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It may have been a new Far West League format for Siuslaw,
but it was business as usual for three Viking wrestlers, Ricky
Huff, Matthew Morales and Dylan Jennings — each of whom
went undefeated to take the crown in their weight classes.
“It was a new type of ‘dual meet’ format, run more like a tour-
nament,” said Siuslaw coach Neil Wartnik. “We had all six Far
West schools on the mats here, with all the varsity wrestlers pit-
ted against each other.”
Because of that, some wrestlers had as many as five matches,
depending on the number of participants in each bracket.
Huff and Morales were among those who had a full night on
the mats, taking on five wrestlers in the 113-pound and 106-
pound divisions, respectively.
Each went a perfect 5-0.
Jennings, wrestling at 285 pounds, went 3-0 to sweep the
heavyweight bracket.
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Against visiting McKenzie, the Sailors owned the paint all
night defensively, scooping up 21 steals and posting 12 blocked
shots.
In addition, sophomore post Dominic Wells had his best game
of the season, scoring 13 points off the glass and nabbing 15
rebounds to go with eight steals and six blocked shots.
“It was a commanding win for us, and an outstanding perform-
ance from Dominic,” said Mapleton coach Will Crook. “It was
without question the best game of his young career. Offensively,
he was tough in the paint.
“Defensively, he was a nightmare for McKenzie.”
Junior guard Hunter Simington was just as much a nightmare
from the 3-point range, sinking 3-of-4 shots from beyond the arc.
Off the glass, Simington claimed 11 rebounds to go with his dou-
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Mapleton girls track team members Alyssa Richards, Hannah Rodet, Erin Michael, Clarissa Triebskorn, Alyssa West, Josi Hays and Haley Wells
May 18
11:10am / 5.5 5:07am/ 0.6
10:59pm/ 7.0 4:53pm/ 1.8
Lady Sailors claim
first district track title
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12:03am / 7.2
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hen 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.
It was the final practice heading
into last weekend’s 1A Special
District 1 league championships.
Kind of late to start thinking about
putting a relay team together.
“They begged me actually,” Longo
said. “I’m sure glad they did.”
As it turned out, the event was the
last of the day following 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 virtually assured a win.
“We had the only horse in the race,”
said Longo, who discovered that no
team in the district 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, securing what
is unofficially Mapleton’s first girls
track team district championship.
According to the school’s trophy
case, second place is the highest team
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In spite of Marshfield’s ability to
platoon athletes into multiple events
during last weekend’s Far West
District championships at Douglas
High School, the Pirates held to a slim
1-point advantage over Siuslaw’s girls
track team after the first day of com-
petition last Friday.
Thanks to their strength on the
track, particularly in the distance races
and sprints, the Lady Vikings were
able to finish day two winning seven
out of 12 event finals overall, includ-
ing 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 on Saturday.
The Vikings also won the 4x400-
meter relay with leg work from Kaeli
Ramos, Morgan Bingham and Tatum
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Siuslaw distance runners
Morgan Bingham and
Celie Mans will be
among the Viking athlets
competing at state this
weekend in Eugene.
Have a fun time with all the festivities this weekend
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Fishing for the various
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8:11am / 5.3
9:06pm/ 6.4
May 16
9:20am / 5.3
9:48pm/ 6.6
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1:25am / 2.6
1:35pm/ 0.8
2:36am / 2.2
2:33pm/ 1.2
3:36am / 1.6
3:25pm/ 1.4
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10:20am / 5.4 4:25am / 1.2
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Siuslaw football coach Tim Dodson looks back over Hans Petersen Field, holding the state championship football from 2006; (below left) the official
announcement of Dodson as head coach in the May 29, 1996, issue of Siuslaw News; front-page photo in Siuslaw News after winning state in 2006.
W
alking from his
coach’s office to Hans
Petersen Field on a
sunny Monday morn-
ing, Tim Dodson balances his coffee
in one hand while, in the other, he
cradles a worn, leather football cov-
ered with signatures. Among them:
Jordan Rainwater
Kody Thrall
Jacob Mitchell
Coach Delbert Reavis.
Ten years ago,
it became the sec-
B Y
ond state champi-
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onship football
Dodson ever held.
The first was as
the team’s quarterback in 1981,
when the Viks won their first-ever
state title after tying with South
Umpqua in overtime, 0-0.
Twenty-five years later, Dodson
was back at Autzen Stadium, coach-
ing Siuslaw to its second state title —
once again in overtime — against
Sisters.
After the game, when asked about
how he felt the moment David Mesa,
Joel Bechtold and Max Perry brought
down Outlaw runningback Cory
McCaffrey short of the end zone in
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Jason F. Jensen/Siuslaw News file photo
A 1996 story in Siuslaw News shows members of the Siuslaw boys cross country team with then first-year coach
Chris Johnson (knealing), who was shorn after the team won the school’s first-ever boys state cross country title.
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10:58am / 6.5 4:55am / 0.1
11:08pm/ 8.0 4:58pm/ 0.7
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May 5
11:55am / 6.8 5:45am / -0.8
11:51pm/ 8.4 5:46pm/ 0.9
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overtime for the win, Dodson had
replied, “I honestly haven’t found the
words to express it.”
Today, standing on Hans Petersen
Field two weeks after announcing his
retirement, Dodson echoes the same
sentiment when asked how it feels to
officially be leaving the huddle after
26 years with the program — 20 of
those years as head coach.
“It still hasn’t hit with me yet,” he
says. “It probably won’t until this
summer, when I get up and realize I
don’t have to go to conditioning
camp.”
In his 20 years at the helm,
Dodson has coached 18 winning sea-
Viks split final Far West matchups with Lancers
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Upcoming
sons, posting 152 wins and 58 losses.
In a twist of irony, his milestone
150th win came this past season
against South Umpqua — the team
Siuslaw tied with for the state title
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11:10am / 5.5 5:07am/ 0.6
10:59pm/ 7.0 4:53pm/ 1.8
May 19
11:55am / 5.7 5:44am/ 0.2
11:31pm/ 7.1 5:32pm/ 2.0
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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 will be competing
in 12 events at this week-
end’s 4A stage meet at
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Hayward Field, along with
and Precht.
four events for the boys team for Trent
That, coupled with wins for Reavis and Murray Bingham.
Bingham in the 3,000 meters, Mikaela
For the girls, Precht and Siegel each
Siegel in the 100-meter hurdles, Oliver
in the shot put and Tatum in the high
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jump the day before would seem
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8:18pm/ 6.2
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After 20 years
at the helm
of Viking football,
iconic coach
Tim Dodson
begins a new page
in his playbook.
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Siuslaw wrestler Dylan Jennings is a shadow of his former
self, and that may make him a hard man to beat this weekend
and next. He and 17 of his fellow Vikings head to Klamath Falls
this week for the Oregon School Activities Association’s 4A
Special District 3 regional championships at Henley High
School.
Jennings was Siuslaw’s lone No. 1 seed, and a hungry one at
that in the 220-pound weight class he hopes to dominate.
“I haven’t lost to anyone in our region this year, so I wasn’t
surprised to be seeded No. 1,” he said.
Targeting the weight class has meant serious sacrifice.
Wrestling starts before Thanksgiving, carries through Christmas
and well into the new year.
“The hardest part is watching yourself at family parties and
stuff,” Jennings said. “This is like the worst season to lose
weight, ever.”
The Vikings senior expects to start competition Friday at 215
pounds, down from the 255 pounds he weighed to start the sea-
son.
Down from 270 much of his junior season.
“I started the season at 255, now I’m an easy 220,” Jennings
said. “I like to cut to like 215, so that it’s easier to stay on weight
for the second day.”
That would be Saturday, when he hopes to win a title.
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finish in school history, captured back
in 2006.
“So far, we haven’t found anything
to the contrary,” said Longo, who is
also the school’s athletic director. “So
this is obviously very exciting for us.”
Though the largest surprise of the
day, it wasn’t the only one for the
Sailors. Triebskorn, a sophomore
exchange student who has never
LOSE HARD - FOUGHT BATTLE TO
With only four games remaining in the league season and a
narrow one-game advantage of North Bend, the Lady Pirates
came into Tuesday’s game taking no chances against a scrappy
Viking team capable of threatening Marshfield’s grip on second
place in the Far West.
The Vikings began to make good on that threat after remaining
within 1 point of the Pirates with 3 minutes to go before the half.
But an 11-point run by Marshfield in those final 3 minutes left
Siuslaw trailing 25-13 by halftime — and with a deficit the
Vikings would carry for the remainder of the game.
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May 22
12:34am / 7.3 7:29am / -0.7
7:19pm/ 2.5
1:55pm/ 6.0
May 23
1:07am / 7.3
2:34pm/ 6.0
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T IDE T ABLE
REACH PLAYOFFS
The Lady Sailors finished the regular season by facing two of
the Mountain West League’s toughest, beginning with league-
leading Lowell (13-1) Tuesday night in Mapleton. “We were
much improved from the last time we played them,” said Mapleton
coach Jesika Crook. “Overall, the girls played very well against a
tough opponent.”
But a flat start and early foul trouble for junior post Josi Hays left
the Sailors unable to gain the kind of momentum needed to keep
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END SEASON STRONG
Despite their 19-2 record and ranking as the 4A’s No. 1 team
in the state, the Pirates found the waters a little choppy against a
scrappy Viking team that gave Marshfield trouble when they met
earlier this season.
In fact, of all the teams the Pirates faced this season, Siuslaw
is the only team to stay within 12 points or less.
And they did it twice.
In Coos Bay, the Vikings proved that their near upset over the
top-ranked Pirates the first time they met wasn’t a fluke. Which
for a Viking team that is 1-18 overall and 1-6 in league, is an
important moral victory that the Pirates surely would liked to
have squelched on their home court.
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pace with a state-caliber team like the Red Devils.
“We never quite got the spark we needed to capitalize on opportu-
nities to score,” said Crook. “Having Hays in foul trouble so early
was a big loss for us.”
Lowell broke away midway through the second period and held a
sizeable lead for the rest of the game before securing its 13th win,
46-23.
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S PORTS
BOWLERS ROLL ON TO STATE
After nine hours of bowling, both the Siuslaw boys and girls
teams qualified for the annual Oregon State bowling champi-
onships during the District 4 competition at Firs Bowl in Eugene.
The Lady Vikings qualified by finishing third behind North
Bend and district champion Cottage Grove.
The Viking boys became Siuslaw’s first District 4 champi-
onship team in the history of the program.
In competition, the teams started with 20 qualifying Baker
games, with ths top six teams going on to the semi-finals. In
qualifying, both teams held third place to get to the semifinals.
Next, to advance to the finals round, the Vikings had to finish
in the top three.
Both Vikings teams held on to third place to reach the finals.
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ble-double 11 points on the night.
Off the bench, sophomore guard Gene Carnes provided anoth-
er offensive spark, scoring eight points.
Inside the paint, freshman Gabe Simington also had eight
points, along with 11 boards and three blocked shots.
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6:33pm/ 1.1
May 7
12:34am / 8.5
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Tuesday marked the end of the sea-
son for Siuslaw’s softball and baseball
programs, with the Lady Viks hosting
a 4-1 win during the team’s senior
night. Before the game, parents, team
members and fans took time to recog-
nize Anna Stonelake, Nicole Gordon,
Hannah Bartlett, Anna Petras and
Taylor Dotson for their contributions
to the program.
Though the Vikings were able to end
the season with a win, it didn’t come
until late in the game after going score-
less for the first five innings against
Lancers freshman hurler Tayah Kelley.
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E
ight individuals and two
teams, spanning nearly 40
years of Siuslaw athletics
history, will be inducted into the
Siuslaw Athletics Hall of Fame this
August.
The selection process began last
September with nominees that had
carried over from previous years,
along with new nominees submitted
by community members over the
past two months. This year’s group
is the largest to date, with athletes
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SHS Hall of Fame
Class of 2016
Rainbow trout stocking
is underway in many loca-
tions along the mid coast.
Look at the stocking report
to see the full stocking sea-
son.
Fishing for the various
warm water fish species
tends to be slower during
the winter month but can
pick up quickly as spring
nears and fish move to the
shallows for spawning.
There are numerous lakes
in the Florence area that
can provide good opportu-
nity and have both boat
and bank access.
SIUSLAW RIVER:
The river basin is closed
to all fishing above the
head of tide and will
reopen for cutthroat trout
fishing on May 22.
ALSEA RIVER:
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
1997 Boys Track team
HOF 4B
Steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing
is slow. The river closes to
all fishing effective May 1
and will reopen with the
cutthroat trout fishery on
May 22.
SALMON RIVER:
Siuslaw News file photo
1965 graduate Toni Winthers-
Stonelake’s athletic ability was
key to establishing the girls track
program.
Viks sweep doubleheader at Brookings
The river basin is closed
to all fishing above the
head of tide and will
reopen for cutthroat trout
fishing on May 22.
SILETZ RIVER:
Steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing
is slow. This time of year is
typically dominated by
mostly wild fish. Side
drifting, bouncing bottom
or bobber fishing can be
productive.
WILSON RIVER:
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Siuslaw senior outfielder Hannah
Bartlett had 3 runs, 3 singles and 3
RBIs against Brookings last Friday.
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Junior pitcher Heidi Jones also had 2
RBIs to go with 3 runs on 3 hits in the
opener, along with a pair of RBIs from
senior Anna Petras.
Though Brookings was able to more
than double its scoring in the nightcap,
Siuslaw’s momentum continued,
fueled by Bartlett, junior Nikki
Launius and senior Nicole Gordon.
The Viking softball team improved
to 3-8 and took sole possession of fifth
place in the Far West after a decisive
sweep of the Bruins in the Bears’ den
last Friday.
In the opener, the Vikings scored in
four out of seven innings, with senior
outfielder Hannah Bartlett accounting
for 2 RBIs and 2 runs on 3 hits.
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Steelhead, Chinook
Winter steelhead fishing
is slow. This time of year is
typically dominated by
mostly wild fish. Summer
steelhead season is around
the corner and a few early
fish could start to show up
at any time.
YAQUINA RIVER:
Steelhead
The river basin is closed
to all fishing above the
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From left: Senior short stop Anna Petras and junior first baseman Claire
Waggoner leave an infield huddle; junior pitcher Michael Larson leaves
the mound after ending the inning on a strikeout.
Siuslaw’s junior pitcher Heidi Jones
sparked the late-game rally by smack-
ing a double along the rightfield line
with one out, then stealing third base
with catcher Nikki Launius at the
plate.
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Rainbow trout stocking
is underway in many loca-
tions along the mid coast.
Look at the stocking report
to see the full stocking sea-
son.
Fishing for the various
warm water fish species
tends to be slower during
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Turning back the calendar to
revisit the top sports stories,
highlights and photographs
from 2016
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