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 2018 Vince's Corner A-B-C-D Double Draw Golf Scramble was held this past weekend at the Four Winds Golf Course and it was a "Hot Time" for the 124 golfers involved as the temperatures rose to the upper 90s both days. Henry Heeg, owner of Vince's Corner, and his staff of volunteer helpers, made sure all golfers were taken care of, as far as, refreshments to keep them cool and refreshed. Some red hot golf was also played, according to the scorecards turned in. There were 31 four-person teams i...
About 10 years ago, Wilma Gilland told her husband Bruce, "I need a structure of some kind where I can meet with my kids when we have golf practices and when we hold our lunches ect.," Bruce, the man who designed and did a majority of the construction of the Four Winds Golf Course, as well as, the scoreboard by the Pro Shop said, "Alright, I will build you something." That something was the Gilliand Gazebo, which sat for the past 10 years or so down by the Trap Shoot building, near the free...
A big golf happening is now in the books with the Vince’s Corner A-B-C-D Double Draw Scramble held this past weekend. Golfers poured into Kimball on Friday and many played a practice round before the Friday evening get together for a meal at the Windbreak and the drawing for Saturday play. The scramble concluded Sunday afternoon and it was termed a success once again. You can read all of the results in this week’s Observer Sports. -------------------------------- This Saturday evening is the Mason-sponsored Glow Ball, 4-person scramble wit...
Come rain or shine, the Teammates Golf Tournament was determined to go on, and it did, complete with rain and shine. With a 1 p.m. start time, following lunch and registration, the rules were told to the golfers and Greg Robinson said we are getting you off a bit early, hoping we can beat the forecasted rain, but that didn’t happen. The rain came down in sheets with most golfers still about 5 holes from being done. After a 30 to 40 minute rain delay, the word went out to return to your holes remaining and GET ‘ER DONE! A total of 17 fou...
Kimball had 4 young golfers participate in the recent Kearney Junior Classic Golf Tournament with the sister-brother duo of Payton and Dillon Wise bringing home trophies for their play. Payton Wise, competing in the girls' 13-15 age group, won top honors with her rounds of 95-89 in the two-day event for a total of 184. Had she played in the 16-18 age group, she would have finished 3rd as 3rd place n this age division was 194. The winning score was 168 and 2nd was 181. Payton will be a freshman...
It is Teammates Golf time this Saturday at the Four Winds Golf Course and you can still get your 4-person scramble team entered if you call the Four Winds Pro Shop. Your $60 entry fee per player will get you lunch at the Trap Shoot building at 11:30, then a rules meeting at the Pro Shop at 12:30 and a shotgun start at 1 p.m. Golfers will be competing for some fabulous prizes to be awarded to the top four teams, plus flag prizes on all 18 holes. Everyone will get an attractive gift at the time of signup, as well. Your chance to enjoy a day of...
The Greenwood family came out on top once again in winning the championship of the 2018 Father's Day Golf Classic held this past weekend at the Four Winds Golf Course. Kenny Greenwood and his sons, Jeffrey and Jordan, shot the low rounds both days of 60-61=121 to win by 4 strokes over the Daum family team of Mark Daum and sons, Colton and Jake, that claimed 2nd place with their rounds of 63-62=125 to win by scorecard playoff over the team of Kelly Garrett, Tyler Garrett and Gene Golding who...
The annual Father’s Day Golf Classic 3-person scramble is now in the books and, like always, it certainly is a classic event hosted by the Thursday Night Men’s Golf League, with Randy Bohac, the man in charge. It is so encouraging to see all of the many family-oriented teams of father and sons, or grandsons, or cousins, and even moms. Such was the case of the Robinson team with Father Greg out of action with a broken ankle, Mom Nora took his place, and with the help of son, Tony, and nephew, Jarrod Schnell, they ended up in 2nd place in the...
One of the bigger event weekends of the golf season has arrived with the annual Father’s Day Classic 3-person scramble to be held this weekend at the Four Winds Golf Course. This is your last chance to sign up your team for play this Saturday and Sunday. The format calls for a shotgun start of 12 noon on Saturday, followed by an evening meal at the Windbreak Restaurant of “Chef’s Choice”. Play on Sunday begins at 9 a.m. Your $100 entry fee gets you two days of golf, entry into the skins game and the Saturday evening meal. There will be a chanc...
The Kimball High Boy’s Golf Team has put another outstanding season in the books with a lot of good memories for Coach Chad Wise and his team. The Longhorns recorded team championships, 2 runner-up finishes and a 4th place State Tournament. They defended and repeated as conference champions in both the Western Conference and SPVA conferences and won the District Tournament. A positive is that four members of this year’s team will return, but a negative is they will graduate two members and they will miss the play of seniors Kole Bush and Andrew...
I enjoyed an All Star Basketball Saturday evening giving me one more opportunity to watch some of our immediate area All Star girls in action, including Kimball’s Hannah Biesecker, who had an All Star performance hitting 4 treys and scoring in double figures with 12 points. She also did a good job of rebounding, but her Green Team got whomped 108-81 by the All Star Orange Team. Jori Peters of Mitchell, a member of the winning Orange Team, was chosen MVP. She will continue her basketball career at Chadron State. Other members of the Orange T...
The Kimball High Boy's Golf Team finished 4th at the Class C State Tournament held at the Kearney Country Club Golf Course this past week and had two individual top 15 medal winners. The Longhorns found themselves in 6th place after the first day with their team score of 334, but came back with a round of 321 on the second day to finish with a two-day total of 655. Grand Island Central Catholic won the 2018 tournament with their rounds of 320-317=637 with Elmwood Murdock runner-up with...
Kimball's Jordan Greenwood, had the honor of playing in the Division Two National Golf Tournament held in Foley, Alabama, this past week as a member of the Southeast Community College Team of Beatrice, Nebraska, after the Storm won their Regional Tournament earlier. The team ended up 8th in the National Tournament, which was a four-day affair. Jordan, in his first year of collegiate golf, had four days of rounds in the seventies, shooting 77-78-76-71 and held his own with the Nation's best. His experience was even more special when his coach...
The Nebraska Boy’s State Golf Tournament pretty much wraps up the High School Sports activities for this year, but there are some All Star contests yet to be held this summer, starting with this Saturday evening with the 24th Panhandle Prep All Star Basketball Games being held at the WNCC Cougar Palace in Scottsbluff. The girl’s game tips off at 5:50 p.m., followed by the boys. The select members will report for practice on Friday. There will also be slam dunk and 3-point shooting contests. Kimball’s Alex Reader, is reported to be involved in t...
Kimball High's Brady Kilgore closed out his junior year of track and field with a silver medal performance at the 2018 Nebraska State Track Meet in Omaha! Kilgore brought home 2nd place honors in the Class C 110 meter high hurdles, clocking 15.17 in the finals after running 15.273 in the prelims. It climaxed a very rewarding season for the talented young Longhorn who won all of his races this season with the exception of District and State where he finished 2nd. His 2nd place at this year's...
The 2018 Nebraska State Track Meet is now history and we had some outstanding performances from our immediate area of athletes who made the trip. You can catch those results in another story in today’s observer Sports. Unfortunately, as you read this week’s Observer, the State Golf Tournament will also be history, but our deadline for our weekly paper is Tuesday and that was the first day of the tournament which concluded on Wednesday. We will give you our report, and our version of how our awesome Kimball Team did next week. I can tell you tha...
The Kimball High Boy's Golf Team shot their best team score of the season en route to winning the C-5 District Golf Championship they hosted this past Tuesday. The Longhorns put together a very good team score of 309, to finish 33 strokes better than runner up Perkins County with 342, and third place Bridgeport qualified for State with a score of 361. The top three teams and top 10 individuals are all state qualifiers. Dillon Wise led Kimball to victory taking the individual medalist honors with...
The Kimball High Track Team ended up with 3 State Track qualifiers, in 4 events, from the Class C-9 District Meet held at Sutherland this past Thursday. Brady Kilgore, a junior, qualified in 2 events winning the boy's high jump at 5'10" and running 2nd in the 110 meter high hurdles in 15.08, nipped at the finish line by McKade Smith of Hershey, who was timed at 15.05. Brady will be making his third consecutive trip to the State Meet and after just missing out on a medal his freshman year,...
For only the second time this season, the Kimball High Boy’s Golf Team failed to win a tournament they were involved in. The Longhorns ended up 4 strokes back of Bridgeport at the Bayard Tournament this past week. The winning Bridgeport Team shot 319 and Kimball 323 to finish in the runner-up spot. Behind the top two were Morrill 364, Garden County 379, Scottsbluff JV 403, Mitchell 404, Hemingford 414, Chase County 425, Bayard 426 and Crawford 433. A huge day for Bridgeport senior, Eric Stevens, as he took medalist honors with his round of 68,...
The District competition for both track and boy’s golf are completed and the state competitions are ready to take place. State track in Omaha is this weekend, May 18-19, and state golf for Class C golfers will be in Kearney this coming Tuesday- Wednesday, May 22-23. Kimball qualified 3 individuals for state track with Brady Kilgore going in both the 110 meter hurdles and the high jump. Hannah Biesecker in the long jump and Kaden Adrian in the 800 meter run. An interesting note shows a total of 59 girls will compete in the Class C girl’s lon...
The Kimball High Boy's Golf Team picked up yet another win in capturing the Team Championship, and the individual medalist honors, at the Kimball Invitational Tournament held this past Friday at the Four Winds Golf Course. The tournament was postponed one day and resulted in near perfect weather conditions for all of the young golfers. Kimball had a winning score of 322, with Perkins County runner-up with 339. Behind the top two were Bridgeport with 343, Garden County 374, Mitchell 390, Kimball...
Kimball had some highlights at the Bayard B-C-D Track Invite this past week, but none brighter than the winning triple jump mark by freshman, Sam Bemis, which also established a new Kimball High all-time record for the event. Bemis got out 34'2.5" to win the event and better the old mark of 33'9.5" set by Shelby Vogel in 2014. The jumps were once again a strong point for Kimball as Jenna Greenwood finished 3rd in the triple jump at 32'9" for a very good mark and Megan Spicer was one place out...
It’s District competition time. The Kimball High Track Team will be at District in Sutherland today (Thursday), with a start time of 10 a.m. Mountain Time. Two of the Longhorn tracksters will be looking for return trips to the State meet in Omaha May 18-19. Brady Kilgore finished 5th at State last year as a sophomore and senior, Hannah Biesecker, is a veteran at the State meet in the long jump. The Horns have other athletes who have a chance as well. Good Luck Kimball. District boy’s golf is Tuesday and you fans won’t have to travel far as Ki...
Kimball's, Jordan Greenwood, and his Southeast Community College Men's Golf Team is headed to the National Junior College Golf Tournament being held in Foley, Alabama, after winning the recent Regional Tournament held at the York Country Club Golf Course. The Regional Tournament consisted of 36 holes of play on Day One, followed by another 18 holes on Day Two. As a team, Southeast won handily over all other teams. As an individual, Jordan also stood out finishing 3rd. In fact, the entire...
A large turnout this past week for the annual Kimball High Booster Club Banquet and Awards Night. Jeri Ferguson served as the Master of Ceremonies and kept things moving right along. Dave Klinkhammer was recognized for preparing the delicious beef brisket and members of the Booster Club did the serving. After everyone got their food eaten, the various coaches did a rundown on their seasons talking of this year's highlights, along with what they feel need to be accomplished to make their...