The Sidney Sun-Telegraph - Serving proudly since 1873 as the beautiful Nebraska Panhandle's first newspaper

Sidney’s Red Raider Basketball team stumbled on the road against Gering Friday night, but recovered and earned a big home win against McCook Saturday afternoon to move their season record to 7-and-5.

The Raiders traveled up to Gering Friday to take on the Bulldogs with one win against their rivals in an early season contest. Sidney started hot against the Bulldogs with three pointers hit by junior Sawyer Dickman, sophomore Micah Schneider and junior Wyatt Hickenlively, but Gering fought back to narrow the Sidney lead to just 13-to-11 at the end of the first period. Gering turned the tabl...