NED HICKSON , SPORTS EDITOR
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SATURDAY EDITION
❘ JULY 8, 2017 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
On the
Bite
A
WEEKLY
FISHING REPORT FOR
THE LOCAL REGION
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
SIUSLAW RIVER: Trout
Trout season opened
May 22, and there should
be some nice cutthroat.
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Siuslaw names Shinn to head Viking baseball program
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
Siuslaw baseball coach
Tony Castro had made it clear
at the end of last season that
he’d reached the tough deci-
sion of stepping down as head
coach.
“I love these kids and this
program, but it’s beginning to
be too much for me,” he said.
“It’s time to hand it over.”
Taking Castro’s cue,
Siuslaw
High
School
Athletics Director Chris
Johnson began the search for
Castro’s replacement — a
search that ended Thursday
with the official announce-
ment that Dallas High School
teacher and coach Tom Shinn
would be taking over the
helm.
In an email, Shinn said he
was “excited about the oppor-
Tom Shinn
tunity to return to baseball
and ready to work hard to
make an impact with
Siuslaw’s baseball program.”
Shinn, who will also teach
social studies at Siuslaw this
fall, is a 1988 graduate of
Roseburg High School and
holds a bachelor’s degree in
social science from Western
Oregon.
From 1995 to 2001, Shinn
was head of the Willamina
Bulldogs baseball program,
where he coached the team to
a second-place finish at the
state 2A/1A baseball tourna-
ment in 1999.
Since joining the Dallas
School District, Shinn has
also coached football, softball
and track at the high school
level, with a state qualifier in
the shot put and discus for the
Dragons each year since
2015.
FISHING 3B
S AND J AMMIN ’
S PORTS
“Time
Out”
Calendar
• JULY 15
B Y L LOYD L ITTLE
Retired teacher, coach
and game official
SAND MASTER JAM
S ANDBOARDING EVENT
S AND M ASTER P ARK
2 TO 5 P . M .
AT
W
UPCOMING
• AUG. 7-10
SHS FOOTBALL
A NNUAL KIDS CAMP
H ANS P ETERSEN F IELD
K THRU 4 TH GRADE :
NOON TO 1:30 P . M .
5 TH THRU 8 TH GRADE
3 TO 5 P . M .
• AUG. 18
SHS HALL OF FAME
I NDUCTION
CEREMONY
5:30 P . M .
T HREE R IVERS C ASINO
T IDE T ABLE
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
July 8
1:17pm / 5.7
Low Tide
6:46am / -0.8
6:33pm / 2.6
July 9
12:19am/7.2
1:53pm / 5.9
7:20am / -1.0
7:11pm / 2.6
July 10
12:55am /7.2
2:28pm/ 6.0
7:55am / -1.0
7:50pm/ 2.5
July 11
1:32am / 7.0
3:03pm/ 6.0
July 12
2:10am /6.8
3:39pm/ 6.1
NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
8:29am / -1.0
8:30pm/ 2.4
Taylor Bicandi tries her hand in the sand drag race during last year’s 20th-annual Sand Master Jam, hosted by
Sand Master Park. This year’s event will return Saturday, July 15, from 2 to 5 p.m., beginning at Sand Master
Park. Events will include both pro and amateur division events for sand drag and slalom competitions. For more
information, call Sand Master Park at 541-997-6006 or visit www.sandmasterpark.com.
9:03am /6.8
9:13pm / 2.3
Golf tourney’s mission personal for local Rotarian
July 13
2:51am / 6.5
4:17pm / 6.2
9:39am/ -0.5
10:02pm/ 2.2
July 14
3:37am /6.1
4:56pm/ 6.3
10:18am /-0.1
10:57pm / 2.0
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John Scott was just an ordinary small
town boy in Iowa in 1952. It was sum-
mer, and it was the height of the polio
epidemic that swept through the United
States and around the world.
“I have no idea how I even got the
disease,” Scott says. “It was probably a
family vacation where we went swim-
ming in the lake.”
Swimming was pretty much non-
existent in those days. Public pools
were closed and lakes and ponds were
generally declared off limits, since they
were assumed to be a major source of
spreading the virus.
Scott began showing symptoms and
his mother immediately rushed him to
the hospital, where doctors performed a
spinal tap and verified that he did have
the polio virus (also known in those
days as “infantile paralysis”).
“Polio was a plague,” writes histori-
an Richard Rhodes. “One day you had a
headache and an hour later you were
paralyzed. How far the virus crept up
your spine determined whether you
could walk afterward or even breathe.”
Scott was quarantined at home for
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ROTARY 2B
Summer Chinook angling reopens on lower Columbia
Based on an upgraded run forecast,
adult hatchery Chinook salmon reten-
tion reopened on the lower Columbia
River Friday and will continue through
the end of July, under rules adopted
Thursday by fishery managers from
Oregon and Washington.
Fishery managers were able to
reopen the fishery since the latest run
size update of 74,100 adult summer
Chinook provides for a larger allocation
for this fishery
Through Monday, July 31, anglers
will be allowed to retain up to two adult
hatchery Chinook salmon from the
Astoria-Megler Bridge upstream to the
fishing deadline at Bonneville Dam.
Retention of jack hatchery Chinook,
hatchery steelhead and sockeye
remains open under previously adopted
regulations, including the one hatchery
steelhead daily bag limit.
All other permanent regulations,
including bag limits for jack Chinook,
apply.
For more information, visit www.
dfw.state.or.us/resources/fishing/reg_
changes/columbia.asp.
ith more than 55
years as an ath-
lete, coach, offi-
cial, parent and spectator,
I’ve gained some insights
and perspectives regarding
athletics. In this weekly
column, I’ll be sharing my
thoughts on sports and
what I’ve learned from
these multiple points of
view — beginning with
officiating.
Each person watching
athletics has a desired out-
come. We all want “our”
team to win. Officials are
trained in the rules and the
application of those rules in
the effort to be fair and
unbiased. Each time the
whistle blows for a penalty,
unless the rule being bro-
ken is clearly defined, there
will naturally be conflict-
ing views on whether or
not the infraction occurred
for or against “our” team.
We all make mistakes.
Even officials.
However, observers can
unknowingly influence
consequence of those mis-
takes. For example, if the
visiting team’s supporters
have consistently yelled
and screamed negatively at
officials, a close call may
go against them.
Officials have feelings
and emotions like the rest
of us, so trying to get the
correct calls when each call
is in question by fans can
be stressful.
In some officials’ minds,
it can turn to an “I’ll get
even with them” mentality.
This mentality could lead
to making calls against the
offending team without
realizing it. These actions
can turn the game in an
unfavorable direction for
“your” team.
High school and youth
sporting events are often
officiated by local individ-
uals who have community
ties. Despite those ties,
they make an effort to
insure the fairness of play
for both sides.
Still, coaches know
which officials will make
favorable calls to their
team on calls that are close.
One season, when I tab-
ulated the balls and strikes
after coaching Siuslaw
High School varsity base-
ball, I noted the home team
recorded more strike-outs
and fewer walks by than
our opponents by a signifi-
cant margin.
Statistics showed this
even when teams used the
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LITTLE 2B