By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com We unveiled our winter-sport all-decade teams on Monday. Today, we check in for the fall-sport all-decade teams. Four of the Mahomet-Seymour athletes listed for fall-sport recognition received similar honors for the winter-sport season. The repeaters, all on the boys’ side, are Hunter Crowley, Jordan Geese, Tom […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Twenty years ago, I was tasked with a challenge that was nothing less than daunting. My superiors at The News-Gazette asked me to select an all-decade team. They limited the choices to those individuals who had attended high school or junior college in Vermilion County. As I […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s Max Katz was the top diver on Tuesday in a three-school boys’ swimming meet in Champaign. The Bulldogs defeated Danville 149-93, but lost to the host Maroons, 169-117. Katz was also the third-place finisher in the 100-yard backstroke. Two other M-S swimmers were the runner-up in […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour opened the boys’ swimming season on Saturday by placing second in a four-team meet. Charleston was first with 373 points, followed by the Bulldogs (345), Lincoln (312) and Mount Carmel (176). Senior co-captain Evan Herriott was a two-event placer for M-S. He took second in the […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ swimming team had a record-breaking end to a record-breaking season. The Bulldogs placed fifth in Saturday’s Urbana Sectional and broke school records in four events. No M-S competitors met the times needed to qualify for state. Two of the individual marks were established by freshman […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Olivia McMurry won two individual events and was part of one winning relay on Wednesday as Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ swimming team celebrated Senior Night by winning a triangular meet at Stanford Olympia. M-S totaled 141 points. Runner-up Olympia had 124 points and third-place Jacksonville Routt ended with 61 […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Girls’ swimming M-S finished second in Saturday’s Apollo Conference Triangular Meet at Charleston, but won more events than either of the other two competing schools. The Bulldogs had double individual wins from Eden Oelze and Olivia McMurry. Oelze was victorious in the 200-yard individual medley (2 […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour girls’ swimming improved its season record to 13-3 by winning a triangular meet in Danville on Tuesday. The Bulldogs totaled 114 points and outscored the host Vikings (94 points) and Charleston (54 points). M-S had a record-shattering performance from diver Payton Turk. She broke the school […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Eden Oelze and Olivia McMurry each secured top four finishes in two individual events and helped two relays placed among the top four in Saturday’s Urbana University High Invitational. M-S placed second in the eight-school meet. Chicago University High was the team champion, scoring 413 points. The […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com For the second meet in a row, M-S swimmers on Wednesday set two school records in a quadrangular meet at Urbana. One of the new record-setters is diver Carly Raver, whose score of 167.00 points broke a mark she had established on Saturday. She won the diving […]
