By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Baseball Mahomet-Seymour’s baseball team took another step forward on Thursday (June 2) as it knocked off defending Class 3A state champion Springfield in a sectional semifinal game at Champaign’s Spalding Park. The 6-1 win catapults the Bulldogs into the Sweet Sixteen for the third time […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com For the record, Mahomet-Seymour’s 2-0 softball victory over Springfield on Tuesday (May 31) in the Class 3A sectional semifinals at Mount Zion was the team’s 25th win of the season and the 15th shutout for pitcher Karley Yergler. In historic terms, it was much more than […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Amanda Warner Spafford and her husband, Adam, knew in advance that January, 17, 2022, would be a special day. What they didn’t realize was the magnitude of the day. It was a Monday and the date to celebrate the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday. Adam had […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s softball team checked one box on Saturday (May 28) and will try to check another one in the days ahead. The Bulldogs dispatched Danville, 8-3, in Saturday’s Class 3A regional championship game. The victory was the school-record 24th for M-S, which had shared the single-season wins […]
By Fred Kroner Playing on back-to-back days, the Mahomet-Seymour baseball team earned back-to-back wins and captured a Class 3A regional championship. The Bulldogs didn’t allow a run in their first two postseason games after shutting out Bloomington,10-0, in the Saturday (May 28) title game on the Bulldogs’ field. Blake Wolters […]
By Fred Kroner Two of Mahomet-Seymour’s entries in the IHSA boys’ track and field state meet, at Charleston, qualified for the finals. Junior discus-thrower Robert Byron had the fourth-best qualifying mark in his specialty after a toss of 157 feet, 9 inches in the prelims on Friday (May 27). He […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Meredith Johnson-Monfort lettered in soccer four years while attending Mahomet-Seymour High school. At the University of Illinois, Johnson-Monfort earned three varsity letters in soccer. As a high school athlete, she set the (since-broken) school record for goals scored in a season and in a career. As […]
By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour girls’ soccer team scored the first and the last goals in the Tuesday (May 24) Class 2A sectional semifinal match against Rochester at Chatham Glenwood. But Rochester scored more goals in between and salvaged a 3-2 triumph, putting an end to the Bulldogs’ season. M-S […]
By Fred Kroner Karley Yergler’s third no-hitter of the season – and her second against Rantoul – propelled the Mahomet-Seymour softball team into the Class 3A regional finals in a Wednesday (May 25) semifinal game where the Bulldogs tied their single-season record for wins. Yergler and the Bulldogs knocked off […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s Auggie Gaudio and the 800-meter relay won state medals in the IESA boys’ eighth-grade state track and field meet, which ended on Saturday (May 21) at the east Side Centre, in East Peoria. Gaudio ran fourth in the 1,600 meters. His time was 4 minutes, 46.68 […]
