Jock Talk

A slow week of activities for the local sports teams due to weather postponements or cancellations. This week should get busy. The High School track team did not go to Grant this past Saturday due to the stormy weather, but are scheduled to compete at the Western Trails Conference meet in Morrill this Saturday with a 1 p.m. start time.

The Kimball Junior High track team got the season underway at Bayard this past Monday and was scheduled to compete in the Potter-Dix Junior High Invite being held at Kimball this past Wednesday.

The Kimball High Boy’s Golf Team was to play at the Mitchell Tournament this past Tuesday and are scheduled to be at Bridgeport today (Thursday). On Tuesday (April 17), they are at Morrill and it looks like they might have decent weather. No guarantees!

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Did you catch the College Basketball Awards Show on TV this past Friday night? It was so cool to see our own Mike Daum and Mom, Michele, too. Mike was in the running for Power Forward of the year honors and they showed some of his highlights. They also had a shot of Mom sneaking a hug during a post-game TV interview. We are all so proud of you, Big Mike.

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The Omaha World Herald came out with their All State basketball selections recently, and although we had no immediate area boys mentioned, we did have some girls get honors.

Audrey Juelfs, Potter-Dix senior, was named to the D-2 second team and teammates, Payge Hoffman and Trinity Langley, were Honorable mention. MaKenna Dahlgrin, Jaydin Cross and Courtney Knisley of Banner County were also D-2 Honorable Mentions. Kimball senior, Hannah Biesecker, was Honorable Mention Class C-2.

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In a listing of Regional Track and Field leaders, covering Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming, Kimball High tracksters making the list include, Brady Kilgore, with the top 100 meter hurdle time of 15.2 Brady also made the top ten list as number 7 in the high jump at 5’10” and number 9 in the long jump at 18’10”. Paycen Harroun is ranked 3rd in the pole vault at 12’6” and Jaden Mohr, 6th at 12’0”. Kimball’s boy’s 4x800 relay is 9th with a time of 9:43.2 and the 4x100 relay team 10th at 48.5.

Kimball senior, Hanna Biesecker, is the top girl long jumper, leading the region with her leap of 16’4”. Freshman, Megan Spicer, is 5th at 15’9”. Sam Bemis, also a freshman, has the top triple jump mark of 32’7.5” and Jenna Greenwood has the 5th best mark of 31’8.5”. Carli Wurdeman is 9th in the discus at 95’4’”.

Banner County may have only 6 tracksters total, but they have some of the top marks in the region. Kenna Dahlgrin leads in the shotput at 36’7.75” and is 3rd best in the discus at 112’0”. Deven Sullivan is 9th in the 1600 with a time of 5:12.28 and 10th in the 3200 at 11:31.38.

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Potter-Dix also has some top marks with Trinity Langley leading in the girl’s high jump at 5’0” and 3rd in the triple jump at 32’1.5”. Payge Hoffman is 4th in the long jump at 15’3” and 4th in the 300 hurdles with her time of 52.50.