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SATURDAY EDITION
❘ JUNE 20, 2015 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
’Blasters
swept by
Dodgers
A Sporting View
By Mark Vasto
There’s no
opt-outs for
ad game
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Siuslaw Viking basketball team members Claire Waggoner, Elyssa Rose and Sierra Potter watch as participants in
last week’s Viking Basketball Camp run passing drills.
S HARING
THE
V IKING
B Y N ED H ICKSON
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ast week’s Viking Basketball
Camp, lead by Clint Tatum
(below) and assisted by members
of both the Siuslaw boys and girls basket-
ball teams, hosted more than 40 youths
during the week-long camp held at
Siuslaw High School. The camp, divided
into a morning session for younger play-
ers and an afternoon session for middle
school through high school players,
taught basketball fundamentals through
drills and activities.
“We had a great turnout and really
appreciated the help from the boys team,”
said Tatum. “It was a lot of fun and the
kids seemed to get a lot out of it.”
All money raised will benefit the bas-
ketball program.
T IDE T ABLE
Entrance Siuslaw River
Low Tide
June 20
2:42am / 6.8
4:12pm / 6.1
9:34am / -0.7
9:52pm / 2.4
June 21
3:26am / 6.2
4:54pm / 6.1
10:14am /-0.2
10:44pm / 2.5
June 22
4:13am / 5.7
5:37am / 6.0
10:54am / 0.3
11:42pm / 2.4
June 23
5:08am / 5.2
6:20pm / 6.1
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High Tide
WAY
After falling to the
Dodgers of Withnell by eight
runs
during
Monday’s
Legion AAA Baseball opener
at home, the Three Rivers
Sandblasters traveled to
Willamette University for a
chance to even the score dur-
ing a doubleheader Tuesday.
Though, in both games, the
’Blasters were able to hold
the Dodgers to half the runs
they scored during the previ-
ous day’s matchup, Withnell
still managed to complete a
three-game sweep.
Sharper defense led to
fewer errors as Florence went
from five errors in Monday’s
opener to just a single error in
14 innings of play on
Tuesday.
The
Sandblasters
improved offensively as well,
putting up a total of nine hits
in the doubleheader — six in
the first game alone — com-
pared to just three hits the
day before.
The
’Blasters
sent
Jonathon Bennison to the
mound in game one, where
he threw all seven innings in
a 4-1 loss. Griffin Kaufman
threw three innings in a 4-0
loss in the nightcap.
The Sandblasters are back
on their home field tomor-
row, taking on Doc Stewarts
in a nine-inning game set to
start at 3 p.m.
June 20
• FLORENCE JR.
BASEBALL
32- TEAM
TOURNEY
DAY ONE
AT
M ILLER P ARK
10 A . M .
June 21
• FLORENCE JR.
BASEBALL
32- TEAM
TOURNEY
DAY TWO
M ILLER P ARK
10 A . M .
• TRC BASEBALL
SANDBLASTERS
AT
HOSTING
D OC S TEWART
AT SHS
3 P . M .
11:37am / 0.9
June 23
June 24
12:45am / 2.2 6:11am / 4.7
12:24am / 1.3 7:06pm / 6.1
• TRC BASEBALL
June 25
1:48am / 1.8
1:15pm / 1.8
7:23am / 4.5
7:51pm / 6.3
SANDBLASTERS
AT C ORVALLIS
3 P . M .
June 26
2:48am / 1.3
2:09pm / 2.2
8:37am / 4.4
8:36pm / 6.5
S S IUSLAW
IUSLAW
N EWS
148 Maple St.
Florence
541-997-3441
June 24
• FLORENCE
New ODFW video teaches beginners to fish
SALEM — Just in time for summer
vacations and family fishing, the
Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife has introduced a new video
series titled “How To Fish For Trout in
Oregon” to help newcomers learn how
to fish.
The 14-part series, sponsored by
ODFW and starring professional guide
Cody Herman of Day One Outdoors,
takes the beginning angler from picking
out the proper gear at the local sporting
goods store, to cleaning and cooking
their catch.
In between, anglers will learn easy,
proven techniques for attaching tackle
and bait, casting and what to do when a
fish bites.
“It’s true that catching trout can be
easy, but it can also be intimidating
when you’re first starting out and you
don’t know what you need, how to do it,
or where to go,” said Chris Willard,
ODFW recruitment and retention coor-
dinator. “These videos are designed to
make it easier for beginning and novice
anglers to take advantage of Oregon’s
most popular fishery.”
See
ODFW 4B
SOFTBALL
AT M ILLER P ARK
5:30 AND 7 P . M .
June 25
• FLORENCE
SOFTBALL
AT M ILLER P ARK
5:30 AND 7 P . M .
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
As any watcher of sports
on television can tell you,
commercials are unavoid-
able. Not only are they per-
vasive, they are repetitious
— sometimes, I would
argue, to a fault.
We understand that peo-
ple need to hear a message
more than once to get the
point.
I’m pretty sure that’s
Merchandising
and
Advertising 101. But when
is it enough?
The major brands out
there — the soft drinks,
phone companies and finan-
ciers — change it up every
once in a while, introducing
new characters and songs.
And they pretty much know
when people aren’t into the
ad anymore.
For instance, when see-
ing a certain brand of luxu-
ry car reminds you of Jim
Carrey imitating Matthew
McConaughey’s creepy ad,
you know it’s time to retire
that commercial. When the
only people on Twitter tak-
ing the time to type #sirloin
are the people telling you
they hate the commercial
where they’re told to type
#sirloin, it may be time for
change.
At one point or another,
all of us have lent a hand or
given to a charity of some
sort.
Maybe you canvassed the
neighborhood for Easter
Seals, threw a few extra
bucks into the second col-
lection at church, volun-
teered your time or work for
a nonprofit. We appreciate
the efforts of all the non-
smokers’ alliances and the
anti-trans-fat corps and all
B Y N ED H ICKSON