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SATURDAY EDITION
❘ SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
A Sporting View
On the
Bite
By Mark Vasto
The
Godfather
reimagined
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VIEW 3B
T IDE T ABLE
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
Sept. 12
12:36am / 6.6 6:23am / 0.2
6:38pm / 1.2
Sept. 13
12:33am / 6.9 6:55am / 0.4
1:05pm / 6.8 7:13pm / 1.0
Sept. 14
1:10am / 6.8
1:33am / 6.8
7:26am / 0.7
7:47pm / 0.8
Sept. 15
1:47m / 6.6
2:01pm / 6.9
7:56am / 1.0
8:22pm / 0.7
Sept. 16
2:24am / 6.3
2:30pm/ 6.8
8:26am / 6.3
8:59pm / 0.7
FISHING REPORT FOR
THE LOCAL REGION
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
MID COAST LAKES
Fishing for the various
warm water fish species is
fair to good during the sum-
mer months. There are
numerous lakes in the
Florence area that can pro-
vide good opportunity and
have boat and bank access.
SIUSLAW
PHOTOS BY NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
Siuslaw freshman Trinity Ramos (far left) smiles after finishing the North Bend Invitational on Wednesday at
Tugman State Park, where the Viking girls placed first over the Bulldogs by one point.
V IKS
NUDGE
N ORTH B END
B Y S TAN P USIESKI
Siuslaw sophomore returner Isaac
Griffes finished second for the
Vikings and 11th over all in the
varsity boys race Wednesday.
Special to Siuslaw News
Siuslaw High School cross country
coach Chris Johnson has high hopes for
this season’s team.
For a coach with 10 state titles in the
sport, that means exactly what you sus-
pect.
“I have high expectations because I
see a lot of talent here,” Johnson said,
as he watched his team gather for the
awards ceremony Wednesday for the
North Bend Tugman Invitational at
Tugman State Park.
The Siuslaw girls, led by junior
Celie Mans’ second-place finish, won
the team title by one point over host
North Bend in a six-school race. The
boys, led by freshman transfer Murray
Bingham, placed fourth among nine
schools competing.
“We could make a run at a (Far West)
League title on both sides,” Johnson
said. “It’s difficult, but it’s possible. It’s
possible they could go to a state meet
and trophy, but they’ll have to get bet-
ter. That’s what we’re here for.
“The season’s not super long, but we
have some time to go. We just have to
go to work.”
There won’t be much rest for the
Vikings, who head to Monmouth today
for the third annual Ash Creek Cross
Country Festival at the Ash Creek
Preserve near the Western Oregon
University campus.
Johnson asked his runners to hold
back a bit at Tugman.
“I told them to have a good effort,
(go)
about
90
percent
(on
Wednesday),” he said. “What I saw out
there is about what I expected to see at
this point.”
He’ll ask more at Ash Creek.
“We’re going to go there and race in
earnest,” Johnson said. “It’ll be a pret-
ty good look at where we are.”
Mans cut a second off her 2014 time
Wednesday at Tugman as she finished
second again to Sailor Hutton, a sopho-
Sept. 18
3:48am / 5.8
3:34pm/ 6.6
9:30am / 2.2
10:22pm / 0.9
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SILETZ
RIVER:
Steelhead, cutthroat trout
Summer steelhead fish-
ing is fair in the upper river.
Low flows and warming
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FISHING 3B
S PORTS
Calendar
Sept. 12
• SHS XC
AT
A SH C REEK FEST
M ONMOUTH
10 A . M .
Sept. 15
• MHS V-BALL
HOSTS
VIKS 2B
AT
Siuslaw splits 3-way matchup
E DDYVILLE
6 P . M .
• MHS V-BALL
HOSTS
The Vikings may have been off the
court Tuesday, but they made up for it
Thursday by taking on powerhouses
Junction City — which had beaten
North Bend a week earlier — and
Newport in a three-team matchup in the
Cubs’ den.
In both matches, the Vikings went
the distance and played five games
each against the Tigers and Cubs.
Opening against OSAA’s No. 2-ranked
Junction City, the Vikings hammered
out an impressive 25-11 win in the first
game, then narrowly fell 22-25 in game
two. Siuslaw took the advantage with a
25-18 win in the third set, only to have
the Tigers return the favor with their
own 25-18 win to tie the match at two
games each.
Though the Viks had a lot of fire-
power from Elyssa Rose and Makenzie
York, who combined for 43 kills on the
night, and a dozen perfect serve-receive
passes from Ali Scheer, Junction City
was able to rally for a 15-10 victory to
take the match.
In the nightcap, Siuslaw nabbed the
match-win in five sets over Newport
(scores were unavailable at press time).
Rose led the evening in scoring with
25 kills and 10 stuff-blocks. York had
18 kills and seven stuff-blocks.
Junction City went on to sweep
Newport in three games, 25-18, 25-10,
25-16.
The Viking will be on the road
Tuesday to open the league season at
South Umpqua, beginning at 6 p.m.
NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
S. U MPQUA
6 P . M .
Sept. 17
Siuslaw junior Elyssa Rose had a
combined 25 kills Thursday night
against Newport and Junction City.
Siuslaw News
8:57am / 1.7
9:38pm / 0.8
more at Bandon. Mans finished the
5,000 meters in 19 minutes, 41 sec-
onds, while Hutton clocked 18:56.
The Siuslaw girls narrowly won the
team title with 52 points to North
Bend’s 53.
North Bend junior Michael Brown,
fourth last year in a race won by then-
senior Seth Campbell of Siuslaw, cap-
tured the boys 5K in 16:40, with
Bandon taking the boys team title with
58 points.
Also scoring for the Vikings’ girls
team were junior transfer Morgan
Bingham (10th), freshman Kaeli
Ramos (14th) and seniors Mikaela
Siegel (17th) and Sierra Potter (20th).
Murray Bingham was ninth in the
boys’ race, with sophomore Isaac
Griffes 11th overall and the second
Viking to cross the finish line.
Sophomore Kyle King was 13th,
junior Sean Burns 27th and senior Tyler
Williams 28th.
The strong finishes by the Bingham
siblings were encouraging to Johnson.
“This is my 21st year here, and
we’ve never had a transfer make a huge
impact, or maybe any impact at all,”
RIVER:
Cutthroat trout
The cutthroat trout fish-
ery is slow to fair. Fishing
during the early mornings
or in the larger tributaries is
the most productive. River
conditions are very low and
warm for this time of year.
Bait is not allowed above
the head of tide but small
spinners, spoons and fly
fishing can be very produc-
tive.
ALSEA RIVER : cutthroat
trout
The cutthroat trout fish-
ery is fair in the mainstem
and in some of the large
tributaries. With the low
and warm river conditions
the best opportunities will
be in the early morning
when water temperatures
are the coolest. Small spin-
ners are typically produc-
tive as wells as small
spoons or fly fishing with
nymphs or streamers.
• SHS V-BALL
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Sept. 17
3:04am / 6.0
3:01pm / 6.8
WEEKLY
W ALDPORT
6 P . M .
• SHS V-BALL
HOSTS
M ARSHFIELD
6 P . M .
Sept. 18
• SHS FOOTBALL
AT
H IDDEN V ALLEY
7:30 P . M .
• MHS FOOTBALL
AT
T. L AKE
7 P . M .
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
When young Vito first
tried out for the football
team, he was rejected for
being too small. Besides,
his brothers before him had
been seen as a bit too vio-
lent, and his father didn’t
get along with the guy in
charge of the league.
In fact, the two had a
very public exchange at an
awards banquet that led to
the family getting black-
balled from the communi-
ty’s social circuit.
What Vito lacked in size
he made up for in percep-
tion. His parents died young
and he had since moved to
another school district with
his
extended
family.
Embarrassed of his accent,
he worked around the edges
of the schoolyards a bit.
Still, he made a quick
reputation for himself as a
club boxer, where he raged
like a bull, trouncing oppo-
nents, and soon he had
gained a reputation for
being a hardworking guy.
He started a company
with a friend that imported
an organic energy drink,
married a sweet girl and
soon became wealthy
enough to move out to the
suburbs, where he went on
to grow a family.
His upward climb contin-
ued until his drinks were
served in every stadium. He
had power and influence.
One day, a quarterback
asked for a meeting. He was
on the downside of his
career and he wanted Vito
and his adopted son, Tom,
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