Mahomet Seymour High School

On Saturday, the Mahomet-Seymour High School Boys Cross Country team competed in the Richard Spring Peoria Notre Dame Invitational at Detweiller Park in Peoria. Mahomet-Seymour is 2A in a three-class system. This meet has many 3A teams competing. There were three races held today--a boys open race, a boys varsity race, and a boys fresh/soph race. 71 schools competed in the varsity race, with 65 of those schools bringing complete teams (5 or more runners). The team placed 21st in the varsity race. This is the highest the team has placed since 2021, when the team placed 14th. Among 2A and 1A schools, the team placed 2nd behind 2A Aurora (Marmion Academy). Our scorers in the varsity race were junior Auggie Gaudio, junior Henry McMurry, senior Kaleb Kasper, senior Zach Wilcoski, and sophomore Tate Bode. 55 schools competed in the open race, with 47 of those schools bringing complete teams (5 or more runners). The team placed 14th in the open race. This is the highest open team placement we have on the record. Our scorers in the junior varsity race were freshman Tay Gergen, freshman Kiptyn Fan, freshman Henry Welch, freshman Carter Alderks, and senior Gavin Fan. We keep records of the top 25 fastest times run by class for MSHS runners at the Richard Spring Peoria Notre Dame Invitational. Kaleb Kasper ran the 25th fastest MSHS senior time with a 16:25 Auggie Gaudio ran the 11th fastest MSHS junior time with a 15:28. Henry McMurry ran the 17th fastest MSHS junior time with a 15:43. The weather was mild for the open race at 9:10am. By the varsity race at 10:30am, the weather had become quite warm and sunny. We had 14 of our 22 runners run lifetime 3-mile bests today--junior Auggie Gaudio, junior Henry McMurry, senior Kaleb Kasper, senior Zach Wilcoski, sophomore Tate Bode, junior Corban McMinn, freshman Tay Gergen, sophomore Jack Van Hoorn, freshman Kiptyn Fan, freshman Henry Welch, freshman Carter Alderks, sophomore Blake Patrick, freshman Dominic Bruns, and freshman Bernardo Allan Pinto. Next weekend, the team will compete at Illinois Central College in East Peoria in the East Peoria Invitational. The boys varsity race will start at 9:40am, and the boys junior varsity will start at 11:00am. Full Mahomet-Seymour results can be seen below. Boys Varsity (Top 10) Place Name Grade Time 32 Augustus Gaudio 11 15:27.38 65 Henry McMurry 11 15:42.83 175 Kaleb Kasper 12 16:24.40 218 Zach Wilcoski 12 16:38.43 263 Tate Bode 10 16:52.11 268 Lukas Nykaza 12 16:53.57 313 Corban McMinn 11 17:14.98 347 Adam Smigielski 9 17:31.41 377 Jack Van Hoorn 10 17:42.70 378 Liam Burwell 9 17:43.79 Boys Open Place Name Grade Time 44 Tayten Gergen 9 17:15.64 91 Kiptyn Fan 9 17:46.01 96 Henry Welch 9 17:47.44 97 Carter Alderks 9 17:48.35 175 Gavin Fan 12 18:34.57 216 Jackson Koontz 10 19:00.68 222 Ben Schultz 11 19:03.35 234 Blake Patrick 10 19:08.40 331 Garen Johnson-Farkhoyan 9 20:06.97 394 Dominic Bruns 9 20:43.09 430 Bernardo Allan Pinto 9 21:01.88 446 Matthew Gray 10 21:11.36