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. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com There are days that are difficult to get through, and they have nothing to do with work or other obligations. They can be days that were once associated with happy memories. For me, that day is June 3. It came around again last week. It was […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahomet.news.com Champaign’s Kyle Davenport overcame a 2-stroke deficit after the first round to post a 4-shot victory on Sunday (June 5) in the two-day Naughtin Open golf tournament at the Lake of the Woods. Davenport carded rounds of 67 and 66 to finish at 133. Sunday’s round […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A case can be made – even in the wake of a loss in the sectional finals – that the Mahomet-Seymour baseball team that stepped on the field at Champaign’s Spalding Park on Saturday (June 4) was the best in school history. The 7-4 loss to […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Softball Mahomet-Seymour’s history-making softball season added a dose of drama in the Friday (June 3) Class 3A sectional championship game at Mount Zion. A program which had never won a game at sectionals until Tuesday, captured its second-ever sectional win in four days against Chatham […]
