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Whenever the postseason in any sport nears, I always have the same reaction – the season sure went by fast. Well, it's that time of the season again. In just eight days on July 10, the American Legion juniors will be entering their district tournament at Oregon Trail Park in Gering. Should they win their district, then it would be off to Blair for state. While the seniors have a few more weeks to hone their skills, their districts are not far off either. The Sidney seniors will host their d...
ALLIANCE, Neb. – The Sidney American Legion teams traveled the road to Alliance and finished on the short end of both ends of a junior-senior doubleheader Wednesday evening. Though mostly a well-played game defensively on both sides of the juniors game, the Sidney pitchers struggled to keep runners off base as the Spartans won 13-5 in five innings. With control being part of the issue, starter Zack Means failed to get out of the first inning in taking the loss. Meanwhile, Means combined with B...
GERING, Neb. – Though the Sidney Legion Post #17 seniors came off a successful stretch by winning three of four games at their own tournament last weekend, they used a lot of pitching in the process As a result, Sidney's tired arms and difficulty dealing with the Gering starter led to an 8-0 defeat in five innings on Tuesday evening at Oregon Trail Park. On the other hand, the juniors have not played a game in six days and may have needed a little time to shake off some of the rust. With the j...
While it was Buckley that left Legion Field as the winner of the Sidney Seniors Tournament over the weekend in the round-robin affair, Sidney Post #17 fans had plenty to get excited about. With only an 8-6 loss to Buckley in the tournament opener on Saturday morning to mar their otherwise perfect weekend, the seniors rebounded with three straight wins to finish as the runner-up. Sidney recovered from its tough first game to defeat Gordon 15-0 in three innings on Saturday night. On Sunday,...
Recent Sidney High School graduate Jachob Wiedeburg was invited by University of Nebraska at Kearney head cross country coach Brady Bonsall to run for the Lopers. Wiedeburg is a three-time state qualifier in cross country and twice made state track at 1,600 meters. This past season, Wiedeburg medaled in sixth at state in the mile. He also ran the lead leg of the 4x800-meter relay team which earned a silver medal. Of course, he was also an integral part of the 2015 Red Raiders boys' squad that...
HERSHEY, Neb. – With both games ending by way of the mercy rule, it was mission accomplished for the Sidney American Legion teams on Wednesday evening as they swept a junior-senior doubleheader on the road against district opponent Hershey. The juniors erased a short-lived 1-0 deficit in game one with a six-run second to conquer the Trojans 12-2 in five innings. The juniors record now stands at 10-7 on the season. Though the juniors proved a tough act to follow, the seniors were up to the c...
For summertime, it's a pretty big weekend coming up in local sports. First, the Sidney Stingrays swim team will hold its lone home meet of the season here in town. They will take on all their league opponents that include Bridgeport, Hemingford, Alliance, Torrington (Wyo.) and Rushville at the Sidney pool located next to the Cheyenne County Community Center. The first event is scheduled for 9 a.m. The enthusiasm for swimming is strong in Sidney as the Stingrays are the largest team of the six...
MCCOOK, Neb. – With the outcomes of both games each largely influenced by a single sloppy inning, the road back from McCook must have seemed long and frustrating for the Sidney American Legion teams on Monday night as they dropped both ends of a junior-senior doubleheader. The juniors were within a run (4-3) before they were foiled by a four-run fourth inning on their way to a 9-3 defeat. Meanwhile, the seniors allowed six to cross the plate in the third as they were undone 8-0 in five i...
GERING – If winning the Gering Juniors Tournament wasn’t enough, Sidney Post #17 put an extra stamp of approval on its accomplishment with three straight wins over district opponents. After topping Chadron, Alliance and Gering on Friday and Saturday, Sidney had already clinched the tournament championship before it began play on Sunday. Despite letting an 8-2 lead slip away in the finale to Bridgeport in an 11-8 loss, Sidney advanced its record to 9-6 on the year. “It was a big weekend,” said Sidney head coach Ray Witt. “We played clean bas...
By the time Keaton Wakefield stepped to the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning of a tie game in the second game of a doubleheader at Legion Field on Sunday, it had already been a long afternoon for the Sidney American Legion seniors. After one ugly inning cost Sidney the opener against the Laramie Rangers, 9-3, Wakefield capped off a late-inning rally by ripping a double to bring home Brett Jaggers with the gam- winning run for the 2-1 win in the nightcap. With the doubleheader split,...
About 24 hours before the Sidney senior American Legion team played the Class A Westco (Scottsbluff) Zephyrs at Legion Field Thursday night, Kyle Burton made it clear to the coaching staff, he wanted the ball. Though Burton didn't receive his answer until shortly before he threw his first pitch, it soon became clear the coaches' confidence in him was well placed. With six strong innings from Burton and an outstanding finish by closer Jake Heeren, the Post #17 seniors defeated Westco for the...
In the winter of 1945, there were more important things going on in the world than the Sidney High School basketball team's drive for a state championship. Perhaps that's what made the '45 Maroons such a perfect diversion for a distracted community. While La Verne Couch was leading the Sidney High team to its first state championship in front of large and boisterous crowds all season, the bloodiest war in human history still raged across Europe and Asia. Despite the madness of a world at war, it...
The Sidney American Legion squads made a clean sweep of the Gordon Regulators at Legion Park on Wednesday night with the juniors taking the opener 7-3 and the seniors winning the nightcap by the count of 9-1 in five innings. Sidney pitchers Zach Holtz, Brett Jaggers and Jackson Witt combined to stymie the Post 34 juniors in the opener. Holtz – the starter – picked up the win after going three innings while giving up one run on three hits and three walks. Gordon travelled to Sidney with just nin...
Sidney Legion Post 17 third baseman Brett Jaggers applies a tag to Chadron's Keegan Shuck during the juniors game at Legion Field on Tuesday night. Complete coverage, Page 9A....
After being involved in a pitchers duel for about five innings, defensive miscues by Sidney and a few timely hits by Chadron conspired to upend the Post #17 juniors 6-2 at Legion Field on Tuesday night. Though the juniors were scheduled to be the opening act in a junior-senior doubleheader, the senior game was halted by lightning after just a half inning. Zack Means pitched a perfect top of the first before umpires called a halt to the proceedings at the first sign of lightning. After a delay...
BRIDGEPORT – When 8-year-old Kayla Westby finished the 25-meter breaststroke event at the B.R.A.T.S. Swim Meet in Bridgeport on Saturday, the first thing she wanted to know was how fast she went. Though she won the race by a fair margin, Westby didn't seem as interested in how she did against the others in the pool as much as whether or not she beat her sister Megan's team record. For about four decades or more, multitudes of Sidney youth have been benefitting from what is now called the S...
With a mixture of enthusiasm, pink wooden bats and pink shirts all stirred by an abundance of good will, the Sidney 12U baseball program and the Cheyenne County Community Center welcomed in five other teams to Legion Park for the Sidney Wood Bat Tournament over the weekend. With more than just baseball on its mind, the wood bat tournament benefitted two worthy causes. The Sidney 12U program not only helped fund its own program, but also raised more than $400 for the Sidney Regional Medical...
The Sidney Babe Ruth baseball team defeated SSP/The Zone of Gering at Legion Field on Thursday night, 16-3....
My Mom, G-Ma Packer, S. Schroeder, Aunt Cheryl, Dr. Shaw, Aunt Janine, Aunt Char, DaNelle, Grandma Menken, Grandma Mary, Brooke's Mom, My Best Friend, Mom & Kim. Unfortunately, even many 12-year-olds have known someone who has had breast cancer. That's evident by the above list of names that will be printed on the back of the pink jerseys worn by the Sidney 12U baseball players at this weekend's Wood Bat Tournament in Legion Park. Those names represent people the players know personally. The...
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. – With only about a day to prepare, not much effort was put into devising defensive schemes by either coaching staff in an effort to combat the deep level of talent on both sides in the annual Panhandle Prep All-Star Baskeball game. With locals Cody McKay of Leyton and Lane Harvey of Sidney suiting up, McKay’s Blue team scored 63 points in the second half to win 110-98 at WNCC’s Cougar Palace in Scottsbluff on Saturday night. Among the players on both rosters were some of the best recently graduated seniors in the Panha...
Despite signs of improvement from the two teams' previous encounter, the Sidney senior American Legion team's defensive lapses Sunday foiled any hopes the locals had of beating the Buckley Bombers,. Though Post 17 lost 10-1 in their earlier meeting last month, it narrowed the difference to 6-3 Sunday night at Legion Field, and seven errors compromised any chance Sidney had of claiming victory. The loss drops Post 17 to 2-6 on the year. Meanwhile the juniors (4-3) struggled to get going...
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. – After playing on the same side since they were kids, it was a strange sensation for twin sisters Ashley and Maddie Stafford and teammate Savanna Rosenbaum to suddenly be thrust into a position of opposition. Though Ashley took some bragging rights home from WNCC’s Cougar Palace after her Red team toppled the Blue 62-54, it’s a game built more around fun than serious competition. But for a group of recently graduated high school athletes, there’s always a little competitiveness bubbling beneath the surface no matter the sta...
While the Sidney Soccer League provides an opportunity to get one's competitive juices flowing, there are a lot of reasons local fans of the ancient sport love to get out and play. With a mixture of youth and maturity, boys and girls, women and men, the league just opened the second week of its season at the Sidney soccer fields Thursday night. The seven-team league has two teams from Sidney, four from Sterling, Colo., and another from Alliance. They play a seven-week schedule with a two-week po...
Beginning tonight, there are three major high-school all-star sports events on tap for this weekend involving several area athletes. Each event selects outstanding 2015 graduates of Nebraska high schools to participate. First up is the Mid-Plains Area All-Star games that will be held at the McDonald-Belton Gymnasium in North Platte on Friday evening. Leyton High School graduate, Cody McKay has been selected to play in the boys’ game while Creek Valley’s Jill Behrends will suit up in the girls’ contest. The girls game is set to begin at 6 p.m....
