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 basketball season is drawing to a close for our area high schools and tomorrow night (Friday) is the final home game for the Kimball High girls. It is also going to be Parent’s night for the senior girls and for the senior cheerleaders and their parents. Hemingford is coming to town and they always display good basketball so, come on fans, show up and enjoy the evening while you cheer on the kids. --------------------------------- There is also going to be an Interact Soup Supper to feed everyone. --------------------------------- There wer...
A good showing by the Kimball High Wrestling Team at last week's SPVA Tournament held in Grant. Garrett Pedersen brought home the gold medal by winning the 126 pound weight class and appears to be primed for this weekend's District Tournament to be held at Bridgeport. The lanky senior had a major decision of 19-8 over Lantis of Sutherland, a technical fall of 16-0 in 4:47 of Biesecker of Chase County, pinned Waitley of Perkins County in 3:48 and pinned Bruns of Hershey in 2:28 to go 4-0 on the...
A good effort by the Kimball High Wrestlers as they had four wrestlers finish in the medal grouping led by senior Garrett Pedersen's championship at 126 pounds, with the Horns finishing 6th in the team standings of the 12 school field. Bridgeport was the team champion with 176.5 points, edging out Mitchell with 158 and Morrill with 125. Kimball scored 59 points to finish in the upper half of the team standings. Coach Wade Brashear said, "We wrestled well, although the overall number of...
No surprise that the Kimball girls lost to visiting Mitchell this past week, and no surprise that they won easily, as the Lady Tigers are undefeated on the season and ranked number 2 in the state class C-1 rankings. They ran past the Kimball Lady Longhorns 71-15 and despite the lopsided score, they run up these kind of figures on most everyone they go up against. It was a big night for Mitchell's big post player with 6'2" junior Keyana Wilfred putting on a show for the fans, and for the...
Another tough weekend for the Kimball High Boys Basketball Team with losses to Sutherland and North Platte St Pats. On Friday night at home, it looked like the Horns were going to reap the win only to see it slip away in the closing minutes 50-42. On Saturday night they were at Both Platte to face the St Pats Irish and once again gave up 50 points losing 50-32. Their record now stands at 4 wins and 11 losses as they head into this week's Western Trails Conference Tournament play. The Horns came...
The big attraction this week for Kimball High sports fans is the Western Trails Conference Basketball Tournament and it gets underway this evening with first round play at the seeded team’s home sites. Now you Kimball fans are going to have to travel, and to two different sites, if you want to catch both the girls and boys, but it can be done. The Kimball girls play at Bayard with game-time set for 5 p.m. The Kimball boys are at Bridgeport, with game-time set at 6:30. There is a girls game at Bridgeport prior to the Kimball boys game between Br...
The Kimball High Wrestling Team had a strong showing at Saturday's Dogger Invite in Lingle with all five of their wrestlers earning places. The Cluff brothers had to battle it out for the top spot at 113 pounds with junior Jordan Cluff winning 11-8 over freshman brother Connor. Jordan was Kimball's lone champion on the day winning all three of his matches and is now 19-8 on the season. Connor had a bye, won two matches by pin, and lost in the title match to brother Jordan. His season record is...
Hershey claimed the championship of the girl's division of this year's SPVA Conference Basketball Tournament with a 36-32 win over top seeded North Platte St. Pat's. Chase County ended up third with their 45-39 win over Bridgeport, and the Kimball Lady Longhorns were sixth in the 7 school field, losing to Sutherland 56-33 in Saturday play. As reported in last week's Observer Sports, the Lady Horns lost their first round game to Chase County 61-39. Kimball had a good first half against...
An easy win for the Kimball boys at Potter-Dix in a Tuesday evening contest with the Longhorns coming out on top 68-29. Sophomore, Brendan Walker, got the Horns off to a good start with an 8 point first quarter scoring spree and ended up with 12 points for the game, sharing his scoring lead with Izaac Reuter, who also tallied 12. Kimball had 4 players in double digit scoring with Beau Hanks and Corey Travis both netting 10 points each. Hanks and Walker both connected on 1 trey ball each. Kimball had 9 players get into the scoring act as Coach L...
The Potter-Dix girls won out over Kimball 45-32 on their home court and with the win avenged their only loss on the season while running their record to 8-1 In the opening game of the season at the Kimball 4-team tournament, Kimball had defeated the Class D-2 Lady Coyotes 66-47, but that was when the Lady Longhorns were in full force and before the injuries started piling up and Coach Chauncey Pedersen saw his hopes for a very successful winning season start to go out the window. Led by a very talented trio of seniors, the Lady Coyotes took...
The Kimball Boys suffered a pair of losses on the home court over the weekend, losing to Bridgeport 56-41 Friday night and falling to Gordon-Rushville 47-26 on Saturday. A taller Bridgeport club with outside talent to go with their height, gave Kimball an early 3-0 lead, but soon took control and never looked back as they dominated despite hard play by the Horns. The visiting Bulldogs had 9 players score with point guard Kaleb Lussetto high with 19 points, including 3 treys. Drake DeMasters,...
The Lady Longhorns are having a hard time putting points on the scoreboard as they suffered two weekend losses on their home court and have lost their last 5 games to leave them with a record of 4 wins and 7 losses after a 3-1 start to the season. The Lady Longhorns fells to the Bridgeport ladies 67-28 on Friday evening and then dropped a Saturday evening contest with Gordon-Rushville 58-26. The Bridgeport Lady Bulldogs came off the bus ready to play and they stampeded past the Lady Horns with 30 first period points, while holding the Kimball...
Kimball took four wrestlers to the Chase County Invitational Tournament this past Saturday and all four placed in the top six medal group. Garrett Pedersen at 120 and Connor Cluff at 113, both went 4 and 1 on the day and finished 3rd. Cluff had 2 falls and 2 decisions on the day, losing his one match by a 16-5 decision. Pedersen ran his season record to 21-7 with 2 wins by fall and 2 decisions and lost 8-0 to a wrestler from Hitchcock County who has wrestled over 50 matches this season already. Jaden Mohr at 132, finished 2-3 on the day to...
If you want to take in any Kimball High basketball this weekend, you will need to head for North Platte and the Community College gym as that is where the SPVA Conference Tournament will be finishing up after the first round play and Monday and Tuesday were held at the seeded teams’ home sites. Girl’s play will take place today in North Platte and boys play on Friday, then both girls and boys on Saturday and those pairings and times depend on the outcome of first round play. I can tell you the Kimball junior high boys are scheduled to play at...
Racking up 2 more wins for the Kimball Boys JV Basketball Team running their season record to 7-2. On Friday they won over Bridgeport 46-35 and on Saturday they defeated Gordon-Rushville 54-33. In the win over Bridgeport, Colton Mielke nailed a pair of treys and scored 10 points. Javon Coyle had a trey and 9 points, Austin Lulf had a trey and 7 points, Sam Cajero 8, Beau Hanks 8, Jaren Winstrom 2 and Brayden Tyan 2. Luis Garza was high for Bridgeport with 15. In the win over Gordon-Rushville, Cajero led Kimball with 14 points, Ryan had 12,...
The Kimball High Lady Longhorns had a good effort against a good Chase County Lady Longhorn team Monday evening in first round play of the 2018 SPVA Conference Tournament, but they came up short as the visiting team from Imperial won out 61-39. This advances the winners into semi-final play Thursday (today) against the number one seed, North Platte St. Pats’ team who was awarded a first round bye. Kimball will play for 5th place on Saturday at 11 a.m. Kimball time, with their opponent to be determined in Thursday night play. That game will t...
The Kimball High girls went up against a pair of very talented foes this past week and came up on the losing end of both contests leaving them with a record of 4 win and 4 losses. On Thursday night they went to Sidney to battle the State Class B ranked Lady Raiders and lost 62-23. Saturday they hosted a very solid Chase County Club and lost 54-17. Heading into the season, Coach Chauncey Pedersen was very excited about a possible run at winning conference honors and a possible state qualifying...
Garrett Pedersen had a solid week of wrestling for the Kimball High Wrestling Team, winning top honors at both the Western Trails Conference tournament and the Garden County Invitational. The lanky senior wrestling at 120 pounds won his honors at WTC finishing third overall with losses to Sidney Wrestlers, but since Sidney was an add-on team, he defeated all of his actual WTC opponents, which gave him first and also giving him All Conference Honors as well. At WTC, he suffered two losses buy...
A busy week of area school sports for you fans, and it includes, two nights of home court basketball this weekend with Bridgeport coming to town Friday for JV games that begin at 4 p.m., followed by girl’s varsity at 5:30 and boy’s varsity at 7 p.m. The Booster Club will be feeding you fans. On Saturday, the Kimball High wrestlers are off to the Chase County Tournament that starts at 9 a.m. and the basketball has an early start with JV games at 2 p.m., followed by girl’s varsity at 3:30 and the boys at 5 p.m. This will help the Gordo...
A tough weekend of basketball for the Kimball High boys with losses to Sidney and Chase County. On Friday night they travelled to Sidney and went up against a very talented Red Raider club that handed the Longhorns a 61-26 defeat, and on Saturday, despite a very good effort, the Horns lost the battle of Longhorns with Chase County winning out 50-34. The Horns are now 3 and 5 on the season with a tough schedule staring them in the face again this weekend. The Sidney boys have lost of depth and play a very aggressive defense that created 26...
The Kimball boy’s junior varsity saw their 4-0 win streak come to an end this past weekend as they fell to Sidney 55-36 and lost to Chase County 55-38. Austin Lulf hit a trey and had 9 points in the loss to Sidney. Brayden Tyan also had a trey and 7 points, as did Javon Coyle. Corey Travis had 5 points, Jacob Withrow 4, Brendan Walker 2, and Sam Cejero 2. Cejero tallied 8 points against Chase County going 4 for 4 at the foul line. Jaren Winstrom also scored 8 points and nailed a pair of treys. Lulf hit a trey and had 7 points, Coyle had 7, W...
Let the New Year begin! And for you sports fans this means you can bundle up and get ready to follow our local school sporting events which get underway again this week. It all starts today for you Kimball High sports fanatics with the Longhorn wrestlers off to Morrill for the Western Trails Conference Tournament that gets underway at 9 a.m. Thursday, and later this evening the High School Basketball teams are in action at Sidney with both JV games set for 4 p.m., followed by the girl’s varsity at 5:30 and the boy’s varsity at 7 p.m. On Sat...
The Kimball High boy's suffered a loss at Hershey on Friday evening, but regrouped in big fashion to win at Bayard on Saturday, leaving their season record even at 3-3 at the Christmas break. The Longhorns held their own early at Hershey with the score tied at 11-11 at the end of the 1st quarter, but the Panthers broke away in the second period to outscore Kimball 16-6, taking a half-time lead of 27-17 and expanded their margin even more in the second half play to win out 55-30. No one in...
The win-loss weekend for the Kimball High Lady Longhorns came with a 49-30 loss at Hershey Friday night, and a 56-47 win at Bayard on Saturday. The Kimball girls will take a 4-2 record into the Christmas Break. Not a good night for the Kimball ladies at Hershey according to coach Chauncey Pedersen. "We didn't handle the ball well and had trouble breaking their press. We started sluggish, got behind, and never caught up. At times we played right with them. We had too many turnovers and we did...
Coach Klent Schnell helped me out with some stats of his Kimball Junior High Wrestling Team so we can give you readers a recap of the recent 2017 season. Schnell said, “We started out with 11 wrestlers and finished with 8 due to injuries, transfers and eligibility. I believe we should have at least 15 young men out for wrestling at the junior high level. We had some kids that had never wrestled and they showed some great potential the first couple of meets, and we wrestled our best, as a team, the first half of the season. We didn’t get to hol...