1 B SIUSLAW Sports News: NEWS The Siuslaw News For more photos and updates, visit our website at www.thesiuslawnews.com. P.O. Box 10 Florence, OR 97439 Fax: (541) 997-7979 WEDNESDAY Email: sports@thesiuslawnews.com M AY 6 • 2015 Mapleton equestrians ready for final meet Mapleton duo will ride for chance to nab state hardwood The Oregon high school equestrian season is drawing to a close but not without one final meet for the Mapleton team. Chet and Jd Geddes will again be heading to state competi- tion in Redmond late this month. The duo has had a standout season, with their efforts garnering them the Small Team of the Year trophy, which will be admitted into the Mapleton High School trophy case. Using their skills and experience, each equestrian achieved individual success in the arena as well. Chet took home first place and a gold medal in both the roping and steer-daubing events, and Jd placed second and brought home silver in both steer daubing and roping. Both will compete in these events at state against all other top Oregon rop- ers and daubers. Together, they placed fourth in team penning, which is an outstanding accomplishment for a two-man team in a three-man team event. They will be first alternate for team penning at state. They also placed 17th in their other team event, birangle. In addition, in their individual events, Chet placed fifth and is an alternate for state; Jd placed 11th and was eighth in individual flags — earn- ing him a spot as an alternate in that event. Chet placed 17th in the event. He was also 27th out of 52 in the key- hole event. Jd placed 21st in poles out of 62 rid- ers. “We as a team can not thank our supporters enough,” said Trisha Geddes, “from coming to our meets On the Bite A weekly fishing report for the local region www.dfw.state.or.us/RR MID COAST LAKES The rainbow trout stock- ing program is in full swing and most water bod- ies have been stocked recently or will be soon again. Most areas will be stocked multiple times until early June. Be sure to check out the 2015 stock- ing schedule for the most up to date information. Fishing for the various warm water fish species can be productive during the spring months as lake temperatures start to rise and fish begin spawning. Anglers will start finding more fish up in the shal- lows over the next month. SIUSLAW RIVER: COURTESY PHOTO Mapleton’s Chet and Jd Geddes will compete together and individually at the state later this month. and cheering us on, to donations and finding work for the boys, to our won- derful sponsors.” Some of the team’s long- time spon- sors include Davidson Industries, Iron Horse Logging, The Lady Elks, Holloway and Associates, Randy’s Riverview Market, Foglio trucking, Tony’s Garage, Jay and Charlotte Hendricksen, Glass Stash, West Coast Autobody, Mapleton Food and Fuel and Street Insurance. Recent team sponsors include Sandland Adventures, Osbourn Veterinary Clinic, Florence Welding, Waste Connections, Inc., Hair Works, Law Office of Jane Hanawalt, Cliff and Lyne Lansdon, Dr. Stouffer and Oregonfast. “We also owe a big ‘thank you’ to C and M Stables for stepping it up this year and being our district south valley sponsor,” said Geddes. “We can’t thank these people enough. “Without them we wouldn’t be able to compete.” The team is also still doing a soda can drive to help raise money for state competition. “The boys are also willing to come help around the yard or anything else that needs doing,” said Geddes. Steelhead The winter steelhead fishery is starting to slow down for the season but decent numbers of fish are still around the Whittaker Creek area. The river should fish well later in the week as the river levels See FISHING 7B T IDE T ABLE Entrance Siuslaw River League standings As of 5/5/15 B ASEBALL AND S OFTBALL Baseball Softbaall N. Bend 9-0 S. Ump. 6-3 Marshfield 5-4 Siuslaw 3-6 Douglas 2-7 Brookings 2-7 Marshfield 9-0 Douglas 8-1 S. Ump. 6-3 N. Bend 3-6 Brookings 1-8 Sutherlin 0-9 S p o r t s C a l e n d a r May 8 • SHS track at C. Grove 5 p.m. • MHS track at Toledo 5 p.m. • SHS baseball at Brookings (DH) 3 and 5 p.m. • SHS softball hosts Brookings (DH) 3 and 5 p.m. Viks tracksters in final stretch to district Siuslaw’s Mikaela Siegel placed second in the long jump at the Grants Pass Rotary Invitational. Siuslaw wraps up regular season later this week Over the weekend, Siuslaw was on the track at Russ Werner Field in Grants Pass for the 66th annual Rotary Invitational, where Mikaela Siegel, competing in the highly competitive varsity division, landed second in the long jump (16-01.75) and third in the 100-meter hurdles (15.84). B Y N ED H ICKSON Siuslaw News With the final meet of the Far West League season set for this Friday, the Viking track team has been gearing up for district competition, which will take place May 15 and 16 at Brookings High School. See VIKS 5B High Tide Low Tide May 6 1:36am / 7.5 2:59pm / 6.1 8:31am / -0.8 8:24pm / 2.5 May 7 2:13am / 7.4 3:45pm / 6.0 9:12am / -0.8 9:07pm / 2.7 May 8 2:53am / 7.1 4:36am / 6.0 9:57am / -0.7 9:58pm / 2.8 May 9 3:42am / 6.8 5:31pm / 6.0 10:46am /-0.4 11:00pm / 2.9 May 10 4:40am / 6.4 6:30pm / 6.0 11:42am / -0.1 Ned Hickson/Siuslaw News Mapleton lands good run at Reedsport meet Chris Free brings home gold in the triple jump at 13-team invite B Y N ED H ICKSON Siuslaw News The Sailor boys finished as the top Mountain West Team competing at last week’s Reedsport Invitational, where Chris Free provided the day’s highest finish after winning the triple jump with a leap of 39-03. Free also placed third in the long jump at 18-08.5. Teammate Tucker Ford had a third- place mark in the high jump at 5-04, and landed fourth in the javelin at 129- 03. Hunter Simington, competing in the 200-meter race, was fourth overall with a time of 24.68. In the 110-meter hur- dles, Tyler Packebush placed sixth (19.93). AJ Foster, Eli Peterson, Free and Simington teamed up for the 4x100- ting! s i L New meter relay, placing fourth with a time of 48.38. In the long relay, Foster joined Packebush, Dominic Wells and Cole Spencer for a fifth-place time of 4:17.81. The boys finished sixth in team scor- ing, ahead of MWL rivals Lowell, Siltez Valley and Eddyville. In the girls division, Josi Wells had the day’s top finishes with fourth place in the shot put (25-08.5) and discus (69-07). 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