PAYBACK: Sidney blasts Alliance in season opener, defeating bulldogs, 60-46

ALLIANCE – When the Sidney Red Raiders boys’ basketball team traveled to Alliance on Thursday night, one question had to be on the mind of every Bulldogs fan as their “boys in blue” entered the locker room down by one point.

“This can’t be happening … Sidney can’t be beating us in our own house,” they likely thought.

Sidney did beat Alliance, however, by a large margin, as the Raiders trumped the Bulldogs, 60-46, on the road in the first round of the Western Conference Tournament.

The win sets up a second-round game tonight against Gering at 6:30 p.m. at Cougar Palace on the campus of Western...