Local soccer league provides chance to compete for all ages

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 postseason.

For the record, the teams from Sidney split their games on Thursday night. Redemption Unit...