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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...
With a two-day total of 159 Sidney's Taylor Barton tied for 13th and medaled for the second consecutive year at the NSAA Boys Class B State Golf Tournament. Michael Hadden of Scottsbluff is the 2013 Class B champion with an agregate score of 148. Hadden led the tournament wire-to-wire as he managed a 75 under the challenging conditions of Tuesday. Hadden finished the job with a one-over par 73 on Wednesday in a round that included five birdies. Brian Carmody of Omaha Skutt Catholic finished seco...
Somewhere over the thick blanket of clouds that hung over Kearney yesterday, there must have been long-dead lads of old Scotland snickering gleefully over American teenagers struggling with the game which they had wrought. With relentless and cool winds blowing between 20-25 mph and gusts exceeding 30, the 2013 Boys Class D State Golf Tournament opened yesterday at the par-71 Meadowlark Hills Golf Course. Like the name says, Meadowlark Hills is full of rolling hills and several elevation...
“Oh you should see the Colosseum, Spaniard,” said Oliver Reed’s character Proximo to Russell Crowe’s Maximus in the 2000 movie, “Gladiator.” To many of the freshmen and other first-time competitors to the 2013 NSAA Track and Field Meet, it just may seem like the Colosseum in Rome 2,000-years-ago. Today, hundreds of high-school athletes will or have already departed for Rome and the great Colosseum, here forward to be known as Burke Stadium in Omaha. There will be two days of games beginning t...
Hit the cutoff man. Back up the play. Sacrafice bunts, suicide squeezes and safety squeezes. Take the pitch, swing away. Hit and run, run and hit. So far, for the Sidney Post 17 American Legion baseball teams, its just been drill-baby-drill. Fundamentals, proper excecution and more fundamentals. But next week, it’s no longer just the mundane, but necessary routine of daily practice. For on May 22, summer begins. Not the arbitrary summer determined by some tilt of the earth towards its sun. But t...
After it was over, Sidney’s Taylor Barton lay flat on his back beneath the bough of a large shade tree. It was a long day in near 90-degree heat, but Barton had accomplished what he set out to do. By finishing sixth in the Class B, District four Golf Tournament at Scotts Bluff Country Club yesterday, Barton qualified for the state tournament with a five-over par 77. The state’s are scheduled for May 21-22 at Jackrabbit Run Golf Course in Grand Island. Overall, the host team was the easy win...
In their last tune up before their district tournaments, six teams, – including three area squads – competed in the Kimball Invite at Four Winds Golf Course Yesterday. Sidney was the runner-up team with 335 strokes to 314 for winner Laramie. Host Kimball came in third at 367. Creek Valley finished fifth with a total of 413 strokes. In the individual competition, John Murdock of Laramie finished on top with a 73, followed by Henry Heeg of Kimball (75). Slade Shaefer of Laramie was third (77...
Last week at the Bayard BCD Meet in Alliance, Sidney’s Morgan Linneman and Logan Lewis were named Athletes of the Meet. But that was just the warm-up act. For the show stopper, the pair set out to demonstrate how some hard work and talent can earn an all-expenses paid trip to Omaha. And for some added showmanship, several others have joined the troupe. For Nebraska Class B high school track athletes, the day of reckoning had come Thursday in the District Track Meet at Bearcat Stadium in S...
Though Kate Woten of Potter-Dix trailed by about 100 yards in the early going of the 3,200-meter run, the cool-headed two miler didn’t panic. After gaining the lead on the second-to-last lap only to lose it again on the final backstretch, she still didn’t panic. There was something she wanted and it showed. Depite a spring of rainouts, snow days and bad weather all around it was ready-or-not time at the Class D District Track Meet at Chappell yesterday. On the line were invites to the 2013 NSA...
If you follow Sidney’s Taylor Barton around the golf course for a few holes without counting strokes, you’ll be hard pressed to figure out whether he’s playing well, poorly or somewhere in between. For the record he played well. After failing to break 80 in his last three competitive rounds, Barton looked no different yesterday on his way to shooting a two-over par 74 at the Scottsbluff Country Club. It’s Barton’s best competitive round this season. As a team Sidney, which shaved 25 strokes off...
Some things just aren’t made to stay the same. At Bulldog Stadium in Alliance on April 30, Sidney senior Sam Arterburn was locked in a neck-and-neck struggle for second place in the 1,600-Meter Run. When it was over Levi Avila of Mitchell left Arterburn nearly four seconds behind. The Sidney miler had to settle for third. Six days later things were different. The Sidney Girls proved best of the pack at the Bayard BCD track meet with 114 points to host Bayard’s 99.5. Bridgeport finished thi...
Even though Scott Phillips often looked like the he was in a dentists chair having two front teeth pulled without anesthesia, he managed to be a good sport thoroughout his hair-owing ordeal. Among the more than 80 items offered up in a silent auction to benefit Sidney’s American Legion baseball program, Scott Phillips head-of-hair may have been the most unusual. But at this gathering, held at the Buffalo Point Restaraunt Sunday night, it was this good cause that took center stage. And when a t...
Despite not playing particularly well, the Sidney Raiders Golf Team looks like a group that can put a bad day behind it quickly. After the round they sat around the table making light of some of their bad holes. Had they been able to avoid bad holes, the story may have been different. The Sidney team finished 5th (365) of the seven teams competing at the Monument Shadows Golf Club in Gering. Cheyenne Central (321) won the meet with the Lions second (336) and Cheyenne East was third with 347. Senior Taylor Barton, despite scoring a nine and a...
Since this spring sports schedule has played out more like a winter sports season, area coaches and activity directors needed to become as creative as artists and flexible as a circus performers when scheduling--or rescheduling--practices and events. “The weather in western Nebraska is so unpredictable this time of year, it’s very tough for kids to get into a rhythm,” Leyton Activities Director James McGown explained. Without exception, every sports schedule in this area has been affected by weather. While many events have been posponed many...
You encounter this scenario far too often at the sports desk. Someone with a grudge objects to mention of a local high school athlete in the most disrespectful, juvenile and generally incoherent tone. More often than not, the letter arrives anonymously. These notes quickly end up in the trash. No point heard, no lesson learned. That’s how it is with us human beings. We generally respond best when approached positively. I, for one, am fond of constructive criticism. It helps me get better. Anyone who takes pride in what they do would never w...
