By Fred Kroner Freshman Madalyn Marx and sophomore Kara Carney were the only Mahomet-Seymour athletes to place among the top 10 in their individual events on Saturday (March 4) in the First to Finish Charger Indoor Girls’ Track and Field Invitational at the University of Illinois Armory. Marx won the […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It’s not about money. It’s not even about finding something to do. It’s about people. It’s about community. It’s about doing what feels right in your heart. It’s really about Chuck Thompson coming out of retirement and getting back into a business where he devoted more […]
By Fred Kroner Distance runners and triple-jumper Meah Beacham were the headliners on Wednesday (March 1) as the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ track and field team placed second in a 14-school indoor meet at Mount Zion. Beacham, a junior, won the triple jump with a leap of 32 feet, 6 inches. Sophomore […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ basketball team didn’t have history on its side during the postseason journey. The 2022-23 season ended in a virtual repeat of the program’s 2021-22 season. One year ago, M-S defeated Lincoln in the regional championship game after losing all regular-season games to the Railsplitters, and […]
By Fred Kroner Six Mahomet-Seymour Junior High wrestlers captured regional championships on Saturday (Feb. 25) in a meet that M-S hosted. Gideon Hayter (eighth-grader at 80 pounds), Beau Back (eighth-grader at 119 pounds), Talon Decker (eighth-grader at 126 pounds), Marco Casillas (seventh-grader at 145 pounds), Gabe Maya (eighth-grader at 185 […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade volleyball team avenged a previous loss and reached the 20-win mark on Tuesday (Feb. 28), which enabled the Bulldogs to advance into the championship match of the IESA Class 4A Regional Tournament that M-S is hosting. The Bulldogs, who dropped a three-set decision to Champaign […]
By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour girls’ track and field team is off and running. In each of their first three indoor meets, the Bulldogs have had individual standouts. Among the top performances were a 1-2 finish by 800-meter runners Ava Boyd (2 minutes, 30.72 seconds) and Chloe Bundren (2:32.11) on […]
By Fred Kroner It wasn’t as easy as 1-2-3. It wasn’t easy at all. For the second time in the last 28 years, the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team has captured back-to-back Class 3A IHSA regional championships. The most recent title came on Friday (Feb. 24) and it came on the […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour junior Aron Varga placed 39th on Friday (Feb. 24) in the IHSA boys’ state swimming and diving meet in the 100-yard breaststroke. Varga, the first Bulldog boy to qualify for state, covered the distance in 1 minute, 1.64 seconds, just under the school-record time he posted […]
By Fred Kroner The losses on the mats were tempered by the wins in the school record books. Mahomet-Seymour’s wrestling team ended its season with a state quarterfinal loss to Washington, 50-23, on Friday (Feb. 24) in the Class 2A state dual-team meet at Grossinger Motors Arena, in Bloomington. The […]
