M-S Softball picks up Apollo Conference win, Boys’ track places second
By FRED KRONER
fred@mahometnews.com
Mahomet-Seymour amassed 33 runs and 32 hits on Tuesday in a softball doubleheader sweep of visiting Lincoln in Apollo Conference action.
The Bulldogs won each game by the 10-run rule, 14-4 in the opener and 19-1 in the four-inning second game.
The Bulldogs pounded seven of 17 hits in the first game for extra bases, including three doubles by Aubrie Shore.
Ashley Campbell and Karley Yergler hammered homers for the Bulldogs.
Campbell, Shore and Sam Tamburo each finished with three hits.
Yergler, Allison Nofziger and Abigail Akers each totaled two hits.
Shore pitched a complete game, striking out seven and allowing six hits.
In the second game, Shore clubbed two home runs and drove in four runs. Yergler and Ashley Wheeler each hit one home run.
Nofziger swatted three hits in the nightcap.
Tamburo, Shore, Campbell, Yergler and Carlee Scott totaled two hits apiece.
Yergler earned her fourth pithing win. In four innings, she fanned four batters, walked one and permitted three hits.
M-S (6-2) returns to action on Saturday at Effingham.
Girls’ soccer
Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ soccer shutout streak hit seven matches on Monday when the Bulldogs went to Urbana and blanked the Tigers, 8-0.
Cayla Koerner hit the team’s first two goals. M-S led, 5-0, at intermission.
Koerner’s goals were assisted by Nyah Biegler and Ainsley Jessup. Jessup is the 12th Bulldog with either a goal or an assist this season.
Brea Benson netted three goals for M-S. She has a team-best 11 for the season. Maddie Wade scored twice. The final Bulldog goal was notched by Haley Lester.
Wade totaled three assists, and has a team-high total of nine.
Teammates with assists were Grace Lietz and Maddie Louis.
Goalkeeper Noelle Bailey stopped two shots.
The winning streak continued on Tuesday, with an Apollo Conference triumph at Mount Zion, but the shutout streak was stopped when the Braves scored a goal. M-S prevailed, 4-1.
Koerner had a goal and two assists for the Bulldogs.
Brooke Benson hit the first M-S goal and teammate Lietz also scored before Mount Zion got on the board.
The final M-S tally was by Brea Benson.
Besides Koerner, other assists were by Biegler and Wade.
Goalkeeper Bailey had three saves.
M-S returns to action today at Charleston.
Baseball
The Bulldogs and St. Joseph-Ogden settled for a 2-2 draw on Monday in a game at St. Joseph called by darkness after eight innings.
Jordan Veldman, Kyle Kinney and Jon Latham each had two hits for M-S, which managed eight hits against two Spartan pitchers.
Dawson Finch and Dylan Gates drove in the M-S runs.
The Bulldogs scored in the top of the sixth to force the 2-2 deadlock.
Starter Kobe Essien struck out 10 batters in five innings.
Relievers C.J. McKinney and Rick Bohlen teamed up for three hitless innings to end the game.
On Tuesday, the Bulldogs (6-2-1) suffered their first two losses of the season, dropping an Apollo Conference twin bill at Lincoln, 6-2 and 4-3.
In the opener, Veldman and Kinney each had two hits and drove in a run. Veldman knocked a triple.
Kinney and Ben Greenberger each pitched three innings. Kinney took the loss.
Greenberger struck out four batters in his stint.
In the nightcap, Greenberger laced three hits, including a double.
Finch pitched the first five innings and suffered the loss.
He struck out nine and yielded three hits.
Kinney was the lone Bulldog with hits in each game.
M-S returns to action at home on Saturday against Effingham.
Boys’ track and field
The Bulldogs placed second to Clifton Central (169-161) in a six-school meet on Monday at Gibson City.
M-S had five individual winners, four in field events.
On the track, freshman Kyle Nofziger captured the 1,600 meters (4:45.81).
The Bulldogs’ lone two-event winner was junior Hunter Hendershot, who dominated the shot put (57 feet, 7 inches) and the discus (170-1).
In both events, he beat teammate Morrie Mendenhall.
Sophomore C.J. Shoaf, the runner-up in both hurdles races, was triumphant in the high jump (6-0).
Senior Corey Cebulski led a 1-2-3 M-S finish in the pole vault.
He cleared 12-0 as did runner-up Colin Balbach. In third was William Larson.
The other top individual placer for the Bulldogs was Joe Taylor, third in the 3,200 (11:37.34).
M-S used the same runners in both the 400- and 800-meter relays, each relay running second.
The foursomes consisted of Cebulski, Peter Kamp, Balbach and Will Parrott.
M-S ended third in both the 1,600- and 3,200-meter relays.
The Bulldogs return to action on Saturday in the Rantoul Invitational.
