Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Banner County raced out to the early lead and went on to defeat South Platte, 66-52, on Friday night. Kadan Huber started things off with a trey less than a minute into the game, and Tyson Dahlgrin added a layup for a 5-0 lead with 6:12 left in the opening quarter. The Knights (1-13) closed the gap to 7-5 near the midway point of the quarter, but the Wildcats (4-11) pulled away. Banner outscored its visitor 13-4 to end the frame with a comfortable lead. Dahlgrin led the charge with five of the...
Kimball residents Don and Mary Gerner hope the TeamMates mentoring program has helped those they have mentored as much as it has enriched their own lives. The couple has been involved with the program for several years now and enjoy working with the youth. "As you can tell, we're pretty old," Don said with a laugh. "That's the part that I enjoy, being in contact with the young people." "I'd like to think that we can be a plus in their lives. If they have a concern about something - not family pr...
Dave Hottell on Tuesday told Kimball County Commissioners that a solution has been found on the overuse problem on County Road 17. Hottell, the county’s highway supervisor, said he spoke with the owner of a trucking firm from Wyoming regarding the use of CR 17, and the owner agreed to send his trucks a different route. Hottell said the trucks traveled from Wyoming into Kimball County and then down into Colorado, where they were hauling resources used by oilfield companies. He said the heavy traffic on CR 17 south of Bushnell had been t...
Miss Nebraska Megan Swanson said it was important for young people to pay attention to total body wellness in order to be the best they can be. Swanson told students at Mary Lynch Elementary that Friday afternoon during her stop in Kimball. She spoke to students at Kimball Junior/Senior High School on Friday morning. The 6-foot tall Swanson, who is the shortest member of her immediate family, was crowned Miss Nebraska last summer. She previously studied at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.,...
Potter-Dix went up against rival Leyton for the third time this season in Saturday's Minuteman Activities Conference tournament championship game. And for the third time, the Lady Coyotes came out on top. The Lady Coyotes (12-2) brought home their first MAC tournament title in girls basketball since 2006 with a 40-32 victory against the Lady Warriors. Potter-Dix coach Jeff Einspahr said the win says a lot about his team in winning against their rival for the third time in three tries this...
Potter-Dix used its swarming defense to create plenty of offensive opportunities on Monday. The Lady Coyotes (10-2) stormed out to a 13-2 lead and went on to thump visiting Minatare, 57-25, in the first round of the Minuteman Activities Conference tournament. Top-seeded Potter-Dix returns to action in the second round of the tournament Thursday to face Bayard at 3 p.m. A Savannah Shaw jumper less than a minute into the game started the scoring, and the Lady Coyotes were off and running. After a...
Things looked good briefly early on for Banner County before Minatare took control for the rest of the game. The visiting Indians quickly erased a 4-0 deficit as they went on to defeat the Wildcats, 59-40, on Saturday night. Minatare ended the first quarter on a 22-2 run. Kadan Huber and Tyson Dahlgrin started the game with back-to-back layups as the Wildcats went up 4-0. The Indians dominated the remainder of the first quarter. They rolled off 11 consecutive points, wrapped up by a pair of...
A pair of big runs carried Banner County on Saturday night. The Lady Wildcats opened the game on a 10-0 spurt and used an 11-0 run to end the third quarter as they thrashed visiting Minatare, 57-25. Paige Cross started the scoring with a layup and Courtney Knisley added a fast break bucket after a Savannah Jordan steal to get the Lady Wildcats off and running less than a minute into the game. An Ashlynne Hanan layup and two Knisley free throws made it an 8-0 game, and MaKenna Dahlgrin's layup...
The Potter-Dix defense smothered another opponent on Saturday. The Lady Coyotes (7-1) held yet another opponent below 30 points as they rolled to a 47-26 win against visiting South Platte. Potter-Dix has held five of its opponents to 30 or fewer points on the season and seven of its eight opponents have not scored 40 points. The Lady Coyotes are 7-0 when holding opponents to fewer than 40 points. "Our press and half court defense created many turnovers which made it hard for them to get into...
It was all Potter-Dix from the opening tip. The Coyotes (3-5) used a hot start from Cameron Purcell to jump out to the early lead and Trace Sharman had the hot hand after that as they stomped South Platte, 70-46, on Saturday. Sharman led the way with 21 points, while Purcell scored 20. The Potter-Dix defense dominated the Blue Knights (1-7), especially early on, as the home team stormed out to the early lead. "We just wanted to put more pressure in the backcourt," Potter-Dix coach Chad Miller...
Kimball Health Services has a new affiliation. KHS announced late Monday afternoon that it has signed a joint operating agreement with Regional West Health Services of Scottsbluff. The agreement is effective immediately, according to a press release. KHS previously had a joint operating agreement with Cheyenne Regional Hospital. “We are thrilled to enter into this agreement with Regional West,” Ken Hunter, CEO of Kimball Health Services, said in a press release. “Through this operating agreement we can deliver more specialized care to our c...
Leyton pulled away in the second quarter and held off Banner County for a 48-40 win on Friday. The two teams were nip and tuck throughout the first quarter. Tyson Dahlgrin scored the first of his 23 points with a layup just 23 seconds into the game to give the Wildcats (0-5) the initial lead. Leyton tied it up before Michael McKown's jumper put the Wildcats back on top, and a Dahlgrin free throw gave Banner a 5-2 advantage. The Wildcats led 7-4 on Dahlgrin's layup with 2:29 left in the first...
Turnovers haunted the Banner County girls in a 60-33 home loss on Friday against Leyton. The Lady Wildcats (1-5) held close early before turnovers proved the difference in the defeat. Banner turned the ball over 41 times, compared to just 17 turnovers for Leyton. MaKenna Dahlgrin got things going early for Banner, scoring a layup with an assist from Shay White for a 2-0 lead just 47 seconds into the game. Leyton came back for a 6-3 advantage, before Ashlynne Hanan's jumper at the 3:24 mark of...
Portraying Santa Claus has been a longtime tradition for Richard "Rich" Elliott of Kimball. The 79-year old began his time as Santa in the mid-1960s and has portrayed him ever since. This year, he was Santa for Shop with a Cop and also at the Main Street Market open house. "I enjoyed it," Elliott said. "I love kids, and I never lied to any of them. I never told them I would give them such and such, and this and that. Now, sometimes a mother would come up to me before the kids and say something...
Five accidents were reported Monday as icy conditions enveloped the area. No serious injuries were reported from any of the accidents. Kimball County Sheriff Harry Gillway said the first accident occurred at approximately 5:30 a.m. when a tractor trailer left the roadway east of Kimball. Gillway said speed was not a factor in the accident, but high winds helped push the tractor trailer, which was hauling a load of styrofoam, off the road. Gillway said there were no injuries in the accident, but reported that the tractor trailer was most likely...
Garrett Grubbs placed third for the second straight meet to lead the Banner County wrestling team at its own invitational tournament on Saturday. Grubbs, competing in the 152 weight class, opened with a win over Zach Grumbles of Hemingford and then defeated Destin Standley of Minatare. He lost to Javy Rojo of Holyoke in his third match. In the championship bracket, Grubbs lost in the first round to Nathan Fleecs of Sutherland. He topped Colin Hendrickson of Bayard in the third place match....
HARRISBURG - Potter-Dix limited Banner County to just one inside first half basket as the Coyotes grabbed the early lead in a 52-31 win on Saturday. The Coyotes (1-1) held the Wildcats (0-2) to just three first half field goals, and the lone basket on the inside came via a Bryce Olsen layup with 15 seconds left until halftime. "Defensively we have just been working extremely hard on staying active and communicating at all times so that all members are on the same page," Potter-Dix coach Chad...
Potter-Dix used its strong press and rolled out to an 11-0 first quarter lead en route to a 43-15 win last Saturday at Banner County. "The press helped us create some turnovers and get some early baskets. We will count on our press all season to ignite our offense," Potter-Dix coach Jeff Einspahr said. Alexus Rozelle started the scoring with a layup, with an assist to Audrey Juelfs, and Anna McLaughlin added a layup to make it a 4-0 game. The Lady Coyotes (2-0) expanded their lead with a strong...
Veteran Banner County wrestling coach Bill Gifford looks for growth from his young squad as the 2014-15 season gets underway Friday. The youthful Wildcats sport a team of just three, and only one of those is a returning wrestler from a season ago. "We will go through some growing pains again with only one returner and a small team," Gifford said. "If we can stick to the basics and improve each time out, this will give us the foundation to make the proper adjustments late in the season to give...
Cole Wyatt takes over as the head boys basketball coach at Banner County, and feels that the Wildcats will compete for a conference title in 2014-15. Wyatt previously served as an assistant at Banner County for the last four seasons. "I will be taking over as head coach this year for coach Jim Wyatt," he said. "Coach (Brett) Cross and I played and assisted under Coach Jim for several years, and are very excited to be able to work with this group and look forward to the upcoming season. We...
Banner County girls basketball coach Brittany Cooper looks for her team's hard work and enthusiasm pay off in 2014-15. The Lady Wildcats return three starters and six overall lettermen for the season as they look to improve from last season's 3-18 record. "I'm excited to see how the pieces fit together and how we improve and have a lot of fun throughout the season," Cooper said. Banner County returns three starters from a year ago in senior guard Ashlynne Hanan, junior forward Taylor Evans and...
The Potter-Dix boys basketball team has plenty of experience in 2014-15, although coach Chad Miller said some of those will see new roles this season. The Coyotes return three starters and eight additional lettermen from last year's team that finished with a 10-12 overall record. The three returning starters are a trio of seniors in Cameron Purcell, Jake Johnson and Trevor Harms. Purcell, a 6-foot guard, averaged 6.6 points per game, 4.1 rebounds per game and 2 assists per game a season ago. He...
The Potter-Dix girls basketball team returns two starters and four additional lettermen as the Lady Coyotes look to improve on last year's 10-10 campaign. They begin the season Friday with a home contest against Sedgwick County. Third-year head coach Jeff Einspahr cites athleticism and depth as strengths for the Lady Coyotes this season. "We are a young team with athleticism," he said. "We should have good depth, also, this year." Returning starters for the Lady Coyotes are a pair of...
Necessity is the mother of invention, and it also led to a wider viewing of Kimball High School's One-Act Play this fall. A larger than normal group of students out for the school's One-Act Play made it necessary to raise more funds this year, said sponsor Jennifer Dillinger. The solution was to hold a dinner theater for the community to raise funds. Dillinger said this was the first time the school had held the event. This brought in even more members of the community than normal to get the...
The Kimball Area Foundation is looking for a big project that it can sink its teeth into, said President Jan Sears. Friday's annual benefit dinner and auction will contribute to that goal. Although final totals for funds raised were not available as of Tuesday, Sears said that Friday's event was a successful one. "We feel it was a success," she said. "We've had several compliments since that day. People said they enjoyed it and it was very nice. It sounds like they want to do it again. The rest...