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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...
After the West Nebraska All-Star Volleyball game Saturday, Sidney's Kali Robb was all smiles as she greeted friends and family members afterward. Despite the West dropping four-of-five games it was, after all, an exhibition game. The team first came together on Wednesday and held just five practices. The West opened the match at West Nebraska Community College's Cougar Palace looking like it might take the contest for the eighth consecutive year. West won on the first game 25-22. After Robb slam...
When eight-year-old Xzavior Roggasch walks into a room it's impossible not to smile. His charm and effervescent personality are so contagious and so overwhelm any space he occupies, it's impossible not to be swept away by it. In most respects he's just like many other little boys. He likes to play, run, shout, be around friends and do just about any other activity eight-year-olds do. And as no little boy is a saint, so too are there the wheels of mischief that occassionally churn about behind hi...
Two national "sports" stories caught my attention this past week. The first was news that 10 members of Congress have urged the Washington Redskins to change their name. The second was a minor Internet and national news-dust up taking offense at Mets broadcaster Ketih Hernandez referring to a broken bat by the common cliche, "dead soldier" - on Memorial Day no less. In a letter to Redskins owner Daniel Snyder members of the Congressional Native American Caucus stated, "Native Americans thoughout...
Before Last night's American Legion Baseball game at Legion Field, Sidney shortstop Lane Harvey threw out the first ball in honor of his late grandfather Maynard Wieser. Since the baseball program is so dependent on donations, it is Sidney's custom to honor "Homerun Sponsors" before each home game. A Homerun Sponsor is one who has donated $500 to the Legion program and they are honored by throwing out a first ball. Wieser, who passed away in February, maybe a special sponsor. He had a lifelong...
Tickets are on sale for West Nebraska All-Star Games that will be played Sat., June 1, in Scottsbluff. The 29th annual volleyball game is scheduled for 2 p.m. at WNCC Cougar Palace. The football game will be held at Bearcat Stadium at 7 p.m. A single-game ticket for the volleyball game or football game is $6 for adults and $4 for children under 12 if purchased in advance. For those wishing to buy a ticket to both games the price is $9 for the pair. Ticket prices increase one dollar if purchased...
Stephen McKay [email protected] Hed: Sidney splits weekend tournament Before American Legion Post 17 played its fourth and final game of the Platte Valley Companies Tournament at Oregon Trail Park in Gering, they were batting just .227 as a team--and that despite a 10-run first inning to its season. Against the same team in which it opened its season last Wednesday, Post 17's bats got well in a hurry as they rapped out 14 hits in a 15-1 four-inning victory. Overall Sidney is 3-2 for the...
