By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Wrestling Four athletes representing the Mahomet-based Illinois Top Dawgs Wrestling team emerged as national champions and earned AAU All-American accolades after the conclusion of the three-day, 43-team Disney Duals in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday (June 19). The unbeatens for the Top Dawgs were Brennan Houser […]
Two of Mahomet’s favorite Fourth of July celebrations are set. The Champaign County Forest Preserve will host this year’s Freedom Fest on July 1 at Mahomet’s Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. Starting at 4 p.m. Music will fill the air. Following a tribute to service men and women fireworks […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Neal Garrison, who has coached boys’ cross-country and served as a guidance counselor at Mahomet-Seymour High School for the past 20 years, has resigned. The M-S Board of Education is expected to act on his resignation at the Monday evening (June 20) meeting. Garrison, who will […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour junior Blake Wolters, a Purdue recruit who rewrote a chunk of the school’s single-season baseball record book this spring, was selected as a Class 3A All-State first-teamer by the Illinois Coaches Association. Wolters broke the single-season strikeout record (115) and tied the mark for pitching wins […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour senior softball pitcher Karley Yergler is the first Bulldog ever chosen to the Illinois Coaches Association Class 3A All-State first team. As a junior, Yergler and senior Aubrie Shore were the second and third M-S athletes ever chosen to the ICA Class 3A softball All-State second […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com When Brooks Coetzee III committed to playing baseball at Notre Dame, the Mahomet-Seymour athlete wasn’t joining a program that was prominent on the national scene in the sport. When his freshman year in college (2019) ended with a 24-30 team record, it marked the fourth consecutive […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Years from now, when the conversation ball gets tossed to the subject of high school sports in 2022, a prominent topic will be the Mahomet-Seymour softball team. That is the history-making and record-setting 2022 Bulldog softball team. It’s the one that elevated a program which had […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Softball A season of unparalleled firsts won’t end with the most coveted one – a state championship – but not even a 3-0 loss to Chicago St. Ignatius in the Class 3A state semifinals on Friday (June 10) at Peoria can put a damper on […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It was nearly 49 years ago – in the fall of 1973 – that 20 Mahomet-Seymour teen-agers made history. They were members of the first girls’ softball team to represent the Bulldogs. More than that, they were pioneers in another manner. Softball was the first varsity […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Softball One win on Monday (June 6) translated into two more softball games to play for Mahomet-Seymour. Those games will be at the state tournament, where the Bulldogs will compete for the first time since softball was introduced at M-S in the fall of 1973. […]
