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Kirt Manion CherryRoad Media The Sidney girls’ and boys’ golf teams were in action at the Corner Conference meet last week. Sidney shot 387 and… Login to continue reading Login…

The Sidney girls’ and boys’ golf teams recently competed in a triangular with Bedford and Lenox. The boys’ team shot 179 to top Bedford’s 182 and Lenox, which had a 188.

Last summer’s dry conditions were hard on lawns and this spring many unirrigated lawns are showing dead patches or thinned grass stands. These areas are pretty easy to spot now. Look for patches not greening up as they should. Or areas with a large percentage of bleached, light tan leaf blades. In areas with severe damage, you may even see bare ground. These areas will need to be reseeded or sodded to re-establish a thick healthy grass stand and prevent weed invasion this spring.

Hayden Thompson shot an individual first place score of 76 and led the Sidney boys’ golf team to a home tournament win at the Fremont County golf course last week. Sidney shot 355.

Sidney earned a top team finish and grabbed the individual gold medal at the Lewis Central Invite at Fox Run Golf Course on Thursday, April 20. Avery Dowling led the Cowgirl team with a gold medal 18-hole score of 88.

The Iowa Healthiest State Initiative is proud to announce its support for Mental Health Awareness Month in May. This annual event is a time to raise awareness of the importance of mental health and promote the need for access to mental health resources and services. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness. Unfortunately, many people suffer in silence due to stigma. Mental Health Awareness Month is an opportunity to break the silence and encourage individuals to seek help and support.

Members of the Sidney track team competed at Syracuse, Nebr., in the Falls City Sacred Heart Invitational. Medal winners for the girls’ team were Paycee Holmes, third, long jump, 15’7.5”; Lilly Peters, second, discus, 113’; fourth, shot, 30’9”; and 4x100, sixth, 56.26.

The Sidney girls’ and boys’ golfers were in action with the boys’ team traveling to Nebraska City on and the girls’ team taking the links at Shen, both on Thursday, April 13. The Cowboys took eighth with a 376 at Nebraska City.

No athlete is immune to injuries. Fans of professional sports are well aware of that notion, as many a team’s season has been adversely affected by injury to one or more players. In fact, a comprehensive and longitudinal study of injury trends in Major League Baseball published in the American Journal of Orthopedics in 2016 found that players lost an average of 25,186 days to injury each year between 1998 and 2015. If injuries are that common in the professional sports arena, where players have daily access to experienced and highly trained medical staff, it’s fair to conclude that amateur athletes are equally if not more vulnerable to injury.