Jock Talk

Junior High winter sports are underway to keep you Kimball sports fans occupied until the High School seasons get underway. The junior high girl’s basketball team will entertain Gering this afternoon (Thursday) with game time at 3 p.m., and the junior high wrestlers will be at Hemingford today. The girl’s basketball team is at Bridgeport this coming Monday, Nov. 12.

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Nov. 12 next Monday, is also the official start date for Nebraska High Schools winter sports practice and for Kimball, that involves boys and girls basketball and wrestling.

Looking ahead on the Kimball School calendar, it looks like the first high school event is girls and boys basketball at Gering, and if the format is like it was lat time we played this early game at Gering, it was simply a practice with no score kept, and wearing practice uniforms. Rather disappointing. The Kimball High wrestlers take to the mats on Nov. 29, at Bayard and the Kimball Basketball Invitational tournament is set for Nov. 30 -Dec. 1.

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All of us Mike Daum fans can get ready to follow all of the exploits of our Big Mike as he finishes out his college basketball career in his final season at South Dakota State University. He is already getting plenty of pre-season publicity and I see he is on the top 20 player list by some publications.

Also in the pre-season info he has been picked for the Player of the Year in the All Summit Conference and of course as a first team selection. He has already enjoyed being tagged as a two-time league player of the year and he should go over the 3,000 points scored figure if he stays healthy this season.

Thanks to Mike electing to come back for his final season, rather than looking to go Pro, the Jackrabbits are favored to win the Summit League championship again and the Jacks will be looking to make the NCAA Tournament for a fourth straight year.

It’s going to be fun for all of us Big Mike fans!