Mahomet Daily

By Fred Kroner Seniors Brennan Houser and Mateo Casillas were individual champions at the Red Schmitt Holiday Wrestling Tournament, in Granite City, which ended on Friday (Dec. 30). Houser (22-1 with an 11-match winning streak) was the titlist at 182 pounds. Casillas (22-0) prevailed at 195 pounds. Houser was dominant […]

By Fred Kroner Wyatt Bohm recorded a 17-point, five-rebound, five-assist performance on Thursday (Dec. 29) as the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team salvaged a win in the 11th-place game in the large-school division of the State Farm Classic at Normal West High School. M-S, the No. 11 seed, topped 13th-seeded North […]

By Fred Kroner Tournament Most Valuable Player Savannah Orgeron led Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ basketball team to a come-from-behind win on Thursday (Dec. 29) in the championship game of the Mattoon Holiday Tournament. The Bulldogs handed Galesburg a 51-41 setback. M-S trailed 15-9 after one quarter and 21-18 at halftime. Orgeron netted […]

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ basketball team advanced into the championship game of the Mattoon Holiday Tournament by garnering two wins on Tuesday (Dec. 27) and two more on Wednesday (Dec. 28) On Wednesday, the Bulldogs handled the host Green Wave, 49-45, and then overpowered Champaign Central, 43-25. Against Mattoon, […]

By Fred Kroner Senior Dayten Eisenmann matched his season’s high with 17 points on Wednesday (Dec. 28) as the 11th-seeded Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team topped 14th-seeded Machesney Park Harlem, 64-58, in a second-round game of the large-school division at the State Farm Classic at Normal West High School. Eisenmann was […]

By Zainab Susi New attitude, BETTER you!!!  Starting January 2023, would you like to join me to focus on a monthly goal? I’m always working on making myself better than yesterday and for the month of January 2023 I will focus on gratitude!  Your focus could be anything you like. […]

Mahomet-Seymour’s Chloe Pruitt contributed back-to-back season-high 14 point performances as the Bulldogs defeated Rantoul and Eureka heading into the Christmas weekend. Pruitt also contributed 14 rebounds in the two wins. The Bulldogs have relied on the 5’9” senior on their way to a 10-3 record. Against Charleston, Pruitt scored sevent […]

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ basketball team reached the 10-win mark in its final pre-Christmas tune-up. The Bulldogs overpowered Rantoul, 57-18, on the Eagles’ court on Wednesday (Dec. 21). With its fifth consecutive victory, M-S is 10-3 overall. Chloe Pruitt totaled 14 points and nine rebounds to lead the Bulldogs […]

With the Dec. 19 filing date passed, candidates for five local boards have submitted their petitions for candidacy. The Mahomet Daily will write more on each race after the holiday, but names are listed in alphabetical order and the submitted petitions are linked for each candidate. Access to those petitions […]

By Fred Kroner Fred@mahometnews.com Road trips became the norm for Jake Waldinger for more than a year as the Mahomet-Seymour tri-sport athlete looked for a college that he could call home as a football player for the next four years. “I started the summer of my junior year taking visits […]