By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s Junior High girls’ cross-country team placed 12th on Saturday (Oct 16) in the 27-school IESA state meet at Maxwell Park, in Normal. The Bulldogs’ five scoring runners crossed the finish line within 46.5 seconds of one another. Eighth-grader Madalyn Marx was the Bulldog leader. In […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com There is an expression that “many hands make light work.” If translated into a relevant statement for cross-country, it might be re-phrased: “many feet make quick work.” Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ cross-country demonstrated the validity of the sentiment on Saturday (Oct. 16) while accomplishing the greatest feat possible […]
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 – […]
By Fred Kroner Senior Joseph Scheele on Tuesday (Oct. 12) became the 14th Mahomet-Seymour athlete to win an individual conference cross-country championship in the 52-year history of the program. Scheele ran to victory in the Apollo Conference meet at Effingham Country Club, with a winning 3-mile time of 15 minutes, […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s Auggie Gaudio was the IESA Class 3A sectional boys’ cross-country individual champion and the eighth-grader led the Bulldogs to the team title on Saturday (Oct. 9) at Lake of the Woods. Gaudio was two seconds away from a course record when he covered the 2-mile course […]
By Fred Kroner With its top seven runners crossing the finish line within 43 seconds of one another on Saturday (Oct. 9) in an IESA Class 3A girls’ cross-country sectional at Lake of the Woods, the Mahomet-Seymour squad qualified for state. “It is evident that we were in one of […]
By Fred Kroner The sixth-ranked (Class 2A) Mahomet-Seymour boys’ cross-country team finished second to (Class 3A) Palatine on Saturday (Oct. 9) in the 22-school Runnin’ Red Invitational at Black Partridge Park, in Metamora. Palatine had a team composite of 48 points. M-S was next at 105 points. Third-place Oswego East […]
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 […]
By Fred Kroner Eighth-grader Auggie Gaudio set the pace in Mahomet-Seymour’s final boys’ cross-country regular-season meet on Saturday (Oct. 2) at Lodge Park, in Monticello. In a 19-school meet with 162 runners, Gaudio was the meet champion, covering the 2-mile layout in 11 minutes, 18.3 seconds. Three of his teammates […]
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 […]
