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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2017
Siuslaw will likely appeal OSAA re-districting decision
Monday’s decision by the Classification and Districting Committee denied Siuslaw’s request to drop to the 3A division
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
Following hours of testimo-
ny Monday that included an
executive session, the Oregon
School Activities Association
(OSAA) Executive Board
approved the latest 6-classifica-
tion model proposed by the
OSAA’s Classification and
Districting Committee.
The only variance was the
board’s decision to allow
Rogue River to move down
from 3A to 2A.
The decision means, begin-
ning in 2018, Siuslaw will join
Marshfield, Junction City,
Elmira, Cottage Grove and
Marist, which is dropping
down from the 5A and into the
newly-formed 4A Sky-Em
League.
Meanwhile, North Bend will
move up to the 9-school, 5A
L ADY V IKS
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
While Far West League reg-
ular season play is officially
over, the Vikings were still
holding out hope for a state
play-in if they received a top-
24 ranking last night (after
press deadlines).
Also last night, Far West
GO
2-1
Midwestern League, with
Brookings-Harbor, Douglas
and South Umpqua dropping
down into the new Class 3A
Umpqua River Conference
with Sutherlin and Medford’s
Cascade Christian and St.
Mary’s private schools — a
division that Siuslaw had peti-
tioned to join.
The decision to keep Siuslaw
in the 4A classification is one
that Athletic Director Chris
AT
League co-champions
Marshfield and South Umpqua
battled it out on neutral ground
at Coquille High School to
determine the league’s No. 1
seed and a bye in the first
round of state, with the loser
being one of eight teams host-
ing a play-in game later this
week.
Meanwhile, North Bend
Johnson says the school plans
to appeal.
“We’re frustrated,” Johnson
said of the decision. “We met
three of the four criteria to play
down.”
The fourth was the school’s
winning percentage, which
included several wins against
2A and 3A teams — wins that
made Siuslaw’s overall win-
ning percentage higher.
“If we run the numbers ver-
sus only 4A teams, we would
meet all four categories,” said
Johnson.
While the move means the
Vikings would compete much
closer to home by eliminating
trips to Brookings-Harbor,
Douglas (Winston) and South
Umpqua (Tri City), it pits them
against a majority of larger
schools, with Elmira (370)
being the only school smaller
than Siuslaw (376).
The committee’s latest 33-
school 4A-adjusted enrollment
sits between 350 and 664 stu-
dents, using an “adjusted daily
membership” (ADM) to deter-
mine classification size.
Based on that formula,
Banks (368), Sisters (371) and
Elmira are the only schools
smaller than Siuslaw in the
entire Class 4A division.
M ARSHFIELD I NV .
(ranked 17th) and second
place in the Far West is guar-
anteed a play-in game.
If No. 25 Klamath Union
upset No. 3 Hidden Valley last
night, it’s likely that Siuslaw
would fall out of the top 24.
If the Lady Viks, who fin-
ished the season in third place
at 5-5, nab a play-in game,
they would likely travel to
either No. 8 Cascade, No. 7
Astoria or No. 6 Sweet Home.
On Saturday, Siuslaw kept
its bump-set-spike limber by
competing in the Marshfield
Invitational in Coos Bay,
where the Lady Viks swept
both Junction City and
Phoenix 2-0 before losing to
North Bend in consolation.
Lady Sailors finish 2017 volleyball season
Mapleton freshman Emily
Stevens blocks a kill against
McKenzie on Saturday.
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
The Mapleton volleyball
team wrapped up the season at
home Saturday with losses to
Siletz Valley and McKenzie.
The Lady Sailors opened
against the Eagles, mounting
rallies late in the first and third
sets with aces from juniors
Heather Wills, Erin Michael
and Brittany Wilson, as well as
from freshmen Trinity Peterson
and Emily Stevens.
Michael also led offensively
with seven kills against
McKenzie.
But the Eagles were able to
gain momentum in both sets
(25-15 and 25-15), as well as
dominate the net in game two
(25-9) for a three-game sweep.
Against
the
Warriors,
Mapleton fell quickly in the
first two sets (25-9, 25-16),
then battled back to avoid the
sweep in game three with a 25-
16 victory, only to fall in the
fourth set, 25-9.
The Lady Sailors finish at 1-
14 and in eighth place in the
Mountain West League, with
Mckenzie (16-0) taking the
league crown.
Oak Hill (0-13) was ninth.
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