Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Another championship medal for Kimball wrestler Britton Culek as the young wrestler captured first place in his division at the Northern Colorado Regional Tournament held in Thorton, Colorado, this past weekend. Britton, who just turned 9 years old, is the son of Bob and Katie Culek and wrestled in the 8-and-under bracket consisting of 24 of the region's best at this age and weight division. Britton is a third-grader in the Kimball school system and is fortunate to have his dad as his coach in...
Wow, did we have some outstanding individual sports happenings this past week. Britton Culek won a Northern Colorado Wrestling championship besting a strong 24 wrestler bracket to bring home the championship from Thorton, Colorado! Stephen Bateman won the 285 pound weight division at the Garden County Wrestling Tournament to give Kimball High a champion! Alexis Lulf bowled a perfect 300 game at the Kim Bowl to become Kimball’s first ever Woman 300 bowler! Be sure and read all of these interesting stories. Don’t Forget Katie Heeg One more sto...
It was a break-even week for the Kimball High boys with a win over South Platte and a loss to Chase County and the Horns are also even on the season at 4 wins and 4 losses. It was an easy night for Kimball on the road to Big Springs on Tuesday as they came out on top 60-21, but they couldn’t keep pace with the visiting Chase County club on Saturday as the Imperial boys won 59-38 in a battle of the Longhorns. KIMBALL 60, SOUTH PLATTE 21 No problem for the Kimball boys at South Platte as they jumped out to a 21-2 first quarter lead and led 3...
A tough week for the Kimball High girls as they suffered losses to South Platte and Chase County dropping their season record to 3 wins and 5 losses. In a Tuesday night road game to Big Springs the Lady Longhorns lost to South Platte 52-48 and then fell Saturday at home to a powerful Chase County club 68-39. SOUTH PLATTE 52, KIMBALL 48 The loss to South Platte was a tough one to swallow as the Kimball girls had a 2 point lead going into the final quarter but got outscored 18-12 in the final period. “We had a good effort against a good South Pla...
For any of you city of Kimball officials who are trying to come up with ideas on how to bring people into Kimball, just hold more wrestling tournaments for the little kids! If you happened to drive by the Kimball High School this past Sunday you would know what I mean. The parking lots were filled on all sides as the families of the 178 young wrestlers who were involved, came to watch and cheer for their special little grapplers. High School Sports Is Back With the Christmas break over, the Kimball sporting activities start up again, and in...
A lot of area basketball teams take part in Holiday Tournaments after the Christmas break but Kimball takes a bit more of a break and returned to the hardwoods this past Tuesday with a trip to Big Springs to battle South Platte. This Saturday, they are at home hosting Chase County, and then on Tuesday, they are at Potter-Dix. Both the Kimball girls and boys are sitting with 3 wins and 3 losses at the Holiday break, and the schedule certainly is not going to get any easier. Let's take a look at...
The Kimball Wrestling Club held its Federation Wrestling Tournament this past Sunday – the K-Town Takedown – at the Kimball High gymnasium and attracted a large field of 178 wrestlers, according to one of the organizers, Bob Culek. The parking lots on all sides of the Kimball school were filled with vehicles from near and far! The Kimball club does a worthy job of handling the tournament in fine fashion and things ran smoothly with all of the matches held, which can be multiplied by three or four times the wrestlers. A thank you to Hannah Sny...
In looking back at the highlights of 2019, the top happenings occurred in golf! The Kimball High boys had their remarkable three seniors consisting of Dillon Wise, Zane Anthony and Izaak Reuter closing out their careers at Kimball High with a fourth straight District championship – and all three finished in the top 10. They also were the SPVA and WTC conference champions all four years of their play, and I might mention that Cole Henton and Jess Siren will return to hopefully carry on some winning tradition. Payton Wise also made some noise f...
Just one final 2019 Kimball High sporting event to report this week, and that is how Kimball fared at the Bridgeport/Sidney wrestling invite at Bridgeport. There were some positives and some negatives from this event as described by coach Wade Brashear. "Two of our wrestlers ended their day early with Joe Burris at 152 pounds suffering an ankle injury the night before, and he was only able to wrestle one match," Brashear said. "Ilian Serrano at 145 JV suffered a knee injury in a victory and was...
The High School sports action comes to a halt for a short time as the NSAA puts a moratorium on the games and practice until Dec. 27. Kimball competition begins again on Jan. 7, when the basketball teams play at South Platte and the wrestlers are back on the mats Jan. 11 at Garden County. We still have wrestling results to bring your way from this past Saturday’s Bridgeport/Sidney Tournament, but I can tell you that Stephen Bateman finished third at the 285 pound weight class, and Connor Cluff was sixth at 132. Due to early holiday deadlines w...
Trey Schindler at 145 pounds and Joseph Burris at 152 pounds were double winners for Kimball High Wrestling Team at the Kimball Triangular Wrestling Meet held this past week, involving Chase County and Leyton along with the hosting Kimball Longhorns. With limited numbers on all 3 teams, there were several open weights and double forfeits along with unmatched weights. Coach Wade Brashear commented on the evening. “I was happy with the way we wrestled,” he said. “It is hard to get matchups for everyone when there are low numbers on teams. We al...
The Kimball High girls had a strong weekend of play as they finished out the pre-Christmas part of their basketball schedule. They lost on the road Friday night to a very talented Hershey club 58-56, and then won on the road Saturday night at Bayard 51-46. Coach Chauncey Pedersen said, "We shot the ball a lot better this past weekend and our play, especially at Hershey, was very good. We came very close to getting the win at Hershey against a team that played Ogallala the next night to within 1...
The final weekend of High School sports action is this weekend before the NSAA Moratorium begins on Sunday, December 22, when Nebraska schools are required to hold no practices, or compete in competition until after Christmas. The Kimball High Basketball teams will travel this weekend going to Hershey Friday evening with JV games beginning at 3:30 followed by the girl’s varsity at 5 and the boy’s varsity at 6:30. On Saturday Kimball travels to Bayard for JV games at 2 followed by girl’s varsity at 3:30 and boy’s varsity at 5 p.m. The Kimball Hi...
The Kimball High Wrestlers had a busy weekend with two tournaments back to back on Friday and Saturday of this past week. On Friday they wrestled at the North Platte St Pats Tournament and on Saturday they were at the Charlie Lake Tournament at Cheyenne East. Coach Wade Brashear gave a run down on the North Platte Tournament saying “On Friday we travelled to North Platte St Pats for a small pool tournament. This was our first year in this tournament. Overall, our wrestling was down. Matt Johnson suffered two overtime losses to heavier o...
A split weekend for the Kimball High girls with a win on the road Friday night at Perkins County followed by a home loss Saturday night to Morrill. This leaves the Lady Longhorns with a 2 win-2 loss record going into the weekend. KIMBALL 36, PERKINS COUNTY 21 A nice road win for the Kimball girls at Grant Friday night with the Lady Longhorns coming out on top 36-21. "Once again we had a slow start and I don't know why we do this, but we got it going in the 2nd quarter" said Coach Chauncey...
The Kimball High boys are 2-2 going into this weekend's play after slipping past Perkins County on the road Friday night and losing a hard fought battle with Morrill at home Saturday. Coach Mo Hanks says "We are still hrting depth wise and run out of gas late in the game. We need to work more on our conditioning, and will welcome back Brayden Tyan and Javon Coyle after the Christmas break." Tyan and Coyle are both recovering from football injuries. KIMBALL 56, PERKINS County 54 Kimball's win at...
It's been 13 years since Mo Hanks coached High School basketball, but he is back at it as the Kimball High boy's head coach. Despite the years away from coaching, Mo knows the game and he knows the group of young men he is working with. Coach Hanks coached this year's seniors when they were in the fourth through sixth grades in club ball. As shown in last week's Kimball Tournament, he has his team playing well together with unselfish play, and when he gets a couple more players released from...
The Kimball High wrestling season got underway Saturday at the Chuck Annand Invitational in Akron, Colorado. Kimball was scheduled to open at home this past Thursday in a dual with Bayard, but had to cancel out due to lack of numbers by both teams. Coach Wade Brashear had only 4 wrestlers able and ready to wrestle at Akron due to eligibility and other problems. It was an outstanding start to freshman Trey Schindler’s high school wrestling career as the young 145 pounder wound up 3 and 1 on the day to earn the silver medal at 145 pounds, l...
The Dundy County/Stratton boys followed the same route as their girl's team in winning over Morrill in the championship game to give them a pair of tournament titles this past weekend as they carried home to Benkleman a pair of trophies from the Kimball season opening tournament. The scrappy Tigers handled Morrill 42-25 in the championship contest after winning 58-46 over Kimball in the first round pairing. DUNDY COUNTY-STRATTON 58 KIMBALL 46 Kimball's loss to the eventual champs was a simple...
The Kimball High girls fell to Dundy County-Stratton in 1st round play of the Kimball Invitational Tournament this past weekend with the DC/Stratton Lady Tigers going on to defeat Morrill in the championship game for top honors, and Kimball winning over Potter-Dix to take 3rd place for honors. DUNDY COUNTY 54 KIMBALL 25 It was a case of shots not falling for the Kimball girls in their first round pairing with Dundy County/Stratton. The Lady Longhorns were getting good shots but everything seemed...
The weekend you Kimball High winter sports fans have been waiting for has arrived and it all begins this evening with the Kimball High wrestlers hosting Bayard on the Longhorn mats with mat time at 6 p.m. Coach Wade Brashear has built the numbers up to 14 to start this season and has a group of 5 talented freshmen on the squad to go along with the returning upper classmen. Tourney Time The Longhorn basketball season opens up with the usual Kimball four school tournament with a format for both the girls and boys. First round play is this Friday...
KIMBALL BOYS WIN, 49-23 A good showing for the Kimball High boys in the Jamboree game at Leyton Monday evening as they won 49-23. The Jamboree game is a game allowed by the NSAA for all Nebraska teams as a warmup game prior to the start of the regular season and does not count in their win-loss records. It was also a chance for new head coach Mo Hanks to get an idea just what he has to work with this season, although he was without a couple of his key players who are still recovering from...
The 2019 Nebraska Firearm Deer Season came to an end this past weekend and a total of 247 deer were checked in a Sportsman’s Liquor, the local check-in station in Kimball. As reported last week after the opening weekend of 134 checked in, another 113 hunters filled their licenses as reported by midmorning on this past Monday and hunters had until noon Monday to check in their animals. Breaking it down even more, there were 216 mule deer and 31 whitetail species checked in, and there were 207 bucks and 40 does in the final count. Lissa W...
As we close out the 2019 Fall Sports seasons, we asked Kimball High Coach Jeri Ferguson to give us her thoughts on the Lady Longhorn Volleyball season. Here are her comments. "The 2019 season began with two new changes: one being a new assistant coach and the other was dropping to Class D-1. Staci Paxton came on board as the Longhorns assistant coach. She is a great addition to the program. The only difference moving to a D-1 was it changed where the Longhorns sub-districts were played. "Even...
Winter sports practice officially got underway for Nebraska high schools this past Monday and it certainly is time to get indoors and out of the cold weather. Wade Brashear is back to head up the Kimball High wrestling program and assistant Bob Culek is back to add his expertise as well. It looks like the Longhorns will have about 14 young men working hard on the mats this season which opens up December 5th when they host Bayard. Chauncey Pedersen is back again to head up the Lady Longhorn basketball and has his top assistant Tiffany Johnson ba...