BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com The Mahomet-Seymour Color Guard took the court and first place with their color guard routine at the Illinois Drill Team Association (IDTA) competition in Clinton Saturday. They also placed second with their Lyrical flag routine. Both routines qualified the Bulldogs for the IDTA State Competition on February […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs (5-2) dominated a three-school meet on Thursday at Lincoln. M-S’ winning point total of 100 was more than the other two competing schools had combined, Lincoln (57) and Stanford Olympia (23). The Bulldogs took first in all three relays and also had winning efforts in […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Savannah Orgeron scored a career-high 17 points on Thursday, but M-S suffered a 54-48 Apollo Conference loss at Effingham. Orgeron also hit a new career-high with five three-point field goals. The 5-foot-10 freshman totaled 46 points and six three-pointers in her first 16 high school games, but […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com With balanced scoring continuing to be a bonus, the Mahomet-Seymour seventh-grade boys’ basketball team extended its winning ways with three victories by margins of nine, or fewer, points. The team’s winning streak was at 17 games before Thursday’s 40-35 loss to Champaign Jefferson. The seventh-graders are 17-3 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Grant Coleman is not a basketball player who focuses on records and individual milestones. The Mahomet-Seymour senior was not immediately aware of the significance of the game he had on Tuesday at Mattoon. He knew he had scored 44 points – that knowledge was hard to […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mount Zion put a halt to Mahomet-Seymour’s four-game winning streak in girls’ basketball on Monday, posting a 53-40 victory over the Bulldogs in their own gym. Durbin Thomas scored a team-high 11 points and made a career-high three three-pointers. Other top point-makers for the Bulldogs were Savannah […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com In the battle for first place in the Apollo Conference on Friday, visiting Lincoln dealt Mahomet-Seymour its worst loss of the boys’ basketball season, 70-51. “We got down early and were not able to recover,” M-S head coach Ryan Bosch said. “I thought we could handle […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Weather conditions prevented the Bulldogs from competing in a tournament at Sycamore, but instead they joined the field at Prairie Central on Saturday and captured team honors in the 17-school event. M-S amassed 252 points to outdistance the runner-up host school, which ended with 212 points in […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs remained unbeaten in Apollo Conference action on Tuesday on the road, rallying to handle Effingham 71-67. Grant Coleman converted 13 of 15 free throws and tossed in a game-high 30 points. It was his third 30-point game of the season. “We played very inconsistent to […]
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 […]
