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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚
YEAR IN REVIEW
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2017
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PLAYOFF SPOT
Though they were narrowly
edged out 36-32 at McKenzie,
the Sailors came back to even
the score during a bid to reach
the league’s basketball play-
offs.
This time, Mapleton was
able to keep its big men on the
floor and out of foul trouble.
The result? A decisive 19-
point win over the Eagles that
put the Sailors into last night’s
opening round of league play-
offs (after press deadlines)
against another Eagles team —
this time at Eddyville.
Mapleton’s 52-33 win was
the Sailors’ highest-scoring
game of the season, and a dra-
matic turnaround after a 4-
point loss to the same team two
nights earlier. It was a game that
saw a double-double, 10 points
and 13 rebounds, from junior
guard Hunter Simington, who
also had 6 steals in that matchup.
Simington was one of four
Mapleton players named to the
Mountain West League All-
League team earlier this week,
with Simington named Second
Team All League.
Sophomore post Dominic
Wells, junior wing Tyler
Packebush and junior post Nick
Smith each received Honorable
Mention nods for their efforts this
season.
F OUR V IK
WRESTLERS
HEAD TO STATE
Four Siuslaw wrestlers
earned their way to the 4A state
dance on the mats at Portland.
Taking on teams from the
Far West as well as Skyline
league, the Vikings competed
in the 4A Sky-West District 3
Regional meet in Klamath
Falls, with the four top quali-
fiers in each division advancing
to this weekend’s state meet.
Viking
senior
Dylan
Jennings, who came into the
regionals ranked No. 1 at 220
pounds, pinned all three of his
opponents during the two-day
meet.
Fellow senior Talamoa
Tupua, wrestling at 152
pounds, made it to the title
round but narrowly lost to
Austin Tillery of Henley in a 5-
3 decision.
Sophomore Ricky Huff
pinned Oscar Baza of Henley
in just 1:21 during the match
for third place, securing an
unseeded spot.
Joining the three Viking
wrestling veterans was fresh-
man Murray Bingham, in his
first year of wrestling, after
placing fourth at regionals.
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TWO VIKS PIN
STATE MEDALS
Four Vikings earned their
way to the OSAA state tourna-
ment mats at Veterans
Memorial
Coliseum
in
Portland, and two came home
with hardware for Siuslaw.
Senior 220-pounder Dylan
Jennings earned the Viks 16
team points over two days of
wrestling that began with wins
by fall over Bronson Holthusen
of Astoria and Dalton Doerfler
of Sweet Home.
Dylan took Holthusen in just
1:53 minutes, then Doerfler in
3:29 minutes.
The wins advanced him into
his third match on day two,
where he lost 12-2 to Crook
County’s Brogan Howard.
Jennings came back to defeat
Justin Crum of Sutherlin, 4-2,
in the consolation round, earn-
ing him a chance at third place
against Louie Sanchez of
Cascade.
After a virtual stalemate dur-
ing the first two rounds,
Jennings was taken down and
lost by fall to Sanchez in 5:19
minutes, to finishing fourth
overall.
At 116 pounds, sophomore
grappler Ricky Huff had a full
dance card Saturday, facing off
in four matches after going 1-1
the day before.
The sophomore continued on
with another victory after tak-
ing down Tillamook’s Cameron
Reeves with a sudden victory
3-1 win to eventually finsih
sixth overall.
S IUSLAW
GIRLS SET
HISTORIC RELAY MARK
Only one week into the track
season, and four members of
the Siuslaw girls 4x400 relay
team had already made Viking
history.
At the IAAF World Indoor
Championships in Portland,
Siuslaw runners Morgan
Bingham, Destinie Tatum,
Annmarie Precht and Mikaela
Siegel were among the 144
prep sprinters making up the 36
teams competing in a special
high school relay competition
held in conjunction with the
championships at the Oregon
Convention Center.
It was the first time in the
event’s 30-year history that
prep athletes had the opportuni-
ty to race on the same track as
some of the world’s best track
and field athletes vying for a
spot in the Olympics.
Siuslaw’s 4x400 girls relay
team ran in one of six heats
included in the final three days
of the four-day world-class
meet. The team made history,
winning the special 1A/4A race
during the IAAF World Track
and Field Championships at the
Oregon Convention Center in
Portland.
Bingham, Tatum, Precht and
Siegel ran in the 1A/4A divi-
sion, finishing 4 minutes, 13.23
seconds to win the event and
land a 10-second improvement
over their winning time at their
home opener on Hans Petersen
Field.
APRIL
D ODSON LEAVES
V IKING HELM
Rumors that Tim Dodson
was hanging up his coach’s
whistle before next football
season went from speculation
to signed paperwork as he sub-
mitted his retirement papers for
final approval as his wife, edu-
cator 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. “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.
According to Dodson, the plan
had been in the works for a while.
But until all the official retire-
ment paperwork had cleared and
everything was in place, he want-
ed to avoid saying anything.
“You just never know how
things will play out, and I didn’t
want to be the guy who says he’s
leaving then there I am again in
the fall.”
Leadership Award.
MAY
S IUSLAW H ALL
OF
F AME
INDUCTEES ANNOUNCED
Eight individuals and two
teams, spanning nearly 40
years of Siuslaw athletics histo-
ry, were named for induction
into the Siuslaw Athletics Hall
of Fame for 2016.
Inductees included:
Harold McClellan (1958);
Les Conley (1965); Toni
Winthers-Stonelake (1965);
Dick Pickett (1967); Wayne
Jackson (1974); Danielle
Wilson (1987); Brent Sanford
(1992); Doug Kelley (1993);
1996 Boys XC team; the 1997
Boys Track team.
L ADY S AILORS
WIN
DISTRICT TRACK TITLE
When Mapleton track coach
Aaron Longo was approached
by teammates Alyssa Richards,
Hannah Rodet, Erin Michael
and Clarissa Triebskorn about
forming a 4x400-meter relay
team for district competition,
he was left scratching his head.
“They begged me actually,”
Longo said. “I’m sure glad they
did.”
As it turned out, the event
was the last of the day follow-
ing the 3,000 meter race,
which, despite a second-place
finish by Richards, still left
Mapleton trailing by five points
to McKenzie.
When Rodet, Michael,
Triebskorn and Richards lined
up for the 4x400, they were vir-
tually assured a win.
“We had the only horse in
the race,” said Longo, who dis-
covered that no team in the dis-
trict had posted a 4x4 time this
season. “The girls figured that
out and, when it came down to
it, those five points made the
difference.”
The move edged out host
McKenzie, 126 to 121, secur-
ing what is unofficially
Mapleton’s first girls track
team district championship.
According to the school’s
trophy case, second place is the
highest team finish in school
history, captured back in 2006.
SHS
TRACK NABS
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STATE SLOTS
In spite of Marshfield’s abil-
ity to platoon athletes into mul-
tiple events during the Far West
District championships at
Douglas High School, the
Pirates held a slim 1-point
advantage over Siuslaw’s girls
track team after the first day of
competition.
Thanks to their strength on
the track, particularly in the
distance races and sprints, the
Lady Vikings were able to fin-
ish day two winning seven out
of 12 event finals overall,
including wins in 100 and 200
meters by Annmarie Precht,
400 and 800 meters by Destinie
Tatum, 1,500 meters by Celie
Mans, and Carissa Oliver in the
discus.
The Vikings also won the
4x400-meter relay with leg
work from Kaeli Ramos,
Morgan Bingham, Tatum and
Precht.
That, coupled with wins for
Bingham in the 3,000 meters,
Mikaela Siegel in the 100-
meter hurdles, Oliver in the
shot put and Tatum in the high
jump the day before would
seem enough to put Siuslaw’s
girls team over the top.
But it wasn’t.
The Pirates were able to
claim the league title by 1
point, 183-182.
Still, all told, the lady
Vikings qualified for 12 events
at the 4A stage meet at
Hayward Field, along with four
events for the boys team for
Trent Reavis and Murray
Bingham.
P OOL
CALLED TO
V IKING
FOOTBALL HELM
With the announcement that
long-time Viking football head
coach Tim Dodson was retiring
at the end of the year, Siuslaw
players and fans were left with
the question of who would next
blow the coaching whistle.
And while there were signs
pointing to assistant coach
Jamin Pool toward the end of
last season, with Pool leading
the sidelines during the last few
games while Dodson watched
from the skybox, there was
nothing conclusive until the
official announcement went out
in an email from Siuslaw High
School principal Kerri Tatum.
T WO
TITLES FOR
V IKS
At the close of the OSAA 4A
state track and field meet,
Siuslaw took away some of its
own bit of history with two
individual state titles and a new
school record.
Senior Mikaela Siegel and
junior Destinie Tatum each
brought home gold in their
events, along with a new
Siuslaw High School record in
the 800 meters for Tatum.
For Siegel, it was an espe-
cially sweet victory in the 100-
meter hurdles that meant
retaining the crown she cap-
tured last year, along with set-
ting the season’s fastest mark in
the 4A (15.61).
JUNE
A THLETES
OF THE
Y EAR
Over the course of the last
three sports seasons, 27 new
school records and 14 individ-
ual district and state champions
were named between Siuslaw
and Mapelton high schools.
Among the athletes were 13
finalists: Preston Mitchell,
Celie Mans, Morgan Bingham,
Dylan
Jennings,
Murray
Bingham, Trent Reavis, Carissa
Oliver, Hunter Simington,
Hannah Bartlett, Destinie
Tatum, Annmarie Precht,
Kenneth Thrall and Mikaela
Siegel.
Siuslaw seniors Mikaela
Siegel and Kenneth Thrall were
named the 2016 Athletes of the
Year.
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