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SATURDAY EDITION
❘ DECEMBER 2, 2017 ❘
SECTION B
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B Y L LOYD L ITTLE
• DEC. 5
Retired teacher, coach
and game official
SHS BOYS B-BALL
HOSTS
N EWPORT
7 P . M .
(With more than 55
years as an athlete, coach,
official, parent and specta-
tor, I’ve gained some
insights and perspectives
regarding athletics. In this
weekly column, I share
what I’ve learned about
sports from these multiple
points of view.)
SHS GIRLS B-BALL
AT
N EWPORT
7 P . M .
MHS BASKETBALL
AT R EEDSPORT
GIRLS : 5:30 P . M .
BOYS : 7 P . M .
• DEC. 7
T HE L ONGEST S EASON
A
ll three Siuslaw and
Mapleton sport sea-
sons are usually of
similar length in days,
weeks and months. They
are divided by pre-season
practices, non-league tune
up contests, league contests
and, if good enough, oost-
season state competitions
for teams or individuals.
Although similar in
length of time, the winter
season seems much longer.
Why?
The first thing involves
school holiday breaks.
While many of the students
at Siuslaw and Mapleton
are taking Thanksgiving
and Christmas breaks, win-
ter athletes, including
cheerleaders, are in the gym
practicing.
SHS BOYS B-BALL
P. HILL
4:15 P . M .
HOSTS
SHS GIRLS B-BALL
AT HARRISBUURG
VS . P-H ILL
5:15 P . M .
T IDE T ABLE
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
Dec. 2
10:16am / 8.8
11:33pm / 6.9
4:13am / 2.1
5:12pm / -1.1
Dec. 3
10:59am/ 9.1
See
LITTLE 2B
5:01am / 2.3
5:58pm/ -1.5
Dec. 4
12:24am / 7.1 5:49am / 2.4
11:44pm / 9.2 6:44pm / -1.8
SIUSLAW NEWS FILE PHOTO
Viking senior Kyle King was one of two top scorers against Creswell on Wednesday with 9 points.
Dec. 5
1:15am / 7.2
6:39am / 2.5
12:31pm / 9.0 7:32pm / -1.7
V IKS
SHOW PROMISE IN OPENER
On the
Bite
A
WEEKLY
FISHING REPORT FOR
Dec. 6
2:07am / 7.2
1:21pm / 8.6
B Y N ED H ICKSON
7:32am / 2.7
8:22pm / -1.4
Siuslaw News
S IUSLAW : 42 C RESWELL : 52
Dec. 7
3:00am / 7.2
2:15pm/ 8.1
8:30pm / 2.8
9:13pm/ -1.0
Dec. 8
3:55am / 7.1
3:14pm / 7.4
9:34am / 2.9
10:07pm /-0.3
Though it wasn’t the final outcome
the Siuslaw boys basketball team had
hoped for in its 2017 debut in Creswell
Wednesday night, the 10-point loss to
the Bulldogs still showcased the team’s
ly ranked in the division’s top 10.
Full results were unavailable at
press time.
Last night, Siuslaw was on the road
at Elmira for a non-league game with
the Falcons (after press deadlines).
Tuesday, the Vikings face Newport
in their home opener at Glenn Butler
Court
Tipoff is 7 p.m.
Siuslaw girls open with solid performance
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potential with a senior-dominated line-
up that includes four all-league return-
ers — Jared Brandt, Trent Reavis, Jake
Hickson and Kyle King — from last
season.
King and Hickson led scoring with 9
points apiece in the match-up against
the Bulldogs, a team ranked 8th in the
OSAA 3A division and the only
Mountain Valley League team current-
Lady Vikings junior Madison
Reynolds is one of three captains on
this year’s team and a top scorer.
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
S IUSLAW : 30 C RESWELL : 42
With four freshmen (Lindsey Long,
Savannah Morris, Brea Blankenship
and Gracie Freudenthal) and four soph-
omores (Nina Aaron, Mia Collins,
Kelsey Larson and Breann Vergara)
making up eight of 13 players on this
season’s roster, Reynolds said he
expects a bit of a learning curve as its
Following his first game at the helm
of the Lady Vikings, new head coach
Greg Reynolds said he was pleased
with what he saw and the potential the
team has in the weeks ahead.
“We definitely had some of those
first-game jitters, particularly for our
younger players,” said Reynolds, “but
they played hard and battled all the
way.”
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SIUSLAW 2B
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Weather has not been
very cooperative for ocean
fishing the last couple of
weeks. When anglers have
been able to get out, there
has been success in both
the flatfish and longleader
fisheries.
In the flatfish fishery,
creels included sanddabs,
sand sole and Petrale sole.
The creels from long-
leader trips consisted of
yellowtail, widow, red-
stripe and silvergray rock-
fishes, plus a handful of
jack mackerel (which has a
separate daily bag limit,
under Offshore Pelagic
Species, of 25 fish in
aggregate).
From now through the
end of the year, limited
bottomfish fishing
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