Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Potter-Dix’s Coyote basketball team ended their impressive 2020-21 campaign with a loss in the D2-5 District Finals against a Loomis Wolves team featuring tough defense and a highlight-reel performance by junior Quinn Johnson. The Wolves got an early jump in the game, rattling off 15 unanswered points, while the Loomis defense jammed, disrupted and caused turnovers and poor shot selections by the Coyotes. Potter-Dix junior Thomas Muldoon finally got the Coyotes on the board with a three-point hit, then followed it with another three-pointer f...
The regular February Kimball City Council meeting included discussion on Business Facade Grants and Business Infrastructure Grants. Former Flower Haven owner Kay McBride asked for an explanation for denying her infrastructure grant reimbursement on the roof at the business. After a lengthy discussion, the council returned McBride's reimbursement request to the Loan Advisory Board. The council appointed Keith Jones as the latest member of the Loan Advisory Board. Receiving infrastructure or...
It's National FFA Week. As part of the celebration, the Kimball, Potter-Dix, Banner County and other FFA chapters are featured in this week's "Salute to FFA" special section. Pictured is the Kimball FFA, now in its 91st year....
Well good morning Banner County, friends and neighbors! Much better looking out this window this week. We still have snow but the the extreme cold has moved on and early Monday morning the March winds were helping to finish off the month of February. Did that month seem to fly for anyone but me? Can’t say that I am sorry since I am ready for spring! Ready to say “Goodbye winter, so long snow, it’s time to watch the flowers grow!” We are not quite there, but getting closer. The Westco Storm baseball tryouts will take place February 26-28th...
Potter-Dix's Coyote basketball team had two big wins going into subdistict tournament play last week, overpowering Leyton on Feb. 15 and then dominating Minatare on Feb. 19. The Coyotes earned the number one seed in the D2-11 Subdistrict Tournament at South Platte High School starting on Monday, Feb. 22. Monday's contest with Leyton started out as a defensive struggle, with both teams defenses dominating the action until Potter-Dix was able to go on a run and led at the end of the first quarter...
Potter-Dix’s Coyote Basketball teams hosted the Peetz Bulldogs on a frigid night last Tuesday, but it was more likely the Bulldogs’ delayed start to the season that caused the cold shooting of the visitors rather than the weather. The girls teams matched up first, and the Lady Bulldogs were just what the Lady Coyotes needed to earn their first win of the year over a team other than Creek Valley. Potter-Dix is now 3-16 for the season. The Lady Coyotes built a lead and continued to pull away, playing good aggressive defense and limiting the...
Potter-Dix’s Coyote Basketball teams hosted the Creek Valley Storm Thursday night and the home team was able to pull out two wins against the visitors from Chappell. The action started with the Lady Coyotes facing off against the Lady Storm, two teams that have struggled all season for wins. The girls’ game started as a defensive battle, with Creek Valley holding an 11--10 edge after the first quarter while the Potter-Dix team struggled with turnovers. The low-scoring second quarter featured the Lady Coyotes continuing to turn the ball ove...
After nearly a year, a class art project was finally completed by the arts students at Potter-Dix High School. The 4-foot by 8-foot mosaic is now on display in the party room on the north side of the duck pin bowling alley. The party room had recently been renovated but had no decorations, so according to art teacher Jennifer Thomas, "We made the mosaic to add some color and design to that area. We used stain glass." More than $400 worth of stain glass was used. The project was started by...
Kimball's Longhorn basketball team continued to struggle for wins, falling in two contests in the past week to drop their season record to 0-11. Kimball first traveled on Friday to take on the Sutherland Sailors, looking to avenge a 30 point loss from January 21. However, the Longhorns fared no better this time around, getting shut out in the first quarter en route to a 25-4 halftime deficit. The scoring slowed for both teams in the second half, but the 21-point lead was far too much for the...
Potter-Dix’s Coyote basketball teams hosted the Sedgwick County Cougars last Tuesday night for the the Cougars’ first action of the season due to Colorado’s decision to delay the start of the winter sports schedule. The layoff seemed to have no effect on the visitors, as the Lady Cougars cruised to a 59-18 win and the boys team defeated a surging Coyotes squad fresh off of a MAC Tournament championship. Sedgwick County started fast and put up 25 points before the Lady Coyotes put up a score of their own, pressuring the Potter-Dix squad into...
Good morning friends and neighbors! Little snow this past weekend to finish off January, I guess. Sure was cold at the beginning of this week. There are more event cancellations than there are events. One that is hanging in there is the dog wash that is conducted by vet students at EWC in Torrington. That is scheduled to take place on Saturday, January 30th from 8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.. Your fur babies must have current rabies shots and you may go to the north entrance of the Veterinary Technology building for services. For more information p...
Potter-Dix's Coyote basketball team continued its strong start to the season by ripping through the competition with lopsided wins and ending up with a 49-32 victory against Bayard on Saturday night to earn the MAC Tournament Championship. The top-seeded Coyotes used their speed, passing game and solid shooting from the field for three straight wins against their conference competitors. As the top seed, Potter-Dix started the tournament with a bye, and first matched up in the semifinals against...
Potter-Dix’s Lady Coyotes team suffered an early exit in the MAC Tournament last week. The No. 6 seed Lady Coyotes traveled to Oshkosh to face the No. 3 seed Garden County Lady Eagles on Jan. 18 and were quickly overwhelmed by the Lady Eagles offense, trailing 32-8 at the half. The Lady Coyotes could not gain any traction on offense, and fell by a score of 50-25. Freshman Madison Williamson led the Lady Coyotes with 7 points in the loss. Potter-Dix was scheduled to be back in action Tuesday against visiting Sedgwick County before traveling S...
The Kimball girls basketball team got back into the winner's column after dropping three in a row at the re-start of their season. On Tuesday, Jan. 12, the Lady Longhorns hosted Potter-Dix, another struggling team, and the Lady Coyotes inability to score was exactly what Kimball needed to end its losing streak. Kimball started fast in the first quarter. The Lady Longhorns defense blocked lanes, caused turnovers and gave the Potter-Dix squad no uncontested shots. After building a 22-8 lead after...
Kimball’s Longhorn basketball team is still searching for its first win of the season after a rough week against three tough opponents. On Jan. 12, Kimball first hosted the dangerous Potter-Dix Coyotes, a team with both speed and length in their favor, and the Longhorns held their own through the first period. Kimball was able to score some points and played good defense through the first period, but the Coyotes found their groove in the second frame and went on a scoring outburst, putting up 29 points in the quarter against just 3 by K...
Potter-Dix's Coyote basketball team continued its strong play with three big wins over the week and are looking strong going into this week's MAC Tournament. The Coyote's started last weeks' action off traveling to Kimball to match up with the winless Longhorns, and a slow start combined with a strong showing by Kimball kept the game close in the early going. But Potter-Dix broke the game open in the second quarter on their way to an 82-26 victory. The Coyotes had three scorers in double...
Kimball's Lady Longhorn basketball team returned to action after a COVID-19 induced break in December and first faced off against the South Platte Lady Blue Knights at home on Tuesday, January 5. South Platte at Kimball Both teams were rusty to start the game, with the high-scoring South Platte team only putting up 10 points to Kimball's five in the first period. But the Lady Blue Knights found their rhythm in the second period, and the offense took off for a 22-point explosion to head into the...
Kimball’s Longhorn basketball team came back from the COVID-19 break in their season to face the South Platte Blue Knights on Tuesday, Jan. 5, and continued to struggle on offense against the more experienced teams that they are playing. South Platte at Kimball South Platte had a solid if low scoring first quarter, and led the Longhorns by six going into the second frame. The second quarter had the Blue Knights take off on offense, putting up 24 points in the quarter to open a 36-16 lead at the half. Another big quarter of scoring in the t...
Potter-Dix’s Coyote basketball team won two of three contests over the past week, while the Lady Coyotes continued to struggle and dropped three games by wide margins. Potter-Dix at Morrill The Potter-Dix teams opened the week’s action at Morrill on Jan. 4, and the Lady Coyotes battled hard with a strong Lady Lions team through the first quarter, and were only down by nine points at the end of the first quarter. But the Morrill girls turned up the offense and clamped down on the Lady Coy...
Local high school sports returned this week with some basketball games rescheduled in recent days due to virus safety precautions. On Monday, the Potter-Dix basketball teams travelled to Morrill, where the boys won, 57-53, and girls lost, 62-14. See next week’s Observer for the reports. And on Tuesday, the Kimball basketball teams visited South Platte. Results of those games also will appear in next week’s paper. Here are the latest updated schedules, as of Tuesday, for Kimball, Potter-Dix and Banner County winter teams over the next two wee...
Varsity and junior varsity sports return over the next two weeks for the student-athletes at Kimball, Potter-Dix and Banner County high schools. As of Dec. 29, games were scheduled to resume following the Christmas break and COVID safety precautions that forced schedule changes before the break. Please remember that more schedule changes may occur, and check with the schools about any safety precautions being taken at the games. Here's how schedules for the three schools look for the first week...
Potter-Dix’s Lady Coyotes basketball team dropped a contest to the visiting Leyton Lady Warriors last Friday in a rescheduled and shortened evening of hoops since the boys game was cancelled due to COVID concerns. With Kimball sports also on hold until January, at least at this point, the Potter-Dix girls game was the area’s only varsity basketball game all week. The Lady Coyotes had been playing better under new Head Coach Shannon Wintholz and faced a limited Leyton team very short on players. But the players Leyton did bring were experienced,...
In the Panhandle and especially in our local Kimball area, celebrities are hard to find, almost impossible to find. But one local individual was a celebrity and lived right here among us and interacted with us on a daily basis. Oh, "our celebrity" didn't even know he was an area celebrity, but he was and always will be in our hearts and minds. Tom Southard was "our celebrity, Kimball's celebrity." He knew almost everyone and everyone knew him, his personality, dedication to sports, to the commun...
Last year, back in the late summer of 2019, the Observer was in need of a sportswriter. Tom Southard, the face of Observer sports since 1964, wanted to finally retire. Or at least scale back his writing a good bit and stay out of the cold covering football. So the search was on. The search for someone to succeed Tom. Not replace Tom. Succeed him. Nobody replaces a legend. As it turned out, nobody succeeded him. The job remained open as football season was kicking off. So Tom did what he had...
The Potter-Dix Coyotes, boys and girls, hit the road to Perkins County to open their 2020-21 seasons. In the left photo, junior Thomas Muldoon heads up court against the Plainsmen during a game in which he scored 9 points. In the right photo, Potter-Dix sophomore Kylie Fiethner (10) goes up for a jump ball against Rylee Huff. Fiethner scored 4 points for the Coyotes....