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Sidney American Legion Post #17 coach T.J. Garska takes part in a scrimmage with the team on Tuesday night at Legion Park. See page 10A for more coverage....
Practices have been underway for the Sidney American Legion Baseball Post #17 teams at Legion Park....
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. – The Sidney High boys' golf team opened its season a little slow at the North Platte Invite on Monday, but still managed a third-place finish among the nine teams entered at the Lake Maloney Golf Club. McCook, one of the favorites in the district B-4 race, won the event by 10 strokes over host North Platte. Sidney finished with a 356 total. "Since it was our first meet and we didn't get a few guys going until last week because they were at state basketball, it's an a...
GRANT, Neb. – After qualifying for state last year, the Creek Valley High golf team opened its season with mixed results in a dual meet with Perkins County at the Pheasant Run Golf Club in Grant on Monday. After losing its top gun from last season in Lane Godfrey, the Storm are left with a young team that hopes to fill the gap. Perkins County won the two-team event with 184 strokes to Creek Valley's 207. Brett Godfrey was the low scorer for the Storm with a 47 over the par-36 nine-hole layout. B...
As Sidney High School's Preslie Allen and Gothenburg's Kayla Weyers lined up for the 800-meter run Saurday at the Sidney Invite track and field meet at Weymouth Field, they were farther apart at the start than they were at the finish. With the aid of Allen earning double gold in the 800 and 4x800 relay combined with many other strong performances, the Red Raiders' track teams defended their home turf with a sweep of both the boys' and girls' titles. The boys edged Ogallala 150-143, with...
When Leyton High' senior Kaitlyn Berner crossed the finish line in the 1,600 meters at the Sidney Invite on Saturday, she discovered it wasn't exactly her favorite event. But she still may find occasion to push herself over a metric mile again before the season is over. Creek Valley Storm freshman Payje Misegadis, on the other hand, just may have discovered she just might be better suited to running sprints after finishing the Division II 100 meters in fourth place. With Leyton and Creek Valley...
PEETZ, Colo. – Though it may have seemed like a long winter, the opening-day pitchers for Peetz High School didn't seem to have much rust to shake off. As the Bulldogs' nine came out of hibernation Thursday with a doubleheader sweep of Prairie by scores of 9-2 and 6-5 in the season opener for both teams, the Peetz hurlers fanned 32 batters in 14 innings. With a fierce wind that blew consistently at more than 20 mph, Bradey Holtz took to the hill in game one and erased 18 Mustangs' hitters via t...
Already twice postponed, the opening of the area baseball season will try again this afternoon in Peetz. The Bulldogs will host the Prairie Mustangs in a doubleheader – unless cancelled again. On Friday, the golf season opens. Sidney will travel to North Platte to take on a host of schools at 9 a.m. MDT. The day after tomorrow, the real track and field season begins. You know – the one outdoors. The Sidney Invite, with guests Creek Valley, Leyton and others, is scheduled for Saturday at 9:30 a.m. The weather man is calling for a sunny day and...
CHADRON – If you want to find a quick way to go a short distance, you may want to hitch your wagon to Sidney's' Von Seggern sisters, Sara and Kelly. If a longer distance is your goal, maybe a ride with the Red Raiders' 4x800-relay team of Jachob Wiedeburg, Hayden Lienemann, Brody McKnight and Logan Uhlir will get you there on time. While there were no team points tabulated, no medals awarded and no sun to bask in, the annual Chadron Indoor High School Track Meet gave 450 student athletes from 1...
CHADRON – With a field rich in Class B and C teams, Creek Valley High had a solid opening to its 2015 track season at the Chadron Indoor High School Track Meet at Chadron State College on Saturday. While the annual event does not record team scores or issue medals, the Storm managed to hold their own in a field rich with larger schools. Creek Valley had three top-six finishes in the girls and one top-six performance among the boys. "This was a good start for us against some very good competition...
The Sidney Wrestling Federation had a sendoff Friday morning as its wrestlers and coaches, above photo, embarked on a trip to Grand Island to compete in the state championships this weekend....
It’s been quite a week. Congratulations to the Peetz and Sidney boys’ basketball teams for giving their fans a great show at state. I didn’t get to see the ‘Dogs in Loveland, but at least I saw them punch their ticket at regionals. The Peetz vs. Arickaree/Woodlin regional final might have been the most entertaining game I saw all year – and that’s saying a lot. There’s something exciting about watching a team that is clearly an underdog work themselves to complete exhaustion in pursuit of victory. They wanted to win so badly they offered up th...
Peetz High School baseball coach Darrin Fehringer instructs Cody Wilson on the proper technique to hold the first base bag....
The recent warmer temperatures have made it easy for the spring sports teams to practice....
LINCOLN, Neb. – Through the inevitable pain that follows the loss of a championship game, a broader picture of what was accomplished slowly emerges – especially when measured against what was expected. Despite falling 60-51 to Elkhorn South (21-5) in the finals of the 2015 NSAA Class B Boys' Basketball Championships Saturday afternoon at Pinnacle Bank Arena, third-seeded Sidney (22-5) had its remarkable season come to an end at a time and place no one seriously contemplated three or four mon...
LINCOLN, Neb. – While the 2015 version of the Sidney Red Raiders boys' basketball players made it to the Class B NSAA state tournament, they just may have benefitted from some positive karma coming from the stands at Pinnacle Bank Arena. In attendance for the Raiders run at a state championship was a group of men who knew just what the present-day Sidney players were going through. Four members of the 1981 Sidney Red Raiders state championship team were in Lincoln to be honored by the NSAA at h...
Sidney High senior Lane Harvey soars through the lane en route to a basket on Friday afternoon against Beatrice at the state tournament in Lincoln....
LINCOLN, Neb. – Sidney High School is in the state finals. The No. 3-seeded Red Raiders (22-4) burst onto the state scene today by repulsing a late comeback attempt by the No. 2 Beatrice (21-2) Orangemen to reach the finals of the NSAA Class B Boys' State Basketball Championships on Friday afternoon with a 51-48 victory at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The Raiders will meet No. 4 Elkhorn South (20-5) for the title. Elkhorn South beat top-seeded Gretna 59-58 in the other semifinal on Friday. The c...
LINCOLN, Neb. – After picking up three fouls in the first quarter and four by halftime, Sidney High School's Jake Heeren could have been in for a very short morning. Instead, Heeren came back on the floor three minutes into the third quarter and eventually sank the game-winning basket with 5.7 seconds remaining to propel the Red Raiders to a 65-63 win over archival Scottsbluff in the opening round of the 2015 NSAA Boys' Basketball Championship at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Thursday morning. The R...
LINCOLN, Neb. – It always seems when I’m in Lincoln or Omaha for a state basketball tournament, there’s some movie on the TV box that takes my attention away from this task. When the Leyton Warriors were in Lincoln last year, my focus was divided between filling this space and watching the “Maltese Falcon” with Humphrey Bogart. The final line of that movie is Bogart’s, “That’s what dreams are made of.” It seemed appropriate to somehow incorporate that notion in with the Warriors own dreams. Last month in Omaha, what could have been a more...
In mid-February of 2013, Alliance led Sidney High School 60-58 with 0.9 seconds left to play at the Cabela's Athletic Facility. But after the Raiders' sophomore-point guard Lane Harvey was fouled attempting a shot behind the arc in front of a packed house, the Red Raiders were given one more chance to please the home-town crowd. After his first two free throws swished though the strings to tie the game – assuring at least another chance in overtime – Harvey was surrounded by his bac...
The Matchup Who: No. 8 Peetz (15-9) vs. No. 1 Sangre de Cristo (23-0) What: State Class 1A quarterfinal When: Thursday, 1:15 p.m. Where: Budweiser Events Center, Loveland, Colo. While Peetz High School hasn't sent a boys' basketball team to the state tournament since 2008, there are plenty in the community who can help take away some of the mystery for the 2014-'15 squad. Led by a coach who was a part of two Bulldogs' teams that qualified for state, Peetz is off to the Budweiser Events Center...
The Matchup Who: No. 3 Sidney (20-4) vs. No. 6 Scottsbluff (21-4) What: State Class B quarterfinal When: Thursday, 9:45 a.m. MDT Where: Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln Sidney High basketball fans won't have to familiarize themselves with any unknown names when the Red Raiders take to the floor Thursday morning in their state tournament quarterfinal game Like an old married couple, the No. 3-seeded Red Raiders (20-4) and No. 6 Scottsbluff Bearcats (21-4) will have few secrets between them when they...
Peetz High School's Cody Wilson, center, battles Arickaree/Woodlin's Justin McCaffrey for room under the basket during Saturday's Region 3 bracket championship game in Brush, Colo. The Bulldogs handed Arickaree/Woodlin its first loss of the season and – with the upset – advances to the Colorado Class 1A State Tournament in Loveland at the Budweiser Events Center beginning on Thursday afternoon. Pick up Wednesday's edition of The Sidney Sun-Telegraph for the special "Send-off to State" cov...
