Mahomet Daily

By Fred Kroner Since the second half of the Apollo Conference girls’ basketball schedule has started, there has been one consistent element for Mahomet-Seymour’s team. The opponents the Bulldogs lost to during the first round, they have beaten in the rematch. The team M-S had defeated earlier, it lost to […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour registered its most significant win of the boys’ basketball season on Friday (Feb. 26), earning a 62-61 victory at Effingham. Effingham was ranked 10th in the state in Class 3A and had won its first 10 games before the Bulldogs snapped the streak. Eli Warren […]

Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners is hosting its first-ever Virtual Auction & Raffle! The event will run Monday, February 22 – Saturday, March 6 at tinyurl.com/B2Pauction. Items include donations from local businesses, artists, and more!  Proceeds from this event will help U-C Books to Prisoners fulfill its mission to provide free books […]

Freshmen Owen Kearns has helped the young Mahomet-Seymour swim team jump off to a 4-2 start after three meets in 2021. At 5’10”, Kearns finished with runner-up performances in the 200-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly in his first high school meet against Champaign Central and Charleston. A week later, […]

By Fred Kroner Freshman Owen Kearns won two individual events on Tuesday (Feb. 23), helping the Bulldogs to a runner-up finish in a three-school boys’ swimming meet at Lincoln College. Kearns was victorious in the 200-yard freestyle and the 500-yard freestyle. Springfield rolled up 134 points to capture team honors. […]

By Fred Kroner Cayla Koerner’s buzzer-beater capped Mahomet-Seymour’s comeback from a 15-point halftime deficit on Monday (Feb. 22) as the Bulldogs edged visiting Mattoon 63-62 in an Apollo Conference girls’ basketball contest. Mattoon, which had beaten M-S by seven points earlier this month, built a 35-20 halftime cushion in the […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Eli Warren scored seven of his team-high 18 points in overtime on Wednesday (Feb. 24) as the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team pulled away from Taylorville, 48-42, for an Apollo Conference win at home. The teams were tied 40-40 after regulation. Warren also had a team-high five […]

Trey Peters tallied a team-high 16 points on Wednesday (Feb. 10) as the Bulldogs overpowered Champaign Edison in Mahomet, 44-26. Luke Dyer scored 13 points. “We were able to create turnovers and play pretty solid defense throughout the game,” coach Doug Ingold said. On Thursday (Feb. 18), Dyer sparked the […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high girls’ volleyball teams each needed three sets to secure wins on Wednesday (Feb. 17) at Clinton. The seventh-grade team rebounded from a loss in its previous match by putting away the Maroons, 25-20, 22-25, 25-23. Ava Hewitt’s seven-point run from the service line […]