Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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The Kimball boys added two more wins to their basketball season to run their record to 11-3 going into this week's play. The Longhorns travelled to Sutherland Friday night and brought home a 60-44 victory then hung on for a 65-61 win over visiting North Platte St. Pats Saturday night. The Horns busted out to a 28-15 first quarter lead at Sutherland and coasted in for the win with eight players scoring for the winners. Jordan Greenwood was just shy of his season average in leading Kimball with...
Coach Chauncey Pedersen got some good play out of his Kimball High Lady Longhorns over the weekend, but no enough to register a win as the Kimball ladies suffered losses to Sutherland on the road Friday night, and to North Platte St. Pats at home Saturday. The Lady Horns are now 4-9 on the season that is fast drawing to a close. Kimball had a solid first half of play at Sutherland, leading 27-23 at intermission, but was outscored 18-1 in the third period to seal their doom as the host school...
In a long awaited make-up game that was postponed from Dec. 17 due to weather, the Kimball High boys won over Bayard Monday night 74-63 in front of the hometown fans. The latest win leaves Kimball at 12-3 on the season heading into this week’s Western Trails Conference Tournament, where they Horns are the number one seed with a first round bye. The visiting Tigers scored the first two baskets on the night before Jordan Greenwood struck back with a 3 pointer followed by a steal and a layin to go ahead 6-5. Greenwood continued to shine in the ope...
The Kimball boy's junior varsity team has won their last five games and are now 6-2 on the season. Their win over North Platte St. Pats ranks as the game of the week for Kimball High. On Friday night at Sutherland they won out 46-34 with Izaac Reuter high with 13 points followed by Corey Travis with 10, Beau Hanks 6, Kole Bush 3, Zane Anthony 4, Brendan Walker 4 and Brayden Tyan 2. The JV team pulled out a 52-50 win over visiting St. Pats Saturday night in a game that was exciting from start to...
Kimball had two medal winners at the tough Mitchell Invitational Wrestling Tournament held this past Saturday. Torrington was the team champion with 160.5 points with Bridgeport runner-up with 139. Kimball finished 11th team wise with 21 points. “The Mitchell Invitational was a tough tournament for us. We ended with two placers in Jordan Cluff 3rd at 113 and Jaden our 4th at 132,” said coach Wade Brashear. “As a team we wrestled decent, but we also lost matches we should have won. At times we showed some good quality wrestling, but we lost too...
More than $5,000 in Keno money was requested, and subsequently dispersed during the Jan. 17, 2017 Kimball City Council meeting, most of which will be used to help the youth of the area. Chari Mohr requested a Keno grant of $2,500 on behalf of the 2017 Post Prom Committee at the meeting. Kimball’s prom will be on April 8, in the gym with the post prom activities held in the high school as well. The total cost for post prom activities are projected at $6,000. Currently the committee is tallying up grocery receipts and two fund raisers have b...
Carey Story, son of Don and Sheila Story, blends his teaching degree with a love of the outdoors, the agriculture background he embraced, his interest in economics and the home-grown hospitality of Kimball to make the Thunderstik Lodge in Chamberlain S.D., and his story, a success. Story is the fifth generation of his family born in Kimball. He graduated from Kimball High School and went on to study agriculture education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a minor in economics. His...
The Kimball High School speech team competed on Saturday, Jan. 21 in Scottsbluff against seven other schools from the C and D division, and Kimball came away with a first place win. Nicholas Thomas-Lewis placed first in Persuasive Speaking and Poetry, Kennedy Lewis won second in Extemporaneous Speaking and the Oral Interpretation of Drama team, consisting of Kaden Adrian, Paycen Harroun, Connor Moore, Audrey Day and Kiersten Anderson took fifth. "The meet is the easy part. For me, getting my...
City of Kimball street department superintendent Jim Shoup reported to the City Council that two projects were deleted from last year's one to six year plan and two different projects replaced them. At the regular City Council meeting, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, Shoup said that the deleted projects originally on the one to six year plan were no longer necessary or feasible. One, a turning lane on Highway 30 near IOS/Castronics, could not have been completed because the highway belongs to the State of...
Kimball City Council recently took another step forward on properties deemed unsafe within city limits. During the recent City Council meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 17, council considered properties at 106 and 106 ½ Washington Street. These properties are listed as fire hazards and unsafe for neighbors; they have non-operational vehicles, and debris that can harbor vermin, as well as broken windows that could allow access into the dwellings. City attorney Kent Hadenfeldt counseled city leaders...
A very good day on the mats for the Kimball High wrestling team this past weekend as they had five wrestlers place and brought home two first place medals. The usual two-day tournament was shortened to just one day (Friday) due to a limited amount of entries this year. Winning championship status were Jordan Cluff at 106 and Eric Escajeda at 285, while Jaden Mohr at 132 and Izaac Glanz at 170 both finished fourth, and Stephen Bateman was fifth at 182. Cluff was perfect on the day in winning...
The Kimball High boys played themselves proud in finishing second in the SPVA Conference Basketball Tournament held this past week. After a first round win over Chase County in a game played on Kimball's home court, with the Horns winning 64-56 in overtime, Kimball then won 55-49 over Perkins County in a semi final contest. With the two victories, the Horns then advanced to the championship game with Hershey and suffered their lone loss in tournament play with the Panthers winning out 55-49....
Still hurting from the loss of Alex Reader, as they will be the balance of the season, the Kimball High Lady Longhorns suffered a pair of 4 point losses during SPVA Conference Tournament play this past week. In first round play they hosted Bridgeport and lost 39-35, and then lost 46-42 to Sutherland in the battle for 5th place on Saturday at North Platte Community College, leaving them now with a record of 4-7 after a 3-1 start. Reader, a junior and returning all conference player, along with being Kimball’s top scorer with a 15 point a...
A couple of long road trips to North Platte this past week to cover the SPVA Conference Tournament. Had some fog to battle on the trip home on Thursday but the roads were alright. I saw a lot of good basketball and talked to a lot of old friends. I am proud to report that both the Kimball girls and boys represented our school and our town in great fashion. As I have reported several times, the Kimball girl’s team is hurting with the loss of their leading scorer, Alex Reader, who will have major knee surgery this week, but they have r...
Traditionally, the Kimball school board uses the first meeting of each new year to reappoint officers, board committees, media and financial affiliates. This year was no different. At their Jan. 9 regular meeting, the Kimball Board of Education renewed the officers of the board, electing to keep everyone in the current positions. President of the board remains Lynn Vogel, board vice president is Clint Cornils, Heather Norberg is secretary and Carrie Tabor is treasurer. Each board member serves on various committees as well, assigned by the...
Naturopathy is her calling, but at one time Dr. Kim Matteo had chosen a much more traditional healing path, that of a surgeon. Matteo began researching natural healing with the birth of her second son, who had suffered a stroke in utero. Doctors told her to continue school and put him in a facility for the short amount of time he would have. "I chose to be his mom, instead. It was for the quest for my son's health, that I started the journey into natural healing, and it started with nutrition,"...
My grandma used to watch us when my mom worked and we were too young for school. Our time together was short, usually just a few hours. Still, we often had lunch with her and then she would rest in her chair and watch her stories. I would get a big Children’s Bible out, a pencil and paper, and begin copying the symbols on each page, one after the other in long lines – just like I saw them in the book. I couldn’t read, and I didn’t know that those symbols were letters which, when strung together in certain patterns became words. I had no idea th...
The Kimball High Boys and the Potter-Dix Girls emerged winners in contests between the two schools this past week. The Potter-Dix girls won out 51-41 over Kimball with the Lady Coyotes out scoring the Lady Longhorns 14-7 in the final period to come out on top. The Potter-Dix boys are in a rebuilding year and Kimball had no problem winning out 64-14. The girls game was a game of two-halves as Kimball jumped out to a 13-4 early lead and was ahead 15-9 at the quarter break. Potter-Dix went on a...
Kimball senior Eric Escajeda was the Longhorn's only medal winner at the Chase County Invitational Wrestling Tournament held this past Saturday in Imperial. Escajeda brought home the third place medal wrestling at 285 winning 3 matches and losing twice. Kimball's big guy suffered losses by fall to Freeze of Bridgeport and Louder of Hershey and registered wins over Hodges of Hitchcock County 5-0, pinned Nicholson of Hershey in 4:40, and won by forfeit over Shoemaker of Sidney. Kimball finished...
The Kimball High boys went on the road this past weekend and picked up two more wins at Bridgeport and Gordon running their season record to 7-2. No problem at Bridgeport on Friday night with the Horns winning 69-46 but had to battle hard to win at Gordon Saturday night 58-53. Coach Nick Kuxhausen had lots of praise for the play of his team over the weekend stressing the defense. "Our defensive play as a team is what made our wins possible this past weekend," said Kuxhausen. "The transition...
It’s SPVA week for the Kimball High basketball team and Kimball fans lucked out in that they didn’t have to travel for first round play as both the Kimball girls and boys were first round hosts. There was a delay in the boy’s game which was supposed to have been played this past Monday night, but due to the ice storms east of us, their game with Chase County was moved back one day, to Tuesday, the same night the Kimball girls hosted Bridgeport. There you go, a double header at home. After the first round play, all the remaining contests will...
A win and a loss for the Kimball High girls the past weekend. The win came Friday night at Bridgeport with the Lady Horns coming out on top 45-40 and the loss came Saturday night at Gordon-Rushville 64-44. The Kimball girls are now 4-5 in the win-loss department. Kimball had to battle back in the second half to get the win at Bridgeport as they trailed 13-8 at the quarter break and were down 21-18 at half time. Kimball took their first lead in the contest early in the third period after Kate Reader scored on a move inside, Alexis Lulf hit one...
The Potter-Dix Coyotes faced a tough opening weekend following the holiday break. The Potter-Dix club began with an away game against the Bayard Tigers on Friday, Jan. 6 and came home with a 60-29 loss. The Coyotes faced a deeper Bayard bench which coach Ryan Mumm attempted to combat strategically. “With our lack of depth, fatigue can become an issue but we try to control the tempo of games to counteract our lack of depth,” he said. “ Scoring against the Tigers was led by Dylan Nielsen with 12. Nielsen landed one trey and shot 2/4 from the f...
Kimball’s boy’s junior varsity team pick dup wins at Bridgeport and Gordon-Rushville and are not 4-3 on the season after winning their last 3 times out. At Bridgeport Friday night they prevailed 61-49 with 10 players scoring. Beau Hanks scored 9 points, all in the 4th quarter, Kole Bush 10, Brady Kilgore and Corey Travis 8 each, Sam Cajero 6, Izaac Reuter 6, Brendan Walker 6, Zane Anthony 4, Grant Hickman 3, and Brayden Tyan 1. At Gordon, Kimball won 47-39 with Reuter and Travis both with 10 points, Anthony, Hanks, and Kilgore with 6 each, Bus...
How does one choose a set of photographs to showcase all the history, wonder and beauty of the area surrounding them? That was the biggest challenge for Kimball's Kimberley Sharples as she narrowed her entries down for the "Bridges: Sharing our Past to Enrich the Future" exhibit. Ultimately, Sharples decided on ten distinct pieces. "That was very hard because I wasn't sure what they were looking for. I was thinking historic things that had been around a long time but still looked good," she...