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 Kimball High wrestling team closed out the regular season this past week and head to District this weekend in Valentine. The Longhorns had two tournaments this past week, including hosting the 2017 SPVA Tournament on Jan. 31, and then participating in the Chimney Rock Invite at Bayard on Feb. 2. Bridgeport won the team championship at the SPVA Tourney with 168.5 points with Chase County runner-up with 133. Behind the top two came Sutherland with 87, North Platte St. Pats 80, Hershey 77, Kimball 39.5 and Perkins County 33. Coach Wade...
The Kimball High boys received the number one seed and a first round bye into the 2017 Western Trails Conference basketball tournament, but along the way they stumbled and suffered a pair of back-to-back defeats to finish a disappointing fourth. In Friday night semi-final play, they went up against Hemingford, a 62-31 winner over Morrill in a first round pairing. The Horns lost 54-46. They played like they were sick, because they were sick. A good share of the Kimball players were battling illness, and it showed. Shots simply were not falling...
The Kimball Lady Longhorns lost to Gordon-Rushville 65-49 in first round play of the Western Trails Conference 2017 Basketball Tournament and failed to advance into additional play at Cougar Palace. The Kimball ladies were the lower seeded team and had to make the long road trip to Gordon in unfavorable weather and road conditions this past Thursday evening, and had to settle for just one game of competition this past week. The hosting Lady Mustangs came out strong, out scoring Kimball 23-6 in the opening period, and after the slow start, the...
The Kimball Junior High boy’s basketball season is underway, and coach Dane Wurdeman says, “Our numbers are low this season but we like the group of young men we are working with.” Kimball opened with Burns on Jan. 17 with the eighth grade boys wining 23-17. Javin Coyle had 16 points, Christian Allen-Van Pelt three, Cole Henton and Ethan Ratzlaff two each. The Kimball seventh grade lost 20-6 with Thomas Muldoon scoring four and Damien Wolven two. In a combined B-game, Burns won 17-14. Zander Hottell and Jesse Heidi had four each, Cole Heim,...
Other than the fact the Kimball boys were sick, and played sick, at the WTC Conference Tournament this past weekend, I enjoyed a lot of good, and exciting, basketball Friday and Saturday at Cougar Palace in Scottsbluff. I like the atmosphere of Cougar Palace and Mrs. Southard and I took in all four games each day. The Mitchell girls the number one seed, won the championship as expected, but they had to battle hard both nights to do so. In the semi-final game, they slipped past Gordon-Rushville 50-48, and in the title game they won over a good...
Kimball High senior, Alexis Lulf, set a new school record for 3 point field goals in a game with eight as she scored 28 points and led the Lady Longhorns to a 71-57 win over Bayard this past Monday night. The way Lulf was lighting up the score board, it was like viewing the strip in Las Vegas! Kimball's long shot artist nailed her first trey in the opening quarter, added four more in the second period, and closed out the night with three more in the final period. She eclipsed Danielle Perry and...
The Kimball boys added two more wins to their basketball season to run their record to 11-3 going into this week's play. The Longhorns travelled to Sutherland Friday night and brought home a 60-44 victory then hung on for a 65-61 win over visiting North Platte St. Pats Saturday night. The Horns busted out to a 28-15 first quarter lead at Sutherland and coasted in for the win with eight players scoring for the winners. Jordan Greenwood was just shy of his season average in leading Kimball with...
Coach Chauncey Pedersen got some good play out of his Kimball High Lady Longhorns over the weekend, but no enough to register a win as the Kimball ladies suffered losses to Sutherland on the road Friday night, and to North Platte St. Pats at home Saturday. The Lady Horns are now 4-9 on the season that is fast drawing to a close. Kimball had a solid first half of play at Sutherland, leading 27-23 at intermission, but was outscored 18-1 in the third period to seal their doom as the host school...
In a long awaited make-up game that was postponed from Dec. 17 due to weather, the Kimball High boys won over Bayard Monday night 74-63 in front of the hometown fans. The latest win leaves Kimball at 12-3 on the season heading into this week’s Western Trails Conference Tournament, where they Horns are the number one seed with a first round bye. The visiting Tigers scored the first two baskets on the night before Jordan Greenwood struck back with a 3 pointer followed by a steal and a layin to go ahead 6-5. Greenwood continued to shine in the ope...
The Kimball boy's junior varsity team has won their last five games and are now 6-2 on the season. Their win over North Platte St. Pats ranks as the game of the week for Kimball High. On Friday night at Sutherland they won out 46-34 with Izaac Reuter high with 13 points followed by Corey Travis with 10, Beau Hanks 6, Kole Bush 3, Zane Anthony 4, Brendan Walker 4 and Brayden Tyan 2. The JV team pulled out a 52-50 win over visiting St. Pats Saturday night in a game that was exciting from start to...
Kimball had two medal winners at the tough Mitchell Invitational Wrestling Tournament held this past Saturday. Torrington was the team champion with 160.5 points with Bridgeport runner-up with 139. Kimball finished 11th team wise with 21 points. “The Mitchell Invitational was a tough tournament for us. We ended with two placers in Jordan Cluff 3rd at 113 and Jaden our 4th at 132,” said coach Wade Brashear. “As a team we wrestled decent, but we also lost matches we should have won. At times we showed some good quality wrestling, but we lost too...
A very good day on the mats for the Kimball High wrestling team this past weekend as they had five wrestlers place and brought home two first place medals. The usual two-day tournament was shortened to just one day (Friday) due to a limited amount of entries this year. Winning championship status were Jordan Cluff at 106 and Eric Escajeda at 285, while Jaden Mohr at 132 and Izaac Glanz at 170 both finished fourth, and Stephen Bateman was fifth at 182. Cluff was perfect on the day in winning...
The Kimball High boys played themselves proud in finishing second in the SPVA Conference Basketball Tournament held this past week. After a first round win over Chase County in a game played on Kimball's home court, with the Horns winning 64-56 in overtime, Kimball then won 55-49 over Perkins County in a semi final contest. With the two victories, the Horns then advanced to the championship game with Hershey and suffered their lone loss in tournament play with the Panthers winning out 55-49....
Still hurting from the loss of Alex Reader, as they will be the balance of the season, the Kimball High Lady Longhorns suffered a pair of 4 point losses during SPVA Conference Tournament play this past week. In first round play they hosted Bridgeport and lost 39-35, and then lost 46-42 to Sutherland in the battle for 5th place on Saturday at North Platte Community College, leaving them now with a record of 4-7 after a 3-1 start. Reader, a junior and returning all conference player, along with being Kimball’s top scorer with a 15 point a...
A couple of long road trips to North Platte this past week to cover the SPVA Conference Tournament. Had some fog to battle on the trip home on Thursday but the roads were alright. I saw a lot of good basketball and talked to a lot of old friends. I am proud to report that both the Kimball girls and boys represented our school and our town in great fashion. As I have reported several times, the Kimball girl’s team is hurting with the loss of their leading scorer, Alex Reader, who will have major knee surgery this week, but they have r...
The Kimball High Boys and the Potter-Dix Girls emerged winners in contests between the two schools this past week. The Potter-Dix girls won out 51-41 over Kimball with the Lady Coyotes out scoring the Lady Longhorns 14-7 in the final period to come out on top. The Potter-Dix boys are in a rebuilding year and Kimball had no problem winning out 64-14. The girls game was a game of two-halves as Kimball jumped out to a 13-4 early lead and was ahead 15-9 at the quarter break. Potter-Dix went on a...
Kimball senior Eric Escajeda was the Longhorn's only medal winner at the Chase County Invitational Wrestling Tournament held this past Saturday in Imperial. Escajeda brought home the third place medal wrestling at 285 winning 3 matches and losing twice. Kimball's big guy suffered losses by fall to Freeze of Bridgeport and Louder of Hershey and registered wins over Hodges of Hitchcock County 5-0, pinned Nicholson of Hershey in 4:40, and won by forfeit over Shoemaker of Sidney. Kimball finished...
The Kimball High boys went on the road this past weekend and picked up two more wins at Bridgeport and Gordon running their season record to 7-2. No problem at Bridgeport on Friday night with the Horns winning 69-46 but had to battle hard to win at Gordon Saturday night 58-53. Coach Nick Kuxhausen had lots of praise for the play of his team over the weekend stressing the defense. "Our defensive play as a team is what made our wins possible this past weekend," said Kuxhausen. "The transition...
It’s SPVA week for the Kimball High basketball team and Kimball fans lucked out in that they didn’t have to travel for first round play as both the Kimball girls and boys were first round hosts. There was a delay in the boy’s game which was supposed to have been played this past Monday night, but due to the ice storms east of us, their game with Chase County was moved back one day, to Tuesday, the same night the Kimball girls hosted Bridgeport. There you go, a double header at home. After the first round play, all the remaining contests will...
A win and a loss for the Kimball High girls the past weekend. The win came Friday night at Bridgeport with the Lady Horns coming out on top 45-40 and the loss came Saturday night at Gordon-Rushville 64-44. The Kimball girls are now 4-5 in the win-loss department. Kimball had to battle back in the second half to get the win at Bridgeport as they trailed 13-8 at the quarter break and were down 21-18 at half time. Kimball took their first lead in the contest early in the third period after Kate Reader scored on a move inside, Alexis Lulf hit one...
Kimball’s boy’s junior varsity team pick dup wins at Bridgeport and Gordon-Rushville and are not 4-3 on the season after winning their last 3 times out. At Bridgeport Friday night they prevailed 61-49 with 10 players scoring. Beau Hanks scored 9 points, all in the 4th quarter, Kole Bush 10, Brady Kilgore and Corey Travis 8 each, Sam Cajero 6, Izaac Reuter 6, Brendan Walker 6, Zane Anthony 4, Grant Hickman 3, and Brayden Tyan 1. At Gordon, Kimball won 47-39 with Reuter and Travis both with 10 points, Anthony, Hanks, and Kilgore with 6 each, Bus...
After a 4-0 start the Kimball High boys basketball team suffered back-to-back losses this past week losing to Sidney at home on Thursday evening 62-21 and losing on the road to Chase County Saturday 65-33. In the loss to class B Sidney, it was a case of the Raiders getting off to a big start as their shots were falling while the Horns could not get a shot to fall. The Raiders broke out to a 15-0 start, led 22-4 at the quarter break, was up 44-9 by half time and cruised to the easy victory....
The Kimball High wrestlers were busy this past weekend competing at the Western Trails Conference Meet in Mitchell and then the Garden County Invite on Saturday. This Saturday they will be off to the Chase County Tournament. The Longhorns finished fifth in the team standings at the WTC Tourney, won by Bridgeport with 200 points. Mitchell was runner-up with 161 followed by Gordon-Rushville with 122, Hemingford 103, Kimball 82.5, Bayard 77 and Morrill 75.5. Kimball was led by Jordan Cluff and...
The loss of their leading scorer certainly played a part in a pair of losses this past week for the Kimball High Lady Longhorns. Alex Reader suffered what appears to be a season ending knee injury in the closing seconds of play at Morrill in the final game before the Christmas break, and was scheduled to confer with a surgeon this past Monday. With the talented junior sharp shooter side-lined, the Kimball girls fell to Sidney 65-25, and lost to Chase County 71-22 this past week. Thanks to a...
A tough weekend of basketball for the Kimball High girls and boys with losses to Sidney and Chase County. Both of these schools have talented teams and will be hard to beat by anyone on their schedules. In looking for excuses as to why the Horns were demolished to such extreme, the Kimball girls have lost their leading scorer and top play maker as junior Alex Reader is done for the season and will be undergoing knee surgery this month. The boys were without a couple of key players due to illness and injury. And, the Horns had an extended...