Kimball 12U advances to state tournament

By Mary Libbesmeier, Coach Kimball 12U softball team completed their regular season with an 8-3 record and placing third in the west portion of the Crow River 12U tier two league. The team advanced to the 18-team state qualifying tournament earning a fourth seed. The tournament was held in Litchfield July 24 and 25. Kimball needed to place in the top seven to advance to the 12U Rec State Tournament held in Cloquet, Minn. Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Boys make all-star baseball team

The 2010 boys' baseball All-Star game for boys 11-13 took place in Richmond Wednesday, July 7. Representing the Kimball Gold Lightning team were front row, left to right: Aeron Ashbrook, Aaron Serbus, Scott Laudenbach, and Billy Tadych. Representing the Kimball Blue Thunder were, back row left to right Austin Host, A.J. Hinz, John Zipoy, and Michael Hoffmann. Congratulations on making the All-Star team. Submitted by coaches Randy Ashbrook and Fritz Hoffmann. Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Casting for a Cure kicks off fish-a-thon registration

Board members and volunteers hit the streets during the St. Joseph Fourth of July parade to kick-off online registration for Casting for a Cure 2010. Volunteers handed out fliers and talked with community members along the route. Online registration for the Casting for a Cure Fish-a-thon is now open at www.casting foracure.org. More details and ways to help are also online. Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Ridgewater College leads football camp at KAHS

By Jamie Leither, Coach Monday and Tuesday, June 21 and 22, the Kimball football program had the coaching staff of Ridgewater Community College come and share some of their drills with our players. There were 48 players from grades 7-12 who attended this camp. The players received a lot of personal instruction from the staff. Many new players to the program took advantage of this opportunity to get to know their teammates and learn what positions they might like to try in the fall. Thursday, July 08, 2010

Swan family 'captured'

Reader Linda Eisenreich captured a family of swans with her camera. The swans were swimming near County Road 146 on Monday evening, June 21. Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Mike Schultz to race Motokazie Supercross

Mike Schultz, X-Games silver medalist, and Kimball native, will race the Motokazie Supercross as he prepares for this year's ESPN Summer X-Games. "Every lap counts," says Schultz as he gets ready for another run at X-Games Adaptive Super-X in July. Schultz will be competing in the pro classes this Friday, June 25, at the Motokazie Supercross races held at the Scott County Fairgrounds in Jordan. A tragic crash during the 2008 pro snocross tour resulted in the need to amputate Schultz's leg above the knee. A career ending injury for most, Schultz has returned to racing with a vengeance after building his own prosthetic leg that could withstand the punishment of snocross and motocross. Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Kimball 13U baseball team wins USSSA, on to World Series

The Kimball Cubs 13U baseball team continued its great season by going 4-0 to win the AA USSSA state boys' tournament in Andover, Minn. this past weekend. The boys started the tournament with a solid 8-5 victory over Osseo/Mapple Grove. The game was well-played with Kimball taking a nice lead, and then resting some arms to hopefully go deeper into the tournament. (1 comments) Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Girls' golfers finish fourth, advance one to state

Congratulations to the K-EV-Wgirls' golf team. Out of a field of 15 teams in Section 5-2A, the Kimball team, consisting of Erin Dingmann, Paiten Schreiner, Kelly Mackereth, and Chelsey Maus finished in fourth place. Only four teams moved on to the second day of competition at the Crow River Country Club in Hutchinson, with K-EV-W finding themselves trailing Becker by six strokes, and tied for second place with Hutchinson after the first day. Wednesday, June 09, 2010

EV-W-K Track and Field

By Terry Nelson Twenty EV-W-K track and field athletes will be moving on to compete in the section 5A meet at St. John's University June 2. The girls and boys had a good day both placing third at the section 5A-subsection 20 meet held in B-B-E Tuesday, May 25. Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Softball team advances to semifinals, finals

By Gary Riess, Coach The Kimball softball team won its' quarterfinal playoff game Friday, May 21, and now moves into the Subsection 5A West semifinals for the first time since 2003. The Cubs prevailed in an intense contest against Swanville by a 5-2 score. They will play Osakis at Minnewaska 3 p.m. Thursday for the title of Section 5A West champions. Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Kimball 12U softball

Sunday, May 16, Kimball hosted its first 12-and-under fastpitch tournament. The tournament consisted of six teams: Kimball, Litchfield, Cold Spring, St. Michael-Albertville, and two Maple Lake teams. Kimball played the first round and lost to Litchfield 5-11. With the nerves out of the way, Kimball found their composure and started thebattle in the loser's bracket. They beat Maple Lake 2 by a score of 15-7, to advance to the next round. Wednesday, May 19, 2010