By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s baseball team ended the week with back-to-back wins to reach the 20-win mark for the second season in a row and for the eighth time in Coach Nic DiFilippo’s tenure. On Thursday (April 27), the Bulldogs popped Hoopeston Area, 16-1, in Hoopeston and on Friday (April […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com MAHOMET – There are special moments they will remember and cherish dearly. “Being able to watch the girls hoist the (championship) plaques,” Garret Risley said. “Back-to-back regionals was really special, especially against a Hall-of-Fame coach (Lincoln’s Neil Alexander),” Ryan Bosch said. Those memories have more in […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s three-game softball winning streak came to an end on Wednesday (April 26) with a 14-2 loss at Paris. The Bulldogs were limited to four hits, including Madeleine Cortez’s second home run of the season. Teammates with hits were Ava Henderson, Kayla McKinney and Sydney Ward. Madelyn […]
By Fred Kroner As 20 major league baseball scouts – including the Kansas City Royals’ national pitching director — watched on Tuesday (April 25), Mahomet-Seymour’s Blake Wolters pitched a six-inning no-hitter and slugged his team-best eighth home run of the season as the Bulldogs blanked visiting Centennial, 14-0. Wolters, whose […]
By Fred Kroner Paislee Welge scored two goals and assisted on another on Tuesday (April 25) as the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ soccer team prevailed at home, 4-0, over Charleston. Hannah Creel and Alaina Jared had the other Bulldog goals. Grace Binkley, Creel and Haley Reed all notched assists. M-S (9-2-2 overall) […]
By Fred Kroner Robert Byron was a two-event winner on Tuesday (April 25) for the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ track and field team in the Pontiac Relays. Byron was victorious in both the shot put (48 feet) and the discus (160 feet, 2 inches). Three teammates also recorded wins in individual events. […]
By Fred Kroner Ava Boyd was a double winner on Tuesday (April 25) for the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ track and field team in a six-school meet at Champaign Central. Boyd copped top honors in the 800 meters (personal-best 2:22.64) and the 1,600 meters (5 minutes, 18.7 seconds). In both races, teammate […]
By Fred Kroner Five seventh-graders and three eighth-graders from Mahomet-Seymour were triumphant on Thursday (April 20) in a rain-shortened girls’ track and field meet at home. The Bulldogs competed against Bloomington, Normal Kingsley and Normal Parkside. Garnering first-place finishes for the seventh-grade squad were Abigail Rudicil (400 meters in 1 […]
By Fred Kroner Four Mahomet-Seymour seventh-graders and one eighth-grader won individual events in a rain-shortened junior high boys’ track and field meet at home on Thursday (April 20). The Bulldogs competed against Bloomington, Normal Kingsley and Normal Parkside. The seventh-grade victors for M-S were: Adam Smigielski (1,600 meters in 5 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Caylee Folken heard the words and accepted them at face value. As the Mahomet-Seymour volleyball athlete started pondering where to play in college, well-meaning folks told her she could go anywhere. She took that sentiment to heart. “I personally struggled with the broadness of college recruiting,” […]
