Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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It was another strong showing from Kimball High’s two senior golfers as both Jaycie Walker and Kallie Bush finished in the top 10 medal group at the Mitchell Invitational Girls Golf Tournament. The tournament was postponed one day until this past Friday due to bad weather conditions on Thursday. Walker shot 103 to finish seventh and Bush shot 108 to place ninth. Walker has now medaled in every tournament this season and keeps her string alive. In team scoring, Sidney won with 440, Bridgeport shot 442, Bayard 443, and Creek Valley 480. Alpine H...
The Kimball High Volleyball teams are corning off a very busy week and after a 3-0 start, are now 6-3 on the season. "We just finished a very tough week of competition" said coach Vicki Mitchell. "The varsity players had eight games from Tuesday through Saturday." The Kimball ladies had a strong start with wins over Bridgeport, 25-17 and 25-14, and over Garden County, 25-8 and 25-13, in the triangular at Bridgeport. On Thursday night in the season home opener with Mitchell and Potter Dix, the La...
The Kimball High School cross country team opened the 2014 season with perhaps its toughest competition of the entire season Sept. 5 at the Gering Invite. The Longhorns had to run with many of the large Class B Nebraska Schools along with some of the strong Wyoming schools, but it was a good opening test for coach Tiffany Johnson’s runners. In the boys team standings at Gering, Scottsbluff, the defending state champions, won with 14 points followed by Sidney with 35, Mitchell with 71, Gering with 80, Alliance with 80, Torrington with 121, B...
The Kimball High Longhorn Football Team suffered their first loss of the season Friday night at Keith Staehr Field losing to Southern Valley 20-17 just when it looked like they had a win locked up. The visiting Eagles struck first driving 80 yards in 6 plays following a Kimball punt with Jeremiah Perkins throwing to Hunter Quinn for a 19 yard touchdown with 5:59 remaining in the 1st quarter. After Enrique Cajero pinned the Eagles back at their own 3 yard line with a booming 41 yard punt, the...
The Lady Longhorn Volleyball Team opened the season at Bridgeport this past Thursday evening and brought home a marathon four set victory. Set scores saw Kimball prevail 25-15, 30-32, 32-30, 25-14. Coach Vicki Mitchell said "I was most proud of our girls for never giving up and for keeping the good attitude even when we got behind. This group is working so well together". Coach Mitchell also said she could not single out any individuals but credited the win as a complete team win. Danika Daum...
Kimball High senior Jaycie Walker picked up 2 more medals to keep her streak alive at 4 as she captured 2nd place at the Kimball Invitational Golf Tournament finishing 1 stroke out of first with her round of 103, and then took 5th place at the Creek valley Tournament with her round of 102. As reported last week, Miss Walker put in a summer of hard work trying to improve her game and it is certainly paying off. Team mate Kallie Bush shot 128 at Kimball but had her best outing of the young season...
The Kimball High Longhorn Football Team opened the season with a 30-16 win on the road to Gordon Friday night and coach Nick Kuxhausen was pleased with the effort of his team. "I was very happy with how clean we played. We only had 3 penalties, and we turned the ball over twice on fumbles, but for our first time out I thought we did quite well in these departments," Kuxhausen said. The Horns got a big night out of senior running back Jonathon Withrow, including the first touchdown of the game...
Kimball High girl’s golf coach Nora Robinson has only two girls playing tournament golf at this time but her two seniors are really stepping up as indicated by their performances in the first two tournaments. Jaycie Walker shot a career best round of 99 to finish 7th in the bigger school Division one at the Sidney Tournament on a tough Hillside Golf Course, then came right back to shoot 99 again at the Bayard Tournament to capture first place by 7 strokes. Kalli Bush wound up 7th at Bayard with her round of 118 after shooting 122 at Sidney a...
On September 29, 2014, Kimball's Bruce Gilliland will be inducted into the Nebraska Golf Hall of Fame at a ceremony being held at the Lincoln Country Club. His induction will come just three days after he celebrates his 97th birthday! Bruce was notified of his selection on June 19, 2014, by Hall of Fame president Dan Bahensky and is one of five who will be recognized on this evening and due to the fact that the association has gone to a bi-annual induction ceremony, there are really two years...
The 2014 fifth annual Vince's Corner ABCD Double Draw Golf Scramble is in the books with good weather for the most part although some golfers got a good soaking as they finished out their round on Sunday. The two day, four person scramble is one of the largest, and one of the favorite tournaments each season as it resembles a homecoming reunion for lots of former Kimball residents who no longer live here but enjoy coming back for two days of golf and lots of fun and festivities with old...
Kimball's Henry Heeg brought home yet another golf honor Tuesday evening after finishing runnerup in the Nebraska Lions Club All Class State Medalist Tournament held at the Meadow Lark Golf Course in Kearney on Monday-Tuesday. A total of 15 boys and 15 girls attended and participated in the two-day tournament with invitations extended to all of the recent Nebraska State Tournament medal winners from all classes, boys and girls. Henry shot very well both days with rounds of 74-75=149 and...
The 2014 Kimball High Boys' Golf Season will be a year to remember. Not that the Longhorns had an amazing team season, but they had perhaps the best One-Two punch in the history of the sport! Coach Chad Wise had a limited squad of just five players, made up of one senior, a junior and three freshmen. The senior was four time state qualifier Henry Heeg, the junior was returning letterman Michael Ferguson, and the new comers to high school golf were Jordan Greenwood, Spencer Shields, and Kyle...
Kimball sent two golfers to the Nebraska Class C Boys' State Golf Tournament and Kimball's two golfers brought home two individual state medals! It was an awesome ending to senior Henry Heeg's Kimball high golf career as he tied for fifth place with his two day total of 75-74=149, and it was an awesome beginning for freshman Jordan Greenwood as he tied for 11th place with his rounds of 77-76=153! For both to score both days in the mid-seventies, and actually improve their scores on day two,...
Kimball will have two Class C state qualifiers for the upcoming Nebraska Boys' State Golf Tournament in senior Henry Heeg and freshman Jordan Greenwood after both finished in the top ten medal group of the C-5 District Tournament held at the Kimball Four Winds Golf Course on Monday. Heeg will be making his fourth consecutive trip to the state tournament after blistering the Four Winds Course with a best ever competitive round of 36-33=69 to win the individual championship by 7 strokes over the...
After 15 years of coaching boys’ basketball at the Kimball High School, Bruce Tjosvold announced his resignation this past week. Tjosvold said it was mostly in part because of his full time, day job requirements with the Frito Lay Company that he made the decision that now was the time. Tjosvold started out as the boys’ freshman coach and served in that capacity for 6 years, then coached the junior varsity for 1 year, before taking over the varsity coaching position where he has served the past 8 years compiling the envious win-loss record of...
The Kimball High Track and Field Team will be sending 6 district qualifiers to the Nebraska State Track and Field Championships being held this weekend at Omaha Burke Stadium, including 5 girls and 1 boy, all in individual events. The triple jump proved to be the most successful event for the Longhorns at the District meet in Bayard as senior Shelby Vogel won the girls' event with an all time personal best of 33'9 1/2" to better her school record, and freshman Jaden Withrow also cranked out his...
With Henry Heeg and Jordan Greenwood finishing in the top four of the medal group, the Kimball high boys' golf team finished third in their own Invitational Golf Tournament this past week shooting a team score of 358. Chase County won the team title with 343 with Mitchell runnerup with 350, Kimball 358 to edge past Bayard with 359, Bridgeport 360, Creek Valley 385, Morrill 413, Sidney JV 427, and Laramie JV 462. Lane Godfrey of Creek VAlley was the individual medalist with his round of 73 while...
There were many highlights for the Kimball High Track Team at the Bayard B-C-D Track and Field Invite this past Friday but none more meaningful that the win by Laura Flores in the girls' 3200 meter run. The hard working senior broke the tape ahead of the field with a time of 12:51.24 for Kimball's only gold medal of the day and had to be a huge confidence boost for the Lady Longhorn distance ace heading into today's Class C District and state qualifying meet back at Bayard. Miss Flores also...
A busy weekend this past week for the Kimball High boys' golf team as they hit the links three consecutive days. It started this past Thursday when the Scottsbluff Tournament was moved back from the original scheduled date of April 28 because of weather, then on Friday, Kimball hosted the SPVA Conference tournament, and Saturday they were off to Gordon for the Western Trails Conference Tournament. The weather, and the greens, were not favorable to shooting low scores at the Scottsbluff Country...
Alisha (Ali) Hunsaker emerged as the Best in last week's Best in the West Track and Field Classic held at Scottbluff's Bearcat Stadium winning the 200 meter dash with a personal best time ever of 27.36. The Kimball High sophomore who excels in other events as well, ran with the pack until she hit the back stretch and then simply ran away from the elite field made up of the fastest 8 times turned in from Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming. She could stand tall and proud on the top platform of...
Chase County captured both the men’s and women’s divisions of the SPVA Conference Track and Field championships this past Friday at the meet held in Grant. The Imperial based Chase County boys won the team title with 171 points holding off North Platte St. Pats who finished runnerup with 157.5, followed by Perkins County with 69, KIMBALL 51.5, Hershey 43, Sutherland 29, and Maxwell 6. In the girl’s division Chase County won with 153 points with KIMBALL runnerup with 89, St. Pats 83, Sutherland 71, Perkins County 57, Maxwell 43, and Hersh...
Two tournaments to report from the past week concerning the Kimball High boys' golf team and two more outstanding performances by senior Henry Heeg. On April 22, the Longhorns participated in the Morrill Tournament and Heeg shot a round of 37-38=75 to finish 3rd, actually one stroke behind team mate Jordan Greenwood who shot his season best round of 38-36=84 to take second place honors. Michael Ferguson had his best day also with a round of 84, just one place out of the top ten medal group....
Highlights were many for the Kimball High Track Team at the George Calvert Track and Field Meet held in Mitchell this past Friday afternoon with many athletes establishing new personal bests for the season, but top highlight was the record setting win in the girls’ 300 meter hurdles by sophomore Madison Biesecker as she kept her win streak alive with the record breaking time of 49.54, a personal best. She easily out ran the field with second place time by Brook Jamison of Hyannis timed in 51.08. The hosting Mitchell teams won both the girls a...
The Mitchell Tigers took home all of the team honors at this year's Western Trails Conference Track and Field meet as the boys ran away with their division amassing 172 points with runnerup Bridgeport well back with 111 followed by Hemingford with 93, KIMBALL 63, Gordon-Rushville,49, Bayard 23, and Morrill 16. Mitchell's win in the girls' division came harder as the top three teams battled it out before Mitchell won by a mere 3 points over Bayard. Mitchell finished with 116 points, Bayard 113,...
Another round of golf in the 70s and another win for Kimball senior Henry Heeg. Henry was medalist at the Bridegeport Tournament this past week with his round of 76 to boost Kimball to a fourth place finish team wise in the 11 school field. Bayard won the team title with 344 followed by Mitchell with 352, Bridgeport 355, KIMBALL 370, Mullen 376, Creek Valley 386, Hyannis 436, Hemingford 439, Bridgeport JV 459, Gordon-Rushville 483, and Garden County 502........