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6
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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!
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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).
Friday, the Sailors will be at Toledo,
beginning at 4 p.m.
May 11
5:51am / 6.0
7:28pm / 6.2
12:13am / 2.7
12:43pm / 0.2
M ay 12
7:11am / 5.9
8:24pm / 6.6
1:31am / 2.3
1:46pm / 0.5
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