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SATURDAY EDITION
❘ APRIL 23, 2016 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
D ODSON
L EAGUE
STANDINGS
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BASEBALL
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BROOKINGS
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DOUGLAS
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V IKINGS
Siuslaw High School coach Tim Dodson will retire
in June after 30 years of teaching and 26 years
with Viking football, 20 as head coach.
B Y N ED H ICKSON
B ASEBALL AND S OFTBALL
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LEAVES HELM OF
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iuslaw football coach Tim
Dodson hasn’t been fall fishing
or teed off at the golf course on
a late September afternoon in nearly
30 years.
Come this fall, he’ll do both.
Earlier this week, rumors that
Dodson was hanging up his coach’s
whistle before next football season
went from speculation to signed
paperwork as he submitted his retire-
ment papers for final approval as his
wife, educator and assistant track
coach Mary Dodson, sat next to him.
“It was like signing a letter of intent,” Dodson
said with a laugh while in his office Thursday. “It
was a milestone for sure.”
In this case, Dodson’s intent is to shift gears from
being one of Siuslaw’s longest-running and most
successful coaches, to being able to do the things his
dedication to football has forced him to sideline for
so many years.
“If you asked any time during the last 20 years
what I’d be doing August 25th, I could tell you,” said
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DODSON 4B
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Mapleton junior AJ Foster (center) ran the 100-meter dash for a time of 12.22 to win the event. Foster also ran a leg on the winning 4x4 relay team.
Sailors shine at final home meet
Mapleton senior Hannah Rodet ran
a personal best during Thursday’s
100-meter hurdles in 22.34.
B Y N ED H ICKSON
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It was a big day for the Mapleton
track team Thursday. Not just because
it would be the final home meet of the
season, but also because of several
standout performances and multiple
wins for both the boys and girls teams.
For the boys, A.J. Foster, Trevver
D’Auteuil, Tanner Wilson, Cole
Spencer and Dominic Wells each had
individual wins, along with a team
win in the 4x400-meter relay for Evan
Moso, Foster, Wells and Spencer.
Foster outpaced three Crow runners
to win the 100-meter dash in 12.22. In
the discus, D’Auteuil threw 100 feet, 1
inch for first place, with Zac Croson
placing second at 60 feet, 11 inches.
D’Auteuil also finished second in
the 3,000-meter race in 16:01.46,
while Wells ran the 1,500-meter race
in 5:02.68 for second place.
Wilson threw the javelin 126 feet,
10 inches to win the event, with
Croson placing fourth at 79 feet.
Wells and Spencer tied for first
place with equal leaps of 5 feet, 2
inches.
In the 400 meters, the Sailors had
two top-five finishes, with Spencer in
second place (1:00.37) and Moso in
fifth (1:02.90).
For the girls, Hannah Rodet and
Clarissa Triebskorn had wins in the
100-meter hurdles and 300-meter hur-
dles, respectively, with times of 22.02
and 1:04.87.
The Lady Sailors had a near sweep
in the shot put, lead by Haley Wells,
who landed first at 31 feet, 4 inches.
Josi Hays threw 29 feet, 9 inches for
second, followed by Erin Michael in
fourth place (25 feet, 1 inch) and
Brittany Wilson in sixth place (22
feet).
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TRACK 4B
Vikings narrowly nipped by Bulldogs, 3-2
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
The Vikings may have lost
Tuesday’s match up with the league’s
No. 1 team from North Bend, but it
wasn’t by much. In fact, the Vikings
literally had a chance to blow the
game wide open in both the sixth and
seventh innings with the bases loaded.
Instead, the Vikings went down
swinging, with Bulldogs lefty Tyler
Laskey fanning 15 Siuslaw batters in
the game.
Laskey allowed only four hits to
help North Bend edge out the Vikings
on a narrow 3-2 win.
After trailing 3-0 and leaving the
bases loaded in the bottom of the
sixth, the Vikings scored two runs in
the bottom of the seventh when senior
short stop Kenneth Thrall, with two
outs, drove in two runs on an error.
Down 3-2 with runners at the cor-
ners, the Vikings left them there as
North Bend slipped away with the
win.
Siuslaw had other opportunities to
score earlier in the game, with Jared
Brandt pulling off a textbook sacrifice
bunt, and singles from Michael
Mason, Evan Teter and Scott Gordon.
Viking freshman pitcher
Gabe Simington confers
with senior catcher
Michael Mason.
On the mound, Mapleton fresh-
man lefthander Gabe Simington
threw all seven innings and struck
out seven Bulldogs, allowing only
one earned run.
Yesterday’s scheduled double-
header against South Umpqua
was canceled due to field condi-
tions. Barring weather, it will be
made up Monday, beginning at 3
p.m.
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