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CHADRON – A two and a half hour bus ride turned into frustration Friday night, but it wasn’t the visiting Sidney High School team that let things get the better of them. Rather, the Red Raiders tightened the screws on the host Chadron Cardinals in their own Bird Cage, rolling to an impressive 49-35 win – the identical score by which the Lady Cardinals turned on SHS in the girls’ nightcap. Lane Harvey roamed the floor and scored a game-high 15 points, and the Raiders’ interior defenders...
CHADRON – For 24-plus minutes of playing time Friday night, Sidney High School’s girls’ basketball team went toe-to-toe on the road with state Class C powerhouse Chadron. That’s when the Lady Raiders were called for grabbing a foot, and in an instant, all the momentum was gone from a 34-all tie after three periods. Raiders senior Jeni Herren, who had fallen on the floor during a rebound scrap with the Lady Cardinals’ Alia Brennan, was called for grabbing Brennan’s feet in the first minute of t...
CHAPPELL — Despite owning but one win heading into Thursday evening, Sutherland High School’s boys’ basketball team doubled its win count at the expense of host Creek Valley, 55-49. “Defensive breakdowns and a lack of rebounding really hurt us ,” Storm coach Roger Behrends said. Sutherland (2-13) had just four players contribute in the scoring column, but the one-two punch of Tyler Fear and Brett Good was too much to overcome for the Storm (5-9). Fear scored 28 points, but struggled to hit just half of his eight free-throw attempts. With the...
DALTON — A big second quarter by Leyton High School’s girls basketball team enabled the Warriors to grab a halftime lead en route to a 41-32 victory against Cheyenne County rival Potter-Dix Tuesday evening. Tuesday’s game was a makeup of the Jan. 11 postponement. Tessa Lukesh scored 13 points and senior classmate Rachael Ernest added 12 for the Warriors (8-5). “Our senior leaders stepped up for us tonight,” LHS coach Rol Rushman said. “Katy Ernest also had a big night for us. She had nine bl...
DALTON — After winning the Minuteman Activities Conference championship Saturday evening, Leyton High School’s boys’ basketball team could have been excused if it suffered a letdown. However, there was no such thing Tuesday night, as Gary Oltmann’s Warriors improved to 11-1 with a 60-36 victory against in-county rival Potter-Dix. Brennen Cruise led a triumvirate of Warriors in double figures, racking up 17 points to lead all scorers. Cruise and Chris Melzer both had seven points in the first q...
A Sidney man has pleaded guilty to two felony charges Tuesday before Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer. Donald M. Schlieker, 50,will be sentenced March 6 at 10 a.m. on separate counts of Class III delivery of marijuana and Class IV attempted possession of a defaced firearm. Schlieker’s first of two recent run-ins with the law occurred on the evening of July 18. Acting on information surrounding the shooting death of Mandy Kershman earlier that evening, authorities served a search w...
On paper, Saturday evening’s assignment for the Sidney High School boys basketball team was something akin to David hooking up against Goliath. And once more, the little guy won. Reeling off a dozen points in the final minute, 43 seconds, the Raiders (10-6) were able to run away with a 50-41 victory against Sterling, Colo., at Cabela’s Athletic Facility. Sidney’s guards — Paxton Ehler, Lane Harvey and Sam Arterburn — all made huge plays down the stretch after the Red Raiders had fallen be...
LEXINGTON — Sidney High School’s wrestling team finished 11th of 14 teams at Saturday’s John Higgins Invitational in Lexington. Kearney won the team title with 180.5 points. SHS finished with 46 points. Raiders earning places were Michael Muggli, with was fourth at 132 pounds, as was Scott Kelsey at 220. Tanner Wernsman was sixth at 152. Those winning matches, scoring team points but not placing were Nathaniel Votruba at 138 and heavyweight Tucker Wintholz. Four junior varsity wrestlers earned places Saturday: Michael Banaszak (sixth, 138),...
After losing its first game of the season two weeks back against Bridgeport, Leyton High School boys basketball coach Gary Oltmann was wondering how his team would respond. Turns out, the Warriors bounced back fairly well. Placing three scorers in double figures, led by Brennen Cruise’s game-high 24 points, LHS rolled to its 10th win in 11 tries by blasting Minatare 64-33 in Saturday night’s Minuteman Activities Conference tournament title game at Sidney Middle School. The Warriors suc...
SCOTTSBLUFF — It was simply a tale of two nine-point leads, and fortunately for the Sidney High School girls basketball team, it grabbed the latter. Trailing 29-20 at halftime Saturday afternoon at Scottsbluff, Tyler Shaw’s Lady Raiders ran off a 21-1 surge in the third period that eventually ended with Sidney leading by nine, 43-34, en route to a 59-43 road victory. “We turned the nine-point deficit into the lead in the first three minutes of the third quarter,” Shaw said. “We finally got the things going that we needed to, and Scottsblu...
Creek Valley High School girls basketball coach Bill Wilber came into this season with a design on changing the Xs and Os. Now, the Lady Storm are concerned a bit more with Ws and Ls. “We finally learned that the girls care about winning and losing,” Wilber said after his club capped a weekend run to the Minuteman Activities Conference girls’ tournament championship at Sidney Middle School. Creek finished things off with an impressive 53-41 victory against Leyton Saturday evening. “We set the...
BRIDGEPORT – Sarah Mahr scored 14 first-half points, and Sidney High School’s girls basketball team used its depth and pressure to smother host Bridgeport, 65-37, Friday night. “Mahr’s our little energizer,” SHS coach Tyler Shaw said. “She comes in and runs the floor and provides us with some solid defense. Tonight, she was able to score for us.” SHS (11-3) wore down the Lady Bulldogs (5-8) in waves: Shaw was constantly switching up his 10-player rotation – five at a time - and while the hosts t...
BRIDGEPORT – Paxton Ehler carried the Sidney High School boys basketball team early, and it was enough for the Red Raiders to hang on for a 56-43 road victory Friday night. Ehler scored a game-high 22 points, including his team’s first 13 points. But it was a sequence of three consecutive 3-pointers from the junior that turned the tide for good after the Bulldogs had taken an 8-7 lead. “Paxton came out hot for us,” SHS coach Erik Kohl said. “We knew Bridgeport would come out pumped up for this g...
Creek Valley High School girls basketball coach Bill Wilber knew full-well his team could stay with top-seeded Potter-Dix, it was the staying ahead which summoned the unknown. The staying ahead wasn’t an issue for Creek, which sprung a mild 37-28 upset of the Coyotes in Thursday’s Minuteman Activities Conference girls tournament semifinals. “We knew we could come in and play with them,” Wilber said. “We played hard and we were getting really tired out there, but we hung on, and the kids are tota...
Rol Rushman’s recollections will have to carry far and wide to find a more productive timeout than the one he requested during Thursday afternoon’s MAC tournament semifinals. At the time, his Leyton High School Warriors were trailing Garden County 7-2 midway through the first period. The play stoppage worked: LHS exploded for the game’s next 14 points, and the Warriors (7-4) moved on to Saturday night’s title game with a handy 47-29 romp in Sidney Middle School Gymnasium. “There were a few adj...
In their previous meeting, Minatare waited until the end to drop a game-winning 3-point shot on the Creek Valley Storm. Thursday evening at Sidney Middle School, Indians didn’t wait as long. Spiking three treys in a pivotal second-quarter move, Minatare (9-1) grabbed a five-point halftime lead and held on through the second half of a 51-47 MAC boys semifinal victory against Roger Behrends’ club. Creek enjoyed an early 9-3 lead, and held that six-point edge, 13-7, at the first break. An acrobatic...
OGALLALA — Picking up four champions and placing seven entries in the top three, Sidney High School’s wrestling team finished a solid second in the team standing at Thursday’s make-up of the Chase County Invitational. “It was good to get some competitive mat time for our wrestlers” Red Raiders coach John Ganser said. “We wrestled nine kids and seven of them placed in the top three.” North Platte St. Patrick won the team title with 132 points, narrowly nipping Sidney (126.5). Hershey (103) was third and Dundy County Station (99). Those winning...
Leyton High School’s boys’ basketball team didn’t need much more incentive for its MAC semifinal against Cheyenne County rival Potter-Dix Thursday afternoon. That was achieved by merely walking into Sidney Middle School’s gymnasium. The top-seeded Warriors strolled to the dressing room to find that the girls’ No. 1 seed, Potter-Dix, was being upset. “That’s about all it took,” LHS coach Gary Oltmann said. “We didn’t want to be the second No. 1 seed to get beat.” Otlmann’s club respon...
Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer struck down a challenge by plea of abatement by the Chicago trucker charged in the Sept. 9 multi-vehicle accident which claimed four lives and an unborn baby. Josef Slezak, 36, appeared with counsel Kelly Breen Thursday afternoon to contest evidence which was presented by Cheyenne County Attorney Paul Schaub during Slezak’s preliminary hearing. Slezak is charged with four counts of Class III felony manslaughter, four counts of Class IIIA felony motor v...
While defense can be used as the name of the game for Sidney’s High School basketball teams, common sense says no team can win without putting a shot in the basket. OK, there is the forfeit loophole, and perhaps there’s a 2-0 game sitting out there where a player scored for the other team. That said, it appears both Raiders teams might be picking up the pace somewhat, both teams having. And neither team is leaning one particular way when seeking scoring. Karissa Segelke is the top scorer for...
Two Iowans facing drug charges were back in court Wednesday before Cheyenne County Judge Randin Roland. Jessica Carroll, 30, and Benjamin Schneider, 20, both of Ames, appeared for status hearings on multiple counts stemming from their Jan. 8 arrests on eastbound Interstate 80, just west of Sidney. Carroll. During a traffic stop, authorities were alerted by a smell of marijuana. Eventually, Nebraska State Patrol trooper Ron Kissler and Cheyenne County Sheriff’s Office deputy Fred Wiedeburg discovered heat-sealed packages of marijuana, which w...
Creek Valley, seeded third, and fifth-seeded Potter-Dix advanced to the semifinals of the Minuteman Activities Conference boys basketball tournament with first-round wins Tuesday evening. Creek Valley held off No. 6 Banner County 38-30, and Potter-Dix needed overtime to clip No. 5 Garden County, 64-53. Creek Valley 38, Banner County 30 At Chappell, Sam Behrends scored 18 points and grabbed nine rebounds, while Luke Cavalli added 12 points as the Storm (5-6) earned the right to meet Minatare (a...
A Sidney man on Monday entered pleas of not guilty to charges of child abuse and debauching a minor, following his December arrest. Johnny Langley, 42, appeared before Cheyenne County Judge Randin Roland to enter pleas on the Class I misdemeanor counts. Langley was arrested after allegations of child abuse surfaced Dec. 1, when Sidney City Police responded to a domestic disturbance. Police later interviewed two children, aged 13 and 14, who were reportedly at the residence when the offenses...
DALTON — Rachael Ernest finished with a double-double Monday night, scoring 15 points and hauling in 11 rebounds as the Leyton High School girls basketball team opened Minuteman Activities Conference tournament play with an easy 50-9 win against visiting Minatare. LHS (6-4) rolled to a 12-4 lead at the first stop, and the Warriors were never tested, stretching the advantage to 25-6 at halftime and 42-8 going into the fourth period. Kaitlyn Berner added 10 points and Katy Ernest nine. Creek Valley also advanced by knocking off South Platte, 5...
The struggles have come and gone for his club, and following a weekend sweep, Sidney High School boys basketball coach Erik Kohl is hoping the tide has turned on the 2012-13 season. “We’re now executing the little details,” Kohl said Monday night after the Red Raiders improved to 8-6 with an easy 63-35 blowout win against visiting Ogallala at Cabela’s Activities Facility. “I think we have the mindset now that we are going to compete at a high level.” Monday’s game, postponed Friday night due to...
