Mahomet Daily

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A scholarship to play a sport in college is the goal for many high school athletes. For some, that invitation occurs during a campus visit. For others, it may happen when the coach makes a trip to the student’s home. At times, it takes place with […]

Mahomet-Seymour Junior High’s Marco Casillas captured consecutive I.E.S.A. State titles on March 8. The 2024 I.E.S.A. Wrestling State Championship witnessed Marco claiming the title in the 167-pound weight class, marking a historic moment in junior high wrestling.  Last year, Marco dominated the 145-pound weight class, and this year, he ascended […]

By Fred Kroner Apollo Conference champion Mahomet-Seymour landed four first-team berths in voting by coaches for the league’s all-conference wrestling team. The Bulldogs’ honorees were senior Lukas Alstetter (106 pounds), sophomore Justus Vrona (126 pounds), senior Gage Decker (157 pounds) and junior Brock VanDeveer (190 pounds). M-S also secured seven […]

By Fred Kroner Two Mahomet-Seymour sophomores earned recognition on the Apollo Conference all-league boys’ basketball teams. Scoring leader Jackson Bohm was one of five first-team selections. Landyn Hannah, the Bulldogs’ top three-point marksman, was one of the five second-team picks. Bohm averaged 13.4 points per game and connected on 75 […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A seventh-inning rally on Tuesday (March 12) enabled the Mahomet-Seymour baseball team to salvage a 9-6 win at Tolono Unity. The Bulldogs trailed, x-x, after six innings. Tyson Finch knocked in three runs for the Bulldogs, including two with a seventh-inning single that created the final […]

By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinoisjnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – The state’s two main fiscal forecasting agencies agree: Illinois’ finances will see a strong close in the final 3 ½ months of the fiscal year before things tighten a bit next year. It’s a picture laid out in Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade volleyball team has a chance to make school history this week. The Bulldogs qualified for the eight-team state tournament on Monday (March 11) by winning a Class 4A IESA sectional in the M-S gymnasium, outlasting Herscher Limestone, 25-20, 20-25, 25-23. M-S is now in […]

By Fred Kroner Three Mahomet-Seymour athletes finished in the runner-up position on Saturday (March 9) in the Apollo Conference Indoor Invitational at Mount Zion. Placing second were senior Jayvon Irwin (60-meter dash in 7.39 seconds), junior Travis Hoffman (60-meter hurdles, 9.30 hurdles) and sophomore Henry McMurry (1,600 meters, 4:42.10). In […]

Two Mahomet-Seymour senior athletes were individual winners on Saturday (March 9) in the Apollo Conference Indoor Invitational at Mount Zion. Ava Boyd won the 1,600 meters with her fastest time of the season, 5 minutes, 21.22 seconds. She finished 2.83 seconds ahead of her closest pursuer. Lauren Burr was the […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour sophomore Noah Daniels placed third on Sunday (March 10) in the Illinois Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association Freshman-Sophomore state tournament in Springfield. Daniels, who weighed in at 197.8 pounds, won five of six matches in the 215-pound weight class in the event which started on […]