Jock Talk

The local golf season seems to be drawing to a close, at least in the number of golfers that are turning out on a daily basis, but the weather is so nice yet!

Four Winds Pro Chad Wise had a 4-person Yellow Ball-Scrambler, fund raising tournament set up for this past Sunday, but when the sign ups were limited he turned it into just a fun day using the same format.

Very happy to report that the winning team was Tom Southard, Doug Southard, Dennis Hoffman, Dillon Wise shooting 129. The 2nd place team was Kevin Thomas, Gary Haack, Randy Bohac, Steven Linn with 144, and 3rd Place went to the team of Tom O’Brien, Pat O’Brien, Andrew Brown, Barry Frederick with 146. It really was a fun format and all you golfers who didn’t sign up missed out.

Chad has another fun event scheduled for October 20th called Triple Play which is a two person format where each team plays 6 holes of scramble, 6 holes of alternate shot, and 6 holes of Best Ball. It is handicapped and all the blue-white-red tee boxes will be used. Call the Pro Shop and get more info and get signed up.

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Randy Bohac, the man in charge of the Four Winds Thursday Night Mens League, sent in some results of their association play and Thanks Randy for sharing this info with our readers.

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The Thursday Night Men’s League consisting of 24 Teams has completed their 11 weeks of matches with tournament play. With teams divided into two divisions the winners were as follows. In the “Heads” divisions the winners were Steve Pattison and Charles Christensen in First, second was Pat and Tom O’Brien, third was Ty and Kelly Garrett and fourth was Dave Lukassen and Jeff Anderson. The “Tails” division was as follows. First was Lynn Anthony and Michael Reuter, second was Aaron Koski and Gene Golding, third place went to Randy Bohac and Steve Linn followed by the fourth place team of Keith Staehr and Gary Hall. The Teams Playing in the Tournament Championship are Kevin Thomas and Gary Haack playing Mark and Jake Daum in the 18 hole finals. Along with the 11 weeks of weekly play of two man teams there has been play of a singles matches tournament. Winner of the left side bracket was Tom O’Brien and he is awaiting the winner of the Mike Coleman-Michael Reuter match to determine the individual winner. The league had a very successful season with weekly preseason scrambles, weekly play and end of season scrambles all being completed without any rainouts. Their final league outing will be their combined scramble with the Four Winds Men’s League on Sunday September 30th at 1:00. Thank You to all the players for their play and support of the Four Winds Golf Course.

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The Kimball Junior High football season is underway with the coaching staff this fall made up of Dane Wurdeman, Ben Ferguson, and Wade Brashear. Thanks to the coaching staff for providing me with this info on how the season has started off. Their home game with Sutherland scheduled for this Past Tuesday was cancelled because Sutherland was short on players. Next game on the schedule is at Bayard September 25th with a 4 p.m. start time.

The JR. High football team kicked off their season against Hemingford September 4th. We lost the game in a rout 62-0. We just were not ready to play a game at this point. The kids had minimal time for preparation. On a positive note we learned a lot during the game and were a much better team at the end. Wurdeman said “The Kids need to work hard in practice and focus on doing the “little things” right. A shout out to Justin Klosterman for going from center last year to Quarterback this year. He is starting to figure out his new position and will be tough back there in the future. Another shout out to Derek Holt who’s a 7th grader who was put in 4 different positions during the game and did a nice job in all of them. He is the surprise of the year at this point. September 11th the boys played Bridgeport at home in a mixture of 8 man/11 man. We honored the team with the ball. The boys played a much better game. Although we lost the game 40-0 the boys only gave up 8 points in the second half.” Bridgeport had a really good athlete who could run like a deer. The first half we took poor angles and he out ran us. The same player in the second half didn’t hurt us near as bad. We just needed to get some confidence at the beginning of the game. Shout out to Trey Schindler played a nice game making tackles and running the ball. Mitchell Birkhofer played a nice game on the offensive line along with Uziel Flores.

Looking at the Kimball sports schedule for this week. Tonight (Thursday) is busy with the Kimball High girl’s golf team at Bridgeport today for the Western Trails Conference Tournament. The cross country team is at Ogallala. The Volleyball team will be hosting Sidney and Gering in la triangular for both JV and varsity matches beginning at 4 p.m. Friday night is the home football game with Hemingford with a 7 p.m. kickoff and the Music Parents feeding you hungry fans. on Monday September 24, the junior High Volleyball team is at Mitchell for a triangular which includes Scottsbluff and the start time is 4 p.m. The High school JV football team will host Bayard with kickoff at 5 p.m. On Tuesday, September 25 junior high volleyball at home with Pine Bluffs at 4 p.m. Junior High football at Bayard at 5 p.m. Congrats going out again this week to Deven Sullivan of Banner County High for his 3rd place finish at the Alliance cross country meet. He has proven he can run with the best of the big schools and ran a good time of 18:08. Congrats to Kimball runners Zach Wagner who ran 6th in this same meet in 18:33 and Thomas Lenzen who ran 23rd to finish in the top 25 group with his time of 19:40. And also to Chantel Malson who ran 11th in the girl’s division with a time of 22:34.