NED HICKSON , SPORTS EDITOR
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WEDNESDAY EDITION
❘ MARCH 16, 2016 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
Discovery
series to
feature
tidepools
YACHATS — Tales, tails
and tidepools are the focus of
Cape Perpetua’s next Winter
Discovery Series, which will
take place at 2 p.m. on
Sunday, March 20, at the
Visitor Center, 2400 S.
Highway 101, three miles
south of Yachats.
Children’s author Kizzie
Jones will read from one of
her latest books, and then join
naturalists at the tidepools for
a guided tour.
Jones blends her love of
dachshunds and the ocean to
create whimsical tall tales.
Titles to her credit include
“How Dachshunds Came to
Be: A Tall Tale About A Short
Long Dog” and “A Tall Tale
About A Dachshund And A
Pelican: How A Friendship
Came To Be.”
Jones’s reading at Cape
Perpetua is a homecoming of
sorts for the author.
“I am so delighted for this
opportunity to share with the
community,” Jones said. “I
wrote these books while
vacationing in Yachats.”
Jones lives in the seaside
town of Edmonds, Wash.,
and is inspired by her three
dachshunds, Buster, Josie
and Lacey.
She has won first-place
honors for nonfiction writing
from Write on the Sound
writers’ conference, while in
2013, “How Dachshunds
Came To Be” garnered first-
place awards in the Tall Tales
See
CAPE 3B
S PORTS
Calendar
March 17
• SHS SOFTBALL
AT
W ALDPORT
4 P . M .
• MHS TRACK/FIELD
AT
R EEDSPORT
CANCELLED
• SHS TRACK/FIELD
S IUSLAW I CEBREAKER
AT SHS
4 P . M .
• SHS BASEBALL
HOSTS
S WEET H OME
4:30 P . M .
March 19
• MHS TRACK/FIELD
AT OAKRIDGE RELAYS
10 A . M .
Undampened spirits
On the
Bite
A
WEEKLY
FISHING REPORT FOR
THE LOCAL REGION
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
MID COAST LAKES
Stocking of rainbow
trout will begin soon in
many mid coast water bod-
ies. Look at the stocking
report to see the full stock-
ing season.
Fishing for the various
warm water fish species
tends to be slower during
the winter months. There
are numerous lakes in the
Florence area that can pro-
vide good opportunity and
have both boat and bank
access.
SIUSLAW RIVER:
Steelhead
The winter steelhead
See
FISHING 2B
PHOTOS BY NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
Mapleton throwers Erin Michael and Josi Hays wait for their turns on the runway as rain falls on Bill Bowerman
Field during Monday’s Mapleton 300. Both had multiple top-5 finishes at the three-team meet.
T IDE T ABLE
Entrance Siuslaw River
S AILORS
SHINE AT RAINY OPENER
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
M
onday’s rainy skies didn’t dampen the spir-
its of Mapleton’s track and field team,
which hosted its annual Mapleton 300, a
three-quarter meet designed to break the ice for track
athletes heading into the first meet of the season.
Most races are shortened by a quarter, including the
800 meters, which is run at 600 meters, and the
3x400-meter relay cut to 3x300 meters, etc.
“It’s a great way for athletes to get a warm-up
before going full speed the following week,” said
long-time Sailors head coach Johnny Sundstrom,
who will be assisting new head coach Will Crook
this season.
“I’ve just got too many things to do, and Will is
the right guy to step up,” Sundstrom said of Crook,
who took over the boys basketball program last year
and comes to the position with experience at the col-
lege track coaching level. “He’s going to be great.”
During Monday’s meet, which included teams
from Jewel and Mountain West League rival Triangle
Lake, the girls team had multiple standout perform-
ances, particularly in the throws, where Josi Hays,
Erin Michael and Alyssa Richards combined for 54
points, including a win for Hays in the shot put (29-
0) and a win for Michael in the discus (85-07).
Hays was second to Michael in the discus at 63-
10, and Michael was second to Hays in the shot put
at 25-01.5.
In the javelin, Hays was second (68-05), Richards
was third (65-05) and Michael was fifth (48-06).
On the track, Clarissa Triebskorn had multiple fin-
ishes in the top six, including a win in the high jump
(3-8), second in the 300-meter hurdles (1:03.68),
fifth in the long jump (7-03), and sixth in the 100-
meter dash (17.21).
Richards was fourth in the long jump at 9-1.
For the boys, Tanner Wilson was a force in the
throws, placing third in the shot put (28-4.25), fourth
in the discus (64-9.5) and fifth in the javelin (90-9).
In the jumps, Hunter Simington landed sixth in the
long jump (16-0), followed by Cole Spencer in
eighth place (15-8). Dominic Wells had the second-
place high jump at 5-0.
See
MHS 3B
High Tide
Low Tide
March 16
6:41am / 7.1
8:27pm/ 5.7
12:34am / 3.0
1:50pm / 0.6
March 17
7:53am / 6.9
9:38pm/ 6.0
1:55am / 3.1
3:00pm/ 0.6
March 18
9:04am / 6.8
10:33pm/ 6.2
3:12am / 3.0
4:01pm / 0.5
March 19
10:06am / 6.9 4:15am / 2.6
11:16pm/ 6.5 4:51pm/ 0.4
March 20
10:59am / 7.0 5:07am / 2.1
11:53pm/ 6.7 5:34pm/ 0.4
March 21
11:44am / 7.0 5:50am / 1.6
6:11pm/ 0.5
March 22
12:25am / 6.9 6:29am / 1.2
12:25pm / 7.0 6:45pm / 0.6
S IUSLAW
N EWS
Clarissa Triebskorn (top) clears the high jump in an early
heat before winning the event for Mapleton at 3-8;
Dominic Wells (above right) was fourth in the 600 meters.
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