Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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After missing out by one place a year ago in his freshman year, Kimball’s Brady Kilgore made the most of his qualifying spot at this year’s District Track Meet by finishing 2nd in his favorite event, the 110 meter high hurdles, and then winning performances this past weekend at Omaha Burke Stadium, finishing 5th with his time of 15.2 after his qualifying run on Friday of 15.88. As you track fans already know, the weather was quite cool and wet in Omaha this past weekend, but Brady didn’t complain much about the conditions, weather wise. “It w...
Kimball will be sending three athletes to the 2017 Nebraska State Track and Field Championships this weekend at Omaha Burke Stadium, and the honored trip consists of senior Jaden Withrow in the triple jump, junior Hannah Biesecker in the long jump and sophomore Brady Kilgore in the 110 meter high hurdles. This will be the fourth trip to Omaha for Withrow who won his pet event once again at the C-11 District held at Mitchell this past Friday, and it is the third time he has emerged as the...
The Kimball Boy's golf team captured the team title in winning the SPVA Conference championship in their latest conquest of an undefeated season to date. The Longhorns shot a solid round of 308 for the win with Perkins County runnerup with 324, followed by St. Pats with 330, Sutherland 379 and Hershey 386. The conference tournament was held on the Sutherland golf course. The Horns also took the top two individual spots as well with Jordan Greenwood winning out over teammate, Zane Anthony, in a...
An exciting week of local sports with Kimball qualifying 3 individuals for this week’s State Track Meet and with the Kimball high boy’s golf team winning the SPVA Conference Tournament and keeping their undefeated season alive. The Horns were off to District Golf at Cambridge this past Tuesday hoping for a repeat win in their defense of last year’s District championship. We will know the results of that tournament late Tuesday but too late for our print deadline. ---------------------------- A very enjoyable day at the District track meet...
The Kimball High boy's golf team took care of business on their home course this past week and racked up two more wins while taking top honors in both the Western Trails Conference Tournament, as well as the Kimball Invitational, in a dual scored event. The Longhorns shot the low score of the day in both formats with their round of 329. Looking first at the Western Trails Conference bracket, Mitchell finished second with 367, followed by Bridgeport with 373, Gordon-Rushville 380 and Hemingford...
The KImball girls and boys both finished in sixth place at last week's SPVA Conference Track meet with the Longhorn boys scoring 38 points and the girls 37. Jaden Withrow was an individual winner winning the triple jump at 41'8" and finishing second in the long jump at 20'7". A good day for senior sprinter Kyle Spicer as he ran second in both the 100 meters and 200 meters with respective times of 11.65 and 23.74. Kaden Kaden Adrian ran eighth in the 800 with a time of 2:12.72. The 4x800 relay...
A full house for the 2017 KImball High Booster Club Awards NIght and Banquet this past week. After a welcome from MC Jeri Ferguson, and a prayer as well, the students were given the go-ahead to attack the food tables including the brisket sandwich meat prepared by Dave Klinkhammer. The parents and other adults then followed. Starting with the freshman class the letter winners came front and center to receive their individual packets of awards, ninth through 12th grades. Special awards were then...
The spring sports season is winding down, and in fact, this school year is almost over. District Track for the Kimball High tracksters is Today, Thursday, at Mitchell with a 10 a.m. start time that could possibly vary with weather conditions. The top two individuals in each event, and the winning relay teams, will all qualify for the state meet in Omaha coming up May 19-20 at Burke Stadium. There are some automatic qualifying marks as well and also some additional fastest time qualifiers from all districts. District golf is Tuesday, May 16, at...
Kimball's Jaden Withrow proved once again he is the Best of the Best, at the Best in the West, in the worst of the worst! For the third consecutive year, Withrow brought home the gold medal from the Best in the West track meet, held at the Scottsbluff Bearcat Stadium on, perhaps, the worst evening ever, weather wise, proving he is the Best of the Best in the triple jump event. His winning jump this year, in the terrible cold, wet and windy conditions was 43 feet and ¾ inches. In his...
Cold and winter type weather has played havoc with our area sports schedules once again so not a lot to report this meet that was held on a very nasty afternoon/evening. The junior high track at Pine Bluffs this past week has been cancelled. The SPVA high school track at Hershey was postponed and moved back from last Friday to this past Tuesday. The Western Trails Golf Tournament to be held at Mitchell this past Saturday was postponed and moved to Kimball to be held in conjunction with the Kimball Invitational Tournament. The Bayard Golf Tourna...
The Kimball High boy's golf team had the best round ever while setting a new school record at the Morrill Tournament this past week. April 18 will go into the record books as the date the Kimball boys scored a team round of 298 to better the previous round of 302 shot a few years back by the team consisting of Kendall Ferguson, Jeff Greenwood, Henry Heeg, Landon Smith and Todd O'Hare. The win on Tuesday was 63 strokes better than second place Bridgeport with their round of 361. Behind the top...
The Kimball High boy's golf team kept their wining streak alive with a victory at the Scottsbluff Tournament Monday. No problem for the Longhorns as they captured Division Two at the Scottsbluff Country Club with a 319 score, 54 strokes better than runner-up Chadron, with their 373 total. Behind the front two were Ogallala 386, Mitchell 398, Scottsbluff JV 413 and Morrill 440. There were 11schools represented in Division Two but only six schools with complete teams. On a rather windy, but warm,...
Kimball High senior, Jordan Greenwood, got a visit from Southeast Community College head golf coach Bill Campbell this past week and ended up accepting the offer of a full ride scholarship to attend the two-year college, located in Beatrice, to continue his education and play golf for Campbell. Greenwood had previously made plans to accept an offer from Kirkwood College in Iowa, but after his meeting with coach Campbell, and with the generous offer he received, he and his parents were all aboard...
The area spring sports schedule is moving along, that is when the weather permits. The Kimball High track team didn’t get a meet in this past week when the Mitchell George Calvert meet was called off due to bad weather. A few of the Kimball tracksters got some competition at the Best of the West meet in Scottsbluff this past Tuesday despite cold weather. We will talk about their performances in next week’s Observer Sports. Tomorrow (Friday) the Kimball High track team is off to Hershey for the SPVA conference meet with a 10 a.m. start time lis...
The Kimball Junior High track invite held this past week attracted 11 schools with Burns winning the girl's team title and Mitchell taking home the boy's team title. In the female division, Burns scored 94 points with Kimball runner-up with 68, Mitchell had 51, Pine Bluffs 40, Morrill 37, Bayard 36, Bridgeport 32, St. Agnes 23, Perkins County 21, Hemingford 18 and Prairie 14. Mitchell ran away with the boy's division, scoring 185 points with Hemingford a distant runner-up with 42. Morrill had...
Brady Kilgore won the Western Trails Conference 110 meter hurdle race this past Thursday at Mitchell with a career best time of 14.59 seconds and in so doing, improved a 31-year-old Kimball High record set by Jeff Fiehtner way back in 1986! Fiehtner set his record of 14.7 way back in 1986 and it has held up until Kilgore used a strong tail wind to help him establish the new record time. The talented Kimball High sophomore was close to setting a new WTC record as well, as Drew Gilliland ran...
The Kimball High boy's golf team picked up two wins this past week and have opened up the season just the way coach Chad Wise predicted they would. After the Bayard Tournament was cancelled due to bad weather, and the Chase County Tournament was also cancelled, the Longhorns finally got the season underway at the Mitchell Invite on April 11. It was a windy, but fairly nice day, according to Wise. Play on the 9 hole Mitchell course was very slow, however, as the Wester Conference Tournament was...
Spring sports is really bringing out some outstanding efforts by the Kimball High tracksters and boys golfers. Just this past week sophomore Brady Kilgore broke a 31-year-old Kimball High record when he won the 110 meter high hurdles at the Western Trails Conference track met in Mitchell. Brady ran a time of 14.59 seconds to better the old record of 14.7 ran by Jeff Fiehtner back in 1986. Several other Kimball High track people also had career best performances. The Kimball High boy’s golf team has put together two team championships this p...
Tory and Jennifer Schwartz, along with their daughter Ashtyn, made a trip to Kimball recently to accept a check for $2,597 that Kimball High students, Alex and Kate Reader had raised to contribute to the Team Ashtyn Foundation. The Foundation was originated by the Schwartz family after Ashtyn was diagnosed with a form of pediatric cancer, hoping they could help out others in need. The Reader sisters have spent many off season summers playing basketball for coach Schwartz as members of the...
Samantha Bemis was outstanding in the first track meet of the season for the Kimball Junior High track team. The talented young eighth grader won three events in helping her Kimball team to a second place finish in the 13 school girl's division of the Bayard Invite. Southeast won the team title with 78 points with Kimball in the runner-up spot with 63. Miss Bemis set a new Kimball Junior High record in winning the triple jump with her leap of 33'11", bettering the old record of 31'6.25" held pre...
The spring sports schedule is in full swing and the Kimball High golf team finally got some action. They were at the Mitchell Tournament this past Tuesday and because of our early deadline for printing, we will have the story on this action in next week’s sports, along with the results of the Bridgeport Tournament being held today, April 13. This is a 9 a.m. start time if you want to take in the action. Next Tuesday, April 18, they will be at the Morrill Tournament with another 9 a.m. start time. Track action today, Thursday, April 13, with M...
The Kimball boys finished second and the girls ninth, leaving them in third place at Monday's Tri-State Track Invite held at Creek Valley High School in Chappell. Bridgeport won the boy's division with 144 points with Kimball runner-up with 99. Hyannis won the female division with 115 points, edging out Bridgeport with 108 and Kimball finished ninth in the 13 school listing with 24. In the combined team scores it was Bridgeport the winner with 252 points, Hyannis runner-up with 146 and Kimball...
The Kimball High boy’s golf team opened the season this past Thursday, competing in the Gering Quad, nine hole tournament. This tournament wasn’t on the regular schedule but Kimball Activities Director Ken Smith saw it as an opportunity to give the Kimball team one more chance to get some competition. Gering hosted Scottsbluff, Kimball and Mitchell for the late afternoon nine hole play that allowed each school to play as many golfers as they wanted with the low four scores from each team used to decide the team scores. Gering won out with 172 f...
Despite the cold weather, Kimball High got a golf tournament and a track meet in this past week. The golfers played in a four-school Quad Tourney at Gering with just a nine hole format and despite not having their number one golfer, Jordan Greenwood, and despite just having four golfers while the larger schools played seven and eight, they were just 3 strokes from winning it all. Jordan was on a family vacation in Nevada but he wasn’t skipping out on practice as he played five top courses in five days with Dad Kenny. Coach Chad Wise saw his n...
The Kimball High track team opened the outdoor season this past Saturday at their own Kimball Invitational and had seven wins on the day with four in the boy's division and three in the girl's division. Pine Bluffs was a double winner in the team standings, taking the girl's division with 164 points with Potter-Dix runner-up with 99, followed by Hemingford with 68, Kimball 63, Minatare 37 and Banner County 35. In the boy's division it was Pine Bluffs with 158, Hemingford 108, Kimball 95,...