Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First

Turnovers Spook Kimball Girls Against Ranked Hershey

Darbi Klinkhammer may have walked under a ladder or shattered her favorite mirror--that’s conjecture.

We do know, however, that before Friday night’s trip to Hershey, the Longhorns’ senior point guard misplaced her familiar number 1 jersey and was forced to don the unlucky number 13 instead.

The result? Multiple Kimball turnovers and a 47-25 thrashing at the hands of the state’s second ranked squad.

“It’s not the jersey, it’s the player,” Klinkhammer insisted after the team’s first loss of the season.

Perhaps--but the fates also turned on coach Ken Smith. Only minutes into...