Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Longhorns Place 7th As Team Going Into Two Tournaments This Week
Kimball's James McGinnis took first at the Chase County Invite. He competed at 132 pounds.
Chase County Quad meet
The Kimball Wrestling team competed in a quad meet on Friday, Jan. 14, at Chase County Gym. There were 5 matches wrestled in the dual against Chase County.
Kimball went 3-2 in the matches wrestled. Matthew Johnson won his match by tech fall at 106. James McGinnis at 132 and Trey Schindler at 152 each won their matches by fall. Cody Brinkman lost by tech fall at 120 and Justin Klosterman lost by major decision at 138 against their opponents. Chase County won the dual 57-17.
In their match against Wauneta-Palisade, one match was wrestled. Matthew Johnson won the only match by pin at 106. Cody Brinkman at 120, James McGinnis at 132, Justin Klosterman at 138 and Trey Schindler at 152 won by forfeit. Wauneta-Palisade and the Longhorns tied in the team score 30-30 but Wauneta-Palisade won by criteria by scoring 5 forfeit wins over Kimball's 4.
In the final dual of the night, Kimball was the winner by the score of 24-12. Two matches were wrestled in the dual. Trey Schindler won by pin at 152. Justin Klosterman was pinned in his match at 138
Chase County Invite
The Kimball wrestling team entered the Chase County Invite on Saturday, Jan. 15. The Longhorns finished in seventh place out of 20 schools, scoring 64 team points.
The Longhorns were led by James McGinnis in a first place finish at 132. James won his first two matches on the day by pin. He won by major decision in his finals match 22-10.
Trey Schindler continued a solid weekend by finishing in second place. He lost a close match, 3-1, in the finals against a solid opponent from Sedgwick County/Fleming. He was very close to scoring at the end to send the match into overtime.
Matthew Johnson battled to a fourth place finish at 106. Cody Brinkman finished in 6th place at 120. Justin Klosterman continues to improve at 138 but was 0-2 on the day.
"We had a really good weekend of solid wrestling," coach Cory McManigal said "I felt that the guys really rebounded well after our sluggish performance last weekend at Garden County. They were very critical of their performance last week and really worked hard to fix some things. It really showed on Friday night when we went 5-3 on the night in the matches wrestled.
"They continued to push the pace on Saturday, and it showed in the matches that we won. We were able to break a lot of our opponents with our constant pressure style of wrestling. If we continue to evolve like that throughout the next couple of weeks, we can finish our season in a positive way.
"We are looking forward to another good week of practice this week. We wrestle on Friday in a tournament in Hemingford. We then go to very tough tournament in Chadron on Saturday."
