SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2017
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Middle school Viking football team tears through 2017 season
The 2017 Siuslaw Middle School football team
The team of 7th- and 8th-graders has outscored its opponents 224-28 heading into today’s final game of the season.
S
iuslaw Middle School’s foot-
ball team of 14 eighth-graders
and 13 seventh-graders has
only suffered one loss as it heads into
today’s
final
game
against
Reedsport, with wins over Powers
(53-6), Azalea (35-0), Myrtle Point
(30-0), Sunset (62-6) and Riley
Creek (36-0) in a special 8-man
game.
Most have been playing together
since the fifth grade, with several —
Henry Rankin, Josh Heckathorn,
Mason Buss, Noah Dotson and
Victor Ayala — looking up to older
siblings who have played for
Siuslaw’s varsity Viking football
team in the past.
Last year, the team finished 5-3. At
5-1 so far this season, the team has
had 15 different players score en
route to a total of 224 points — with
the defense accounting for 32 of
those points.
The team, coached by Dan Rankin
and John Rose, has outscored oppo-
nents 224-28 as it takes on Reedsport
today.
PHOTOS BY MIKE SMITH
Jonathan Rose (far left) reaches for a
pass with blocking from Abraham
DeJesus; Avery Hart (right) takes down
an Azalea runningback
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The parent coaching their
own son’s or daughter’s team
will likely select their own
child and believe me, specta-
tors and the all-star coach will
quickly determine if the
“coache’s pick” was justified
and the players selected will
gain valuable competitive
experiences for future baseball
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Over 25 years ago, I
coached a Babe Ruth all-star
team. One coach sent his son
instead of his stud catcher and
the players asked me why?
I honestly didn’t know.
Our team lost in the state
quarter-finals from a passed
ball and the best pitcher did not
have the catcher he had all sea-
son.
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and I each played in the 1970
Shrine All-Star Football Game.
We were both from small
schools — and I still believe
Carl and I could name at least
one player from our respectful
teams who could have taken
the place of a player there.
We learned that all-stars are
not always the best players on
teams.
In 1993, I coached the 3A
high school Shrine All-Star
Baseball Game. Unlike my
opposing coach, I played all
players in every game.
After all, they were all-stars!
We won the series 2 games
to 1.
After the game, a parent
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go up to bat. She said her son’s
coach always had used a desig-
nated hitter for him in every
game. In this case, he drove in
a run with his first hit of the
year.
In my opinion, the only pro-
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