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 highlight of the Bayard B-C-D Track Invite for Kimball High was the win in the pole vault by Ali Hunsaker who had a career best winning height of 9'0" which also improved on her own Kimball High School record after setting the mark at 8'8" just a week ago! After winning the event at 8'10," Ali had them set the bar at 9'0" and cleared it to become the gold medal champion and Kimball High's all time best. She also ran 6th in the 200 with a time of 28.14 on a cold but dry day of track and...
Fueled by Brady Kilgore’s two meet record wins in the hurdles, the Kimball 8th grade boys track team emerged as team champions at the South Platte Valley Athletic Conference Junior High Track meet held at Imperial this past week. The Kimball boys scored 115 point to win the team title easily with Hershey a distant runnerup with 81 followed by Sutherland with 76.5, Chase County 66, Perkins County 59, North Platte St Pats 53.5, and Bridgeport 14. A memorable day for Brady Kilgore as he won the 100 meter hurdles in 14.90 and the 19.5 meter h...
What a weekend for the Kimball High Boys Golf Team and especially for sophomore Jordan Greenwood. Greenwood won back-to-back conference medalist titles on back-to-back days of competition and also shot his career low round of golf in winning the Western Trails Conference individual championship. The Longhorns travelled to Grant on Friday of this past week for the South Platte Valley Athletic Association tournament finishing runnerup to Bridgeport for the team honors as the Bulldogs shot 339 and...
Kimball High sophomore Jaden Withrow proved he was the Best in the West at the Best in the West Classic Track and Field Meet held at Scottsbluff Bearcat Stadium this past week, winning the triple jump with a hop-skip-jump of 42'2.5." He didn't waste any time as all of the 8 contestants were allowed only 4 jumps each and Jaden sailed out on his winning jump on his first attempt. He was Kimball's only gold medal winner on the day and was one of two who were presented to the crowd on the award...
Madison Biesecker and Ryan Muneio emerged as SPVA Conference champions for Kimball at the conference track and field meet held at Hershey this past Friday. Muneio got his gold medal winning the boys 400 meters with his personal best time of 51.90. He had a good day as he also ran 4th in the 800 in 2:06.70 and ran a leg on the 4x100 relay that finished 3rd in 45.60. Biesecker, fresh off a good night at the Best in the West, won the long jump at l5'7.5," ran 4th in the 100 meter dash in 13.60,...
Kimball won the boys division of the Pine Bluffs Junior High Track and Field Invite this past week amassing 144 points to run away with the team championship. Burns was a distant runnerup in the 13 school field. Bayard won the girls division with 115 points holding off Southeast who finished second with 106. Kimball was 4th with 54 while Bridgeport was 3rd with 57. Lots of highlights on the day for Kimball. Brady Kilgore won both hurdle races taking the 75 meter hurdles in 12.13 and the 200 meter hurdles in 27.69. He also was 3rd in the high...
The Kimball High Boys Golf Team shot their low team round of the season to finish third at the Morrill Tournament this past week. Bridgeport won the team title with 353 strokes followed by Chadron with 362, Kimball 376, Crawford 393, Gordon-Rushville 401, Hemingford 429, Gering JV 456, Mitchell 459, and Morrill 469. Keenan Johnson of Chadron was medalist with his round of 81. Eric Stevens of Bridgeport wound up 2nd with his 82 after winning a score card playoff from Kimball's Jordan Greenwood...
With near perfect weather conditions at the George Calvert Invitational Track and Field Meet in Morrill this past Friday, the athletes responded with no less than 10 new meet records, including 6 in the girls division and 4 in the boys division. Kimball’s Ali Hunsaker and Jaden Withrow added their names to the new records with Hunsaker winning the girls pole vault at 8’8” to better the old mark of 8’6” set by Brianne Arnott of Mitchell in 2011, and Withrow getting a season best triple jump of 4...
A late afternoon lightning storm cancelled out the final events of the day at the Kimball Junior High Track and Field Invite this past week, but most of the events went off as scheduled with good weather conditions. Those events not held were the boys 200 meter dash, the 800 meter run for all divisions, and all of the relays. A solid all around performance by the Kimball 8th grade boys as they won their school division with 68 points with Perkins County runnerup with 45. The balance of the division saw Mitchell with 33, Pine Bluffs 32, Bayard 2...
The Kimball High boys golf team got two tournaments in this past week but weather caused the Bridgeport Tournament to be called off with no new reschedule date as of yet. The Longhorns went up against most all of the large schools at the Mitchell Tournament, won by Scottsbluff with 315 team strokes. Gering was runnerup with 351, Crawford had 364, Alliance 365, Chadron 367, Laramie 372, Bridgeport 386, Sidney 382, Kimball 393, Garden County 440, and Mitchell 495. Scottsbluff took the top two indi...
Mitchell ran away with all of the team honors at Tuesday's Western Trails Conference Track and Field Meet with both the boys and girls winning team titles. Mitchell's Drew Gilliland was voted Outstanding Male Athlete on the day while Bayard's Jessi Smith won the same honor for the girls. No new meet records were established although Gilliland was just .02 of a second off the meet record in the 110 meter high hurdles running 15.02, just shy of the 15.0 flat time ran by Jeff Mass of Bridgeport in...
Jordan Greenwood got his 2015 High School Golf Season off to a fantastic start as he took top honors at the Bayard Tournament shooting a 38-37=75 to take medalist honors by 7 strokes over John Opela of Mullen, who was runnerup with his round of 82. Coach Chad Wise had nothing but praise for his talented young sophomore, but said, "Actually, Jordan had a few problems with his putting and could have shot even lower." As a freshman last year, Greenwood opened his high school golf at the Bayard...
Kimball won the overall team championship at the Tri-State Track and Field Invite this past Friday in Chappell, thanks to a first place by the Kimball girls team and a runnerup finish by the Kimball boys team. In the final results sheets no team scores were included, or the listings of how teams finished in order. It was a delightful day for track and field at Chappell and the athletes responded, especially the Kimball athletes, with many personal bests for the season, and many Kimball athletes...
The Kimball Junior High boys track team had a strong showing in their opening track competition at the Bayard Invite, finishing second in the 14 school event. Sidney won the boys division with 108.5 points with Kimball runnerup with 91 and third place Bayard a distant third with 43. Several standouts for Kimball on the day with Brady Kilgore sweeping the hurdle events winning the 110 meter hurdles in 16.84 and taking the 200 hurdles in 28.18. Kilgore also ran 6th in the 100 meter dash in 12.45. He was a four event placer as he was 5th in the...
The Kimball High Track Team had their strongest showing in the field events at the Bayard C-D Track Invite this past week with both boys and girls bringing home gold medals. Trent Rutledge won his third consecutive first place finish in the boys pole vault with a winning height of 12'0," and Jaden Withrow captured his third straight top finish in the boys triple jump with a winning leap of 41'2.5." Ali Hunsaker had her best day so far in the girls vault winning the event at 8'0" and Madison...
The Bridgeport boys and the Bayard girls took top team honors at the Bayard C-D Track Invite this past week. With a total of 17 schools scoring points, the Bayard girls tallied 64 points to capture the team title on their home grounds. Bridgeport was runnerup in the girls division with 56 followed by Burns with 54, Pine Bluffs 50, Crawford 44, Kimball 42, Lingle-Ft. Laramie 41, Potter-Dix 38, Gordon-Rushville 37, Southeast 27, Morrill 19.5, Leyton 18, Creek Valley 11.5, Cody-Kilgore 8, Hemingford 6, Sioux County 6 and Banner County 2. In the...
Mitchell took home top team honors in both the girls and boys divisions of the 2015 Kimball High Track Invitational on Saturday. In the boys division the Tigers piled up 137.33 points with Kimball a distant runner up with 85.33. In the girls division the Lady Tigers amassed 153 points with Potter-Dix finishing second with 121. Two new meet records were set Saturday in the girls division and one tied in the boys division. Aspen Reifschneider of Mitchell, who was a four event gold medal winner on...
Some real bright spots by the Kimball High Track Team in a strong showing at the Chadron State College High School Indoor Track and Field Meet held this past Saturday. At the meet that attracted 16 schools, 450 athletes, and 750 entries, the Longhorns reaped some honors. Coach Gene Mohr was expecting strong showings from his team in the field events and they did not disappoint him. In the boys pole vault Trent Rutledge won with a vault of 12'8" and Justin Mohr was 6th at 10'2." In the triple...
A total of 44 spirited young men and women turned out for the first official Kimball High Track practice on March 2nd with 28 boys and 16 girls listed on the roster coach Gene Mohr handed me. Coach Mohr was very pleased with the number of boys but would have liked to see the girl numbers up. "Yes, I am very pleased with the number of boys we have out with 8 seniors and 10 freshmen. This means we have good leadership and maturity back and that we have a lot of interest from our incoming young ath...
It may be hard to duplicate the success the Kimball High boys golf team experienced a year ago, but coach Chad Wise feels he has a group that is going to be pretty competitive. "I think we can be pretty good this season and should be competitive in all of our tournaments," said Wise. You readers should remember that last year Kimball had two state qualifiers and two state medalists in what I termed was perhaps the best one-two punch for Kimball golf ever. Only half of that one-two punch is back...
Two more Kimball High athletes signed letters of intent Tuesday to continue their education and athletic careers at the college level. Ryan Muneio and Damien Rutledge both signed to attend Midland University with Muneio to participate in track and Rutledge in football. Kyle Peacock, a former football player for Midland located in Fremont, Nebraska, is now the Admissions Counselor for Midland, and was in town to handle the signing. Muneio plans on focusing on the middle distance events in...
Exciting news to report concerning Kimball and Western Nebraska Golf fans. The Nebraska Golf Association has announced they have selected our beautiful Four Winds Golf Course as the site of this summer's 47th Nebraska Junior Amateur and 15th Nebraska Girl's Amateur Golf Championships! The dates are July 14-16 with the girls to play 36 holes and the boys 54 holes, all stroke play. Ben Vigil, Manager of Association Services for the Nebraska Golf Association, was in town this past Monday to meet...
Kimball High Wrestling Coach, Wade Brashear said, “This year’s wrestling season had it’s ups and downs, not unlike any other wrestling season.” Brashear went on to say, “Our two seniors, Justin Mohr and Rowdy Keller, both ended the season with winning records but fell short of their goals of making it to the NSAA State Tournament. Our only qualifier was freshman Clay Keller at 132 pounds. The remainder of our team is young and have the potential to be outstanding wrestlers.” Brashear said that one positive this year was the fact the team st...
The 2014-15 Kimball High boys basketball team had a real challenge this past season ending up with 6 wins and 14 losses. After graduating their two talented big guys who played such major roles the past two seasons, referring to Mike Daum and Jake Reader, this year's Longhorns lacked the height they could have used, plus they faced a lot of very talented teams this season as well. Luke Dea, long time assistant, took over the head role this season after Bruce Tjosvold resigned the position and...
The season ended for the Kimball High boys basketball team in a 59-42 loss to state ranked Hemingford in first round play of the C2-l2 sub-district tournament. With the loss, the Longhorns closed out the season with a 6 win-14 loss record. Hemingford advanced into the sub-district finals where they fell to higher ranked Bridgeport 59-57 in overtime, thus ending the season for the Bobcats as well. Like always, the Kimball boys gave good effort but were simply up against one of the top teams in...