By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s volleyball team, ranked 15th in the state in Class 3A by Maxpreps, dropped a two-set Apollo Conference decision on Tuesday (Sept. 19) at Effingham. The Flaming Hearts (12-5) topped the Bulldogs (14-3), 25-22, 25-18. Avery Allen led M-S with eight digs, seven kills, two service […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Mahomet Daily will feature each of the four new selections for the Mahomet Education Foundation Hall of Fame in upcoming days. Today’s focus, Dirk Handlin. By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com There was a time when Dirk Handlin was bigger than most of the students in his class. By […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high baseball team followed up on an IESA Class 3A regional semifinal win over Danville North Ridge, 11-1, on Saturday (Sept.16) with a 9-3 victory over Edison in Champaign on Monday (Sept. 18). Bradley Jones improved his pitching record to 5-0. He worked five innings, […]
By Fred Kroner Penelope Bird scored eight points on Thursday (Sept. 14) to lead the Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade girls’ basketball team to a win at home over Danville North Ridge, 32-4. The Bulldogs led, 22-0, at halftime. Marley Cloward and Lily Freiman added six points apiece. On Monday (Sept. 18), the […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ junior high cross-country team emerged victorious in the 15-school Saturday (Sept. 16) Tom Appenzeller Bulldog Invitational at Lake of the Woods. M-S’ composite point total in the varsity race was 69 points. Runner-up Normal Metcalf finished with 105 points. Following them were Clinton (112), Monticello […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ junior high cross-country team ran a strong second on Saturday (Sept 16) in the 15-school Tom Appenzeller Bulldog Invitational at Lake of the Woods. Shelbyville was the meet champion in the varsity division with 51 points. M-S (69 points) was next, followed by Normal Metcalf […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour eighth-grader Dawson Freeman finished in a three-way tie for second place in the IESA single-class boys’ junior high state golf tournament. Freeman fired rounds of 35 and 36 for a 71 on Friday (Sept. 15) at Metamora Fields, in Metamora. He produced seven pars, one […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Mahomet Daily will feature each of the four new selections for the Mahomet Education Foundation Hall of Fame in upcoming days. Today’s focus, Judy Swiger. By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Picking two words and only two words to describe the Mahomet-Seymour drama and theater departments from late 1973 […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Mahomet Daily will feature each of the four new selections for the Mahomet Education Foundation Hall of Fame in upcoming days. Today’s focus, Karl Welke. By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Some of us – many of us? – have a tendency to look upon athletic events as life […]
By Fred Kroner For the second week in a row, Mahomet-Seymour senior Ava Boyd recorded a lifetime best in a major cross-country meet. Boyd dropped nearly 19 seconds from her previous best on Saturday (Sept. 16), finishing 23rd in a 500-runner field at the Richard Spring Invitational at Detweiller Park, […]
