Midwest Central High School - Home of the Raiders

On Saturday, the Raiders traveled to Springfield to the 57th annual Jack Gardner Memorial Tournament. 25 teams entered this tournament from all over the state. You could even find UFC legend Matt Hughes in the stands! Kaci Eller fought hard against the boys and earned a win. Bocephus Schnoor was on a pinning spree! He pinned three opponents and placed 3rd! Liam Zimmerman added another pin to his season. Cole Beebe had two wins one of them being his first pin of the season. He finished at 6th place. Kaiden Hill added four more wins with two of them pins, he placed 3rd!

MCHS will be hosting an alumni basketball game at 5:00 on Friday, January 16, 2025, prior to the boys home basketball games vs. Mt. Pulaski.  If you earned a varsity letter playing basketball for Midwest Central, Green Valley, or Forman, please attend for recognition of your contribution by the basketball program.  Following the announcement of our former varsity players, there will be a semi competitive (with hopefully no injuries) game held between any alumni that can still hoop it up and get up and down the hardwood.  We are looking forward to great evening of community and school pride!

Here's to a fresh start, new adventures, and wonderful memories ahead. Happy New Year!

The Raiders boys basketball team had a busy weekend ahead of Christmas break. On Friday night, the Raiders went to Normal Calvary and took care of business with two blowout wins. The JV team headed to break with a 6-0 record with no games closer than 15 points, but the bigger tests will be in January as the schedule toughens up. Then on Saturday, the Varsity Raiders won 64-40 over Dunlap’s JV with a balanced scoring attack and stifling defense. In the nightcap, Stark County came out on fire making 9 of their first 10 3 pointers and built a large halftime lead. The boys in Black battled back to bring the game within 1 with a minute to go, but eventually came up short 66-62. The Raiders sit at 6-5 on the season and get a much needed break until they travel to Lexington on January 3. The support and enthusiasm from the community has been felt by the players and coaches and through more hard work and practice, big things are to come from the program later this winter.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

The Raiders traveled to Jacksonville to wrestle tournament at Illinois College on Saturday. 37 teams entered this event! Here are the results: Girl’s Brackets: Maddie Moore 3rd Molly Egli 5th Boy’s Brackets: Kaci Eller 4th Bocephus Schnoor 3rd Jake Mitchell 8th Liam Zimmerman 6th Kaiden Hill 4th Kamden Merrill 3rd Carson Johnson 6th Richard Gilmore 6th “We saw some good competition there! We upset some teams and we had some heartbreaking matches ourselves. I think the team knows what we need to do to get better and we’ll work on it!” - Coach Augi

Christmas Break time is here!

Today marks the end of our 2nd 9 weeks

January Menus

This year we started a new reading incentive at the Middle School and High School: 100 Book Before Graduation! The goal: for students to read 100 books between 6th -12th grades. To encourage students who don't have 7 years to complete the challenge, we lowered the goal for students above 6th grade. This year's seniors have a goal of 10 books by the end of April.

While we have no doubt she's read 100 books since 6th grade, Hailey Green is our first student to reach the 100 Books Before Graduation goal! Hailey (and any other seniors who meet their goal by the end of April) will be recognized at Senior Night in May.

If you have a student at MCMS or MCHS, encourage them to read and log their books on the library website: https://shaffer46.wixsite.com/mchslibrary/general-6

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The Freshman Raiders put on a display of toughness in a win against Riverton tonight. Midwest Central pulled away for a final score 55–43 after a strong second half, using balanced scoring and defensive pressure to take control. The Raiders were led by J. Hunter with 15 points, knocking down four three-pointers, while N. Coffey added 14 points and C. Watts chipped in 12 to give Midwest Central three players in double figures. After a tight first half, the Raiders outscored Riverton 31–22 over the final two quarters, forced turnovers, and hit timely shots to secure the victory.

The "traveling duck" has landed at Midwest Central. Midwest Central beat IC last night to take possession of it. It will be roosting at Midwest Central until next basketball season when we play Havana.

In a typical Mason County battle on the hardwood, the Raiders came out of top 45-38 on Tuesday night over Illini Central in Manito.   The Cougars raced out to a 12-3 lead after 1 quarter. But the Raiders roared back to take a 22-16 lead at the half. Using stifling defense throughout by the Proehl boys on the IC sharpshooter, the Raiders limited him to only 13 points on the game. Once again, Jaxson Robinson came off the bench  like his pants were on fire to drop some corner 3s and lead the team with 13 points on the night. Malachi Carroll chipped in 9 points, Joe Proehl had 8, and Josh Dawe went 4-4 on free throws down the stretch as the Raiders sealed the deal in front of a raucous crowd of cheering Raider fans.   With the win, the Raiders moved to 4-4 on the season and sit atop the Tomahawk Conference with a record of 2-0.   The Raiders also captured the traveling Duck trophy as the current Kings of Mason County Basketball!