Mahomet Daily

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 […]

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade boys’ basketball team was efficient from the free throw line on Thursday (Dec. 15) and turned back Edison, 48-38, in Champaign. M-S carried a 35-31 lead into the final quarter, but connected on 9 of 15 free throws down the stretch to seal the victory. […]

The Mahomet-Seymour High School Speech Team traveled to Coal City High School to compete against eleven other schools, most from the Chicagoland area on Dec. 17. Fourteen MSHS students participated in the competition, and several advanced to the Junior Varsity final round. Students recognized include: Eden Sanborn (1st place JV […]