Mahomet Daily

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 Isabella Zarate The Pinewood Derby has been a Scout tradition for nearly 70 years. What usually starts as a block of wood, plastic wheels, and metal axles often transforms into screaming kids, cheering families, and a bunch of miniature cars racing to the finish line.  For Mahomet’s Cub Scout […]

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 […]

SPRINGFIELD – S&P Global Ratings announced Thursday that it had raised Illinois’ long-term credit rating to A-, up from BBB+, marking the seventh upgrade the state has received from a major rating agency in less than two years. The rating applies to roughly $27.7 billion in outstanding general obligation, or […]