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Colin Brott (0) does battle in the offensive zone for the Storm against Sedgwick County on Friday, Dec. 20th....
During the second week of the fall sports season, Sidney Public Schools Technology Facilitator Matt McKay came across a webcast featuring a football game between the Alliance Bulldogs and the Aurora Huskies. "Maybe we should be doing that," he thought. In just three week's time his thoughts had turned to reality, when McKay and a small group of volunteers streamed live the varsity football game between McCook and Sidney from Weymouth Field on Sept. 27. With a heavy rainfall being blown sideways...
The Raiders' Kyler Cole looks for a teammate while under heavy defensive pressure from Jack Matulka....
With a balanced scoring attack the Red Raiders freshmen girls basketball team had little trouble with the Alliance Bulldogs, winning in convincing fashion 48-19 at Cabela's Athletic Facility on Monday. The Raiders win keeps them perfect at 4-0 going into the long holiday break. Sidney will not play again until they host Garden County on Jan. 16, at 4 p.m. The Raiders offensive output came from many sources as four players tied for tops in scoring. Kelsey Knight, Annalise Lecher, Abbie Fraas and...
Sidney's freshmen boys basketball team struggled against a big and talented squad from Alliance on Monday, dropping a 45-15 decision at the Cabela's Athletic Facility. The Raiders (2-2) scoring amounted to Alex Linneman with 5 points, Zach Means with 4 and Joab Olsen, Jarod Luptak and Ryan Aurich each with 2. In the early going Sidney managed to stay with the Bulldogs. Though they quickly fell behind 6-1, with just a foul shot dropped by Alex Linneman, Zach Means helped get the Raiders back into...
Out flying the competition, Logan Lewis scores a two pointer between the Longhorns' Kelton Fisher (30) and Ryan Moline (11)....
Despite holding two 16-point leads in the second quarter, Sidney Red was forced to survive a furious comeback by the Chase County Longhorns to win a 56-49 non league contest Friday night. In front of the home faithful at Cabela's Athletic Facility, the Red Raiders (2-2) sent the Class C1 Longhorns (3-1) to their first defeat of the young season. During the second quarter when buckets by Tyler Wintholz and Lucas Rosenbaum were answered by Chase County, Sidney twice held their biggest leads of...
Firing on all cylinders from the get go, the Red Raiders advanced their record to 3-1 with a 49-27 victory over the Chase County Longhorns in a non-district matchup Friday night. The Raiders broke a 7-7 tie in the final minutes of the first quarter at the Cabela's Athletic Facility with 10 unanswered points to take a lead they would never relinquish. Katelin Cole ended the first period scoring with three pointer she was also the last to flex the net in the next eight minutes. Cole's two pointer...
While Brody McKnight kicked off the Gordon-Rushville Invitational for the Sidney wrestling team with a pin in his first ever varsity match, Michael Muggli and Zach Borges ended it with the Raiders strongest performances of the day. Despite being short handed with only seven varsity wrestlers, the Red Raiders finished the meet in seventh place in the 13 team event with 54.5 points. Chadron won the meet by narrowly shading Valentine 128 points to 126.5. Host Gordon-Rushville finished third. "Yes,...
As the only member of his team to travel to the Banner County Invitational on Saturday, Creek Valley wrestler Mason Low did his team proud with a second-place finish. Since the Storm were represented only by Low, Creek Valley was not a factor in the team competition. While Low’s effort earned the Storm 14 points to finish 11th of 13 teams, Sedgwick-County Fleming was the runaway winner with 165 points. Kimball finished second with 89 points and Lingle-Ft. Laramie was third at 79.5. Low captured his second-place showing in the 195 lbs. pound c...
Sidney Head Football Coach Todd Ekart has been named Huskerland's Class B recipient of the Behrends Coaching Award, it was announced on Thursday. After the Raiders suffered through 1-8 records the past two seasons, they managed a complete reversal this season, with a 7-4 mark and trip to the state playoffs. The Raiders success included a playoff win for the first time in 20 years. "Winning this award is a reflection of all the hard work Coach Ekart, his staff and all his players have put in,"...
The Peetz junior high basketball teams were in action on Thursday evening, hosting Weldon Valley. Bryson Long bulls his way inside for a layup....
The Peetz junior high basketball teams were in action on Thursday evening, hosting Weldon Valley. Abbey White gets ready to deliver a bounce pass underneath the basket....
There’s a great new invention - at least new to me - for NFL fans. It’s been around a few years but this is the first season I’ve had access. As a Miami Dolphins fan, about 2,000 miles away from the stadium formerly known as Joe Robbie, I don’t get to see many Fish games. I don’t have the NFL package and never have. For years I’ve been relegated to watching whatever my local Fox or CBS station decides to show me. Until now. Until I discovered the NFL Red Zone Channel. I’d heard of the Red Zone but didn’t have it and never quite knew what it wa...
With Dylan Brenner scoring early and often to lead a busy attack, the Warriors proved an unpleasant guest as they cruised to a 69-38 victory over Peetz in a non-district game Tuesday night. Adding to the Bulldogs difficult night was a note of uncertainty over the condition of their leading scorer, Josh Fiscus, who has been hampered by back pain. Before the game Head Coach and Josh's father Bill Fiscus wasn't sure how much he was willing to play his son in a game that had no meaning in the...
With a balanced scoring attack the host Bulldogs upended the Leyton 43-29 in a non-district game Tuesday night. Hampered by the absence of senior Katy Ernest and two quick fouls on Kaitlyn Berner, the Warriors stumbled out of the gate, falling behind 12-2 after the first quarter. Though Kelsey Waite gave the visitors a quick 2-0 lead, the Bulldogs finished out the period on a 12-0 run. Peetz drew from many sources to register their their shattering start, but Beth Bernhardt contributed most...
The Sidney freshmen girls team continued their strong early season play, toppling the Kimball Longhorns 57-13 at the Cabela's Athletic Facility Monday evening. For the Raiders it was their third win in as many games. Last week Sidney went 2-0 in a tournament at MItchell, which included a one-point victory over Chadron (24-23) and a blowout win over Scottsbluff. "This is a good group of girls we have here and we've had a nice week," said Raiders Coach Dan Dorwart. "Sometimes we have games when...
With a balanced scoring attack the Red Raiders freshmen boys basketball team advanced its record to 2-1 with a 34-30 victory over the Kimball Longhorns at the Cabela's Athletic Facility on Monday night. Alex Linneman paced the Sidney attack with 12 points while Kyler Cole added 8. Yeager Price and Zach Means dropped in 7 points each. While the Raiders held the lead much of the contest the largest advantage they could manage was 7 points, on two occassions early in the second half. The Longhorns...
It was nearly quiet enough in the Scottsbluff High School Gym on Friday afternoon that, had somebody dropped a penny on the floor, anyone in the sparse crowd could have heard it. A similar scene took place at the Western Nebraska Junior College gym the following morning. Despite uninspiring atmosphere of early tip times, the Sidney girls basketball team swept their final two games of the Western Conference Invitational over the weekend. After a slow start, the Raiders (2-1) dispatched Alliance...
The Red Raiders were a little like Jekyll and Hyde over the weekend, as they split the final two games of the Western Conference Invitational in Scottsbluff. On Friday evening, Paxton Ehler led the Red Raiders (1-2) with 37 points in a 79-72 defeat of district rival Alliance. On Saturday morning Sidney struggled with its shooting touch against a Scottsbluff Bearcats team that had no such issues. Scottsbluff ran away with a 63-41 victory to even the Raiders district record at 1-1. The Omaha...
In their season opener at the Bayard Invite, the Leyton Warriors spoiled the host's opener with a 42-39 victory on Friday in girls basketball action. Leyton's weekend was dampened a little the following day as they were dropped by Lingle-Fort Laramie (Wyo.) 55-20. Kaitlyn Berner was a strong force for the Warriors, with a team leading 15 points. She was backed up by 7 points by Diedra Waite, 5 from Dani McKay and 4 each by Jessica Houk and Natalie Cruise. Berner and Waite were also strong at...
The Leyton hoop team opened its season on Friday on a positive note with a 47-42 win against the hosts at the Bayard Invitational. Things didn't go as well in their second contest on Saturday when the Warriors fell to Bridgeport 61-43. In the season opener against Bayard, Cody McKay paced the Warriors on offense with 22 points, while Brennen Cruise tacked on 11. Cruise matched his point total on the boards with 11 rebounds while Dylan Brenner and Jared Westman pulled down 5 each. "We need to...
It didn't appear as though the roughly 400-mile journey from Omaha had any adverse effects on the Skutt Catholic SkyHawks on Thursday night. While the Red Raiders were solid in the first and fourth quarters of their season and home opener, the SkyHawks pressed their size advantage in the middle frames to down Sidney in a non-district game 51-41 at the Cabela's Athletic Facility. Both teams now travel to Scottsbluff for round two of the Western Conference Invitational. The Raiders move to the...
While the Sidney Red Raiders boys baskeball team was struggling to take care of the ball in the first quarter Thursday night at the Cabela's Athletic Facility, the Omaha Skutt Catholic SkyHawks took advantage. After jumping out to a 12-1 lead the Sky Hawks kept up the pressure on their way to a 67-38 non-league win over the Raiders in a first-round game of the Western Conference Invitational. The Raiders will travel to Scottsbluff to play in the second round of the tournament against a more...
Jake Sager has his eyes on the basket....
