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With just more than five minutes left in the girls District B-6 Championship game, the Sidney High Lady Raiders held the biggest lead of the night for either team at six points. But in a contest where the margin was often razor thin, no advantage ever seemed comfortable. In front of a packed house at the Cabela's Athletic Facility on Friday night, the Scottsbluff Lady Bearcats finished the game on a 13-3 run to post a 40-36 victory and secure the district title. Scottsbluff (10-12) now moves on...
McCOOK, Neb. – While the main event for Sidney Lady Raiders' fans was their team's District B-6 semifinal against Gering on Thursday at McCook Community College, there was a small side story too. Though "it was ugly," said Raiders head coach Tyler Shaw afterward, once the top-seeded Raiders (17-7) secured their spot in the finals with a 26-19 win, who and where they would play became the next big question. With Friday's venue dependent upon the outcome of the second semifinal game, the R...
Grover Cleveland Alexander was born, raised and died in Nebraska. If you’re a baseball fan with just a rudimentary knowledge of the game’s history, you’ve heard of Alexander. In honor of today being the 128th anniversary of Alexander’s birth, this space revisits the great Nebraskan right-hander. He is rated third by the Omaha World Herald on its “Nebraska’s Top 100 Athletes” list. Only great’s Bob Gibson and Gayle Sayers are ahead of him. While there are lots of other great athletes on the list, maybe none were so gritty or tortured as Ale...
STERLING, Colo. – For much of the first half, the fifth-seeded Peetz Lady Bulldogs (8-12) stayed within growling distance of the No. 4 Briggsdale Lady Falcons 15-5). But then the Falcons' Darian Hale caught fire. With 23 points, all scored in the second half, Hale led the Falcons to a 53-33 win over the Bulldogs at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling in a quarterfinal game of the Colorado 1A District 4 playoffs Wednesday night. In the other quarterfinal games, No. 2 Fleming had little t...
STERLING, Colo. – After allowing an 11-point fourth-quarter lead dissolve into a one-point deficit with just under three seconds left in the game, Peetz's Cody Wilson tried on the hero's cape and found it a snug fit. After receiving an inbounds pass from Bradey Holtz with 2.6 seconds left, Wilson pump faked, stepped around his defender and put up the winning shot while being fouled as the No. 4 Bulldogs slipped past the fifth seeded Pawnee Coyotes 52-50 in a quarterfinal game of the 1A North C...
As the Leyton Warriors' Cody McKay, Zach Hellie and Kenny Ernest ruled the inside throughout much of the game, it started out as though the team from Dalton was in for an easy stroll through the Cabela's Athletic Facility in Sidney on Tuesday night. But then the Garden County shooters showed up. Despite some timely 3-pointers and periods of hot shooting, however, the No. 3 Garden County Eagles (7-10) couldn't keep up with the depth of second-seeded Leyton (12-9), which dominated the final...
OGALLALA – The Creek Valley Storm boys' basketball team just may be peaking at the perfect time. After a convincing win over a solid Wallace team last Friday night, the fifth-seeded Storm (6-12) carried their momentum into its opening subdistrict game and eliminated the Morrill Lions (8-14) 45-37 Monday evening at the Auditorium in Ogallala. The Storm have little time to celebrate, however, as it earned a date with top-seeded Dundy County-Stratton (14-9) in the semifinals at 5:30 p.m. T...
As a starter on the top-seeded girls' basketball team at the upcoming B-6 district tournament, Savanna Rosenbaum still has a few more high bar's to clear before she can start thinking about track. Still, Rosenbaum managed to take time out of her busy schedule last week to sign with the Hastings College Broncos, where she will study biology with an eye toward becoming a physician assistant and participate in track. Rosenbaum, an honor student and three-sport standout at Sidney High School, will...
OMAHA – When Derek Robb was in the second grade, a flyer from the Sidney Wrestling Federation arrived at the family home. Young Derek liked the idea of wrestling so much he asked his father, Chuck, if he could join. As the worn-out old cliche goes, the rest is history – or more accurately – history in the making. At precisely 3:43 p.m. CST on Saturday, in front of a live television audience and 11,133 boisterous fans who paid their way into the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Robb became the first...
"He came right after you, didn't he," said Sidney High School wrestling' head coach John Ganser to freshman Kaden Vowers after his opening round win. "He really did," replied the young, 106-pound Red Raider wrestler after his state debut. "They all come after you here," said Ganser concluding the lesson. OMAHA – With two wins on the opening day of the 2015 Nebraska State Wrestling Championships, Sidney High's Derek Robb is halfway to a state championship. But it only gets tougher from here. W...
It’s Wednesday night in Omaha. There are less than 24 hours left before all of the 896 qualifiers for 2015 NSAA Wrestling Championships will have already had their first bout. With the temperatures about 35 degrees colder here than in Sidney, the heat is on full blast. It’s freezing cold with temps somewhere in the teens. The high Thursday was predicted for 23 degrees with single digits in the morning. In Sidney, the mercury is expected to rise to 58. It snowed some last year. I hope it doesn’t snow this year. On the tube, AMC is running “Glad...
While the four Sidney Red Raiders’ qualifiers for the 2015 NSAA State Wrestling Championships have already completed a season of high achievement, there is still more they hope to accomplish. The 2015 state tournament is scheduled to begin on Thursday with 896 qualifiers from around the Nebraska. The tournament will run through Saturday at the Century Link Center in Omaha. The action in Class B will be whistled into action at 3:30 p.m. MST on Thursday and 11:30 on Friday. Should any of the Raiders reach the consolation semifinals on S...
For the top-seeded Leyton Lady Warriors, it was mission accomplished in their first postseason game of 2015. The Warriors (10-11) found little resistance in their 40-21 win over the No. 4 Banner County Wildcats (3-17) in the semifinals of the D2-11 subdistrict tournament at the Cabela's Athletic Facility in Sidney on Tuesday night. Leyton moves on to the championship game on Thursday to face the South Platte Lady Knights at 6 p.m. The No. 3 Knights (3-14) eliminated No. 2 Garden County (3-14)...
Ever since the sixth grade, Stefanie Mitchell has had a love affair with volleyball. Now she gets to keep playing. A versatile player with an ability to play several positions well, Mitchell signed last week to study and play volleyball at McCook Community College. Though where on the court the Creek Valley senior will play is a decision McCook head coach Scott Weston has yet to determine. "I had her playing out of her element a bit and out of position on the floor," said Weston of Mitchell's...
The Shrine Bowl committe announced this morning that Jake Sager and Chance Anglin of Sidney High School have been named to the 57th Annual Shrine Bowl of Nebraska football game. The annual contest, which has been held every year since 1958, raises money to benefit Shriner's Hospitals for Children and Shrine Hospital transportation funds. The game is an all-star event in which two teams are divided geographically between north and south. Anglin and Sager will play for the North team. This year th...
OGALLALA – Though Creek Valley didn't go down without a fight, the Lady Storm's season came to an end after dropping a 48-40 decision Monday night to the Morrill Lady Lions in the opening round of the NSAA D1 District 12 Subdistrict Tournament at the Auditorium. No. 4 Morrill (11-11) now advances into the semifinal round at Ogallala to face top seeded Dundy County-Stratton (23-0) on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. In the other semifinal, second-seeded Potter-Dix takes on Sutherland following the c...
Sidney Red Raiders' Derek Robb gets a big hug from sister Kali after winning the district wrestling championship at 138 pounds at Chadron State College on Saturday. Robb, who went 41-0 this season, will travel to Omaha on Wednesday with three of his teammates to compete at the state tournament. See more coverage on page 10A.... Full story
After a strong weekend, the Sidney High boys' basketball team put it in a commanding position to repeat as the No. 1 seed at districts. The Raiders opened their weekend by knocking off a talented Chadron team for the third time this season, 52-44, at the Cabela's Athletic Facility. After their blowout win the following night over Mitchell, the Raiders are now 19-3, while Chadron is 14-7. With just one game left on the regular-season schedule, Sidney is holding firm in third place in the NSAA...
For the Chadron Lady Cardinals the third time proved to be the charm as they finally took down the Sidney Lady Raiders 48-42 at Cabela's Athletic Facility in a non-district matchup Friday night. By taking down a tough Mitchell Tigers team the following day, Sidney stands now at 15-7 on the season while Chadron is now at 17-6. The Cardinals and Raiders first met in Scottsbluff at the Western Conference Tournament on Dec. 5 and Sidney won by a count of 38-31. Chadron was frustrated a second time...
CHADRON – This time around district runner-up Michael Muggli will have more than a few coaches to talk to on the long ride to Omaha – including district champion Derek Robb. As the Sidney Red Raiders finished third at the NSAA Class B-4 District Championships at Chadron State College over the weekend, Muggli – Sidney's lone state qualifier last season – will now have the company of three freshmen who also qualified. The NSAA Wrestling Championships open on Thursday at Century Link Center...
DALTON – Shalea Jenkins, a three-sport standout at Leyton High School, has signed to play volleyball at McCook Community College. Jenkins, also a two-time qualifier for state track in hurdles and presently the leading rebounder for the Lady Warriors' basketball team, went to a recent tryout at McCook and drew immediate interest from Indians head coach Scott Weston. As she did at Leyton, Jenkins will likely compete as an outside hitter. "I've been interested in playing volleyball after high s...
The Nebraska high school sports post season opens Friday and continues almost every day for the next five weeks. First of all, congratulations to the Leyton girls’ basketball team for earning the top seed at the upcoming Class D2-11 subdistricts which are slated to open up on President’s Day in the Cabela’s Athletic Facility at Sidney High School. The Potter-Dix girls have had an outstanding season with 14 wins and have earned a second seed in D1-12. The young Creek Valley Storm are the fifth seed in D1-12. Though no brackets are out yet for C...
While Sidney High School sent just one wrestler to the NSAA State Wrestling Championships last year with a host of others coming up one match short, the prospects for a more crowded bus to Omaha this time around are good. With the Red Raiders having completed an outstanding regular season, which included an 11-0 record in duals, the post season is nigh upon us. The Raiders – and 11 other District B-4 teams – will travel to the Nelson Center at Chadron State College on Friday and Saturday. Seedings won’t be established until Friday afternoon an...
POTTER – When Jodi Schumacher of Peetz High School nailed a 3-pointer late in the final quarter Tuesday night, a big smile suddenly overwhelmed her face. Though Schumacher didn't have her best night shooting, she hit the two most significant shots of the game as the Lady Bulldogs turned back the Potter-Dix Coyotes 41-40 in a cross-state thriller. The Coyotes lost for only the fourth time this season (14-4) while the Bulldogs evened their mark at 8-8. When Schumacher's fourth-quarter trey dropped...
POTTER – Though it may not have ended as smoothly as they would have liked, the Peetz High Bulldogs’ withstood a tenacious late-comeback attempt by the Potter-Dix Coyotes to edge their cross-state rivals 61-57. While perhaps deserving of a better fate after displaying a never-say-die attitude in their home gym, the Coyotes record fell to 5-13 while the Bulldogs advanced to 11-5. With the two big men, Trevor Harms of Potter-Dix and Garrin Cox of Peetz, both playing well in a game-long dual in the middle, the difference may have been the sho...
