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 girls wound up 4th at the SPVA Tournament held at the North Platte Community College this past week. As reported in last week's sports, the Kimball ladies won their first round game with Perkins County 52-31 to advance them into the semi finals against C-l state ranked Hershey where they lost 48-27, and in the consolation finals for third-fourth, the Lady Horns lost 56-51 to a very solid Sutherland team. "Hershey is ranked #3 in C-l for a reason" said coach Chauncey Pedersen. Th...
Rowdy Keller was Kimball’s “outstanding performer” according to Kimball High Wrestling Coach Wade Brashear at the Lingle-Ft. Laramie two-day wrestling tournament held this past weekend. Keller finished runnerup in the 113 pound weight class, a solid accomplishment at the huge, and always tough tournament, where it is very hard to earn a place. Keller, a junior, wrestled 3 matches on the weekend winning by technical fall 16-0 in 5:10 over Sheperdson of the host school, winning by pin in 3:00 over Vossler of Burns, and losing 19-8 to Mowry of Sar...
Two more wins for the Kimball High boys basketball team over the past weekend running their season record to 9-1 as they headed into this week's SPVA tournament play in North Platte. The highly expected shootout with Bridgeport on Friday night didn't materialize as Kimball pretty much dominated in the "Mike and Jake" show with Kimball winning out 65-53. The Horns came back on Saturday night to win over Gordon/Rushville 73-55 as Mike Daum set a new school single game scoring record of 41 points....
Two more wins for the Kimball High girls over the weekend as they rolled over Bridgeport 55-35 on Friday night and then put away Gordon/Rushville 58-42 on Saturday. With the two victories the Lady Longhorns ran their record to 8-3 as they headed into this week's SPVA Tournament play in North Platte. Kimball got off to a quick start against Bridgeport scoring 24 first quarter points with five players getting in on the scoring act led by Shelby Vogel with 8 points and Kelly Green hitting a pair...
The Kimball High Wrestling Team played host to Southeast, Lingle, and Morrill in a Quad Dual affair this past week. The Lingle-Fort Laramie team won all three of their team matches defeating Southeast 54-30, Morrill 48-9, and Kimball 40-25. Southeast won over Morrill 40-18 and Kimball 39-34, and Kimball won over Morrill 42-24. In the win over Morrill, at 220 Damian Rutledge won by forfeit, 285 Eric Escajeda lost by pin :30 seconds, at 145 Ruger Lewis won by pin in 5:47, at 152 Kyle Spicer lost by pin in 1:02. Rowdy Keller at 113, Garrett Ryan a...
The Kimball High boys' basketball team suffered their first loss of the season at the hands of a very strong class B Sidney team this past Thursday night on the latter's home court with a final score of 63-45. It was a simple case of Kimball not being able to match up with the overall depth and talent of the Raider Team, that followed up their win over Kimball, with a win over #5 ranked Class B Gering the next night. Kimball jumped out to an early lead with Mike Daum hitting a hook shot and Jake...
A heart-breaking loss, a heart-thumping win, and a somewhat easier win gave the Kimball High Lady Longhorns a record of two wins and 1 loss in last week's competition. It started with the heart breaking 1 point loss at home on a Tuesday evening to a solid Mitchell club with the visiting Lady Tigers prevailing 44-43, followed by the ultra exciting 1 point win on the road at class B Sidney with the Lady Horns coming out on top 36-35, and wound up with a 51-43 victory on Friday night at Pine Bluffs...
Highlight of the week for the Kimball High Wrestling Team was an individual championship by Garrett Ryan at the Western Trails Conference Tournament held in Gordon this past Thursday. Ryan, a junior, pinned his way to the championship in the 120 pound weight class as Kimball finished 5th in the team standings and had 4 other wrestlers place. Gordon-Rushville won top team honors with 161.5 points followed by Bridgeport with 157, Sidney (non conference member) 136, Bayard 118, Mitchell 103.5, KIMBALL 78, Hemingford 56, Morrill 54, and Banner...
Kimball High Activities Director, Ken Smith, is still busy with his many duties of making sure all of the athletic events the school is involved in are scheduled, officials, and all the people needed to host an event are in place, and that he is on hand to handle any thing that needs handled, but he no longer has to schedule practice sessions, watch game film of opponents, or make scouting trips. He turned that over to Chauncey Pedersen, his assistant for the past five years. Coach Smith...
The Kimball Lady Longhorns are 4-2 at the Holiday break but coach Chauncey Pedersen is looking to cut down on turn overs and improve the shooting of the team as they gear up for the return to play this week. The Kimball girls are shooting 28% from the field including 30% on 2 point shots from the floor and 23% from three point range. The turnover total for the 6 games is 118 or just under 20 per game. In other team totals Kimball has scored 260 points averaging 43.3 and have allowed 241 points...
The Kimball High boys are perfect and undefeated at the Holiday break with a record of 6-0 after wins over Hershey and Bayard. Fifty-nine seemed to be the feature number in the final weekend before the state mandated sports moratorium as they won over Hershey in a Friday night home game 59-36 and then handled Bayard at Bayard 59-31. Coach Bruce Tjosvold was happy with the wins and satisfied with the play of his young men but said "We need to get better as we have some tough games coming up...
A loss and a win to close out the season before the christmas break for the Kimball High Lady Longhorns leaving them with a record of 4 wins and 2 losses as they prepare to open the 2014 portion of the season. The Kimball ladies went up against a very good Hershey club in a home court Friday night contest and found out why the Lady Panthers were unbeaten and ranked #6 in the state rankings of C-l. Kimball played a bit frustrated and perhaps intimidated as they struggled with 15 first-half turn o...
The Kimball High wrestling team placed sixth as a team, and had wrestlers place at the Sidney/Bridgeport Invitational Tournament hosted by Sidney prior to the Holiday break. Coach Wade Brashear commenting on the success of his team at Sidney said “Overall we had a good showing in Sidney. We were missing three wrestlers which really hurt us on team points. We seemed to start a little sluggish, but we ended the day well”. Place winners were Rowdy Keller 3rd at 113, Ryan Garrett 3rd at 120, Logan Stahla 4th at 126, Colt Lewis 2nd at 138, and Eri...
The Kimball High boys remain undefeated on the young season running their record to 4-0 with wins over Perkins County and Morrill over the weekend. The Horns struggled on the road at Grant Friday night finally winning out 55-46 over the Perkins County Plainsmen, but had an easy run-a-way victory over Morrill at home Saturday night, 62-17. Coach Bruce Tjosvold was not happy with the play of his young men in the Friday night win, but said "We played a lot better on Saturday". Jake Reader got...
A pair of wins over the past weekend extends the Kimball High girls win-loss record to 3-1. The Lady Longhorns won on the road at Grant 54-33 Friday night and defeated Morrill 48-36 on the home court Saturday. Kimball was whistled for their 10th foul with 7:08 left in the 2nd quarter at Grant with Danika Daum picking up her third of the night at that point, and at half time the Lady Horns were on top by a slight margin of 22-20. Both Daum and Shelby Vogel had 3 fouls at intermission but Vogel...
The Kimball High Wrestling Team had two wrestlers crowned champions and had 7 wrestlers place as the Longhorns finished runner-up in the team standings of the 14 team Banner County Tournament this past Saturday. It was a great showing for the Kimball team made up of a lot of new faces to the program that coaches Wade Brashear and Bob Culek are trying to build. Sedgwick County, Colorado won the team title with 165 points with Kimball runner-up with 89. Behind the top two were Lingle 79.5, Holyoke 79, Sutherland 79, Bayard 59, Morrill 44, Garden...
The Kimball High girls wound up second at their own four- team tournament they hosted this past weekend as the 2013-14 basketball season officially opened. After a sound showing Friday night, and win over Southeast, with Kimball winning 43-25, they went up against perhaps the best team they will face this season resulting in a 63-46 loss to Dundy County/ Stratton in the championship game. The Lady Longhorns got off to a slow start Friday night and trailed 6-4 after the first quarter of play,...
The Kimball High boys got the season off to a great start by winning their own four team tournament this past weekend to open up the 2013-14 basketball season. The Horns won over Southeast 75-41 on Friday night and handled Dundy County/Stratton 71-44 in the championship game Saturday evening. Dundy County won over Morrill in the other first round game 76-29, and Southeast defeated Morrill 52-19 to take third place honors. Seniors Mike Daum and Jake Reader led the Horns to victory both nights...
A great start for the 2013 Kimball High Wrestling Team as they picked up wins over Mitchell (39-30), and Morrill (42-18) in the season opening matches at the Mitchell Triangular this past week. It’s been a long time, if ever, a Kimball team has won this triangular competition and Kimball coach Wade Brashear was pleased, to say the least. “We had some kids really perform well for the season opener and we will continue to get better as we work on our conditioning” Brashear said. All three schools were wrestling short on numbers which broug...
In a pre-season, exhibition basketball game Monday night on the Kimball court, the Class B Scottsbluff boys won over Kimball 53-41. The contest,where the gate receipts are turned over to the NSAA to be used to fund the Nebraska High School Hall of Fame, attracted a good turnout of fans who wanted to see what both teams are going to have to offer this season, which gets underway this weekend. Coach Tony Siske's club had more depth and more quickness which enabled them to forge ahead late thanks...
Coach Chauncey Pedersen termed it "frustrating" as his Kimball High Lady Longhorns fell to visiting Scottsbluff 32-28 in their pre-season, Nebraska High School Hall of Fame exhibition game Monday night at the Kimball High gymnasium. "It was frustrating to lead all the way and then lose it in the final minutes," said Pedersen. After a slow offensive showing in the opening period Kimball was leading 5-3 after the first quarter ended, and at half time they were on top 12-9 as neither team could...
Kimball's Mike Daum announced verbally a few weeks back that he was going to sign with South Dakota State University to continue his education process, along with his basketball career, and this past Friday night he made it official at a signing party where he put his name on the line and officially committed to the Jacks! Mike was joined for the evening by many friends, team mates, family, and coaches who have helped along the way. His mother, Michele, who was his first coach when he was a...
The 2013 Kimball High Football Team had some record breaking performances with two individuals writing their names into the school record books. It was a fruitful season for new head coach Nick Kuxhausen as he and his staff directed the Longhorns to a state playoff and a 4 win, 5 loss, overall season. The Horns had a rough start facing top ten ranked teams in their first three outings and were sitting 0-3 before they got their first win. They opened with a 37-0 loss at North Platte St. Pats,...
The 2013 Kimball High volleyball season didn't play out like coach Vicki Mitchell and her girls were hoping, but the future certainly shows lots of promise! After a disappointing, first round loss in the sub-district tournament. Kimball saw their season end with a record of 12-13, but how close it was to being much better. Of the 13 losses, 4 were by 2 points, 4 were within 3 points, and 1 was within 4 points. Only 4 of the losses were by more than 4 points and they were twice to Class B...
Kimball High's 2013 football season came to a close in the first round of the Class C-2 State playoffs at Blue Hill this past Thursday, but not before they gave heavily favored Blue Hill a scare. The home field Blue Hill Bobcats won out 21-6, but not before Kimball showed their hosts that Western Nebraska can play some tough football as well. At kickoff the wind was ferocious, but the sun was shining, and an enthusiastic Kimball following was ready to support their Horns. Blue Hill came into...