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With strong front and back court performances from many sources, the Sidney Red Raiders volleyball team won their first match of the season Tuesday night in straight-sets over the Mitchell Tigers at Cabela's Gymnasium. The Red Raiders handed Mitchell its first defeat on the year 25-15, 25-21 and 25-19. The win advances Sidney's record to 1-2 while MItchell fell to 1-1. Senior hitter Abbi Porter was a strong force at the net from start-to-finish as she slammed down 18 kills and 3 blocks. The...
While it wasn't Sidney's best performance it was more than enough to get the job done. With a 383 total the Red Raiders golf team edged Gering by three strokes to win the Chadron Invite Tuesday at Ridgeview Country Club. Karson Langley was the top Raider with a 93 to medal in third. She was followed by Rachel Petik's 94 and Jessica Campbell's 97. Katelin Cole and Rachel Blauert both settled in at 99. All the Raiders earned individual medals. Though a generally flat track, especially compared...
The Sidney Red Raiders golf team defeated McCook on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to win the North Platte Invite Friday. Senior Rachel Petik led the Raiders with an 80 to medal in third while senior Karson Langley medaled in seventh place with an 88. Katelin Cole (97) and Jessica Campbell (98) rounded out the Raiders top four. Sophomore Rachel Blauert competed in her first varsity match of the year and finished with a 101. Since McCook and Sidney had tied at 363 strokes after regulation play, the top four golfers from each team went...
After their long journey to another time zone, the Sidney gridders found what they knew must have been awaiting them in this far off and hostile place. The Red Raiders arrived at Keifer Field to find an enthusiastic crowd cheering wildly for the opposing Holdrege Dusters. And if the pro Holdrege crowd was not enough of a challenge, perhaps the oppressive heat would be. If it has ever really been hot enough to fry and egg on the sidewalk, Friday would have been such a day. With temperatures well...
The Coyotes could not stop, could not contain Garden County running back Tristen Jackson Friday night. He carried for 203 yards and two touchdowns, leading a backfield that rushed for more than 300 yards against the usually stingy Potter-Dix defense. "We didn't play to our potential," said Bryant Knigge. "We got crushed." The Eagles jumped out to a 28-0 first quarter lead, eventually claiming a 58-12 victory in Oshkosh. In the wake of Friday night's loss, Potter-Dix coaches and players spoke of...
Perhaps there is something about the oppressive heat that brings out the bulldog in the Peetz football team. Though Peetz's Garrin Cox wasn't exactly gnarling like a rabid canine, he played as if so possessed. Before five minutes had elapsed in the first quater, Cox scored three touchdowns, including two on defense. That was more than the visitors would tally the entire game. When all the numbers were finally added up, Peetz advanced its record to 2-0 with a 61-14 pasting of the North Park...
At first it seemed as though I must have received the wrong e-mail. This can't be right. Just a couple of weeks ago I pulled up a similar document. The e-mail I discovered in mid August was titled "Panhandle Baseball Conference All Conference Teams." I was so puzzled by it I even went so far as to call Legion baseball Coach Tim Herrera to ask him about it. Upon further inspection, I realized it was the list from 2012. Ummm ... OK. Never mind. Sorry Coach. But again this week I received a simiar e-mail. It was also titled "Panhandle Baseball...
After opening the season by reversing the outcome from a 2012 contest, the Sidney Red Raiders Football team looks to turn the same trick in game two. They lost a close one to the Holdrege Dusters 23-18 at home last year. This time around the Raiders take to the road on Friday in hopes of a different outcome. Sidney and Holdrege are scheduled to kick off earlier than usual - at 6 p.m. CDT. Against Holdrege last year, Sidney took the lead in the fourth quarter. A critical roughing-the-punter penal...
Seven members of the Sidney Post 17 American Legion senior baseball team and two from the juniors were named to the Panhandle Baseball All-Conference Second Team,it was announced yesterday. Despite winning the district crown, no Sidney players were named to the All Conference First Team. Among the Sidney players to earn second-team honors were outfielders Barrett Browne and Ty Ottoson; infielders Tyson Herrera, Austin Crane, Lane Harvey and Devon Sullivan and catcher Colton Onstott. Herrera was...
It didn't come easy and it didn't come fast, but the Peetz Bulldogs eventually wore down Haxtun to win their opening volleyball match of the season in five games at Carlile Gymnasim Tuesday night. Peetz dropped their first two games 25-22 and 25-17 before roaring back to win the final three battles 25-19, 25-18 and 15-6. "I think we started out with a lot of nerves," said senior Morgan Burns. "Once we got in the rhythm we starting working well together. "After losing the first two games I was a...
Just a tick over five minutes into the new season, Chance Anglin scampered down the left sideline for a 20-yard touchdown run to cap an 80-yard drive. It was just a small taste of what was to come. With 538 yards of rushing offense - powered primarily by Anglin and Logan Lewis - the Sidney Red Raiders turned the tables on the Grand Island Northwest Vikings with a 44-22 rout at Weymouth Field Friday night. The final result against this non-league foe was a complete reversal of the opener last yea...
The Peetz Bulldogs got off to a fast start to the 2013 season by knocking off the Genoa-Hugo/Karval Pirates 50-20 in six-man football Friday night. Sophomore Logan Vach earned player of the game honors with a 127-yard rushing effort on just seven carries. He also scored four touchdowns. Jordan Nelson with 66-rushing yards and Garrett Roelle with 54 yards also figured prominently in the Bulldogs offensive attack. Nelson and Roelle added a touchdown apiece. "Hugo had some decent size but with...
On a day when temperatures again sorared into the 90s by rounds end, the host Sidney girls golf team played its way into a second-place finish at the Western Conference Tournament on Friday. Scottsbluff was the runaway winner. The Bearcats 356 total earned them the Western Conference title for the seventh time in eight years. The Raiders had three players medal and finished at 387. Gering was third at 401. Gering's Sam Rahmig scored an 83 to take individual honors. Jordan York of Scottsbluff (85...
The Creek Valley Storm girls golf team opened its season at Chimney Rock Golf Course in Bayard yesterday with just one varsity player. On another day of sweltering heat, junior Tabetha Hayes battled the elements to card a 124. As if temperatures exceeding 90 degrees were not challenge enough, Hayes pulled a muscle in her back on the fifth hole. She nevertheless, played on to finish the round with a solid score. Since only one player teed it up for Creek Valley, the Storm had no team score. "It...
Eight days before the season opener, the Red Raiders cross country teams tested their legs with an intrasquad meet at Deer Run Park Thursday night. On the line for many of the Sidney runners was placement for first meet at Gering next Friday. The most coveted spots were the six boys and six girls who would earn a place in the varisty line up. For the girls, Alli Ehler finished nearly two minutes ahead of the pack as she won the her race in 20.40. The other five that qualified for varsity were Maddie Stafford (22.36), Abby Heller (22.55),...
There were no clocks, no scoreboards, no scorekeepers and no final scores - at least not that anybody was paying attention to. The Sidney Red Raiders volleyball and football teams took to Cabela's Gymnasium and Weymouth Field on Friday evening in its annual dry run. Both events were well attended and gave the public its first opportunity to see their Raiders in action. The volleyball squads, combining freshman, junior varsity and varisty, opened the evening at 5:30 p.m. and were followed by the...
Sidney Red Raiders girls golf coach Jody O'Connell and boys coach Chuck Christensen took a three-hour ride last week with many of their players to Parker, Colo. The attraction? For the first time in the Solheim Cup's 23-year history, the matches were played west of the Mississippi River. The 13th edition of these matches, played between the finest European and American women golfers, was held at the Colorado Golf Club in Parker. Both O'Connell and Christensen have played the course, and O'Connel...
If you're old enough to remember what it was like when the United States won the gold medal in ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, you'll have an idea what it was like in India when that nation won the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011. Although there was a strain of political satisfaction that ran through the American defeat of the old Soviet Union at Lake Placid - India's joy in victory over Sri Lanka two years ago was born more of a pure love of sport and country. And most especially...
Once the Buckley Bombers scored four runs in the bottom of the first inning to take a 4-2 lead, Sidney had them right where they wanted. For the third straight game and fourth time in its last five victories, Post 17 was forced to come from behind. At Chappell's Buckley Field Wednesday night, Post 17 again emerged from an early funk to register an 8-6 win. Though shaky in the first, Austin Crane recovered to hurl six solid innings and secure the win to advance his record to 3-1. He later added a...
The Sidney Senior American Legion team once again played the rude host, remaining undefeated at home with a 4-3 victory over Chadron at Legion Field last night. Sidney's record at home is now 6-0 while its overall record advanced to 14-6. Though the victory marks the third time this season Sidney has taken down Chadron, none of the wins have came easy. Post 17 squeeked by Chadron at the Gering Tournament on May 25, 3-1. On June 9, Chadron had Sidney by the throat heading into the final inning at...
So far this season, Gering has had Sidney figured out. While Post 17 only lost six times this season, Gering has been responsible for two of them - both one run games. But that was then. Sidney (13-6) erased all memories of past difficulties versus their respected district opponent with a 21-1 five-inning thrashing of Gering at Legion Field on Thursday night. Sidney's 15 hit barrage in 29 at bats gave them a better than .500 batting average on the night. Add five more who reached via a walk, two...
With one out in the bottom of the ninth inning of a tie game and the potential winning run on first base, Sidney third baseman Tyson Herrera stepped to the plate. In front of a home-town crowd that had endured cold, wind, lightning and rain and was now eager to go home happy, Herrera thought to himself his familiar refrain, "I've done this before." A moment later there was likely another familiar refrain uttered by the Alliance center fielder: "Oh no!" When Herrera turned on a fastball at 11:13...
With the West trailing 10-6 and just 6:19 left in the fourth quarter of the 36th Annual Sertoma 8-Man Classic in Hastings, it was getting excruciatingly close to now-or-never time. The West took possession of the ball with a first-and-ten at the East 39-yard line and quarterback Tyler Schnitzler made the call in the huddle. "White zip orbit," he called. For slot receiver Brady Knigge of Potter-Dix that meant looping around the wideout and running straight down the right sideline. Knigge did so...
Sidney's Babe Ruth #2 team defeated Bridgeport 12-6 at Legion Field last night. Sidney opened up with four runs in the first inning and never looked back. Starting pitcher Coby Haas earned the victory while Connor Doorman pitched two innings of solid relief. Offensively Josh Schaub, Haas, Byron Rowley and Cal Bosard each hit doubles. Sidney put an exclamation point on its victory by ending the contest with a double play....
With six runs in the first and four more in the second, Post 17 had all the runs it needed for an easy 10-2 win over Buckley at Legion Field last night. Before the game the juniors and seniors gathered on the basepaths to honor the late Benny Hochman. Hochman, who survived the death camps at Auschvitz and Buchenwald during World War II, was a longtime Sidney resident and supporter of Legion baseball. Two of his grandsons threw out the first pitches. Tyson Herrera (1-0) pitched a strong game...
