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 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Eight years after he began wrestling, Mahomet-Seymour senior Gage Decker is still waiting to learn about the downside of the sport. “I started wrestling back in fifth grade, and ever since that year I’ve loved every second spent competing in it,” Decker said. “It’s hard to […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Cade Starrick’s two-run double in the top of the sixth inning on Wednesday (May 29) snapped an 8-8 tie and propelled the Mahomet-Seymour baseball team to a 10-9 triumph over Chatham Glenwood in a semifinal game of the Rochester Class 3A Sectional. After avenging season-ending postseason […]
By Fred Kroner Raymond Long and Nolan Johnson drove in runs in the bottom of the sixth inning on Saturday (May 25), helping Mahomet-Seymour’s baseball team rally and secure their fourth consecutive regional championship in the sport. Cleanup hitter Long laced a one-out single to left field, knocking in Finn […]
