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 […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour amassed 33 runs and 32 hits on Tuesday in a softball doubleheader sweep of visiting Lincoln in Apollo Conference action. The Bulldogs won each game by the 10-run rule, 14-4 in the opener and 19-1 in the four-inning second game. The Bulldogs pounded seven of 17 […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Seven players scored goals, six players had assists and two players had saves on Thursday as the unbeaten and unscored upon Mahomet-Seymour girls’ soccer team won at Centennial, 7-0. Brea Benson scored the first M-S goal, assisted by Madison Wade, who later had another assist and also […]
By FRED KRONERfred@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. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Two Mahomet-Seymour athletes won individual titles on Saturday in the boys’ Class 2A division of the Illinois Prep Top Times indoor track and field meet at Illinois Wesleyan University’s Shirk Center. The meet is considered the unofficial state indoor meet. Junior Hunter Hendershot defended his title in […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Two Mahomet-Seymour athletes won individual events in the large-school division of Saturday’s Charleston Indoor Invitational at Eastern Illinois University. In his season debut, Mathias Powell posted a victory of nearly 40 seconds in the 3,200-meter race. Powell was timed in 9 minutes, 30.17 seconds. Teammate Hunter Hendershot […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour athletic teams were 3-for-3 this week in capturing wins in scored events. The girls’ soccer and softball teams opened their outdoor seasons with victories while the boys’ indoor track and field team dominated at its own invitational. The baseball team was unable to get its scheduled […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Sam Tamburo is not a typical transfer. First, she transferred from a high school in Arizona to Mahomet-Seymour for her senior year. How many teen-agers willingly leave a warm-weather climate for an area that produces negative wind chills multiple times during the winter? “I missed Illinois terribly,” […]
A long season is about to come to an end. The Mahomet-Seymour Junior High wrestling team has been competing since Nov. 27, but this weekend, seven of the team’s wrestlers will finish what they started by competing in the IESA State Tournament. Eighth-grade wrestlers Caden Hatton, Brad Schoonover, Brennan Houser, […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour split up its track and field teams on Saturday, sending individuals to compete at two locations. Some Bulldogs went to Mount Zion for the Apollo Conference Indoor Meet. Others traveled to the University of Illinois Armory, in Champaign, for the First to Finish Centennial Charger Indoor […]
