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SATURDAY EDITION
❘ OCTOBER 31, 2015 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
On the
Bite
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WEEKLY
FISHING REPORT FOR
THE LOCAL REGION
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
MID COAST LAKES
Fishing for the various
warmwater fish species is
fair to good. There are
numerous lakes in the
Florence area that can pro-
vide good opportunity and
have both boat and bank
access.
SIUSLAW RIVER:
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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
Chinook, coho, cutthroat
trout
Fall Chinook fishing is
producing fair to good
results from the lower bay
up the head of tide.
Trolling herring, spinners
or bobber fishing can all be
productive.
The cutthroat trout fish-
ery is fair for sea runs in
the lower reaches of the
river and in upper tide
water. Fishing during the
early mornings or near the
larger tributaries is the
most productive.
FISHING 3B
S PORTS
Calendar
Oct. 31
• SHS XC
4A S TATE MEET
LCC E UGENE
11 A . M .
T IDE T ABLE
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
Oct. 31
3:50am / 6.8
3:12am / 7.8
9:22am / 2.6
10:09pm /-0.6
Nov. 1
3:47am / 6.5
3:04pm / 7.2
9:19am / 3.0
10:03pm / 0.0
Nov. 2
4:48pm / 6.3
4:04pm / 6.5
Nov. 3
5:51am / 6.2
5:13pm/ 6.0
10:25am / 3.2
11:02pm / 0.6
11:40am / 3.3
Nov. 4
6:51pm / 6.3
6:28pm / 5.8
12:03am / 1.1
12:56pm / 3.0
Nov. 5
7:43am / 6.5
7:40pm/ 5.7
1:04am / 1.3
2:03pm / 2.5
Nov. 6
8:28pm / 6.7
8:42pm / 5.8
1:59am / 1.6
2:56pm / 2.0
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Siuslaw junior power hitter Elyssa Rose rises for a kill shot against Cottage Grove in Tuesday night’s play-in match at Glenn Butler Court.
V IKS
LOSE HARD - FOUGHT HEARTBREAKER
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
C. G ROVE d S IUSLAW :
25-27, 25-20, 22-25, 26-24, 15-8
For the first time this season, the
Vikings had all their aces in their
places in a match against Cottage
Grove, a team that had defeated
Siuslaw early in the season while
power players Ali Scheer, Elyssa Rose
and HannahLeah Jakobsen were out of
the rotation with injuries.
While Tuesday’s match was a first
in terms of the Viks being at full
strength against the Lions, and in a sit-
uation with a state playoff berth hang-
ing in the balance, it also proved to be
the last match of their careers for sen-
iors Hannah Bartlett, Taylor Dotson,
exchange student Anna Minton and
Scheer, the team’s libero.
The five-set match pushed players
to what both coaches agreed were their
teams’ best performances of the sea-
son offensively and defensively.
“Both teams walked out of here
tonight and left nothing on the court,”
said Cottage Grove coach Jason
Corwin. “It was a dogfight from start
to finish.”
Siuslaw coach Angie Herring
agreed, saying as much to her players
in a team huddle following an emo-
tional loss to the visiting Lions.
“For our seniors, it was their last
game. We wanted them to know they
gave it their all and appreciated what
they’ve done for us this season,” said
Herring.
In the opening game, the score was
tied four times, the last at 24-24 after
the Vikings rallied from a four-point
deficit on kills from Jakobsen and
Rose. The game tied again at 25, with
a Cottage Grove error giving Siuslaw
the advantage — and freshman
Makenzie York scoring on a well-
timed tip-kill to win it, 27-25.
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VIKS 2B
Viking lineman credits part of success to cheerleading
Siuslaw Vikings lineman Sean
Rojas never dropped anyone in four
years of competitive cheerleading.
Until he had to lift his sister, the
Vikings’ first all-state cheerleader
Victoria Rojas.
“It was her fault,” he said, smiling.
“But me holding her, somehow it was
my fault. At least, that’s what she tells
people.”
Rojas was an eighth-grader at a
charter school in Surprise, Ariz., at
the time. That was four years and 60
pounds ago.
“I started cheerleading to lose
weight,” Sean said. “I was 5-foot-5,
240 pounds in eighth grade.
COURTESY PHOTO
S e an R oj as
“We didn’t have football, so I
wound up doing cheerleading with
my sister to lose weight.”
Sean has developed into a
5-foot-10, 180-pound force on
both the offensive and defensive
lines his senior year with the Vik-
ings.
It is quite a turnaround from his
sophomore season, when he suited up
for the first time.
“My sophomore year, my very first
day in pads, I got a concussion,” Sean
said. “It was my first time wearing
shoulder pads and a helmet and get-
ting on the field.
“I was out for a week.”
His junior year he injured his ankle
in the opening game and was lost for
the season.
“Sean played football as a sopho-
more because he thought that’s what
he needed to do,” coach Tim Dodson
said. “He wasn’t going to play as a
junior because it wasn’t necessarily
fun as a sophomore.
“Then he came out and got hurt
right away.”
Somehow all that did not dissuade
Sean from joining 10 other seniors
for the 2015 Viking team.
“He shows up and he starts and it’s
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ROJAS 2B