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 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The goal when Mahomet-Seymour’s baseball team took the field on Saturday (June 1) in a Class 3A sectional championship game at Rochester High School was to be playing again on Monday (June 3). The Bulldogs are, in fact, playing on Monday, just not in the game […]
