By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Zach Blumenshine and Miles Rasche shared medalist honors on Thursday (Aug. 15) as the Mahomet-Seymour junior varsity boys’ golf team opened its season with a 168-175 win over Rantoul/Paxton-Buckley-Loda at Willow Pond Golf Course. Blumenshine and Rasche each fired 40s. The Bulldogs’ next two scorers were […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Eight Mahomet-Seymour athletes earned postseason recognition on one of the all-Apollo Conference girls’ soccer teams chosen by league coaches. Four Bulldogs were first-team selections and four others earned second-team laurels. The M-S first-teamers were senior Nadia Biegler, sophomore Hannah Creel, freshman Jaycee Fancher and sophomore Paislee […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Illinois Top Dawgs/Orange wrestling team – consisting primarily of Mahomet-Seymour students — placed ninth in the Malecek Team Duals, which ended on Thursday (June 27) at the Wisconsin Dells. The Top Dawgs leader was 275-pound Jayvon Tompkins, an incoming freshman. He compiled a 6-1 record […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet’s Dana Busch scored her first-ever hole-in-one on Monday (June 24) on the fourth hole at Lake of the Woods Golf Course. She used an 8-iron on the 110-yard hole. Busch’s feat was witnessed by Susan Bates, Mary Alumbaugh and Cheryl Easter.
By Fred Kroner Junior Maddie Logsdon was the only Mahomet-Seymour athlete to receive recognition on the Apollo all-conference softball team. Logsdon was a second-team selection. Logsdon was the Bulldogs’ top hitter, finishing with a .390 batting average and ending the year with an 18-game hitting streak. She had a team-high […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Baseball Three Mahomet-Seymour underclassmen were unanimous selections for the Apollo all-conference baseball first team. In all, the conference champion Bulldogs had four first-team picks and three second-teamers. The unanimous choices were junior pitcher Mason Orton and junior position players Gavin Bailey and Raymond Long. Also […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Aron Varga’s sport of choice involved one of the few where he didn’t need to run extensively. “I tried soccer, turns out I didn’t like running and would much rather talk to the referee,” Varga recalled. “I wanted to do a sport to be able to […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Owen Kearns tried. In his younger years, he tried the sporting options many consider typical for his beginner age group: soccer, baseball and football. There was a common theme to each venture. “I was horrible at every other sport,” Kearns said. So, he tried something else. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Baseball Mahomet-Seymour’s baseball team had very little time to celebrate the third sectional championship in the sport in school history. Barely five hours after a comeback win over Champaign Central, 5-4, on Monday (June 3) at Monticello in the completion of a suspended sectional title […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahomet.news.com Andrew Lawson recovered from a one-shot deficit on Sunday (June 2) to win the championship flight of the 72nd Naughtin Open golf tournament at Lake of the Woods. Lawson fired a first-round 76, but bounced back with a 71 on Sunday to claim victory by three […]
