Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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On a very cold Friday afternoon, the Kimball High Longhorn Football Team secured their 2nd win of the season defeating visiting Perkins County 60-42 in a high scoring contest. The contest was a rare afternoon game with kickoff at 1 p.m. And despite the cold, the stands were filled with a good turnout from both towns. I might add that despite the bitter cold, there were only 3 turnovers in the game although there were 11 fumbles total. Kimball jumped out to a 28-8 first quarter lead with Zane...
Kimball High's Payton Wise is headed to the Nebraska Girl's Class C State Golf Tournament! In her first year of High School golf, the talented young freshman, finished in 3rd place in the individual top ten medal group at Monday's Class C District Tournament held at Ogallala. In District play, the top 3 teams and top 10 individuals qualify to advance to the State Tournament play. You readers may recall that a couple of weeks back, on this same course, Payton shot her highest round of the season...
Payton Wise is our headline story of the week. Congrats young lady for your third place finish at the District Golf Tournament. What an accomplishment as a freshman in your first season of high school golf to qualify for the upcoming state tournament in North Platte. You readers be sure and catch the entire story of how she, and her teammates did at District. --------------------------- Congrats also to the Kimball High football team for their win over Perkins County on Homecoming afternoon. Now go get that third win this Friday night at...
The Kimball High Girl's Golf Team took part int two tournaments this past week with both good news, and not so good results, to report. At the Ogallala Tournament on Tuesday, the Lady Longhorns finished a distant 10th in the team standings as they were in a field of several large schools. North Platte won top team honors with 351 followed by Gering with 360, Scottsbluff 367, Ogallala 371, Mitchell 388, Cozad 399, Sidney 404, Chadron 410, Alliance 430, Kimball 449, Ogallala JV 497, Dundy...
In a hard hitting physical contest that sent several Longhorn players hobbling to the sideline, the Kimball High football team suffered a 46-20 loss to visiting Hemingford this past Friday night. This leaves the Horns with a 1 win-3 loss record coming into this week's Homecoming game with Perkins County. The Horns Found themselves behind on the score board quickly as Zane Anthony was hit hard on the opening kickoff and coughed up the football which Carter Bucheit picked up and ran in from 20 yar...
Following a long road trip to Benkleman, the Kimball High football team took an early lead over Dundy County/Stratton with senior Zane Anthony going in from 14 yards out with 8:49 showing on the clock in the opening quarter. The host school came right back to score about 2 and a half minutes later to tie the score as neither team converted their conversion tries. The Horns took the lead once again on a 2 yard run by Ethan Ratzlaff with 3:52 left in the opening period, but again the hosts tied...
"Not a good day today" is the way cach Luke Maas described his Kimball girl's last outing at the Gering Golf Tournament. "We just didn't have it today" Maas said. Gering won their own event with a good score of 339 with Scottsbluff runnerup with 349, Mitchell shot 373, Gordon-Rushville 383, Ogallala 391, Sidney 408, Bridgeport 417, Chadron 419, KIMBALL 439, Scottsbluff JV 443, Alliance 476. Mitchell's Kenzey Kanno was medalist with a sparkling round of 71. No one in the top ten medal group for...
The local golf season seems to be drawing to a close, at least in the number of golfers that are turning out on a daily basis, but the weather is so nice yet! Four Winds Pro Chad Wise had a 4-person Yellow Ball-Scrambler, fund raising tournament set up for this past Sunday, but when the sign ups were limited he turned it into just a fun day using the same format. Very happy to report that the winning team was Tom Southard, Doug Southard, Dennis Hoffman, Dillon Wise shooting 129. The 2nd place team was Kevin Thomas, Gary Haack, Randy Bohac,...
The 2018 Kimball High Football team put a halt to a 12 game losing streak that dates back to October 7, 2016, when they won out over Bayard 42-28, with an impressive 24-6 win over visiting Southwest Friday night. The Horns are showing signs of great improvement this season as they switched over to the 8-man game and came within inches of winning their season opener that they lost 36-30 in overtime to Garden County. Coach Ben Aarestad said "This was a great win for the kids and the school. I...
The Kimball High Girl's Golf team finished third at the Mitchell Tournament this past week and shot their low team score of the season as they continue to show improvement. Bridgeport won the team title with their score of 382 followed by Chadron with 392 and Kimball with 394, edging out Mitchell with 395. Mitchell's Kenzey Kanno shot the low individual round of 71 on her home course with Kimball's Payton Wise finishing runner-up in second place with her round of 41-43=84. Carli Wurdeman shot...
Some good happenings for Kimball High athletes and their fans. The football team got that big win they have been needing so badly. The cross country team had some really great efforts from their kids. The girl’s golf team had their best team performance up at Mitchell shooting their best team score, and the volleyball team finished second at the Gordon Tournament. Keep up the good work Longhorns! --------------- Of special note, freshman runner Chantel malson, almost set a new freshman record at the Kimball Invitational cross country meet. S...
Attention readers: These two stories were intended to run in last week's Observer Sports. These stories were inadvertently left out of print last week, though they did appear on the website. A break-out week for Kimball High freshman Payton Wise as she picked up the first place gold medals in both tournaments the Kimball girl's golf team was involved in this past week. Wise finished first at the Kimball Invitational tying the school record with her first round of 82, and then captured the...
These stories were inadvertently left out of print this week, though they will appear in both print and on the web next week. A break-out week for Kimball High freshman Payton Wise as she picked up the first place gold medals in both tournaments the Kimball girl's golf team was involved in this past week. Wise finished first at the Kimball Invitational trying the school record with her first round of 82, and then captured the medalist honors again at the Creek Valley Tournament held at Chappell...
The Fall Sports Seasons is into full bloom with lots of scheduled events for you Kimball fans. The Longhorn football team had a week off after their opening overtime loss at Garden County but they are back in action this Friday night hosting Southwest with an early kickoff time of 6 p.m. If you readers are like me, you are wondering who and where is Southwest. I went to a man I knew would be able to clue me in and enable me to share this info with you readers. Mr. Hanks, Kimball High Principal, informed me that Southwest was Republican Valley...
Kimball opened uop the football season with a heart breaking, over-time loss on the road to Garden County Friday evening. After years of playing 11 man football, the Horns were beginning a new era of competing in the 8-man game, and they gave it a good effort as they won the game in almost all categories other than on the score board where the Eagles of Garden County won out 36 - 30. Kimball scored first and in quick fashion as Izaac Reuter connected with Zane Anthony on a 27th yard touchdown pass with 8:43 left in the opening quarter to go up...
A BUSY WEEK FOR LADY LONGHORN GOLF TEAM The Kimball high girl's golf team has been busy this mont with a couple of tournaments each week here in the early stage of their season. They were in action at Sidney and Bayard this past week, and hosted their own tournament their own tournament this past Tuesday, but due to print deadlines, we will have to give you results of the Kimball event next week. Kimball competed in Division one at Sidney and placed 7th in the team standing of the 8 school...
There is an all new look, and a new attitude, for the Kimball High girl's golf team this season, including a new coach as Luke Maas takes over the position of head coach. Coach Maas has seven girls on his squad, including two returning letter winners in sophomore Maddie Cook and Raven Johnson. As freshman players last year, they both had limited success, but could show a lot of improvement this season with some hard work at practice. The most individual success will most likely come from...
After an illustrious high school athletic career at Potter-Dix where he was a standout in basketball and track and field, Bryant Knigge then moved on to standout at the college level in both sports as well, but now he is into a new sporting endeavor. Western State University in Gunnison, Colorado has taken up Ultra Marathon running. Ultra Marathon are any races that are longer than the standard 26 plus mile Marathon. At the time of this writing, Bryant has participated in five Ultras including a...
The Monday-Tuesday Four Winds Men’s Golf League is winding down with the year end Fun Night Scramble help this past week, and the league champions of both night already determined. All that remains is the playoff between the Monday night winners and the Tuesday night winners according to League supervisor Pat O’Brien. The top three winners for the Monday night division were the championship team of Jeremy Williams and Aaron Koski with second place going to Steve Warner and John Fiehtner, and third place was Berry Frederick and Pat O’B...
The 27th annual Kimball Hospital Foundation Golf Classic attracted 120 golfers, with 30 four-person teams taking part in the Saturday event held at the Four Winds Golf Course this past weekend. Kerry Ferguson, the Director of the Kimball Hospital Foundation, said, "This was one of our largest field of entries over the years and I want to personally thank everyone who played as well as all of the volunteers who worked hard to help make it a success. The weather held up until all golfers were...
The Kimball Recreation Area was a busy place this past Saturday with a softball tournament going on, the big Kimball Hospital Foundation Golf classic being held and some archery competition being held down by the Trap Club area. The number of vehicles and the number of people were amazing. -------------------------------- The next event scheduled now for the Four Winds Golf Course is a 4-person Yellow Ball Tournament and the date is August 25th, with a 1 p.m. shotgun start time. Cost is $240 per team or $60 per player, plus cart, if needed....
Kimberly Sharples for the Western Nebraska Observer...
I promised you readers a final story on Dillon Wise and his second day at the Ambassador Junior Golf Tournament held in North Platte, but things didn’t end so well for Dillon. After sitting in 2nd place after the first day of play with his round of 76, Dillon experienced a fate that almost all golfers experience at sometime in their careers, he hit the wrong ball out in the fairway and the result would take him out of contention for honors. A memorable experience, but one Dillon would just as soon forget, I am sure. --------...
A pair of Kimball's finest High School-age golfers took part in this year's Nebraska Junior Golf Tournament held in Columbus this past week. Dillon Wise and Zane Anthony both shot higher scores than they are accustomed to with Anthony scoring rounds of 89-91 and Wise 84-80. Both failed to make the cut to allow them one more day of play. Anthony said "I was not at all happy with my play, but I guess it was a good experience." For Zane, it was probably his last competition of the summer, as far...
The Glow Ball 4-person scramble golf tournament was held this past weekend at the Four Winds Golf Course with 16 teams entered. The event was sponsored by the local Masons chapter, and was termed a success with everyone having fun. The format had golfers playing 9 holes in the daylight and 9 holes in the dark. The winning team of Darrin and Stacy Lonsdale and Mark and Tiffany Anderson, shot 32-34=66. Taking 2nd place was the team of Bob, Katie, Charlie and Amanda Culek with their round of 34-34=68. Third place went to the team of Robbie Dunkin,...