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 and girls track teams go into the district meet Thursday, May 12, at Mitchell after a competitive showing at last week's Cheyenne County meet in Leyton. Pole vaulters Trey Schindler and James McGinnis both cleared 11 feet to tag team for first and second, while Kaitlin Heeg took first in the triple jump and 100-meter hurdles. Also enjoying a first place finish was Banner County's Riley Jones in the high jump. Here are the Kimball and Banner County top placers at the Cheyenne...
The Kimball boys golf team was scheduled to return for some home cooking at its Four Winds Golf Course home Thursday this week after hosting the SPVA conference tournament last Friday. However, the annual local invite could be held next Wednesday at best, weather permitting. But if it’s canceled at that time, it won’t be held at all this year. Meanwhile, freshman Kyler Lusche shot a 78 on his home course to win the SPVA conference title. The Kimball team score was 402. The rest of the Kimball team played solid on the Four Winds course with Tre...
The Kimball boys and girls track teams found tough competion at the Bayard CD Invite. The girls placed 13th with 25 points, while Bayard was first with 79. The boys placed 15th with 4 points, while Pine Bluffs was first with 86. They're now in a busy stretch of the season. The Longhorns returned to action on Tuesday, April 5, at Creek Valley and next compete Saturday, April 9 in Holyoke. At Bayard, senior Katie Heeg placed third in the triple jump finals (31 feet, 5 inches), fourth in the...
Two Banner County officials and a Banner County employee have been charged with Class 2 and Class 4 misdemeanors stemming from an incident on Dec. 28, according to court records. The charges include public indecency and drinking on public property or a road. The individuals involved are County Treasurer Monty Stoddard, 58, County Assessor Bernice Huffman, 46, who were elected to their positions, and employee Caily Reece, 32. Their first court appearance was March 2 for arraignment, where each pleaded not guilty to the charges. A pre-trial for...
The 2021-22 basketball season goes down with three victories in the win column for the young Kimball Longhorns. The Longhorns, 3-19 overall, ended their year with a 71-32 loss Tuesday, Feb. 22, to eventual champion Leyton in the first round of the D1-12 Subdistrict Tournament. The previous Friday they lost a home nonconference game to Mitchell, 61-30. Here's a recap. Mitchell 61, Kimball 30 Sophomore Wyatt Cords shot 50 percent from the field (5-for-10) and led the Horns with 13 points while...
The Kimball boys basketball team enters the home stretch of their 2021-22 season with something they hadn’t possessed until last week. A win. The young, scrappy Longhorns opened the SPVA conference last week with a 0-11 record and exited it with a 1-13 record thanks to a 45-31 victory over another team looking for a better future, Sutherland. Next up for the Longhorns are Banner County on Jan. 27, Sutherland on Jan. 28 and a trip to North Platte St. Pats on Jan. 29 before heading to the WTC tournament Feb. 3-6. The seventh seed Horns open t...
Potter-Dix High School is home to this year's D2 One Act State Runner-Up team and the NSAA D2 State Best Actor, Gunnar Oleson. This outstanding team of Coyote thespians also won Conference and District....
Teams from Sidney and Kimball took top honors at the 30th Annual Kimball Hospital Foundation Golf Classic at Four Winds Golf Course on Saturday. An impressive 16-under-par 56 earned the Shelter Insurance-Sidney team of Richard Estrada, Trevor Schuessler, Mike O'Connell and Andrew Stieb first place after a scorecard playoff over second-place finishers Zane Anthony, Brendan Walker, Brian Williams and Cole Bush of Kimball. Taking third with a 15-under-par 57 in the four-person scramble fundraiser...
Plans for building a new hospital in Kimball took a big step forward this week. At its meeting Monday, the Kimball Health Services Board of Trustees announced receiving approval of a $23.4 million direct loan through the US Department of Agriculture’s Community Facilities Direct Loan Program, a crucial first stage in securing financing for the estimated $32 million facility. “We were thrilled to get that phone call from the USDA office in North Platte that the national office in Washington had approved.” said Ken Hunter, CEO at Kimball Healt...
Jesse Heide-Sieren tied for 39th in a field of 93 at the 2021 NSAA Class C Boys Golf Championship at Kearney Country Club on May 25 and 26. Heide-Sieren shot rounds of 93 and then 90 for a total of 183. The senior also carded the best two-day score among those in his Day 2 foursome. Heide-Sieren was the lone Longhorn to make the field at State. The individual champion was senior Rockney Peck of Wisner-Pilger, who shot rounds of 72 and 76 for a 6 over par total of 148 – 5 strokes ahead of r...
These members of the armed forces from Kimball and Banner Counties made the supreme sacrifice in wartime action for the United States. World War I Neeley, Chas. V. World War II Bickel, Robert K. Childers, Keith L. Dowd, Francis M. Flohr, Elmer Gettel. Everette Holm, Keith T. Johnson, Gilbert F. Reader, Penrod Siebenaler, Francis R. Skigezane, Masso Southard, Harry Terry, Milo E. Watson, Howard Tebrinke, Eugene R. Brown, Robert E. Burback, John Haack, Clifford H. Murray Wayne Maginnis, Robert E. Vietnam War Steele, Edward Operation Iraqi...
The Kimball Golf Invite was held May 6 at Four Winds Golf Course with 15 teams on hand. Mitchell won with a total score of 324 – and five golfers in the top 10 individually. Bridgeport was second at 360 and Sidney third with 372. Kimball didn’t qualify for the team standings. Throughout the season, Kimball has been unable to field a complete team and only three individuals have been playing: Jesse Heide-Sieren, Cole Henton, and Landon Norberg. In individual play, Mitchell’s Cael Peters won with a 75 and teammate Austin Thyne shot a 78 for s...
The Kimball Longhorns track and field teams started their week as expected at the Western Trails Conference Meet on May 3, but they ended it differently than planned on Friday, May 7. The Horns originally were scheduled to attend the Bayard BCD meet, but a change of plans took them to the Cheyenne County meet – and both the girls and boys showed well. In an eight-school field, the Kimball girls squad was runner-up to South Platte in what amounted to a two-team battle for the championship. The K...
The Kimball track team is preparing for the Kimball Track Invite on Saturday, March 27, after competing in the Chadron Indoor. Results for Kimball athletes at the March 20 Chadron Indoor include: • Raven Johnson won the pole vault. • Maddie Merryfield placed ninth in the 60-meter hurdles. • Chantel Malson ran ninth in the 60-meter dash, and Conner Cluff ran the 400 meters. • Tianna Stierwalk performed well in the high jump, and Isaak Rhode participated in the shot put. Golf & Junior High Track In other spring sports, the first competi...
The Minuteman Activities Conference named its All-Conference selections in basketball for the 2020-21 season, with several area student-athletes recognized for their superior performances during the season. Potter-Dix was well-represented. For boys basketball, Potter-Dix sophomore Luke Kasten and Potter-Dix junior Thomas Muldoon were named to the first team. So was junior KJ Bush of Leyton, Creek Valley senior Just Ningen and Potter-Dix senior Javon Coyle were named to the second team. Creek Valley senior Oakley Hodges and Leyton sophomore...
The winter sports season ends with the announcements of all-conference selections for the Western Trails Conference – and Kimball High School had a number of athletes who were named and recognized. Among the Longhorn wrestlers, 145-pounder Trey Schindler earned a place on the All-WTC team for his performance during the 2020-21 season. On top of that, three Kimball student-athletes were named as wrestling honorable mentions, adding to the school's mat legacy. They are Aaron Gillming at 106 p...
Kimball's season came to an end in the first round of the C2-12 Sub District Tournament, as they matched up against number one seed Bridgeport and were overmatched. Kimball ends its season 0-16 but had the opportunity to get younger players playing time that should translate into wins in coming seasons. Freshman Wyatt Cords led Longhorn scoring with eight points. For the season, senior Cole Henton led with 115 points, 15 successful three point attempts and seven blocked shots, junior Roy...
Kimball's Longhorn Wrestling team sent two members to the NSAA State Tournament last week to compete in the annual championships in Class D. Sophomore James McGinnis represented Kimball in the 126 pound weight class, and lost his first match by decision to Elkhorn Valley's Tristan Smith. McGinnis next wrestled against Plainview's Jordan Mosel, and also lost by decision. Senior Connor Cluff represented Kimball in the 132 pound weight class, and had his first match against Brady's Jeremy Larson, w...
Kimball's Lady Longhorn basketball team was unable to improve its record over the last week, dropping a contest on the road against Morrill and then falling at home to Pine Bluffs. Kimball traveled to Morrill last Thursday Feb. 4, and both teams started hot, while the Longhorns struggled with turnovers. Ilycia Guerue was the standout for Morrill, cutting through the Kimball defense while causing turnovers and stealing the ball away from the Lady Longhorns all game. After opening a five point...
The Kimball Longhorn wrestling team is sending two wrestlers to the NSAA State Championships in Omaha this week – sophomore James McGinnis at 126 pounds and senior Conner Cluff at 132. McGinnis placed third and Cluff placed fourth at the Class D District 4 tournament in Sutherland on Saturday. “It was a strange year with us missing a couple of tournaments and many practices due to COVID,” Horns coach Bob Culek told the Observer. “However, the kids continued to work hard and stay focused. We had a good showing at subdistricts with three qualify...
Here are the results for the Kimball Wrestling Club at the sold out 2020 Bridgeport Wrestling Tournament. PreK - K Gym #1 40-42 Braysen Atkins’s place is 1st and has scored 20.0 team points. Round 1 - Braysen Atkins (Kimball Wrestling Club) won by fall over Cord Armstrong (Bayard Wrestling Club) (Fall 0:20) Round 2 - Braysen Atkins (Kimball Wrestling Club) won by fall over Cutter Conklin (Gering Wrestling Club) (Fall 0:47) Round 3 - Braysen Atkins (Kimball Wrestling Club) won by fall over Alec Hubbell (Alliance wrestling club) (Fall 0:42) PreK...
The Kimball Longhorns wrestling team traveled on Saturday to Maxwell to compete in the Class D Sub-District 4A tournament – and qualified three wrestlers to compete at the District Championships next week. Their mission there is to earn a spot at the NSAA State Tournament. Kimball’s trio includes: • Sophomore James McGinnis, who placed second in the 126 pound bracket. • Senior Connor Cluff, who placed second in the 132 pound bracket. • Sophomore Trey Schindler, who placed second in the 145 pound bracket. All three qualified for the Class D D...
Kimball High School enjoyed a taste of winning basketball when the girls beat Perkins County last week, 48-41. It was a team highlight during a week in which the boys lost to Perkins County and both the Longhorn boys and girls were outsted early in the Western Trails Conferece Tournament. Kimball vs. Perkins County Senior Megan Spicer led Kimball in scoring against Perkins County with 15 points. Also scoring for the Longhorn girls were senior Sydney Biesecker with 10 points, junior Chantel Malso...
Kimball wrestlers Connor Cluff and Trey Schindler were successful at the Hemingford Bobcat Invite last Friday, with each wrestler earning a gold medal for their efforts. Cluff defeated Garden County’s Gavin Hunt by fall in the quarterfinals and then defeated Leyton’s Dawson Juelfs in the semifinals to earn his spot in the finals in the 132-pound weight class. Cluff then defeated Baryard’s Zach Araujo by a 10-6 decision to earn 1st place. Schindler defeated Ainsworth’s Kaleab Zorkowski by fall in the quarterfinals, then defeated Bayard...
Here are the Kimball Wrestling Club’s remaining results from the Rumble at the Rock 2021. These results are continued from last week’s paper. 3rd-4th (Session 1) 60-62B Round 5 - Tyce Dunn (Sturgis Wrestling) won by fall over Christian Soto-Young (Kimball Wrestling Club) (Fall 0:37) 3rd-4th (Session 1 9am-12pm) 62-64 Trajan Johnson’s place is 2nd and has scored 11.0 team points. Round 1 - Trajan Johnson (Kimball Wrestling Club) won by fall over John Morrison (Moorcroft Mat Masters) (Fall 0:22) Round 2 - Ethan McCoy (Chadron Wrestling Club)...