Jock Talk

The Western Trails Conference released their football and volleyball All Conference selections for this season this past week.

Kimball garnered several honors including senior Zane Anthony being named the 8-man Offensive Player of the Year! Zane was joined on the All Conference Team by senior team mates Izaac Reuter and Corey Travis, plus honorable mention to senior team mates Luis Portillo and Jake Jenkins.

Seniors Madison Wynne and Kate Reader were both All Conference volleyball selections with senior Kiersten Anderson and junior Jenna Greenwood both given honorable mention.

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South Dakota State University is off to a winning start and are 3-0 at the time of this writing. They opened with a 79-74 win over Grand Canyon and Kimball’s Mike Daum had 20 points, 13 rebounds and 4 assists. They handled Alabama State 78-61, and in their latest outing won over Bemidgi State 86-63. In that win Big Mike had 26 points on 8 of 16 shooting, and pulled 11 rebounds.

Looking ahead on the schedule, they are at Florida Gulf Coast on November 17 and at Tulane on November 19.

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Winter sports practice for Nebraska High Schools got underway this past Monday. The Kimball high girl’s basketball team has Chauncey Pedersen back as head coach, while the boys welcome back head coach Luke Dea. Wade Brashear returns to head up the Kimball High Wrestling program.

As I have mentioned the last couple of weeks the Kimball Junior High wrestling and girl’s basketball is going on. The mother-daughter team of Danielle Reader and Tori Ingram are in charge of the girl’s basketball, while Wade Brashear and David Hellman oversee the jr. high wrestling.

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There is jr high girl’s basketball at Kimball this afternoon-Thursday as they host Ogallala for games at 4 p.m. and on Monday-November 19, they are at home with Pine Bluffs for 3:30 games. The junior high wrestlers are at Morrill tomorrow-Friday with a 9 a.m. start time, and they are at Grant on Tuesday-November 20.

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I made a trip to the Kimball High gymnasiums Monday evening to catch a bit of the first winter sports practices with my main purpose to see how many were out for each sport. The girls took first place with 20 checked out for basketball. The boys had 16 and the wrestlers have 8. The junior high wrestlers were also working out at the same time under the direction of coach Wade Brashear and what an enthusiastic group of 15! Let the fun begin.