MSHS Soccer, Baseball and Softball pick-up wins

By FRED KRONER
fred@mahometnews.com

Brea Benson and Cayla Koerner scored first-half goals and the Bulldogs’ defense didn’t allow a shot on goal on Tuesday as Mahomet-Seymour blanked St. Thomas More, 5-0, in Champaign for its fifth consecutive girls’ soccer shutout.

M-S is 5-0 overall.

Nyah Biegler scored the team’s final goal. Benson has a team-high six goals.

Assists were credited to Grace Lietz, Maddison Wade and Lauren Schnepper.

The Bulldogs return to action today at Centennial.

Softball

Freshman Karley Yergler fashioned a four-inning no-hitter on Wednesday as Mahomet-Seymour scored its first shutout of the season, 19-0, at St. Thomas More.

Yergler (3-0) struck out 12 batters and walked one.

The Bulldogs’ offense tallied a season-high for runs and pounded eight of 14 hits for extra bases.

Ashley Wheeler clubbed three doubles, Aubrie Shore ripped two triples and Sam Tamburo had a double and a triple.

Collectively, the trio was 8-for-9 at the plate and drove in eight runs, four by Wheeler.

Shore, who walked twice, scored four runs.

Carlee Scott had four RBI. Scoring three runs apiece were Ashley Campbell and Yergler.

Shore, Campbell and Scott all stroked two hits on Tuesday, but the Bulldogs needed eight innings to subdue visiting Stanford Olympia, 8-7.

Shore pitched the first seven innings, yielding five hits, but also walked 12 batters to go with 13 strikeouts.

Yergler pitched a hitless eighth inning and notched her second win for M-S.

Scott drove in three runs. Yergler had two RBI.

Ashley Wheeler socked a walk-off, game-winning solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning.

M-S (4-2) returns to action on Saturday at home against Lincoln.

Baseball

Jack McHale had three hits and Jon Latham collected two hits on Tuesday as the unbeaten Bulldogs made Olympia their sixth consecutive victim to start the season.

M-S posted a 9-3 win in Stanford.

Kyle Kinney (3 1/3 innings) and Dawson Finch (3 2/3 innings) shouldered the pitching load.

Kinney yielded five hits in his stint while walking two and striking out two.

Finch fanned seven in his scoreless outing, permitting one hit. He also walked two batters.

At the plate, Finch was 1-for-1, but walked on his other three appearances. He scored two runs.

McHale knocked in three runs. Dylan Gates had two RBI.

M-S returns to action on Saturday with a home doubleheader against Lincoln.