By Fred Kroner Seniors Brennan Houser and Mateo Casillas were individual champions at the Red Schmitt Holiday Wrestling Tournament, in Granite City, which ended on Friday (Dec. 30). Houser (22-1 with an 11-match winning streak) was the titlist at 182 pounds. Casillas (22-0) prevailed at 195 pounds. Houser was dominant […]
By Fred Kroner Wyatt Bohm recorded a 17-point, five-rebound, five-assist performance on Thursday (Dec. 29) as the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team salvaged a win in the 11th-place game in the large-school division of the State Farm Classic at Normal West High School. M-S, the No. 11 seed, topped 13th-seeded North […]
By Fred Kroner Tournament Most Valuable Player Savannah Orgeron led Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ basketball team to a come-from-behind win on Thursday (Dec. 29) in the championship game of the Mattoon Holiday Tournament. The Bulldogs handed Galesburg a 51-41 setback. M-S trailed 15-9 after one quarter and 21-18 at halftime. Orgeron netted […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ basketball team advanced into the championship game of the Mattoon Holiday Tournament by garnering two wins on Tuesday (Dec. 27) and two more on Wednesday (Dec. 28) On Wednesday, the Bulldogs handled the host Green Wave, 49-45, and then overpowered Champaign Central, 43-25. Against Mattoon, […]
By Fred Kroner Senior Dayten Eisenmann matched his season’s high with 17 points on Wednesday (Dec. 28) as the 11th-seeded Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team topped 14th-seeded Machesney Park Harlem, 64-58, in a second-round game of the large-school division at the State Farm Classic at Normal West High School. Eisenmann was […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ basketball team reached the 10-win mark in its final pre-Christmas tune-up. The Bulldogs overpowered Rantoul, 57-18, on the Eagles’ court on Wednesday (Dec. 21). With its fifth consecutive victory, M-S is 10-3 overall. Chloe Pruitt totaled 14 points and nine rebounds to lead the Bulldogs […]
By Fred Kroner Fred@mahometnews.com Road trips became the norm for Jake Waldinger for more than a year as the Mahomet-Seymour tri-sport athlete looked for a college that he could call home as a football player for the next four years. “I started the summer of my junior year taking visits […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade boys’ basketball team was efficient from the free throw line on Thursday (Dec. 15) and turned back Edison, 48-38, in Champaign. M-S carried a 35-31 lead into the final quarter, but connected on 9 of 15 free throws down the stretch to seal the victory. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Baseball pitchers can throw no-hitters. Football quarterbacks can complete every pass they try in a game. Basketball players can make every shot they attempt in a game. Perfection, though fleeting, can be achieved. In golf, however, until someone figures out a way to score a hole-in-one […]
By Fred Kroner Juniors Aron Varga and Owen Kearns broke school records on Saturday (Dec. 17) to highlight the performance of Mahomet-Seymour swimmers in the boys’ Raider Invitational at Bloomington. Varga lowered his own 2021 record (of 2 minutes 7.79 seconds) by winning the 200-yard individual medley in the 17-school […]
