By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour senior Elizabeth Sims captured all-conference accolades in cross-country for the fourth straight year on Tuesday (Oct. 12), finishing 10th in the girls’ Apollo Conference meet at Effingham Country Club. For the fifth consecutive year – the amount of time M-S has been an Apollo member – […]
Tag: Ava Boyd
M-S places third at Runnin’ Red Invitational
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s top five runners ran within 58 seconds of each other on Saturday (Oct. 9) in the 20-school Runnin’ Red Invitational at Black Partridge Park, in Metamora. Ava Boyd was the 12th-place runner in a field of 192 competitors. Her time for a 2.94-mile race was 19 […]
Powell, Jansen earn medals at Wheaton North Classic
By Fred Kroner The state-ranked Bulldogs (14th in Class 2A, according to milepslit.com), had three runners crack the 20-minute mark on Saturday (Oct. 2) in the flighted Wheaton North Classic. Seven varsity races were held, with No. 1 runners competing with the No. 1s from other schools. “Our team competed […]
Powell, Sims lead Bulldogs at Richard Spring Invitational
By Fred Kroner The state-ranked Mahomet-Seymour girls’ cross-country came in 42nd on Saturday in the 63-school Richard Spring Invitational at Peoria’s Detweiller Park. Two seniors led the way for the Bulldogs. Klein Powell was the team’s first placer, coming in 215th in 20 minutes, 23.1 seconds. Elizabeth Sims was just […]
Bulldogs place 11th at Detweiller Park
By Fred Kroner In a 49-school field on Saturday (Sept. 11) at the First to the Finish cross-country race at Peoria’s Detweiller Park, Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ cross-country team placed 11th in the Class 2A division of the meet. Separate races were held for 1A, 2A and 3A competitors. The 2A team […]
Mahomet-Seymour Junior High Cross Country state tradition continues, basketball takes invite
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com A tradition of excellence more than 30 years in the making was continued on Saturday in a Class 3A boys’ junior high school cross-country sectional meet at Urbana’s Prairie Park. Mahomet-Seymour eighth-grader Davin Tietz qualified for the state finals by posting an 11-minute clocking in his 2-mile […]
MSJSH falls in Sectional Championship game, Cross Country runners-up at County meet
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A 10-game Mahomet-Seymour winning streak was ended on Saturday when Normal Chiddix pushed across a fourth-inning run and made it stand up in a 1-0 decision over the Bulldogs in a Class 3A IESA sectional championship baseball game in Normal. Peyton Cox pitched a seven-inning complete […]
MSJH kicks off cross country season strong
BY DANI TIETZ dani@mahometnews.com It’s the largest Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School cross-country squad in the history of the school. With 123 current runners, MSJHS faced a very competitive Unity Junior High team in Tolono Thursday night. While the Rockets came out on top in all four individual races: sixth-grade girls, […]