Western Nebraska Observer - Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First

The winter sports seasons are just about here for area high school basketball teams and wrestlers. Here are the opening week schedules for the Kimball Longhorns, Banner County Wildcats and Potter-Dix... Full story

Kimball Junior High wrestlers put in some competitive performances back-to-back in tournaments at Hemingford on Nov. 12 and Morrill on Nov. 27. A number of young Longhorns earned first place. Here... Full story

The historic season that the Potter-Dix Coyote football team enjoyed came to a disappointing end Friday night in Ron and Carol Cope Stadium at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, as they fell to the...

Nebraska's firearm deer hunting season is under way, and the young Bohac sisters of Kimball have done themselves proud during an outing on some private Kimball County land. JaLeigh Bohac got her 1st...

The number 1 ranked Potter-Dix Coyote Football team continued their historic season on Friday, holding off a late surge by the number 13 ranked Spalding Academy Shamrocks to punch their ticket to a...

Britton and Decker Culek wrestled in Colorado Springs on Nov. 5 and 6. They competed in the King of the Mountain dual tournament on Victory Training Center club team of their uncle Kyle Schnell, a... Full story

Kimball Lady Longhorns golfer Payton Wise has recevied another award. She's All-State. Wise, who placed third at State last month, was voted onto the 2021 Nebraska Coaches Association All-State Team.... Full story

The Potter-Dix Coyotes are the No. 1 ranked team in D6, and face the No. 13 ranked Spalding Academy Shamrocks in the semifinal round of the NSAA D6 play offs on November 12 in Spalding. Due to the... Full story

The powerhouse Potter-Dix Coyote football team improved to 9-0 on the season with a 54-0 shellacking of the visiting Sioux County Warriors in the first round of the D6 Playoffs Friday afternoon in... Full story

The Halligan Agency hosted the Nebraska State RSNC Finals this past weekend in Kimball at the Y3 arena.  Champions were crowned in four divisions based on points won throughout the year competing in...

Potter-Dix's Coyote football team finished out its regular season with an 80-16 rout over Creek Valley, earning its second straight D6-6 title and undefeated regular season. The Coyotes' swarming...

For the fourth time in as many years, Chantel Malson ran in the Nebraska State cross county meet. Of 127 runners in the Class D meet Oct. 22, the Kimball Longhorn senior placed 66th on the Kearney... Full story

Here's to the Sharks, Kimball's youngest boys of the fall this football season. This week we salute the fifth- and sixth-grade group. Front row: Dason Cabbage, Mason Brown, Britton Culek, Davian...

The Kimball Lady Longhorns volleyball season ended Monday as the team fell to Bridgeport in straight sets in subdistrict action. Kimball's season record was 3-21 heading into the C2-11 Subdistrict...

District cross country was Thursday, Oct. 14, at Courthouse & Jail Rock Golf Course in Bridgeport, and for the fourth year in a row, Kimball Longhorns runner Chantel Malson qualified for the... Full story

Here's to the Sharks, Kimball's youngest boys of the fall this football season. This week we salute the third- and fourth-grade group. Front row: Ty Cook, Jace Reich, Ben Anderson, Nash Burback,... Full story

Team members from five Potter, Dix and Potter-Dix state volleyball teams returned for the state volleyball celebration. Honored were the Potter Class D 1975 and 1976 champions, the Dix 1981...

Potter-Dix's Coyote football team moved its record to 7-0 against the Banner County Wildcats in Harrisburg on Friday night. The Coyotes dominated in all aspects of the game, and only a late score by B... Full story

That's a wrap for Kimball Lady Longhorns golfers Payton Wise and Katie Heeg. The senior duo closed out their high school golf careers in fine fashion – together on the course during the NSAA State... Full story

Kimball's homecoming game between the Kimball Sharks and the Pine Bluffs Hornets was Friday evening. The fifth- and sixth-graders played the first half while the third- and fourth-graders completed... Full story

Kimball's Lady Longhorn volleyball team has not had many wins this season, but it earned a special victory Thursday as the school honored the 1979 Kimball State Champion Volleyball Team. It was 50...