Cabela’s Holiday Shootout

As long as Sidney High School boys basketball coach Erik Kohl can figure his own team out, the Red Raiders are likely to put up more struggles.

“Right now, if I am coaching against us, I’d play a zone against us,” Kohl said after watching his club fall 52-49 to Gering in Saturday afternoon’s third-place game in the Cabela’s Holiday Shootout. “We are going to have to keep guys in the gym later than they have been recently in practice.”

In dropping successive games to close out their own holiday tournament, the Raiders (5-4) did not shoot well from the floor, and came up just short at the finish...