. 25) as the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ soccer team upended Urbana, 7-2, at Middletown Field. Wheeler has a team-high 23 goals for the season. “His speed and physicality presented a tough matchup for […]
By Fred Kroner The top four Mahomet-Seymour runners in the varsity division of the Dunlap Invitational on Friday (Sept. 22) at Detweiller Park, in Peoria, crossed the finish line within 51.9 seconds of one another in the 2.1-mile race. Adam Smigielski was the Bulldog leader, placing seventh and covering the […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high girls’ varsity cross-country team took fourth in the 41-school Dunlap Invitational on Friday (Sept. 22) at Detweiller Park, in Peoria. Meet champion Minooka had 117 points. M-S ended with a composite score of 215. The first six Bulldog runners in the 2.1-mie race ended […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade girls’ basketball team extended its winning streak to six games after dispatching Bloomington 25-16 at home on Thursday (Sept. 21) and then adding road wins at St. Joseph 27-6 on Monday (Sept. 25) and at Charleston 42-5 on Tuesday (Sept. 26). Kennedy Lee tossed in […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high baseball team fell just short of earning a Class 3A IESA state tournament berth on Monday (Sept. 25), dropping a decision to Bloomington Evans in the sectional finals at Normal Parkside. Evans tallied three runs in the bottom of the fourth inning and […]
