By Fred Kroner Marco Casillas drove in four runs on Thursday (Aug. 10) as the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High baseball team opened the season with a 5-3 triumph at Normal Parkside. The first of Casillas’ two two-run doubles drove in Brennan Bailey and Camden Beedy in the first inning. Casillas scored […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Led by the batting exploits of Joella Snodsmith and Lena Ishcomer, the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High softball team snapped a three-game losing streak on Thursday (Aug. 10) in impressive fashion. The Bulldogs overpowered Champaign Franklin, 25-10, at home. For the day, M-S sent 37 batters to the […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Senior Leif Olson fired a 1-under-par 71 on Thursday (Aug. 10) as Mahomet-Seymour opened the 2023 boys’ golf season with a third-place finish in an 18-team invitational at The Den, in Bloomington. Olson collected birdies on three of the first seven holes and finished the day […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School softball team is off to a slow start to the 2023 season, dropping three games in a six-day span that stretched through Tuesday (Aug. 8). The Bulldogs opened the season on Thursday (Aug 3) and suffered a 15-0 loss at Monticello. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Ava Boyd is no longer running alongside fast company. The Mahomet-Seymour senior-to-be is the fast company others are trying to catch. Boyd, competing for the Champaign-based Vipers Track Club, solidified her status as one of the nation’s elite prep distance runners on Sunday (July 30) when […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahomet.news.com Three tournament records were broken on Thursday (July 27) in the annual Lake of the Woods Junior Open golf tournament. All three record-setters were in the boys’ division. Mahomet-Seymour junior-to-be Reis Claybrooke shot an 18-hole score of 70 to win the boys’ 16-17 age division. He […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Blake Wolters spent quality time Sunday night at home with his immediate family and a few close friends, watching television. They tuned into the broadcast of the Major League Draft. They munched on pizza from Filippo’s and consumed either Diet Coke or Diet Mountain Dew. They […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com How can two words, when put together in sequence, be equally befuddling and intriguing, pleasant and frustrating, as well as mystifying and appealing? The above words – and many more, actually – would accurately describe the person to whom the references are made: Gregory Brown. He […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Karley Yergler could have been a one-and-done player on Parkland College’s softball team. Her mantra could have been: “I came. I saw. I conquered. I moved on.” “She had an opportunity,” said Parkland co-head coach Dan Paulson, who is entering his fifth season overseeing the Cobras’ […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Tom Garriott had a mixture of feelings after his job interview for the girls’ basketball coaching position at Mahomet-Seymour. “I walked out of the interview thinking, ‘I don’t think I sold them (on me), but they sold me on the position,’” Garriott said. “I was hoping […]
