Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Leyton's Warrior Boys Basketball team has given the Coyotes a tough time this season, handing the Potter-Dix boys another defeat in the championship game of the MAC Tournament at Bridgeport High School on Saturday. After outlasting Garden County on Friday 59-50, the Coyotes matched up with Leyton, who had defeated them on January 13 with a thrilling come-from-behind 53-48 victory in Dalton. This time, Leyton opened strong and grabbed a lead early and never looked back. After building a 16-12...
Mother Nature continues to affect the Longhorn wrestling season. The team was supposed to attend a tournament on Friday in Hemingford. With the weather cancelling school and practice for 2 days, we made the decision to not attend the tournament on Friday so we could practice and get ready to compete in one of the toughest tournaments we attend on our schedule, the Chadron Invite. The day was led by James McGinnis’s runner-up finish at 132. Trey Schindler wrestled to a 4th place finish in a very competitive bracket at 152. Cody Brinkman had a...
The injury bug has hit the Kimball Longhorn Wrestling team this week. Derek Kauffman's season was ended in the beginning of the week with another shoulder injury that will result in season ending shoulder surgery. He finished the year with a 10-8 record at 170. In the middle of the week, 106 pounder senior Matthew Johnson suffered a shoulder injury in practice that will sideline him for hopefully only a week or so. Peter Russell suffered a chest injury at the beginning of the season, and we...
The Kimball Longhorns boys basketball team was 3-9 on the season but continuing to battle hard following Monday's 50-47 loss to Perkins County in a first round SPVA matchup. SPVA action continues this Thursday and Saturday at NPCC. Here's a look at the Horns' previous three games. Potter-Dix 64, Kimball 57 Visiting Potter-Dix jumped ahead 24-12 after a quarter, but Kimball came back to outscore the Coyotes 13-10 in the second quarter and 21-10 in the third and have a 46-44 lead going into the fo...
The Kimball boys basketball team, flashing some nice play this season, continues its busy January this week with a home game Tuesday, Jan. 10, against Potter-Dix and road games 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, at Bridgeport and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, at Gordon-Rushville. Going into the Potter-Dix game, Kimball was 3-5 overall and 1-1 in C2 District 12. Here's a look at the squad's last three games, a stretch where Kimball went 2-1. Kimball 54, South Platte 41 Jan. 4 The team played a 9-9 first quar...
The Kimball Longhorn wrestling team heads to Chase County this Friday and Saturday after a trip to Garden County on Saturday, Jan. 7, for an invitational tournament where they showed well as a team and in individual competition. At the end of the day, the Longhorns finished in fourth place out of 22 schools, scoring 79 team points. The tournament was won by the defending class D state champions from Sutherland High School. The Longhorns were led by seniors James McGinnis at 132 and Trey Schindler at 152. Both seniors won championships. Senior...
The Potter-Dix Coyote basketball team looked to continue its strong start of the season into the New Year, and had a close victory against Bayard followed by a blowout win against South Platte during the first week 2023 to show for their efforts. The Coyotes travelled to Bayard on Friday, and the Tigers looked to be one of the few challenges the Coyotes had on their regular season schedule, coming into the match up at 5-2, and their defeats coming from out-of-class opponents Sidney and Alliance. The teams battled hard throughout the matchup,...
The Longhorns wrestling team is looking competitive heading into its next action on Saturday, Jan. 7, at the always solid Garden County Invitational. The Longhorns competed on Dec 30 at the Pleasanton Invitational. This was a tournament that was added to the schedule due to the blizzard that cancelled the Sutherland tournament for the Longhorns. The tournament featured 25 teams from Northeast and Central Nebraska, including two JV teams from Class A Kearney High School. The Longhorns came to...
The Kimball High School Cheer Team wishes everyone a very happy New Year and can’t wait to see what 2023 will bring. The cheer team is calling all mini-cheerleaders for its winter/basketball mini cheer camp on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at Mary Lynch Elementary School. The mini cheer camp performance will be on Saturday, Jan. 28, during the boys varsity basketball game with Sutherland. Please return registration forms for mini cheer camp by Friday, Jan. 6. If you have any questions, please contact Carrie Tabor at ctabor@kpslonghorn...
The 2023 portions of the high school and junior high winter sports and activity seasons open next week. That means the Kimball, Potter-Dix and Banner County basketball players, wrestlers and cheerleaders are getting back at it. And let’s not forget about students in speech, band and FFA. Here’s a look at sports and activity schedules through January for the Longhorns, Coyotes and Wildcats. Kimball Longhorns Jan. 4, 3 p.m., HS BB @ South Platte Jan. 7, 4 p.m., HS BB vs Banner County Jan. 8, 2 p.m., HS BB vs Chase County Jan. 8, 9 a.m., HS WR...
After a week filled with cancellations of games due to the recent snowstorm that blasted through the Panhandle, the Potter-Dix Lady Coyotes and Kimball Lady Longhorns finally got back on the court Monday night at Kimball High School. The Lady Coyotes have struggled a bit to start the season, earning one win against three losses. The Lady Longhorns are in the season of growing young players and have no wins in five games so far. The first quarter of the game featured tough defensive play by both...
The Kimball boys basketball team went into its holiday break with a 65-51 loss to visiting Hershey on Dec. 16. The Horns played Hershey close most of the way – after a first quarter in which they were outscored 20-11. Leading Kimball in scoring were Brandon Paxton with 22 points and Kyler Lusche with 17. Also scoring for the home team were Wyatt Cords and Braxton Miller with 5 points each, and Ryker Behrend with 2. Kellan Spearman paced the visitors with 29 points, followed by Cooper HIll with 15 and Aldan George with 14. Leading Kimball in r...
The Kimball Longhorns boys basketball team hosts Hershey 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, in a non-district matchup to close the 2022 portion of it season. Kimball sits at second place in the district with a 1-1 record after its 68-31 win at Morrill on Saturday, Dec. 10. The Horns lost to Perkins County the night before, 59-47, and are 1-3 overall on the season. As for Hershey, the Panthers are 0-4 overall after losing, 57-40, to North Platte St. Pat's on Dec 10. Hershey and Kimball have played one...
The Kimball Longhorn wrestlers will return to action Saturday, Dec. 17, at the Sutherland Invitational to finish up their first semester schedule. The competition follows some strong individual showings for the Horns at the St. Pats Invite and a trip to Cheyenne for the Charlie Lake Invite. Here are Kimball's results at these two events. St. Pats Invitational The Longhorns traveled to North Platte on Friday, Dec. 9, to compete in the St. Pats Invitational. The Longhorns placed sixth out of nine...
The Kimball Longhorns girls basketball hosts Hershey this Friday, Dec. 16, at 6 p.m. before closing out the 2022 portion of its season 4 p.m. Monday at Potter Dix. Both are non-district games. The Lady Longhorns are 0-4 on the season this past week’s losses to visiting Perkins County, 63-12, and at Morrill, 60-26 the next day. “It is clear that it will be a growing year for us,” coach Jaclyn Burks told the Observer. “We are young and I am asking quite a few underclassmen to play at the varsity level. They are stepping up and in a few years,...
SCOTTSBLUFF – Coaches have been selected for the 2023 West Nebraska All-Star Football Game – and for anyone who followed Panhandle football this past season, it should be no surprise that Potter-Dix's top Coyote will be on the scene. Dale Frerichs from Potter-Dix will lead the West team. Assisting him will be Dillon Broussard (Mitchell), Danny O'Boyle (Gering) and Jeremy Reimers (Bridgeport). Jeff Gross from McCook will lead the East team. Assisting Coach Gross will be Kurt Alitg (North Platte),...
The Kimball Longhorns wrestling team traveled to Bayard to take on the Tigers on Thursday, Dec 1. There were 4 matches contested: 145 – James McGinnis pinned Owen Talton (Bayard) 2:56 170 – Derek Kauffman pinned Jared Perkins (Bayard) 1:50 132 – Brock Burry (Bayard) pinned Cody Brinkman 1:14 138 JV – Owen Talton pinned Peter Russell (:30) Bayard won the dual 36-12 The Longhorn wrestling team made the long trip to Mullen on Saturday, Dec 3, to take part in a 25-team invitational. The Longhorns pl...
The Kimball Longhorns boys basketball team hosts Perkins County on Friday, Dec. 9, and travels to Morrill the next day after opening competition this year with a win over Alliance in the preseason Hall of Fame Jamboree and losses to the visiting Bayard and Leyton teams. The Lady Longhorns and JV also will play this Friday and Saturday. Start time is 4 p.m. against Perkins County and 1 p.m. at Morrill. Bayard 68, Kimball 58 The Longhorns were competitive against Bayard, losing 69-58 but...
Leyton’s Lady Warrior girls basketball team opened their season strong with two big wins, on the road against Kimball on Friday and at home Saturday against Morrill. Their season opener on Friday had them matched up against the Kimball Lady Longhorns, a team that had a 7-15 record last year and is looking for its first victory this season. Leyton started fast, with sophomore standout Zaili Benish getting the scoring started with a three pointer followed by a field goal by sophomore Sydney Fortune. Benish nailed two more three pointers in the f...
Potter-Dix's Coyote basketball team started the 2022-23 season strong with a thorough 63-24 beating of the visiting Morrill Lions on Friday at Potter-/Dix High School. After a 20-win season last season, the Coyotes looked sharp and ready to be the top of the class in D2 basketball. The matchup against Morrill started out slow, with both teams playing good defense and having difficulty getting inside for easy shots. Potter-Dix was up 6-2 at the end of the first period, then started to loosen up...
The Kimball boys basketball season is off to a great start with a win over Alliance, 56-48, in the Hall of Fame Jamboree on Monday evening. The second and third quarters helped to propel the Longhorns to their victory. Alliance scored 14 in the first quarter, while Kimball tallied 11. But in the second quarter, Kimball scored 13 and held the Bulldogs to 6. The third quarter Kimball with 14 and Alliance with 10. Both teams score 18 in the final quarter. Four Longhorns players scored all the...
In the photo at left, Clarika Hottell,13 shows off the buck she shot last week. At right, Kambree, Kolt and Knox show off the 5x6 buck that Kolt shot last week in Banner County. Kolt was using his grandfather's rifle. Kambree, Kolt and Knox are the children of Brad and Nikki Hottell....
High school winter sports are nearly here. Kimball, Banner County and Potter-Dix student athletes are gearing up for their upcoming seasons. We're talking basketball. Wrestling. And, of course, cheer. Here's a look at the Longhorns, Coyotes and Wildcats schedules through the 2022 portions of their seasons. Kimball Longhorns Nov. 28, 5 p.m. HS Boys and Girls BB Jamboree vs. Alliance @ Home (varsity only) Dec. 1, 4 p.m. HS JV/V BB vs Bayard @ home Dec. 1, 6 p.m. HS Wrestling@ Bayard Dec. 2. 4 p.m....
Braylon Miller, 16 shot this 5x5 buck north of Dix on Monday evening. Attention hunters: The Observer welcomes your hunting photos this deer season to run in the paper....
Kimball High School has three representatives on the Western Trails Conference 2022 all-conference teams for 8-man football and volleyball, plus four honorable mention selections. For the Longhorns football team, junior quarterback/defensive back Brandon Paxton and senior tight end/defensive end James McGinnis made the all conference team. Receiving honorable mention were sophomore offensive lineman/defensive lineman Conner Deboodt and junior fullback/defensive end Derek Kauffman. Here are the...