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 boys were no match for visiting Hemingford Friday evening coming up on the short end of the score board in a 67-43 loss. A combination of poor shooting and being out rebounded 49 to 18 played a big part in the Kimball loss to their Western Trails Conference opponent. Kimball got off to a good start and led 20-18 at the quarter break as senior Tyler Magninie tallied 9 1st period points and Creg Barker making some key plays and contributing 4 points. From this point on,...
The Kimball High Lady Longhorns suffered two major losses at this year's Western Trails Conference Tournament canceling out their goal of winning two conference tournament titles this season. The first loss came Friday night when senior Danika Daum suffered a foot injury that kept her from participating in the championship game on Saturday. This of course, hurt the chances of winning Saturday's title game with Gordon-Rushville as the Lady Mustangs, the number 5 seed, surprised by winning it all...
The 2015-16 Western Trails Conference Basketball Tournament was a strange, and upsetting, affair! It turned out to be a lot of fun for Gordon-Rushville as they won both the girl’s and boy’s team championships. There should be dancing in the streets back in Gordon and Rushville in celebration of the way their respective teams performed this past weekend. Take the girls team first. The Lady Mustangs came into tournament play seeded number 5. They simply demolished their opponents. In first round play they won 62-46 over 4 seed Morrill, then bla...
Gordon-Rushville captured the championship of the Western Trails Conference Boy's Division Tournament in a surprise upset of number one seed Bridgeport in the title game, winning 40-34. Gordon-Rushville was the number three seed and won their title by defeating Bayard 65-37 in first round play and taking out number two seed Hemingford 68-44 in semi final action. Hemingford won over Morrill 61-30 in first round play and then held on to win over Mitchell 38-35 to claim third place honors. Kimball...
Coaches Dane Wurdeman and Ben Ferguson are busy with games for the Kimball Junior High Boy’s Basketball Teams and there is some talent on this year’s teams. Wurdeman said “The toughest thing we have going for us is trying to match up with the height of some of the teams we go against.” In bringing you readers up to date on some games already played, with more to bring you perhaps next week; On Jan. 19 against Burns the 7-A team lost to Burns 20-10 with five players for Kimball scoring 2 points each including Scott Hunsaker, Christian VanPelt, J...
A strong showing by the Kimball High boys this past weekend including a surprising upset win over North Platte St Pats. Despite playing well on the home court Friday evening, they let one slip away in an overtime 67-62 loss to visiting Sutherland, but then came back strong on the road Saturday to upset the favored St Pats Irish 58-53 at their house. Coach Luke Dea praised the play of his team both nights. “We played very good both nights, but just didn’t finish out on Friday against Sutherland” Dea said. “We got outstanding effort by all of...
A huge win for the Kimball High Lady Longhorns as they avenged an earlier loss to Mitchell coming out on top 59-42 in a battle of two top ten ranked C-l teams this past week. In a contest played at Mitchell on January 8, the hosting Lady Tigers won out 44-42. In the rematch at Kimball, the hosts made sure they took care of business jumping out to an early lead and were in control from start to finish. Kimball received notice that they had moved into the number 10 spot in the Omaha World...
Kimball had two medal winners at the Mitchell Invitational Wrestling Tournament with Cody Kirby finishing 3rd at 220 pounds and Garrett Pedersen 4th at 106. As a team, Kimball placed 11th in the field of 15 teams with 26 points. Coach Wade Brashear said "The competition was good. Overall we wrestled decent, but our inexperience shows. As a team we have shown good improvement, but with a tough D-4 District coming up, we must continue to strive to get better. This week we were without our 285...
A tough week for the Kimball High junior varsity basketball teams. The Kimball girls fell to Sutherland 41-32 and lost at North Platte St Pats 60-21. In the Sutherland game Alexis Lulf had 9 points with a pair of treys, Hannah Biesecker 7 with 1 trey, Shauntae Daily 4, Madison Wynne 3, Lacy Klinkhammer 2, Justine Heeg 2, Sheridan Magninie 2, Kaylyn Nelson 1, and a Sutherland player 2 when she went to the wrong basket. At St Pats Heeg had 8 with 1 trey, Daily 4, Nelson 3 with a trey, Lulf 3 with a trey, Wynne 2, and Biesecker 1. The JV boys...
The Lady Longhorns started the weekend off like they are accustomed to with a win over visiting Sutherland Friday night putting up a final score of 65-48 on the home court score board, but then a rare falter on the road to North Platte St Pats Saturday, losing 61-52 in the battle of two state ranked teams . Madison Biesecker got the Horns started Friday night hitting a 16 footer and following that seconds later with a rebound put-back basket and Kimball took a 14-9 1st quarter-lead, were on top 30-24 at half time, then picked it up in the...
Lots of area sports activities this past week but the snowy weather has cancelled or postponed some of the scheduled events at the start of this week. The Kimball girl’s win over Mitchell was big, but their loss to North Platte St Pats was disappointing. The Kimball boys made up for the girl’s loss however by upsetting the St Pats boys. The Kimball girls had moved into the Omaha World Herald’s C-l top 10 prior to the Mitchell game, but after their win over the then ranked Lady Tigers holding the number 8 spot, Kimball is now 9th and Mitch...
Kimball High Lady Longhorns captured the championship of the 2016 South Platte Valley Athletic Conference Tournament Saturday evening at the North Platte Community College Gymnasium. The final score was 54-53! The score at half time was North Platte St Pats 28-14! The second half come-back will go down as one of the most memorable championships in the history of Kimball High basketball. As reported last week, Kimball opened up tournament play with a first round 63-21 win over Perkins County...
The Kimball High boys fell to a couple of strong opponents during SPVA Conference Tournament play this past week. In first round play they travelled to Bridgeport, the eventual champions, and lost 67-25, and in a first round losers bracket contest on Friday at North Platte the Horns lost to Hershey 68-31. The first quarter was Kimball’s best quarter at Bridgeport and they still trailed 16-8 to the tall and talented Bulldog team. By half time it was 37-15 and before it was over, the game was being played with a running clock as the margin r...
Congrats and a toast to the Kimball High girls and their coaches for winning the SPVA Conference Tournament this past week, and what a crazy and exciting championship game with the Lady Longhorns upsetting the number one seed North Platte St Pats Irish 54-53! Crazy because Kimball played poorly the first half in what coach Chauncey Pedersen said “It may have been our worst half of basketball this season” and Kimball was trailing 28-14 at half time. After getting the score doubled on them in first half play, they came out to go on a 13 poi...
The Kimball High Wrestling Team had one of their best showings of the year at the two-day Tournament in Lingle this past weekend with four Longhorns ending up placing. Coach Wade Brashear said "This tournament turned out to be one of our best showings. We have shown quite a bit of improvement and I was happy with our results. After the first day, all but one of our wrestlers were still in the competition. Jake Jenkins at 120 injury defaulted out of the tournament. We finished with four placers,...
With two more wins over the weekend, the Kimball High Lady Longhorns ran their season record to 10-2. Latest victims of the Kimball ladies were Bridgeport on Friday (71-42) and Gordon-Rushville on Saturday (72-57). No problem either night for the Kimball girls as they went past the 70 point mark both evenings. They had a slow start with Bridgeport falling behind 14-9 but ended up on top at the quarter 15-14. They got things rolling in the second period out scoring the visitors 23-10 to take a...
The Kimball High boys suffered losses to Bridgeport and Gordon-Rushville the past weekend in their final tuneup for the SPVA Conference Tournament that takes place this week. The Longhorns fell to state ranked Bridgeport 66-52 on Friday evening and lost 56-44 to Gordon-Rushville on Saturday. Bridgeport is big, by any class, with only 3 players less than 6'1" on their 15-member varsity roster, which includes four players at 6'6". Once again, Kimball's smaller lineup played hard and aggressive...
Kimball picked up wins at Potter-Dix this past week in contests featuring the neighboring communities. The stands were full and were treated to some good high school basketball as the Class D-2 Coyotes gave a good accounting of themselves against the larger C-l Kimball. The Potter-Dix girls came into the contest ranked number 7 in the state C-2 rankings, but got off to a very slow start trailing 17-3 at the quarter break, and were down 28-12 at half time. They got their game going in the third...
It was a split weekend for the Kimball High junior varsity basketball teams with both the girls and boys dropping close contests to Bridgeport, but both girls and boys getting wins over Gordon-Rushville. The Kimball girls lost to Bridgeport on Friday evening 34-31 with Hannah Biesecker high with 13 points with 1 trey. Justine Heeg had 6 with a trey, Shauntae Daily 4, Kaylyn Nelson 3 with a trey, Alexis Lulf 3 with a trey, and Madison Wynne 2. Kimball’s cause was hurt by 5/23 foul shooting. Kimball bounced back Saturday afternoon to win 44-40 o...
I covered a lot of basketball this past week, 11 games total, before getting back in the saddle again Monday for the start of the SPVA Conference Tournament play. I enjoyed getting to take in a game at Potter once again after limiting my writing to mostly just Kimball activities a few years back as I try in vain to simply retire from the business of writing sport stories. Trust me, it is going to happen. The games between Potter-Dix and Kimball were very competitive for both the girls and boys and Class D-2 Coyotes have a lot of talent for...
The Kimball Lady Longhorns had an easy win over Perkins County in first round play of the South Platte Valley Athletic Conference Tournament play that began this past Monday. In a game hosted by number two seed Kimball, the hosts won out 63-21 over the visiting number seven seed Lady Plainsmen. Kimball jumped out to an early 12-0 lead before the Grant club got on the scoreboard and Coach Chauncey Pedersen’s girls played near flawless basketball as they ran the score to 20-2, and led 28-7 after one quarter of play. Madison Biesecker accounted f...
The Kimball boys put it all together at Mitchell Saturday night to secure a 70-55 win over the taller Tigers. This was certainly the highlight of the week for the Longhorns as they also suffered losses to Sidney (82-46), and Chase County (58-40). The Horns returned to action at Sidney Thursday evening following a three week layoff from competition and the Class B number three ranked Red Raiders are all they were publicized. They have height, talent, and depth! Kimball did what they do almost...
A tough week for the Kimball High girl's basketball team. After a three week layoff for the Christmas Holiday break, the Lady Horns returned to action with a three night consecutive schedule facing some of their strongest competition of the season. They returned to play with a road trip to Sidney to face the state ranked Lady Raiders who are rated number 10 in Class B by the Omaha World Herald and gave the larger school all they could handle before losing 52-47. The following night, yet another...
Bridgeport captured the 2016 Western Trails Conference Wrestling Championship hosted by Kimball this past week with Mitchell a distant runnerup in the team scoring. Bridgeport won the team title with 234 points with Mitchell scoring 148.5, followed in order by Bayard with 133, Gordon-Rushville 119, Hemingford 106, Morrill 67, and Kimball 36. Sidney and Banner County also participated in the tournament but are not WTC members. Although the young Kimball team finished last in a strong field of WTC wrestlers, many of whom are state ranked, coach...