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The Red Raiders earned the top seed in the upcoming Class B District 6 basketball tournament it was announced Tuesday morning. As the No. 1 seed Sidney will play the winner of the play-in game from Feb. 25. The Raiders will face either No. 4 Alliance (4-15) or No. 5 Scottsbluff (2-17) on Thu. Feb. 27, at 5 p.m. All games in the B6 tournament will be played at Western Nebraska Community College in Scottsbluff. Following Sidney’s game on Feb. 27, No. 2 Gering (12-11) will take on No. 3 McCook (11-11) at 6:30 p.m. The championship game will take p...
Sidney native and Peetz High School graduate Jacob Wilson has made his mark on the Black Hills State University (Spearfish, S.D.) track team. Since Wilson won the high jump at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference meet last spring he has not lost an event. He won the championship last spring with a with a school record leap of 6-10 1/4 in an outdoor event. In the Yellow Jackets most recent meet on Jan. 26, Wilson also established a new indoor school record. At the Dave Little Alumni Mile...
Several Raiders came excruciatingly close, but senior Michael Muggli was the only Sidney wrestler to advance to state out of the District B4 Championships in Cozad over the weekend. As for the team competition, Sidney struggled to gain points and finished in 12th place. Scottsbluff was the runaway winner with 196 points while Lexington was runner up with 157. Host Cozad (135), Chadron (124.5) and Ogallala (85) rounded out the top five. Muggli punched his ticket to Omaha in the competitive 145...
Representing Creek Valley at the Class D District 4 District Championships in North Platte on Saturday, Mason Low and Gage Koenen fell short in their attempts to qualify for state. Low finished his districts with a record of 1-2 in contested matches while Koenen wasn’t able to get past two state qualifiers. In the quarterfinal round at 195 lbs. Low was stopped by eventual state qualifier Emmett Hoover of Hyannis by a pin at 1:29. In the consolation round Low rebounded by pinning Brandon Holtz in 1:24. Low’s state hopes, however, were das...
Only one game and seven days removed from a final-shot loss to Gering, the Sidney Red Raiders suffered another sudden disappointment at Chadron on Friday. By sinking a short jumper from left of the hoop with just two seconds remaining, Cardinals junior Keenan Johnson all but erased a clutch three pointer by Paxton Ehler only seconds earlier for a dramatic 48-46 non-district win. Despite the eruption of euphoric cheering that greeted the Johnson basket, a decibel level nearly as intense was created by the Ehler trey, as a large throng of the...
Storm boys on a hot streak, cruise past South Platte Creek Valley won their third game in their last four tries on Friday with a 62-45 win over the South Platte Blue Knights. “It was a good win. We played good solid man-to-man until we got in foul trouble,” said Storm Head Coach Roger Behrends. “We gave up some easy shots against our zone.” The Storm’s lone senior, Lane Godfrey, led the team at Big Springs with 22 points. Brett Godfrey contributed 15 points and Colin Brott 11. Dane McConnell (8) and Maverick Widdowson (6) rounded out the score...
Four seniors took the floor in their home gym for the final time on Thursday. And the Warriors made sure their last look would be a successful one. After taking the lead early in the first quarter, the Warriors cruised to victory over the Garden County Eagles 55-35 in Dalton. The win puts an end to Leyton's recent four-game losing streak, just before the team heads into the sub-districts next Tuesday in Gering. The Warriors have been installed as the No. 1 seed in the tournament with the Eagles...
Peetz clinched the second seed in the upcoming North Central playoffs by turning back league rival Prairie 64-55 in New Raymer, Colo. on Wednesday night. The Bulldogs advanced their record to 10-6 overall and 7-2 in league play. The two losses Peetz suffered in 1A North Central this season were both to Briggsdale. The Falcons have clinched the top position in the upcoming playoffs. For the Bulldogs on Wednesday it was a tale of two halves. While Josh Fiscus and Tre Lewis both finished with 21...
Though they twice clawed their way back into the game from double digit deficits, Peetz ultimately succumbed 47-38 to North Central rival Prairie in New Raymer, Colo. Wedneday night. The Bulldogs record slipped to 8-7 while the Mustangs advanced to 12-3. With just a single field goal from the Bulldogs Melissa Schumacher, the visitors struggled out of the gate and quickly fell into a 12-point hole at 14-2 after five minutes of play. Soon, however, Peetz began its first extrication from double fig...
Somehow it seems fitting that Ralph Kiner should have died on Babe Ruth’s birthday. Kiner, one of the great sluggers in baseball history died last Thursday, Feb. 6, at the ripe old age of 91 - the 119th anniversary of Babe Ruth’s birth. Kiner only played 10 years in the major leagues due to constant back issues. Ten years is the minimum allowed for induction into the MLB Hall of Fame. Nevertheless, he earned his way to Cooperstown with 369 home runs and 1,015 RBI. His best years were 1947 and 1949. In ‘47 he hit .313, belted 51 home runs and d...
The Bulldogs' Corbin Heller drives past the Mustangs' Ross Stump.... Full story
The Storm took an early lead Tuesday night and never looked back, upending Perkins County in Grant, 76-49. “The kids played a complete game tonight and rebounded the ball really well at both ends,” said Storm Head Coach Roger Behrends. “This is the best we’ve shot all season.” While the visitors led 33-27 at the half, they really put the hammer down in the third quarter. Creek Valley outdid the Plainsmen 29-13 in the third to put the game out of reach. The Storm’s offense was led by a balanced attact in which five Creek Valley players fin...
As they did in their first meeting with Bayard on Dec. 6, the Warriors used a second-quarter push to quiet the Tigers, 48-41, in non-district boys basketball action Tuesday night. With just three games to go before the start of the post season the Warriors record advanced to 14-4. Their district mark holds at 7-1, with the only blemish a loss to Minatare on the last day of January. Since the setback, however, the Warriors have strung together four consecutive wins. Bayard's season mark slipped...
Though Leyton's shots began to fall with regularity in the final three minutes, it had been a rough night offensively for the Warriors until then. Despite keeping up the fight trailing by 19 points in the waning minutes, the Warriors dropped their fourth consecutive contest 42-31 to Bayard Tuesday night in Dalton. The non-district loss evens the Warriors' record at 9-9 with just one more game left in the regular season. The Tigers, who avenged a 42-39 loss to Leyton on Dec. 6, advanced their mar...
Sidney High School senior Logan Lewis, who broke several school records on the gridiron last season, has committed to attending and playing football for Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. Among the Red Raiders rushing records Lewis set last year include most yards gained in a season (2,053), most yards gained in a game (306) and most rushing touchdowns (20) in a season. In two critical games against district opponents Gering and Scottsbluff, he twice tied the record for most...
Annalise Lecher battles for possession in junior varsity play.... Full story
Sidney made it a clean sweep, with two road wins over district opponents this weekend. After knocking off Scottsbluff for the third time this season in a 54-44 win on Saturday, the Raiders now have a season mark of 13-6. The struggling Bearcats, who ended a 12-game losing streak the night before, slipped to 2-14. Sarah Mahr backed up her record setting performance at Gering the night before to score 22 points. Cody Rowley added 9, Savanna Rosenbaum 8 and Katelin Cole 7. Sidney entered the game...
For the Red Raiders this season has been several times marked by record breaking performances. Friday night's contest at Gering was another such night. Aided by a Sarah Mahr's school-record 30 points, Sidney turned aside the Gering Bulldogs 52-45 on the road in an important Class B6 matchup. Before the contest the Bulldogs were perched one spot above the Raiders on the NSAA points list in 12th. As a result of the weekend games, Sidney captured the 12th spot while Gering slipped back to 14th....
There are times in any sport when you just have to tip your hat to a great performance. After Logan Lewis converted on Paxton Ehler’s feed for a clutch bucket and a 1-point Sidney lead with about 16 seconds to go, it looked as though the Raiders were poised to steal a victory in Gering’s own building. But the Bulldogs’ Joses Palomo had other ideas. The Raiders ultimately finished on the wrong side of a 71-69 score between two of Class B’s top teams. After the Lewis score, the few seconds that remained must have seemed like an eternity to the...
Creek Valley wrestler Mason Low won three of his four matches at the Southwest Invite on Saturday to capture third place in the 195 lbs. class. Low, who picked up 16 points for the Storm, pinned three opponents to increase his season match record to 12-10. Gage Koenen, who was wrestling in a meet for just the second time this year, dropped three matches to finish fourth at 220 lbs. Low won his first match of the day by pinning Franklin’s Jon Berry in 1:58. Low then found the going tough against Dundy County-Stratton’s Trevor Jensen, who has... Full story
Storm top Leyton, make amends for MAC loss Summer Mueller scored 20 points to lead Creek Valley to a 54-38 win against rival Leyton in Dalton on Friday night. The Storm girls (10-5) earned a small measure of revenge over the Warriors, who eliminated them from the MAC Tournament last month in Sidney. The Warriors, who went on to win the MAC championship, saw its record dip to 9-8 on the season. In addition to her game-high 20 points, Mueller assisted on 8 other Storm baskets and had 7 steals. Jerry Straber also pickpocketed 7 Warriors’ p...
Warriors too strong for Creek Valley, Pine Bluffs The Warriors advanced their record to 13-4 over the weekend with a pair of wins. On Friday night in Dalton, Leyton pulled away from the Creek Valley Storm in the second half to earn a 78-41 victory. On Saturday, they crossed over into Wyoming to defeat Pine Bluffs 48-45. “We played a good first half. We were only down by 12,” said Creek Valley Head Coach Roger Behrends of the Friday game. “In the second half Leyton’s pressure got to us. I was very dissapointed in our rebounding. That has to get...
Cinda Munoz, a broker at Buyer's Realty, introduces Doug Meier, retiring after several years in real estate.... Full story
Realtor associates Michelle Konz, Brandy Sullivan and Amanda White with broker Cinda Munoz.... Full story
Paxton Ehler, a senior guard and four-year varsity baskeball player at Sidney High School, signed his letter of intent on Wednesday to attend and play for Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln next fall. While Ehler was recruited by about 10 schools since the beginning of last basketball season--and the Lincoln school was always in the running--he decided on Wesleyan late in the process. "Me and my family have traveled to Lincoln a few times every year and I've always liked Lincoln," Ehler...
