By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Ashley Wheeler learned at a young age to be a good sport. It took years for the Mahomet-Seymour senior to become a good athlete. Born to parents who are both former M-S athletes and with an older brother, Trenton, who was sports-minded, topics of conversation around […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs gained a measure of revenge for a 15-point loss to Urbana earlier this month with a 59-39 triumph on Tuesday in the semifinals of the Decatur MacArthur Class 3A regional. M-S, which made 11 of 14 free throws, led 15-5 after one quarter and 25-16 […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Freshman Savannah Orgeron registered her first varsity double-double on Friday, helping Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball to a 61-31 Apollo Conference victory at home over Taylorville. Orgeron scored 18 points and pulled down 10 rebounds. Three other Bulldogs joined their teammate in double figures. Cayla Koerner scored 17 points, […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Savannah Orgeron made a team-high 16 points, but M-S was unable to hold onto a halftime lead and dropped a 65-45 decision to visiting Danville on Monday in a non-conference girls’ basketball game. Orgeron has led the team in scoring in four of the last six […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Savannah Orgeron scored a team-high 19 points on Thursday as the Bulldogs topped Charleston 66-57 to snap a three-game losing streak and defeat a team they had lost to previously. Orgeron and Ashley Wheeler were the top M-S rebounders with seven apiece. The Bulldogs led 17-9 after […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour went scoreless in the first quarter of Thursday’s home game against Normal West and dropped a 63-40 non-conference girls’ basketball decision to the Wildcats. Normal West carried a 35-11 lead into halftime. Two freshmen led the Bulldogs in scoring. Savannah Orgeron tallied 12 points on the […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour won for the sixth time in its last eight games on Thursday, edging Bloomington Central Catholic 44-40 in a non-conference girls’ basketball game in Mahomet. Sophomore Nichole Taylor put together her team-best seventh double-double of the season. She scored 17 points and pulled down 16 rebounds. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ basketball team capped an unique scheduling twist by winning three games in three days to start the week. The Bulldogs started the streak at home on Monday, handling Champaign Central 57-54 in overtime. A day later, M-S won its makeup home game against Effingham […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Led by all-tournament selection Makayla Rosenbery, M-S won three of five games at the Mattoon Tournament and placed third. In Saturday’s third-place contest, Rosenbery hit a season-high 21 points as the Bulldogs (9-7) thumped Altamont 54-43. For the third consecutive game, freshman Durbin Thomas produced her top […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Makayla Rosenbery led the Bulldogs in scoring in two consecutive games and Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ basketball team completed the pre-Christmas portion of its schedule on a two-game winning streak. Playing back-to-back road games, M-S dispatched Rantoul 63-24 on Friday and then picked up an Apollo Conference victory over […]
