Sports
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Lady Cubs sweep twin bill
The Kimball softball girls flexed their muscles on -Tuesday, May 2, as they swiped a double-header from Royalton. Game 1 Kimball socked some runs on the day. Allie Leither had a dinger in the fifth inning. Ava Molitor went yard in the sixth inning. Arnold had a round-tripper, and Brooke Stelten had a long ball…
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Clippers shut out Nicks in opener
The Watkins Clippers hosted the St. Nicholas Nicks for their first game of the season Sunday, May 7. The game started slow enough, with no scoring until the fifth inning. The Clippers’ two runs went unanswered, and they won the day, 2-0. Both Carter Block and Matt Geislinger hit a double and a -single apiece,…
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Baseball Eagles top Bulldogs
The Eden Valley-Watkins baseball team now owns a 4-0 overall record. Most recently, it was a seven-run bottom of the fourth inning that propelled the Eagles to a Central Minnesota Conference 11-6 win over Paynesville, at Watkins, on Monday, May 1. In that inning, the EV-W got an RBI double from Caden Neiman, an RBI…
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Kimball trap team through week three
It was competition week three for the Kimball Cubs trap team. This week saw 30-40 mph winds coming out of the north, which made hitting targets a challenge. Top Five Males (50): 1 – Alex Zoller 44, 2 – Mason Christensen 43, 3 – Tayler Verhey 42, 4 – Tyler Wylie 40, 5 – Chase…
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KGC golfers have more fun
Kimball Golf Club proudly proclaims … Where Golf is More Fun! Being skilled at golf is not easy, but enjoying it is easy when we are not too serious about it. Golfers who focus on fun are likely to accept the bad shots with humor rather than disgust. This is why humor has always accompanied…
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Softball Cubs lose to the Sting
The Kimball Cubs couldn’t keep up with Elk River/Spectrum and lost, 12-0, on Saturday, May 6. A single by Morgan Streit in the second inning was a positive for Kimball. Claire Maus led things off on the rubber for the Cubs; she surrendered 12 runs on six hits over five innings, striking out six. Streit…
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Lady Cubs take two more, stay unbeaten
Coming off a Tuesday double-header sweep of Royalton, the Kimball softball bunch decided to try that again. So they did and they achieved the same result. This time it was a sweep of a good Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City team, 9-0 and 17-0, on Thursday, May 4. Game 1 Claire Maus shut down the Falcons, throwing a…
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EV-W softball girls split double-header
Eden Valley-Watkins earned a conference split with Paynesville, by winning game one, 9-7, and dropping game two, 17-10, to the Bulldogs on Monday, May 1. Game 1 EV-W: Whitney Jansen, 1-for-3, run scored, RBI, HR; Brooklyn Glenz, 1-for-2, 2 runs scored; Zoey Schmidt, 1-for-4, run scored; MiCayden Schmitz, 1-for-4, run scored. Paynesville: Kaydence Roeske, 1-for-4,…
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K/EV-W golf boys are busy
The Kimball/Eden Valley-Watkins boys’ golf team had a very busy week. Because of spring weather and winter temperatures the previous week, the conference ACGC meet was moved to Tuesday, May 2 (originally scheduled for Friday, April 28). It was a less-than-ideal day for the K/EV-W boys, with sunny skies and wind that had gusts up…
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Cubs’ baseball team falls to Royals
Through all of the postponements and cancellations, the Kimball baseball boys managed to get just their second game in for this new season. They battled Royalton Monday, May 1, and it was the Royals who emerged victorious, by an 11-6 final tally. KIMBALL AB R H BI Clay Faber 2 3 2 3 Gavin Winter…
