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The Kimball High golf team could sing "We are the Champions," all the long way home from Valentine Tuesday evening after destroying the rest of the field at the Class C District Tournament being held at the prestigious Prairie Club's Pine Course. With another awesome performance by the entire team, the Longhorns shot 319 to win by 20 strokes over runner up Southern Valley with their score of 339, and third place Perkins County with a 347. The top three teams advance to the State Tournament. Let...
The 2016 High School sports season is winding down. The Nebraska State Track and Field Championships are this weekend in Omaha at Burke Stadium tomorrow and Saturday. The District Golf was held at Valentine this past Tuesday and the State Golf for Class C is this coming week on May 25-26 at the Kearney Country Club Course. We do have some baseball/ softball starting up but I have not been able to round up a schedule on the newly formed Legion Team as of yet. I heard they had a game at Kimball this past weekend but again, I have no results for...
One more tournament, one more win, and one more Conference Title for the Kimball High Golf Team as they captured the SPVA Tournament held at Sutherland this past week. This makes them dual conference champions this season as they won the Western Trails Conference earlier in the season. Led by medalist Jordan Greenwood who captured the individual title with his round of 38-40=78, and with all five Longhorn golfers finishing in the top ten medal group, the Horns won by 19 strokes over runner up Perkins County. Kimball shot a round of 330 on the...
Two more tournaments and two more wins for the Kimball High Golf Team. This past Thursday, Kimball hosted both the Western Trails Conference Tournament and the Kimball Invitational with separate scoring. The Longhorns won both divisions with their lowest team score of the season capturing the top honors with 316. Not only was the Kimball team a double winner on the day, but so was Kimball junior Jordan Greenwood who won both division medalist titles with his par round of 72. In the Western...
The host school, Chase County, won both the girl's and boy's team titles at the SPVA Track and Field Meet held in Imperial this past week. In the girl's division they piled up 193 points with North Platte St. Pats a distant runner up with 94 followed by Bridgeport with 90, Sutherland 51, Hershey 51, KIMBALL 34, Perkins County 13. In the boy's division it was Chase County 121, St. Pats 100, Bridgeport 88, KIMBALL 68, Perkins County 66, Hershey 47, Sutherland 37. Highlight of the meet for Kimball...
Kimball hosted the 2016 SPVA Junior High Track and Field meet this past week with Chase County winning all four divisions consisting of girls 7-8 and boy’s 7-8 divisions. Kimball’s best finish in the seven-school competition came in the eighth grade girl’s division where they finished fourth with 41 points. Kimball was fifth in the seventh grade girls class with 39.5 points, sixth in the seventh grade boys with 35 points, and sixth in the eighth grade boys with 38.5 points. Jenna Greenwood was a standout for Kimball in the eighth grade girls...
Kimball had limited entries at the Bayard B-C-D Track Invite this past Friday as coach Gene Mohr elected to hold out several of his athletes from competition due to injuries, illness, and tired bodies. None the less, the Longhorns had some highlights in this large event that attracted 13 schools. Sidney won both the girl's and boy's divisions with Mitchell, Bridgeport, and Alliance following in order in both divisions of the team scoring. Kimball finished ninth in both divisions scoring 26...
A very busy sports week this past week with lots of track and golf to report along with the Booster Club Banquet and awards night on Friday. Be sure and read all of the stories in regards to all of these events. The Booster Club Banquet was well attended with food provided by the Booster Club with the help of several of the ladies involved. Jeri Ferguson served as MC and kept things moving right along and Kerry Ferguson put together a video show to close out the evening. Adam Bohac, a former outstanding student/athlete at Kimball High who is...
Jaden Withrow and Trent Rutledge picked the best time to have their best efforts at the Best of the West Track and Field Classic, track and field meet, held Monday evening at Bearcat Stadium in Scottsbluff. Withrow had a career best triple jump of 43'7.75" to capture the gold medal,well ahead of second place Mitch Porter of Sidney with his leap of 41'6.75" The talented Kimball junior also saw the medal stand a second time to receive a third place medal in the long jump with his season best jump...
Kimball took the top two individual places in winning the team championship at the Perkins County golf tournament held at Grant this past week scoring their low team score of the season of 319. Perkins County was 20 strokes back with 339 to finish runner up in the team standings. Another individual win for Jordan Greenwood who took medalist honors with his round of 37-37=74. Jordan finished just one stroke better than freshman team mate Zane Anthony who shot his best career round of 39-36=75 to...
A solid day for the Kimball High Track Team at the George Calvert Invite held at Morrill this past Saturday. Although Mitchell won both the boy's and girl's team titles, and Bridgeport was runner up in both, the Kimball boys finished third and the Lady Longhorns fourth. The Horns had their shining moments. Mitchell tallied 157 team points in the boy's division holding off Bridgeport who scored 150. Kimball had 105, Gering JV 36, Morrill 25, Sidney JV 21, Minatare 8, Scottsbluff JV 6, Sioux...
What a difference a day makes when it comes to weather and spring sports in Western Nebraska. Our Kimball golfers had a cold and dreary day at Grant this past week, then had a near perfect day at Scottsbluff on Monday. Didn’t matter as the Longhorns won both times out and now have three wins and two runner up finishes on the season. Our track team has had meets cancelled, rescheduled, and even had some good days. It was a good day this past Saturday at Morrill, but now they have to wait and see if the SPVA Meet in Imperial will go on as s...
The Kimball High boy’s golf team had back-to-back team wins this week taking the Perkins County title during play last week and then capturing the Division Two championship of the Scottsbluff Invite at the Scottsbluff Country Club this past Monday. The Longhorns took top honors with 349 with the Sidney JV runner up with 392, Mitchell 418, Morrill 415, Alliance JV 433, Gering JV 431, and Bayard 449. These were the teams with enough golfers to have team scores. Jordan Greenwood captured his fourth individual medalist title of the season as w...
It appears Mitchell is going to have a strong track and field program for a few more years as their junior high track team took top team honors in winning the Kimball Junior High Invite this past week. The Mitchell team won the combined team decision (boys and girls) with 177 points with Burns a distant runner up with 108.5. Kimball finished fifth in the combined division with 71 scoring 40 in the girl’s division and 31 in the boy’s division to finish fourth in both of those team standings from the field of 11 teams. Highlight of the day for...
Mitchell took top team honors this past Thursday in winning the 2016 Western Trails Conference Track championship in the meet hosted this year by Kimball. Originally scheduled to be held on Saturday, the meet was moved up two days by vote of Conference officials, and a smart move indeed, as tracksters were treated to a rather nice, but windy day, while Saturday was a snowy and wintery day as was forecasted. The Mitchell boys won with 178.5 points with Bridgeport runnerup with 134 followed by...
Class B golf powerhouse Scottsbluff was too strong for the Kimball High boy's golf team this past week but the Longhorns gave the bigger school a run at the team honors of the Mitchell Invite. The Bluffs team took top team honors with their score of 313 while Kimball finished runnerup with 321. Behind the leaders were Gering 335, Sidney JV 346, Alliance 357, Crawford 366, Chadron 371, Mitchell 392, Garden County 393, Morrill 419 and Mitchell JV 457. Scottsbluff also took the top two individual...
Bridgeport shot their best score of the young season in taking top team honors at their own Bridgeport Invitational this past week with Kimball, finishing runnerup for second place. Coach Todd Janicek’s Bulldogs shot 334 to claim first place while Kimball shot 340. Behind the top two were Mullen 360, Gordon-Rushville 380, Creek Valley 393, Mitchell 398, Hemingford 412, Garden County 417, Morrill 426, Chase County 444 and Bridgeport JV 489. Kimball junior Jordan Greenwood captured first place medalist honors with his round of 36-42=78, one s...
The 2016 Western Trails Conference Track Meet is in the books and Kimball did a good job of hosting this year. A salute to the conference officials for moving it up to this past Thursday from the scheduled Saturday to avoid the winter storm that did occur. Mitchell is really loaded this year with track talent, both girls and boys and they once again defended their team titles. Bayard and Bridgeport, and all of the schools involved, have some excellent talent. Three meet records were set, a couple of them wind aided, but they were by athletes...
The Kimball Junior High boys won six events and piled up 180 points in winning the Potter-Dix Junior High Track Invite held at the Kimball site this past week. Pine Bluffs was runnerup with 115 points, Banner County had 90, Leyton 76, Potter-Dix 52, Minatare 22. Leyton won the girl's division with 179 points followed by Pine Bluffs with 137, KIMBALL 111, Minatare 66, Potter-Dix 57 and Banner County 42. Lots of highlights for the Kimball boys including taking the top three places in the pole vaul...
Jordan Greenwood's par-round of 72, not only garnered him medalist honors, but also sparked a win by the Kimball High Boy's Golf Team in their season opening tournament play as the Longhorns won the Bayard Tournament by 12 strokes over runner-up Bridgeport. The Longhorns shot a team score of 334 with Bridgeport finishing runner-up with 346. Greenwood's win came as no surprise as the talented junior is one of the state's better high school golfers, having earned two state medals already in his...
The Kimball Junior High Track Season got underway with the Shorthorns competing at the Bayard Invite this past week. The Kimball boys finished seventh in the 15 team field, scoring 28 points while the girls wound up 12th with 13 points. Team standings for the girls saw Sidney finish on top with 132 points, followed in order by Bayard 68, Hemingford 55, Gordon-Rushville 38, Mitchell 37, Creek Valley 34, Morrill 28, Crawford 21, St. Agnes 20, Sioux County 18, Lingle-Ft. Laramie 14, KIMBALL 13, Southeast 9, Bridgeport 9. Mitchell won the boy’s d...
The big news this week is Kimball winning the Bayard Golf Tournament, and winning it handily by 12 strokes over runner-up Bridgeport. The Horns shot 334 and had 3 players in the top ten medal group including Jordan Greenwood in the number one spot to take medalist honors with his round of 37-35=72. Jordan was the lone team member with high school experience with three freshmen playing their first high school tournament along with senior Tyler Magninie, also his first tournament ever. We can expect more good things from this group all season...
The Kimball Boys finished third in the team standings of the Bayard C-D Invitational Track and Field Meet this past Saturday scoring 65.5 points, just a half point behind second place Bayard with 66. Bridgeport won the top team honors with 82 points, but coach Gene Mohr said, "We had some minor leg problems that caused us to pull some of our kids out of events where I know we could have scored high and we could have been right in the hunt to win this meet." Not a bad first outing for the...
The Potter Dix Lady Coyotes had a strong showing at Bayard finishing fourth with 57 points. Alexus Rozelle captured two gold medals in winning the shot put at 37'11" and the discus with a winning throw of 115'5". The Lady Coyotes scored big in the field events as Cortney Lewis was fourth in the shot at 31'6" and sixth in the discus at 89'0". A one-two finish in the high jump with Regyn Hicks winning at 5'0" and Anna McLaughlin second at 4'10". Hicks was sixth in the long jump at 14'9". Trinity...
Kimball High's varsity boy's golf team for the opening tournament held at Bayard this past Tuesday. Left to right are Zane Anthony, Dillon Wise, Jordan Greenwood, Izaak Reuter, Tyler Magninie. Magninie, the lone senior on the team, switched over from track for his final season. Greenwood is a junior and two time state medal winner. The remaining trio are all talented freshmen. Kimball is at Mitchell this coming Tuesday....