Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Kimball will be sending four wrestlers to the Nebraska State Wrestling Tournament in Omaha that gets underway today (Thursday) and continues through Saturday! By virtue of their outstanding performances at the D-4 District Tournament held this past week, the Longhorns will be sending one of their largest number of wrestlers to the big show in Omaha in many years. The Fearsome Foursome include senior heavyweight Stephen Bateman at 285 pounds, junior Connor Cluff at 126, freshman Trey Schindler...
The Kimball High Lady Longhorns won in Subdistrict on Tuesday night, Feb. 18, beating Perkins County, 46-31. This means that the Longhorns next play in the Subdistrict Championship game 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, against South Platte at Ogallala. A few days earlier, the Kimball girls picked up a conference win over visiting Hemingford Friday night coming from behind at half time to win out 45-41. It was a close, and exciting contest, the entire game and a fitting finish for Kimball's two...
A key win for the Kimball High boys Friday night as they kept their Western Trails Conference hopes alive with a 49-34 win over visiting Hemingford. The Longhorns looked sharp with some good passing and team work with everyone looking for the open man which turned into baskets and a lot of assists on the stat sheet. First quarter play stayed close with Kimball leading 9-5 after the opening 8 minutes of play, but the Horns turned it on in second quarter action hitting 5 treys and out scoring the Cats 18-4 to take a half time lead of 27-9. The Ho...
In Tuesday night basketball action at Pine Bluffs, the night belonged to the hosting Hornets as they dominated Kimball in both he girls and boys contests. The Lady Hornets won over Kimball 58-23 and the Pine Bluffs boys won over Kimball 85-48. PINE BLUFFS GIRLS 58 KIMBALL GIRLS 23 The Pine Bluffs girls are very tall and talented once again with three 6 footers and 4 seniors in their starting lineup, along with some smooth back court guards to give them all around strength, such as sophomore Jaden Shelit who started the game scoring with a trey...
The Kimball High Wrestlers were busy at the WTC/SPVA Tournament this past week at Bridgeport, and will head to North Platte St Pats for District competition this Friday-Saturday. The Longhorns had some good efforts at the conference tournament along with some disappointments. Coach Wade Brashear commented, “We had our highs and our lows at conference. We started out in the first two rounds wrestling very well. The semifinal round was not as fruitful for us. We dropped some big matches that would have set us up for better placing. “Stephen Bat...
The winter sports season is fast winding down! The Kimball wrestlers go to the District D-4 Tournament this Friday-Saturday at North Platte St Pats hoping to qualify some of our wrestlers for the State Tournament in Omaha that starts February 20. The Kimball High girls close out the regular season this Friday hosting Hemingford and move into subdistrict play at Ogallala Tuesday (February 18). Sorry I can’t give you any pairings as they were not available yet at the time of this writing. There is still junior high boys basketball going on and K...
As of February 9, 2020, Kimball's Dale Hendrickson is a member of the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame! And he has a lot of his Kimball friends and fans that can testify to this happening as they journeyed from near and far to witness, and be part of the ceremony. This year's induction of the 7 new members consisting of 5 players, a media person and a coach, was held at the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame headquarters located in Beatrice, Nebraska, this past Sunday evening complete with an...
The Kimball boys finished 4th in this year's Western Trails Conference Basketball Tournament play, losing 37-34 to Morrill in the consolation finals on Saturday. The Longhorns got off to a good start with a 47-30 win on the road over Gordon-Rushville in first round play, which advanced them into semifinal play at WNCC Cougar palace, and gave them two more contests as first round losers were out. In semifinal action, Kimball lost to the eventual champion Bridgeport, 61-40. In winning the...
The Kimball Hight girls were eliminated from advancing to additional play at Cougar Palace in Scottsbluff with a first round loss at Bayard in Western Trail Conference Tournament play this past week. Unlike the first meeting between these two teams, when Kimball won 51-46 at Bayard, the hosting Lady Tigers dominated in winning 60-41. Kimball Coach Chauncey Pedersen said. “We were beaten severely in every category. Give credit to the Bayard coaches and their team, they were prepared and we evidently were not”. Bayard jumped out to a 19-9 lea...
Dale Hendrickson, a regular at almost all of Kimball's home basketball games, watched intently at the action at Friday night's Kimball-Sutherland contest. The man, who spent many years as a coach and administrator at Kimball High, will miss the Kimball games this weekend as he will be back east at Beatrice being inducted into the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame. Dale is one of five players, along with a coach/manager and a media personality, who will be honored at this year's induction being...
A split weekend for the Kimball High girls this past week with a convincing 50-32 win over Sutherland on the home court Friday evening and a 58-39 loss to the St Pats Irish on the road Saturday. The Lady Longhorns are now 6-10 as they head into WTC Tournament play this week. KIMBALL 50, SUTHERLAND 32 The Kimball girls out scored the visitors in every quarter enroute to their big win Friday and had a good effort according to Coach Chauncey Pedersen, "Other than our shooting," he commented. Sam...
A good day for the Kimball High Wrestling Team as they placed 4 wrestlers and finished 4th in the team standings of the 11 team field of entries in the Mitchell tournament. The Longhorns had two champions in Connor Cluff and Stephen Bateman, a 2nd place from Trey Schindler and a 3rd from Matt Johnson and scored 63 team points. Coach Wade Brashear said, “As a team we wrestled very well. Stephen Bateman led the way at heavyweight, registering 4 pins on his way to becoming the champion at 285 pounds. He had to battle out of some tough s...
A tough week for te Kimball High boys as they suffered losses to Sutherland and North Platte St. Pats on back to back nights despite good effort. On Friday night in a home contest it appeared the Longhorns were going to wrap up a win over the Sailors only to lose 43-42 on a last second 3 point field goal, and then on the road Saturday they played hard after the long road trip, and after trying to forget the disappointment of the night prior, they fell to te Irish 54-46 leaving them now with record of 8 wins and 7 losses as they ready for this w...
A busy weekend was held this past week for the Kimball high athletic program with Kimball hosting Sutherland Friday evening for basketball with the girls winning big and the boys losing in an exciting contest that Sutherland won on a last second long 3 point field goal making the final score read 43-42. Games can be won at the foul line ... and they can certainly be lost at the foul line. Such was the case Friday night as the Kimball boys had a bad night in this category. See the complete story. It was also a night where Stephen Bateman and...
Kimball's Greg McDaniel has been notified that he is being awarded a special award recognizing him as having the highest average rolled by an adult male in the nation for the 2018-19 season. Greg rolled an average of 253 over 145 games in the Kim Bowl Scratch Trio League. This past Sunday evening, the Kimball Mile High Bowling Association Board of Directors staged a surprise presentation to Greg prior to the start of the Sunday night bowling league complete with a special cake made in his honor...
I traveled to North Platte on Saturday to take in the final day of this year’s SPVA Conference Basketball Tournament held at the Mid Plains Community College site and got to witness both Kimball teams secure wins after dropping their first round games earlier in the week. It was a nice basketball atmosphere at the Mid Plains gym and a nice crowd from Kimball showed up to cheer the Longhorns to victory. Be sure and see the stories in this week’s sports. WyoBraska Basketball Also on Saturday, right here in Kimball, there was a lot of bas...
Connor Cluff at 126 pounds was Kimball's top wrestler at the Chadron Invitational Tournament this past Saturday with a record of 4 wins and 1 loss, and finishing 4th in his class. Stephen Bateman at 285 placed 5th, going 2 and 2. Trey Schindler at 138 was 1 and 2, and Joseph Burris was 0-2. Cluff might have placed even higher but had an unfortunate situation, according to Coach Wade Brashear. "We had some up and downs at the Chadron Invite," the coach said. "Connor Cluff was our top placer and p...
After falling to Hershey in first round play of the SPVA Conference Tournament, as reported last week, the Kimball Lady Longhorns came up with a big win over Perkins County on Saturday at North Platte to take 5th place honors. In the 12 noon game at Mid Plains Community College to start the action Saturday, the Kimball girls won out over the Perkins County Plainswomen 41-36. Kimball jumped out to an early 10-0 lead and led 12-2 at the first quarter break, They ran their lead to 14-4 before the team from Grant went on an 8 point unanswered run...
The Kimball boys wound up 5th in SPVA Conference Tournament play after suffering a 49-29 first round loss at Hershey, and coming back to win 55-43 over Sutherland in Saturday consolation play at Mid Plains Community College in North Platte. HERSHEY 49, KIMBALL 29 The Longhorns had their worst offensive showing of the season in scoring only 29 points in their loss to Hershey. Coach Mo Hanks said "We had a good defensive showing but couldn't shoot the basketball". In an earlier contest with the...
I, along with all of the fans who took in the SPVA Conference basketball game between the Kimball and Hershey girls teams at the Kimball High Gymnasium this past Monday, were entertained with a demonstration of long range shooting as the two teams tied a Nebraska Girls State record for most 3 point field goals in a game total with 23. Kimball had 12 and Hershey 11. Shayda Vaughn, a 5’10” sophomore for Hershey, set a school record with her 9 treys. Kimball junior Sydney Biesecker tied for 3rd best on the Kimball High school records with 6. It...
It was a double-win weekend for the Kimball High Boys Basketball Team as they picked up wins over Bridgeport and Gordon-Rushville, running their season record to 7-4, and have won 5 of their last 6 games! The magic number for the Horns was 49 as they won over Bridgeport 49-47 and over Gordon-Rushville 49-37. Coach Mo Hanks has his team believing they can win the close ones now that he has a full and healthy crew. KIMBALL 49, BRIDGEPORT 47 Kimball got off to a slow start with Bridgeport falling b...
The Kimball High Lady Longhorns lost 64-55 to Hershey in first round play at the SPVA Conference Tournament in action played at the Kimball site Monday evening. It was truly an entertaining and exciting contest for the fans as it was a long-range shootout with both teams displaying their shooting abilities from behind the 3-point arc and tied a state record with 23 total 3-pointers made! Kimball connected on 12 treys and Hershey on 11 with sophomore Shayda Vaughn getting a new school record for...
The Kimball High Wrestling Team had three wrestlers place at the Chase County Tournament this past Saturday with Stephen Bateman taking 3rd place honors, Trey Schindler 5th, and Matt Johnson 6th. Coach Wade Brashear, commenting on the latest tournament, said, “Chase County turned out to be a tough, long tournament. This week our top placer was once again heavyweight Steve Bateman. Steve dropped a semifinal match after being up 6-0, but he battled back to finish third. “Matt Johnson won two matches on the day to put him in sixth place. Trey Sch...
Alexis Lulf made history in the Kimball bowling scene by becoming the first lady bowler to bowl a perfect 300 game! Alexis rolled her 300 game on Jan. 9 while bowling in a league at the KimBowl, according to Greg McDaniel, owner/operator of the KimBowl. "As far as we can determine, the previous high game by a woman was a 290 bowled by Bev Wilson, who still bowls in league play," said McDaniel. Alexis has always been quite accurate at whatever sport she is involved in and still shares the single...
Kimball High wrestler Stephen Bateman had a career best day in winning the 285-pound championship at Saturday's Garden County Invitational Tournament! Coach Wade Brashear said, "The day belonged to Steve. As an unseeded wrestler in the tournament, Steve upset the number one and number two seeded heavyweights to go on to his first individual tournament championship of his high school career." Coach Brashear went on to say that "Steve has been wrestling very well and it was a testament to his hard...