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 Longhorns football team hosts Leyton at 7 p.m. Friday in their home opener after losing their first game of the season Aug. 25 at Hyannis, 58-20. Kimball and Leyton are both 0-1 going into the matchup. Leyton opened with a 58-18 non-conference loss to Hemingford. Longhorns coach Darrell Howitt sees growth in his rebuilding football program. "We are definitely a different team than a year ago," he told the Observer. "I kind of knew that Hyannis was physical pretty solid football team. Every year, they are physical and that is...
It's on to Gering on Friday, Sept. 1, for Kimball XC following its 2023 opening meet last week at Scottbluff. Start time is 11 a.m. for the high school and 1 p.m. for junior high. "What a great way to start the season," coach Tiffany Johnson said. "The cross country team ... all ran with determination and drive! We are excited to see what all unfolds this season." Kimball earned two medals at Scottsbluff with Braxton Miller finishing 10th with a new personal best, running under 20, and Braylon...
DALTON--There are questions about the Potter-Dix Coyotes after the graduation of star player Luke Kasten, but none of them were answered Friday night as the Coyotes again breezed through the Minatare Indians, 73-0 at Combs Field. The Coyotes crushed the Indians last year in the opener, 85-6, and this year's results were very similar. With three pass completions by senior Brayden Kasten and one more by sophomore Dylan Tabor, the Coyotes only passed four times for 61 yards, but scored two touchdow...
Kimball High athletes prepared for the fall season with last Friday's preseason 2023 Sports Tailgate. In the photos at right, the volleyball team scrimmaged that evening and the cross country was showcased in a practice outing. The girls golfers were the first Longhorns to get into varsity action at this week's Sidney Invite on Tuesday. In the left photo, Mallory Hottell takes a swing. Her teammates in Sidney were Hayden Sours, Aubrey Culek, and Carly Norberg. Results will appear in next week's...
Kimball Aug. 21, 6 p.m., football, Kimball JV hosts Perkins County JV Aug. 22, 9 a.m., girls golf at Sidney Aug. 24, 9 a.m., girls golf at Bayard Aug. 24, 1 p.m., high school and junior high cross country at Scottsbluff Invite Aug. 24, 4 p.m., volleyball at Hemingford Triangular Aug. 25, 7 p.m., football at Hyannis Aug. 29, 9 a.m., girls golf hosts Kimball Invite Aug. 29, 4 p.m., volleyball at Leyton Aug. 31, 9 a.m.. girls golf at Creek Valley Invite Sept. 1, 11 a.m., high school (11 a.m.) and junior high (1 p.m.) cross country at Gering meet...
Go time is here for Longhorns, Coyotes and Wildcats. High school and junior high fall sports seasons open this coming week for this area's cross country, football, girls golf and volleyball teams. Here are the schedules for Kimball, Potter-Dix and Banner County through the first full week of September. Kimball Aug. 18, 2023 Tailgate Sports Kickoff. Volleyball scrimmage at 5:30 p.m., cross country showcase at 5:45, golf showcase at 6:30 and football scrimmage at 7. Aug. 21, 6 p.m., football,...
The Antelope Stampede Bicycle Race continues to grow with 49 participants from Colorado and Nebraska this year. This is the third year for the local event organized by Jon and Anna-Lisa Heidemann. The race included a 100-mile, a 50-mile and a 25-mile division race throughout the roads of the Kimball County countryside. The after race party at Gotte Park included a music, pie eating contest, a drawing for a mountain bike and other bike accessories, bounce houses, games, face painting and a...
A team of subcontractors from Windsor, Colo. fired a 14-under-par 58 to take top honors at the 32nd annual Kimball Hospital Foundation Golf Classic on Saturday at Four Winds Golf Course. In a scorecard playoff, Richard Owen, Matt Hernandez, Brandon Halverson and Scott Schilling of Masters Petersens Flooring & Design, one of several companies helping build Kimball's new hospital, finished just ahead of Kendall Ferguson, Michael Ferguson, Kasha Meyer and Charlie Carlson in the four-person...
The Kimball Football Longhorns put in what coach Darrell Howitt called a great week of preseason conditioning as they prepare for the 2023 season. "Longhorn Football is changing the way we do football," Howitt said July 31 on the opening day of conditioning. "We had 21 players show up this morning ... a huge improvement over last year. We already look like a different team!" Opening night for the Horns is Aug. 25 at Hyannis....
The 1st annual Red and White Classic Golf Tournament at the Four Winds Golf Course was a success, according to Kimball Jr/Sr High Activities Director Darrell Howitt. With 31 teams playing on Saturday and 130 tickets sold to the banquet on Saturday evening, they are still tallying up the finances, but Howitt believes that they made about $40,000. Howitt said he is "thankful for the supportive community that rallies behind the kids and the school." The winning golf team shot a 53 and was...
This vintage image of an old Kimball baseball team was not clear in last week’s paper, but this is much better. No date for this picture was available, but judging from the uniforms and names from Kimball history it appears to be from the early 1900s. From left in the front row are Leo Bartholum, Ole Pedret, Kenneth Linn, Ed Bergman and George Nugent: Back row: Bill Nugent, Oscar Linn, Dr. P.C Mockett and Gary Howard. Third row: Vernon Linn, Joe Bromson, Jim Jensen and Arthur Maginnis. This p...
The Observer continues its summer series of classic Kimball sports team photos from the Plains Historical Society collection at the Fraternal Hall Museum. Here we have a Kimball County High School basketball team posing in the old school's gym. An inscription on the back names John Benson as the player holding the ball, but says "maybe someone can idenify other players." Can any of you readers be that someone? This picture is not dated....
Forty-five youth from across the United States, Canada and New Zealand completed at the Nationals in Sioux City, Nebraska. Kimball's Able Kuhns received fifth place in the Youth Singles at that competition. He took first in a Youth Mini Tournament and was able to play Scotch Doubles with Shane Van Boening, the No. 1 pool player in the world....
Seven members of the Dead Eye Shooters 4-H Club participated in the 2023 Daisy National BB Gun Tournament in Rogers, Arkansas July 6-10. Team members were Karsyn Chesley, Anna Colemen, Sophie Coleman, Jalanna Krakow and Ainslie Hottell. Kody Carpenter and Tallyn Chesley participated as team alternates. The competition included two days of shooting in the prone, standing, sitting and kneeling position. Each position's target was worth 100 points for a total of 400 points per shooter. The...
The high school rodeo season will start again for Kimball's bull rider Cody Brinkman in two weeks at Bassett, Nebraska. Cody spent last week in Gillette, Wyoming, at the National High School Finals Rodeo. He rode bulls on Monday and Friday but got "bucked off" both times. Cody said he was a little disappointed with the "tough draw," and the experience was "definitely different." He said there was a vast range of bulls, and it depended on the "luck of the draw." The bulls Cody drew had stats...
The Kimball Women’s Golf Association Wednesday League is winding down its season. The nine-hole tournament was Wednesday, followed by three more weeks of league play, the Horse Race and Battle of Sexes. Shellon Anderson brought her game to claim the top gross on July 19 in league play. Shellon shot a 48, and Regan Hinton took the top net score with a 38. Charlotta Young claimed the lowest putts with 16, and flag prizes went to Dar Evertson, Phyllis Gross, and Daria Anderson-Faden. On July 12, in league play, Phyllis Greenwood had low gross with...
A three-day Kimball Longhorns football camp began on Monday with the focus on defense, according to head coach Darrell Howitt. On Tuesday, the coach planned to take a group of football players to play 7 on 7 in Mitchell, working mainly on fundamentals. Howitt also said that they have 25 teams signed up for the July 29 Red/White Classic Longhorns fundraiser golf tournament....
On Friday, the Kimball trap team traveled to Mason, Michigan, to shoot at Nationals. The five-member squad shot 419; each individual had two sessions with 50 shots each session. Justin Klosterman had a 74, Nolan Cook with an 81, Cameron McGinnis had a 85, Cainin Sours with a 90, and James McGinnis shot 89. According to Brittany Cook, the team encountered some trouble as Klosterman's gun broke at the beginning of the second session, but another team let him borrow one of their guns....
JaLeigh Bohac is one of the girls of summer – and spring and fall – as she played softball for the Scottsbluff traveling team, the Valley Aces. Their season begins in April and continues through summer and fall. While the Valley Aces summer season has ended and JaLeigh will age out after the fall season, she and some of her Valley Aces teammates have been invited to tryout for the Cheyenne 14 and under team. Her love for softball started in Kimball as she was coached by her dad and played thr...
Mike Daum finished the NBA Summer League playing well enough to stay in the conversation for making a regular season NBA roster with the Sacramento Kings, his summer team, or another franchise that liked what it saw in the Dauminator. On July 11, Daum scored 22 points for the Kings against the Chicago Bulls. He scored on 5 of 9 three-point shots and brought in seven rebounds. On July 13 against the Minnesota Timberwolves, he had 8 points, but shot under 20 percent, and 4 rebounds. On July 15...
For the last four years, the Panhandle area sports scene has been dominated by the best athlete in the region, Luke Kasten of Potter. The Potter-Dix 2023 graduate burst on to the scene four years ago as a freshman, leading the Potter-Dix Coyote 6-Man football team to a resurgence that in following years saw undefeated seasons and chances to play for State Championships. I remember when I first saw Kasten play football four years ago saying to one of the parents watching, "This kid is amazing."...
The 14th annual Vince's golf tournament at the Four Winds course ran into some weather on Saturday, and six holes had to be played on Sunday along with the regular 18 holes. Topping the leaderboard for the player A division was won by Erik Eddinton, with second place going to Pete Anderson. Joel and Jay Staehr captured the one and two spots in the B player division. Jack Buddecke won the C division and second went to Brent Bauer. Pat O'Brien and Adam Leavenworth took one and two in the D...
The Dauminator is back in the states playing ball. The Sacramento Kings signed the Kimball basketball legend to their roster for the 2023 NBA Summer League. The 6-9 Daum, also a double-digit scorer with Derthona Basket in the Italian LBA league, plays center with the Kings and scored 6 points in the team’s 80-70 loss Monday to the Los Angeles Clippers in Las Vegas. He hit a pair of 3-pointers and contributed four rebounds, two assists and two blocks. Daum, now 27 and 235 pounds, continues to p...
Seeing that local sports are slow this time of the year, the Observer this week begins a weekly series through August that features Kimball County High School teams from yesteryear. Kicking off this feature is the KCHS team of 1926. Perhaps you'll recognize some family names from the past or some folks your parents or grandparents talked about. Pictured, as identified on the back of the photograph, are right end Bus Rodman, right tackle Pug Tierney, right guard John Steele, center Louie White,...
Kasten Anderson, 6, of Kimball gives it his best shot during the Father's Day Golf Classic at Four Winds Golf Course. He played with his dad, Kyle, as part of the Anderson team. The perenially popular tournament drew more than 100 golfers from six states....