By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade girls’ basketball team reeled off its 11th consecutive victory on Monday, Nov. 4, defeating Normal Parkside 34-14. Selah Campion led M-S with 10 points. Kylie Waldinger and Ellie Dallas chipped in with nine and seven points, respectively. During its winning streak, M-S (16-2) is allowing […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high school girls’ basketball teams continued their winning ways on Monday. Both squads were victorious in games against Rantoul. The seventh-graders posted a 33-2 triumph. The team’s top scorers were Kylie Waldinger (nine points), Ellie Dallas (seven points) and Talia Francom (six points). The eighth-graders […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com One of the youngest cross-country teams in the history of the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ junior high school program is also one of the best. With six seventh-graders and one eighth-grader making up the roster for last Saturday’s IESA Class 3A state meet at Normal’s Maxwell Park, the Bulldogs […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Twelve players scored baskets for the Mahomet-Seymour seventh-grade girls’ basketball team on Tuesday, helping the Bulldogs win their fifth game in a row. Talia Francom and Reese Didier were the top M-S scorers with six points apiece in a 39-7 win at Urbana. The Bulldogs have allowed […]
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 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour switched up its lineup in Saturday’s regular-season ending cross-country meet at Monticello’s Lodge Park. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams ran eighth-graders only in the varsity race. All seven Bulldogs in both races finished among or near the top 100. The first three M-S boys’ […]
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 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Cade Starrick and Raymond Long teamed up on a six-hit shutout on Monday as Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School captured a Class 3A IESA baseball regional championship. The Bulldogs blanked Monticello 10-0. Neither Starrick nor Long issued any walks. Starrick struck out seven in 5 1/3 innings. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour placed fifth in Saturday’s 50-school Normal Parkside junior high school girls’ cross-country invitational. Ava Boyd was the M-S leader, running the 2-mile course in 12 minutes, 17 seconds to finish 15th individually. Avah Turner was 24th. Other team leaders in the 313-runner field were Reese […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Abbie Velazquez’s senior season in basketball started on Sunday. And, the former Mahomet-Seymour athlete was in the starting lineup in the ninth-annual Battle of the Border, an all-star series between athletes from western Indiana and east central Illinois. She was surprised to be included on the Illinois […]
