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 2019 Nebraska Firearm Deer Season opened up this past weekend and area hunters were finding the deer population plentiful as they filled their permits. Lisa Wangler at Sportsman's Liquor Store has been providing her establishment as a check-in site for many years and was busy once again this year helping to check in deer. As of early Monday morning, she had already checked in 134 deer from both local hunters and many from outside the area – including out-of-state hunters who journeyed to W...
Kimball golfer Bob Kellner stole the spotlight this past week to take senior golf honors with his play at the Four Winds Golf Course. Smooth swinging Bob, who is 86 years young, fired a round of 41-40=81 on a very cool Nov. 14 when the high temperature of the day was 50 degrees. What is more amazing, he shot 5 strokes under his age while wearing a nice winter coat and wearing gloves! His outstanding play wasn't over as he came back the very next day and shot 41-43=84 to once again shoot under...
We are at a lull in the area school athletic happenings, but we do have some junior high sports taking place, and the high school sports practice officially begins Monday, Nov. 18, for the winter sports, which includes boys and girls basketball and wrestling. The Kimball Junior High wresters have had two tournaments, including the Banner County and Kimball invitationals, and the young Longhorns are back in action at Hemingford today – Thursday – with a start time of 10 a.m. The Kimball Junior High girls basketball team opened up hosting a ver... Full story
Dale Hendrickson, a name well known by all of our area sports enthusiasts, is headed into the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame! This same energetic individual who has done so much, not only for the sport of baseball but for all of the sports enjoyed by Kimball High athletes and their fans, received word back in September from those in charge that he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Feb. 9, 2020, in a ceremony at the Country Kitchen Restaurant and Event Center in Beatrice, the same site...
The Winter Sports Season has begun, at least on the Kimball Junior High level. The junior high wrestling team opened the season at the Banner County Tournament in Harrisburg this past Saturday and then hosted their own tournament this past Tuesday. I have talked with Coach Wade Brashear and he hasn’t been able to gather all the results with his very busy schedule, but we will have those for you readers next week. I can tell you that Coach Brashear is excited for the season of both his junior high kids and with his High School squad. He has 1... Full story
While sitting in a medical center in Fort Collins this past week while my wife was getting her eyes checked, I picked up a magazine and found myself reading a very interesting article about how the number of high school kids who are involved in athletics and sporting activities are drastically decreasing – both at the national level and in the Fort Collins area. This also got me thinking about our own situation here at the local level. Some of the figures I will give you were put together by t...
The 2019 Kimball High Football season did not turn out like it was forecast as the Longhorns won only 1 game and lost 7, due in large part to injuries to key personnel and lack of numbers. The Horns won over Southwest on the road in their second game of the season 42-0, but were outscored badly in the other 7 losses and ended up getting outscored 424 to 180 overall while averaging 22.5 points to the opponents 53 a game. As can be expected, they were dominated in almost all categories of both offense and defense. In a look back at the season,...
Congrats going out to Kimball’s Payton Wise for her selection to the 2019 Nebraska Coaches Association Girls Golf Super State/All State Team! What a very special honor for the young sophomore who shot new school records this season and captured 3rd place at the State Tournament. Jordon Greenwood Jordan Greenwood and his Midland University Mens Golf Team has closed out the Fall Season placing 5th at the Whistling Straits Intercollegiate Golf Tournament held at Kohler, Wisconsin. In a field of 16 teams the Warriors shot 676 and Jordan was 2nd low...
Kimball High sophomore Chantel Malson had the honor of running in her second State Cross Country meet this past week and despite finishing farther down the list than she wanted, her running career is certainly of high caliber. In a huge field of 146 runners at the NSAA Class D State Cross Country race held at the Kearney Country Club golf course, Malson finished 109th with her time 24:14.8 over the hilly 5,000 meter course. Coach Tiffany Johnson said, "State definitely did not go the way... Full story
The 2019 football season for the Kimball Longhorns came to an end Friday night with the Horns losing to Bayard 61-24 at Keith Staehr Field. With the loss, Kimball ended up with a record of 1 win and 7 losses, in a season that will be remembered in large part for all the injuries that took a toll, and Friday night brought more of the same. The Horns got off to a good start scoring the opening touchdown with less than 2 minutes gone off the clock. After receiving the opening kickoff, Kimball...
The fall sport season is fast coming to a close! The Kimball High girls golf season has already ended with Payton Wise taking third place and Katie Heeg qualifying in her first year with the sport. The cross country will wind up tomorrow (Friday) with Chantel Malson running at Kearney. The football ends tomorrow (Friday) when Kimball hosts Bayard for Homecoming. The volleyball sub-district tournament starts Monday at Ogallala and although we had nothing official at the time of this writing, Kimball coach Jeri Ferguson thought Kimball would be... Full story
Kimball High sophomore Chantel Malson is the Longhorns' lone qualifier for this Friday's Nebraska State cross country meet to be held at the Kearney Country Club Golf Course. The talented young distance ace finished in 10th place at last week's District Class D meet to qualify as an individual. Her qualifying time was 22:25 at the Bridgeport Courthouse and Jailrock Golf Course. This is Miss Malson's second trip to the State meet, having qualified a year ago as a freshman runner – also f...
Sutherland dominated in their 80-18 win over the Kimball High Longhorns in 8-man football action Friday night at the Sutherland site. The winners jumped out to a 22-6 lead at the end of the opening quarter of play and led 64-12 at halftime after scoring 42 second quarter points. They coasted to the 80-18 win with a running clock the entire second half. Kimball kept it close early when Austin Lulf returned a Sutherland kickoff 75 yards to score just 14 seconds after the host team scored the opening touchdown. The Horns scored again in the...
It certainly was a WISE season for the Kimball High girls golf team and it mostly centered around sophomore Payton Wise, who once again ended her season with a state appearance – and a state medal winning appearance. Payton brought home nine individual medals this season, including winning first place medalist honors at five tournaments. She started the season with a ninth place at Sidney, then won at Bayard with a new school record round of 81. She followed that up with a win at the K...
The Fall Sports season for Kimball High is drawing to a close with the girls state golf finishing early this week. The District cross country will run today (Thursday) at Bridgeport beginning at 3 p.m.. The volleyball team will be in action at the SPVA Conference Tournament in Grant this Saturday -- October 19th and their sub-district play is coming up the week of October 28th. Football this Friday at Sutherland with a 6 p.m. kickoff time, and the Horns end the season at home with Bayard next Friday – October 25th, and it has been designated H... Full story
Congrats going out to Kimball High sophomore Payton Wise for her awesome play in the Nebraska State Class C Girl's State Golf Tournament that concluded this past Tuesday afternoon in North Platte. From field of 94 golfers, Miss Wise finished third to earn her second state medal in her second season of high school golf. In Monday's first day play Payton shot a round of 43-35=78 leaving her in a tie for the lead with a young lady from Boone Central. According to coach Katie Culek the weather was...
The visiting Morrill Lions were simply too much for a battered up Kimball Longhorn football squad in Friday night action at Keith Staehr Field with a final score of 48-6. With the loss, Kimball falls to 1 and 5 on the season with two games remaining on the schedule. Morrill dominated first half play to run the score to 26-0 at intermission with Tanner Whetham accounting for 4 touchdown runs along with the Lions sacking Christian Allen-VanPelt for a safety as well. Allen-VanPelt got Kimball's lon...
After back-to-back conference races this past week, the Kimball High Cross Country Team heads to Bridgeport today for their District race with a start time of 3 p.m.. The District meet is the race that determines what teams, and which individuals, advance to the State competition. A smart move by conference officials saw them move their schedule meets up to avoid the weather that moved through the area last week and the runners were rewarded by some good running conditions. On Tuesday, the...
A total of 58 brave runners ran in this year's Farmer's Day Fun Run, according to Tiffany Johnson, who heads up the project. There were only six runners in the 5-mile race won by Dennis Schildhauer with his time of 38 minutes and 23 seconds. The 2-mile race attracted 53 runners, ranging from age 8 and under to the upper 80 age. Patrick Mars, entered in the 13-19 age division, was the winner with his time 13:07. With an early morning start, the runners had to battle cold and wind. Following is... Full story
No cross country to report this week thanks to lack of communication from Gothenburg to Kimball. Coach Tiffany Johnson took her cross country team all the way to Gothenburg this past Thursday afternoon (193 miles) only to arrive and be told the meet had been cancelled! Anyway, you can read about the running of the Farmer’s Day Fun Run in this week’s sports. A change in advance of the cross country meets scheduled for this week as officials have wisely moved them ahead of the bad weather we are forecast to get. The Western Trails meet at Bay...
Kimball will have two golfers in next week's girls state golf tournament at Lake Maloney Golf Course in North Platte as Payton Wise and Katie Heeg both earned top 10 finishes at the district tournament in McCook this past Tuesday. On a very difficult hilly course with tall native grass on every hole, Wise shot the best score of the day to take top individual honors with her round of 88. Heeg finished eighth with her round of 117, and the sophomore teammates will both move on to state play....
The Kimball High girls golf team played in their final two tournaments this past week as they have only their District Tournament play remaining and hopefully a qualification for the State Tournament. In their final two warm up, and regular season tournaments, they had a sad appearance, and then another very good showing. The not-so-good showing was at the Ogallala Tournament on a Tuesday where the Kimball ladies failed to place a single golfer in the top medal group. It took a round of 92 to... Full story
Chantel Malson ran to yet another top ten finish at last week's Ogallala Cross Country Invite. The talented young sophomore ran 10th in the field of 114 varsity girl runners and her time of 21:49.4 moved her up into 2nd all time in the Kimball High School sophomore records for the 5K distance. Malson's personal best was just one of the personal best times ran by a Kimball girl as Raven Johnson duplicated that feat with her time of 26:41.09 to finish 74th. Brandi Councilman ran a season best...
The Kimball High football team saw their record fall to 1 and 3 following a 55-12 loss on the road to Hemingford Friday night. The Horns have suffered some injuries that hurt their cause, and they have faced three very strong 8-man football teams already. Christian Allen-VanPelt, a hard nosed junior, was pushed into a new role Friday with senior quarterback Brendan Walker sidelined with injury problems and did an admirable job for Kimball but the posing game hurt to some degree. VanPelt gave Kimball a short lived lead with his 23 yard...
The local school sports scene is in full swing and this includes junior high activities for Kimball. It’s hard to get to all of these activities, but thank you coach Dane Wurdeman for sending some football results this week. On September 10 the Kimball Junior High football team played Hemingford and took the young Bobcats right to the final minutes before losing a close nail-biter, 22-20. Kimball came out and took their opening drive for a touchdown with Derek Kohffman and Shay Heim running the ball tough inside. It used up about 10 to 12 p... Full story