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Trailing Scottsbluff by 17 points late in the third quarter on Friday night, the Sidney High football team put together a furious rally to get within three late in the fourth. However, the Red Raiders couldn't stop the Bearcats' machine-like running game at the end when it needed to the most. Sidney fell 37-28 at Weymouth Field to fall to 5-2 overall. Sidney took to the ball to start the game and drove 79 yards down field before turning the ball over on downs at the Scottsbluff 1-yard line. The...
Sidney High School senior Kaleigh Chavez, a member of the Lady Raiders' golf team, spends time on the driving range at Hillside Golf Course this week. Sidney's golf team qualified for the Nebraska Class B state tournament, which begins Monday in Lincoln, for the eighth time in nine years. Members of the Lady Raiders' squad are: Chavez, senior Theda Parker, juniors Megan Neal and Rachel Blauert and freshmen Emma Alexander and Jordan Cook. The team is coached by Dani Kuchar and Jenn... Full story
Welcome to district play. Both the Sidney High and Scottsbluff football teams have rolled through their non-district schedules to an identical 5-1 record. Tonight, the two teams are set for a showdown at Weymouth Field. Kickoff is 7 p.m. Sidney will be without senior standout running back Chance Anglin for the third straight week with a lower leg injury. Head coach Todd Ekart says Anglin is making progress, but still isn’t close to playing. The Bearcats come into tonight’s matchup on a three-game winning streak. Scottsbluff is ranked No. 20...
For the eighth time in the last nine years, the Sidney High girls' golf team has qualified for the NSAA Class B state tournament. The Lady Raiders will have a send-off from the high school just prior to their 1 p.m. departure on Saturday. The two-day state tourney will be played Monday and Tuesday at Pioneers Golf Course in Lincoln. Sidney earned a berth in the state tournament courtesy of its second-place finish at the district tournament in Lexington earlier this week. For Junior Rachel...
We just don’t learn, do we? For the last five seasons, Major League Baseball’s postseason has been teaching us the same lesson over and over: talent doesn’t guarantee anything in the playoffs. This October, the biggest boys have fallen. The star-studded Los Angeles Dodgers and their Interstate-5 rivals the L.A. Angels were both eliminated quickly. Many people thought the Dodgers were a lock for at least the NLCS, but instead fell to the Cardinals in a surprising four-game series. Clayton Kershaw got pounded and nobody saw the league’s 23rd-be...
The Sidney High football team is 2-0 in the games that senior running back Chance Anglin has been sidelined with a lower leg injury. Without their biggest playmaker in the backfield, the Red Raiders were tested to move the ball at times in both of those contests. Without an explosive 74-yard TD run up the middle or a powerful 50-yard, two-broken tackle scoring run down the sideline, the wins weren't quite as flashy, but they were victories nonetheless. But if depth is the name of the game,...
The Sidney High varsity cross country teams have had a phenomenal season. Both the boys' and girls' varsity squads have won three meets. With the exception of the Liberty Bell Meet in Littleton, Colo., in early September, neither team has failed to place outside of the top three at any meet. The Sidney teams swept the McCook meet by wide margins and then swept the Ogallala invite six days later. At their first home meet of the season – the Sidney Western Conference Invite – the boys' team too...
With its second-place finish at the district tournament in Lexington on Monday, the Sidney girls' golf team locked up a spot in next week's NSAA Class B state tournament. The top-three finishers – Scottsbluff, Sidney and Gering-among the eight teams competing qualified for the state tournament. That tournament will be held Monday and Tuesday at Pioneers Golf Course in Lincoln. Plays begins at 9:30 a.m. Gering's Sam Rahmig won her second consecutive tournament with a score of 78. She was f...
For the second straight time on the road, Sidney's fate came down to a game-winning field goal attempt. This time, it went the Red Raiders' way, as Northwest-Grand Island's kicker Preston Sundermeier missed on a 44-yard try that would have given his team the win. Instead, Sidney escaped with a 32-31 win on Friday night in Grand Island. The Red Raiders played without senior Chance Anglin for the second straight week because of a leg injury, and his presence was missed on both sides of the ball....
The Sidney High volleyball team finished 7th among 10 teams over the weekend at the Twin City Tournament in Scottsbluff, stringing together a 3-3 record. The Lady Raiders are now 7-13 on the season. Competing in the event, which used a pool-play format, were: Sidney, Scottsbluff, Alliance, Lexington, Ogallala, Gering, Northwest-Grand Island, Chadron, McCook and RC Stevens (Rapid City, S.D.). Ogallala won all six of its matches to claim the overall title, topping RC Stevens in the championship match 25-18, 25-18. On Friday, Sidney was swept by...
The Sidney High varsity cross country teams produced yet another impressive showing Saturday morning at the Western Conference Invite at Deer Run Park. The boys' team took first with a score of 34, while the girls' squad finished second with a 27 – just two points behind Gering. In the boys' race, senior Jachob Wiedeburg finished fourth overall out of 36 runners with a 5K time of 17:49. Brody McKnight and Hayden Lieneman followed, placing fifth and ninth overall, with times of 18:00 and 18:09 r...
After getting back in the win column at home last week against Lexington, the Sidney High football team sqaures off against the Vikings of Northwest High School in Grand Island today at 6 p.m. MDT. Sidney (4-1) knows it's in for another stern test tonight. The Vikings (3-2) are ranked No. 42 in the state according to MaxPreps.com and are coming off a 45-40 loss on the road against Scottsbluff. The Red Raiders come into this game ranked No. 12. Sidney will again be without its senior workhorse ru...
The Sidney High girls’ golf team performed well at the Best of the West tournament in Gering on Wednesday. Twelve golfers from five schools – Sidney, Chadron, Gering, Bridgeport and Kimball – competed in the tournament held at Monument Shadows Golf Course. Sidney golfers represented half of the field. Junior Rachel Blauert didn’t have her best day – shooting a 95 – but she still placed third overall and came in first on the Sidney team. Sam Rahmig of host Gering won the day with a score of 81. Chadron’s Alpine Hickstein followed in second wit...
Now that October is here, so are the baseball playoffs. Here’s how I see things shaking out: Detroit Tigers (90-72) vs. Baltimore Orioles (96-66) Prediction: Tigers in 5. Of the two American League divisional series, Detroit-Baltimore seems to be the more intriguing one. The storyline of this showdown is a classic one: the Tigers’ elite pitching against an Orioles’ lineup that led the league in homers. At first glance it’s easy to give Detroit the edge since its offense is close to on par with that of Baltimore and it has a sizable advanta...
The Sidney High volleyball team continued to struggle, losing to district rival Scottsbluff 25-21, 25-23, 15-25, 25-11 on Tuesday night at the Cabela's Athletic Facility. Sidney (4-10) held a 3-1 lead to start the opening set, but the Bearcats (5-8) took the lead at 5-3 and didn't give it back for the rest of the set. The Lady Raiders got within 9-8, but Scottsbluff mustered a 6-0 run to give itself some separation midway through the set. Trailing 24-18, the Lady Raiders cut their deficit in...
The Sidney High cross country teams came close to sweeping three consecutive meets on Monday in Kearney. The boys placed second overall with a score of 90, while the girls took first with an impressive score of 38. Out of a field of 208 male runners, senior Jachob Wiedeburg came in with a time of 18:15, good for 14th place overall which led the Sidney boys. Senior Hayden Lieneman finished 21st at 18:36, while senior Brody McKnight followed just two seconds behind Lieneman for 22nd place. Junior Jacob Schaub’s 19:07 posting earned him 33rd p...
The Sidney High football team bounced back nicely from its first loss of the year with a 36-13 win at home against Lexington on Friday night at Weymouth Field. Without standout running back Chance Anglin, junior backs Jake Heeren and Hunter Secrest combined for 261 rushing yards and four touchdowns on 32 carries in the win for the Red Raiders (4-1). Sidney started off with a bang in the first quarter. It scored on the first possession of the game with a nine-play, 80-yard drive that took just un...
The Sidney High girls’ varsity golf team produced another impressive showing at the Alliance tournament on Saturday morning. Sidney finished second with a team score of 376 – its lowest of the season. Scottsbluff won its fourth consecutive tournament, placing 14 strokes ahead of the Red Raiders. Scottsbluff’s Jordan York also won her fourth tournament in a row with a score of 76. In order, Gering’s Sam Rahmig, Scottsbluff’s Hannah Holloway, Chadron’s Alpine Hickstein and Mitchell’s Myranda Musfelt rounded out the Top 5. Sidney juniors Rache...
The Sidney High volleyball team started out slow, but finished strong in its second home triangular of the season Thursday night at Cabela’s Athletic Facility. The Lady Raiders (4-6) were swept by Gering, 25-15 and 25-12, but bounced back to earn a sweep over Kimball, 25-23 and 25-20, in the nightcap. The Lady Raiders opened the first set against Gering (8-7) with a 5-3 lead. But Gering found a rhythm and took off on a 6-0 run that was mainly built upon unforced Sidney errors. The Bulldogs took the lead 6-5 in the middle of its run and never re...
The Sidney boys’ and girls’ cross country teams swept the Ogallala Invite Thursday afternoon. The boys registered a score of 25, while the girls posted a 30. It’s the second consecutive meet in which both Red Raider teams placed first. As he did last Friday in McCook, senior Jachob Wiedeburg came in first overall out of 112 male runners with a season-best time of 17:36, finishing 18 seconds ahead of second-place Jaco Henning of Ogallala. Senior Hayden Lieneman came in about a half second behind Henning for third place. For Lieneman, it was his...
The Sidney High football team is ready to get back to work tonight after a tough road loss last week to state powerhouse McCook, and they’ll have to do it without one of their top players. Standing in its way are the Lexington Minutemen, who come into Weymouth Field with a 3-1 record. Kickoff is 6 p.m. Sidney head coach Todd Ekart said that his team has had a very productive week at practice and that his players are ready to put the McCook loss behind them and try to get back on track. “We have been looking good,” Ekart said. “Players are stepp...
The Sidney High football team is ready to get back to work tonight after a tough road loss last week to state powerhouse McCook, and they'll have to do it without one of their top players. Standing in its way are the Lexington Minutemen, who come into Weymouth Field with a 3-1 record. Kickoff is 6 p.m. Sidney head coach Todd Ekart said that his team has had a very productive week at practice and that his players are ready to put the McCook loss behind them and try to get back on track. "We have...
Seniors Savanna Rosenbaum and Jadyn Stimka attempt to block a ball during a drill at Wednesday afternoon's practice in the Cabela's Athletic Facility.... Full story
Back track to November of 2013 for a minute. Remember when Nelson Cruz and Jhonny Peralta were considered two of the best free agent bats on the Major League Baseball market? Do you remember how much you heard ESPN and baseball insiders tell you that being guilty (allegedly – because it still hasn’t been proven by a drug test) of using performance-enhancing drugs would frighten many potentially suitable teams away from them? There was an overlying stigma that both Cruz and Peralta’s numbers would drop considerably because they were “off...
The Sidney High volleyball team had a rough outing against Chase County on Tuesday night at the Cabela’s Athletic Facility, falling 3-1 to the Longhorns. Sidney is just the second team this season to avoid a sweep at the hands of Chase County (10-1). Overall, the Lady Raiders did well to dodge a straight-set loss against a strong squad. “Chase County is a good ball club and we knew that going in,” Sidney head coach Sarah Wilson said. “Again, there were a lot of good learning opportunities for us to grow as a team.” For the first few minutes o...
