By Fred Kroner Six Mahomet-Seymour wrestlers – five of whom are seniors – secured top-four finishes on Saturday in the IHSA Class 2A Highland Sectional and qualified for the state tournament. The senior qualifiers are Caden Hatton (113 pounds), Brennan Houser (182 pounds), Mateo Casillas (195 pounds), Colton Crowley (220 […]
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Mahomet Family Dentistry Athlete of the Week: Aron Varga
Junior Aron Varga is leaving his marks on the Mahomet-Seymour record books for the second year. Varga holds the record for the 100-yard breaststroke at 1:03.06. Earlier in the 2022-23 season, Varga broke a 2017 record held by Joshua Eckberg, swimming the 100-yard breaststroke at 1:03.26. at the Centennial Invitational. […]
Mahomet-Seymour Speech team places second at Regional
The Mahomet-Seymour Speech Team began the IHSA state series with a second-place finish at the Regional competition in Chatham on February 4th. This is the highest place the team has achieved at Regionals since the team’s inception. All of the students competing advanced to the Sectional round of competition, which […]
Winter Guard takes first at Villa Grove Regional
The Mahomet-Seymour Winter Guard placed first in both Winter Guard and Tall Flag at the Villa Grove IDTA Regional on Feb. 5. Rachael Corson placed second with her flag solo and qualified for IDTA State. The team will travel to Springfield for State Finals February 11.
Three Bulldogs win events at home meet
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour athletes won six events on Tuesday (Feb. 9) in a five-school, non-scored indoor track meet at M-S. Springfield Lanphier, Fisher, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley and Hoopeston Area also competed in the meet. In three events, M-S swept the top three positions. Ethan Ramirez led a trio of Bulldogs […]
Bulldogs use two overtimes to defeat Normal University
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ basketball team is spending extra time on the court as the regular season nears an end. Three days after posting an overtime victory, M-S needed two overtimes on Monday (Feb. 6) to subdue Normal University, 61-55, at home. The teams were tied, 44-44, after regulation […]
Bulldogs defeat Urbana in overtime
By Fred Kroner Dayten Eisenmann just missed a double-double on Tuesday (Feb. 7) at Urbana, scoring 18 points and grabbing nine rebounds in Mahomet-Seymour’s 70-68 overtime triumph against the Tigers. Eisenmann also handed out five assists. The M-S offense also featured 16 points from Wyatt Bohm, 15 points from Byron […]
Village announces low-bidder for tennis court project
The Village of Mahomet Board of Trustees will vote later this month on bid packages for the construction of a 6-court tennis facility that will be located at Middletown Park. Mahomet Parks and Recreation Director Dan Waldinger said the apparent low bidder was from Petry Kuhne Company in the amount […]
Nick Tjahjadi to play soccer at McKendree University
By Fred Kroner By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It could be easy to consider the signing of a letter-of-intent to play a sport in college as the end to fulfilling a goal. Don’t tell that to Mahomet-Seymour senior Nick Tjahjadi. For him, when he put his signature on a piece of […]
Bulldogs sweep last two matches
By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour seventh-grade volleyball team has a four-match winning streak after sweeping Champaign Edison at home on Monday (Feb. 6), 25-22, 25-20. Prior to that, the seventh-graders won at Normal Parkside on Thursday (Feb. 2), 25-23, 25-22, and at Rantoul Eater on Tuesday (Jan. 31), 25-7, 25-8. […]