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 holiday break is over and the second half of the season for winter sports gets underway this week. In fact, there is basketball on tap this evening (Thursday, Jan. 3) at the Kimball High gym as the Longhorns host Class B Sidney with the JV games set for 4 p.m. followed by the girls and boys varsity games. There also will be a Kiwanis feed for you hungry fans. There’s more sports on Saturday, Jan. 5, with the Kimball High basketball teams traveling to Imperial to take on Chase County. JV game times are 2 p.m. with the varsity games f...
The Kimball High winter sports scene is pretty much shut down as they adhere to the Nebraska State School Activities Association Moratorium rules that shut down practices for all Nebraska schools for 5 days from December 22 through December 26. This means Kimball can begin practice sessions beginning today, but there is still no school until January 7th, but our basketball teams will return to competition on January 3 when both girls and boys host Sidney, and on January 5 they go to Chase County. The Longhorn wrestlers are back on the mast Janu...
The Kimball High Wrestling Team closed out the early portion of their season at a triangular in Imperial this past week before going on break for the Holiday lay off, mandated by the NSAA. With only 6 wrestlers on the roster, it is hard to win a dual competition against teams with more numbers. Despite this, Kimball had some positive results according to coach Wade Brashear. Kimball lost to Chase County 64-18 with Jordan Cluff winning by fall over Alex Gomez at 120 with fall time at 4:00, and Stephen Bateman at 285 also won by fall in 2:00...
Despite not having winning season, the Kimball Junior High girl’s basketball teams showed promise under the direction of coaches Danielle Reader and Tori Ingram. Coach Reader’s 7th grade team ended with a record of 4 wins and 5 losses, while coach Ingram’s 8th grade team wound up with a 3-6 record. Low numbers was a problem with only 7 girls on the 7th grade team consisting of Ema Goodwin, Julia Winstrom, Shannon Marks, Katie Kilgore, Aspyn Kiefer, McKenna Bowron, and Jasmine Gawith. The 8th grade team 8 girls including Emma Patterson, Jayde...
A disappointing weekend for the Kimball High boys as they dropped games to Hershey and Bayard on consecutive nights of home court play. The Horns saw their season record fall to 2-4 with a Friday night loss to Hershey by a score of 66-53, and a Saturday evening loss to Bayard of 51-35. Hershey came to Kimball with just 1 loss and showed the fans why as they are tall, and talented, and playing the style of ball coach Dustin Jorgenson desires with aggressive defense and control offense. Kimball...
Dillon Wise signed his letter of intent this past week to attend McCook Community College in McCook, Nebraska, where he will continue his education and golf career.The Kimball High senior will close out a very successful high school career this spring hoping to once again help lead his Kimball High golf team to a bountiful year of honors and awards. The standout golfer attracted lots of attention from many schools and along with his scholarship offer from McCook, he also had offers from...
A double-win weekend for the Kimball girls as they ran their season record to 3-1. On Friday night at home the Lady Longhorns won over Perkins County 65-29 and on Saturday at Morrill they came out on top 58-40. A good offensive showing both nights for the Kimball ladies! Both nights Kimball started slow and against Perkins County they actually trailed 5-3 before they got rebound baskets from Carli Wurdeman and Sydney Biesecker along with a layin from Megan Spicer to lead 9-5 at the quarter...
A good weekend for Kimball High athletes and their respective teams.The Kimball High girls won both of their games against Perkins County and Morrill and are now 3-1.The boys split their weekend losing to Perkins County after leading until late in the 4th period, but went to Morrill and avenged an earlier loss at Kimball to the Lions.The wrestlers saw their own Kimball Tournament cancelled due to a number of teams dropping out, but coach Brashear took 3 wrestlers to Cheyenne and they came home with 2 2nds and a 1st place. Kimball High...
A loss and a win over the weekend leaves the Kimball High boys with a record of 2 and 2 in the early part of their basketball season, but things should be looking up for the Horns. On Friday night on the home court the Horns led through 3 quarters over visiting Perkins County before faltering down the stretch in the 4th period to suffer a 55-47 loss to the Plainsmen.It was a case, once again, of poor shooting costing the Horns as they took 17 more shots from the field than the Grant club, but...
The Kimball High girl's opened the basketball season with a 44-20 win over Morrill in the Kimball Tournament held this past weekend, but suffered a 69-42 loss to Dundy County-Stratton in the championship game Saturday night and are 1-1 going into this weekend's play. Coach Chauncey Pedersen got outstanding play from his starting five against Morrill, especially on defense, and he praised the play of his girls in the win."I felt this starting five play well together.We didn't shoot the ball as...
A disappointing opening weekend for the Kimball High boy's as they opened the 2018-19 basketball season hosting their own 4 school tournament.With several members of their varsity team sitting in the stands behind the bench due to eligibility sanctions, coach Luke Dea and his staff were very short handed, and it cost them dearly. In their first round game with the Morrill Lions, the Horns jumped out to a 7-0 lead with Jaren Winstrom hitting the first shot of the contest from the corner, Zane Ant...
Kimball High got the winter sports season underway this past week with their wrestling team going to Bayard for dual action on Thursday and to Akron, Colorado on Saturday for a tournament. Here at home, the basketball teams played host to a four school tournament with divisions for both girls and boys. It was encouraging to see the good turn out of fans from Potter-Dix, Morrill, and Dundy County-Stratton, as well as the Kimball home town fans. Kimball Activities Director Ken Smith and his staff of volunteers did a good job of organizing and...
Ireland Olson, daughter of Rick and Shelly Olson, of Kimball, and Melissa Olson of Ephraim, Utah, recently completed her Basic Combat Training and was in the graduating class number 69-18 held at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, on Nov. 16, 2018. The 2016 graduate of Kimball High School, where she graduated with honors, enrolled at Southeast Community College in Beatrice following her high school graduation and began her pursuit of becoming a nurse in the medical field. At the completion of 13 months, she...
The week all area sports fans have been waiting for has arrived. It’s the tip off of the High School Winter Sports Season! The Kimball High wrestlers open it up today (Thursday) in a dual at Bayard with mat time at 6 p.m. The girls and boys basketball teams start tomorrow (Friday) at home, in their annual four school tournament which involves Dundy County, Potter-Dix, and Morrill. The Potter-Dix girls get it all going with their game with Dundy County at 3 p.m. followed by the boys game between these two schools at 4:30. At 6 p.m. it is the K...
After a winless season in 2017, the Kimball High football team ushered into a new era of 8-man football with a break-even season going 4 wins and 4 losses in 2018. The Horns came close to going 5-3 losing their season opener 36-30 in overtime to Garden County. They got that long awaited first win in their second time out winning over Southwest 24-6, then lost 24-66 at Dundy County, lost 20-46 to Hemingford, won big 60-42 over Perkins County on Homecoming night, won 76-14 at Morrill, lost 26-44 t...
The Western Trails Conference released their football and volleyball All Conference selections for this season this past week. Kimball garnered several honors including senior Zane Anthony being named the 8-man Offensive Player of the Year! Zane was joined on the All Conference Team by senior team mates Izaac Reuter and Corey Travis, plus honorable mention to senior team mates Luis Portillo and Jake Jenkins. Seniors Madison Wynne and Kate Reader were both All Conference volleyball selections with senior Kiersten Anderson and junior Jenna...
Junior High winter sports are underway to keep you Kimball sports fans occupied until the High School seasons get underway. The junior high girl’s basketball team will entertain Gering this afternoon (Thursday) with game time at 3 p.m., and the junior high wrestlers will be at Hemingford today. The girl’s basketball team is at Bridgeport this coming Monday, Nov. 12. ------------------------- Nov. 12 next Monday, is also the official start date for Nebraska High Schools winter sports practice and for Kimball, that involves boys and girls bas...
The Fall Sports season is over for the Kimball High athletes as the Kimball Lady Longhorn volleyball team lost to Bayard in 5 sets Monday night in sub-district tournament play. The Lady Horns made a strong run at Bayard before losing with scores of 25-14, 23-25, 25-23, 8-15. Bayard advanced to the finals with the win and was to face Bridgeport for the sub-district title. ------------------------- The High School athletes will get a short break before they move into winter sports practice which officially begins on November 12 in Nebraska. The...
It was a new year with a new look for Kimball High Girl’s Golf. Luke Maas took over the program and the former Potter-Dix golfer came in with enthusiasm and recruited a total of 7 girls to the program, and the program took an upswing. Of the 7 members, two were seniors trying the sport for the first time and they both said they enjoyed it very much. Sheridan Magninie and Lacey Klinkhammer will be missed next year as they were great team leaders according to coach Maas. Maas also had junior Carli Wurdeman who really took to golf and had a s...
The Kimball High football season ended on a winning note with the Longhorns winning at Bayard 44-42! With the victory at Bayard, the Horns finished with 4 wins and 4 losses in their first season playing the game 8-man style after years of 11-man style. The win at Bayard pitted two teams with identical records of 3 and 4 coming into the season finale, and it was a nail biter from start to finish. The hosting Tigers struck first to go up 7-0, but Kimball came back to take an 8-7 lead with Jake...
All of the local High School sports for the Fall season are over with exception of volleyball and the Kimball High Lady Longhorns will move into sub-district tournament play on Monday at Scottsbluff, but at the time of this writing, the pairings had not been determined. Our District play is at Scottsbluff High School on Monday and Tuesday. However, the winter sports starts this Saturday, Oct. 27, with junior high wrestling at Harrisburg with a 9 a.m. start time, and then on Tuesday, Oct. 30, Kimball will host a junior high wrestling tournament...
The Kimball High football team saw their season record dip to the loss side Friday night at Senior Parent’s Night for the Horns losing to a hard hitting Sutherland Sailor Club 44-26. The Horns are now 3 and 4 on the season with their final game of the year set for tonight (Thursday) at Bayard. The Horns got down early as they fumbled the opening kickoff with the Sailors recovering at the Kimball 17 yard line and they quickly turned that into 8 points with Bennett Floyd going in from 10 yards out and scoring in the 1st quarter as Kimball was i...
The Fall Sports season is fast coming to an end. Kimball plays their final football game tonight (Thursday) with a 6 p.m. kickoff at Bayard. It will be a battle of 3 win-4 loss teams with the winner going to an even 4 and 4 season. The calendar also shows a junior high football game with Morrill at Kimball tonight at 4 p.m. State cross country in Kearney tomorrow (Friday) and Kimball has 3 qualified runners including freshman Chantel Malson in the Class D girl’s race, and seniors Zach Wagner and Thomas Lenzen in the boy’s race. Wagner ran 6th...
Kimball High freshman Payton Wise is a state medal winner! In her first year of High School Golf she is brining home state hardware and she battled all of the elements to achieve this awesome achievement. After finishing third at the District Tournament in Ogallala where the top ten individuals advanced to state tournament play. Payton and Coach Luke Maas, headed to North Platte this past Sunday to play a practice round on the Rivers Edge Golf Course and got to know, not only the lay out of the...
The Kimball High football team had their most explosive win of the season as they ran past Morrill 76-14 this past Friday night at the Lion’s home field. On a cold and chilly football night, the Longhorns warmed up on both sides of the football and dominated in their third win of the season. Izaac Reuter got things started with a pair of quarterback keeper runs of 23 and 24 yards for early touchdowns and ran in one conversion with Zane Anthony getting the other 2 point conversion to go up 16-0. Anthony got another TD on a 3 yard carry to run th...