By Fred Kroner Caleb Zulauf was the individual winner on Friday (Sept. 1) in the boys’ seventh-grade race of the Chrisman Junior High Cowchip Classic. Zulauf’s 2-mile time of 11 minutes, 56.6 seconds gave him a 23.2-second margin of victory. Four of his teammates placed among the top 20 in […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high softball team ended the regular season with two losses in the final week, but reached double figures in runs scored for the fifth time in 12 games. The Bulldogs lost their home finale, 18-2, on Wednesday (Aug. 30) to Normal Kingsley and then dropped […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com One day after suffering its first loss of the season, the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High baseball team bounced back to deal Champaign St. Matthew its first loss this year. On Tuesday (Aug. 29), the Bulldogs suffered a narrow 8-7 loss at Tolono Unity. On Wednesday (Aug 30), […]
By Fred Kroner In its season-opening cross-country meet on Saturday (Sept. 2), the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ team ran third in the 16-school Charleston Invitational. Meet champion Tuscola finished with 45 points. Runner-up Mount Zion totaled 72 points and M-S ended with 80 points. Two sophomores were the race leaders for the […]
By Fred Kroner Senior Ava Boyd placed third for Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ cross-country team on Saturday (Sept. 2) in the Charleston Invitational. Her 3-mile time was 18:52.05. In a race with 156 participants, six other teammates finished among the top 40. Freshman Taylor Mills was 17th (20:13.94), junior Chloe Bundren was […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour won four of five matches in the two-day Edwardsville Volleyball Tournament and captured fifth place. The Bulldogs dropped their opener against Breese (21-25, 32-30, 15-10) and then rebounded to defeat Edwardsville (25-19, 25-23), Decatur Eisenhower (25-10, 25-15), Pleasant Plains (25-17, 25-23) and O’Fallon (25-19, 28-26). M-S […]
By Fred Kroner With four individuals placing among the top 10 on Friday (Sept. 1) in the 20-school Danville Invitational at Turtle Run, Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ golf squad captured the team championship. The Bulldogs had a composite of 299, matching their season best. M-S beat runner-up Mount Zion (323) by 24 […]
By Fred Kroner Led by all-tournament selections Isaac Warren and Kai Jones, Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ soccer team won two of three matches and placed second in the two-day Urbana Soccer Invitational. The Bulldogs opened tourney play with a 3-2 triumph over Mascoutah and then topped Marion, 8-0, in the semifinals. Warren […]
By Fred Kroner Playing its third home match of the season on Thursday (Aug. 31) at the Middletown Courts, the unbeaten Mahomet-Seymour girls’ tennis team overpowered Danville Schlarman Academy, 8-1. All eight of the Bulldogs’ wins were in straight sets. In singles the victories belonged to Adella Bird (6-1, 6-0 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com What a difference a week makes. Seven days after allowing 350 yards rushing in the season-opener, the Mahomet-Seymour football team went the other direction – big time – and put together a defensive effort that held state-ranked Highland (No. 7 in Class 5A) to negative yards […]
