NED HICKSON , SPORTS EDITOR
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SATURDAY EDITION
❘ MARCH 10, 2018 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
Time
Out
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B Y L LOYD L ITTLE
A
WEEKLY
Retired teacher, coach
and game official
FISHING REPORT FOR
THE LOCAL REGION
(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.)
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
MID COAST LAKES:
Stocking of mid coast
lakes began in February.
Siltcoos Lagoon was not
stocked the week of Feb. 5
due to low levels of dis-
solved oxygen.
Fish
scheduled
for
Siltcoos Lagoon were
stocked in Cleawox Lake
instead.
SIUSLAW
I S IT A SPORT ?
A
fter years of debate,
the criteria for an
activity to be classi-
fied as a “sport” must meet
three criteria:
1) A human activity
involving skill and exertion.
2) Governed by a set of
rules or customs.
3) Undertaken competi-
tively and capable of
achieving a result. (win-
ners/losers)
In elementary school, my
friends and I would draw a
three foot in diameter circle
in the dirt. We would all
toss five marbles into the
circle. Rock, paper, and
scissors decided the first
shooter. Each shooter tries
to knock marbles out of the
circle.
If successful, their turn
continues until a marble
fails to cross the line or the
shooter’s marble left the
circle; shooters got to keep
all marbles they knocked
out.
The game ended when all
marbles were out. This was
my first sport and I won a
box of marbles that year.
My next sport was four-
square. I see by the squares
at
Rhododendron
Elementary the game con-
tinues today.
The rules are simple:
Catch a ball directed to your
square before it bounces
twice — or you are out. I
played almost the entire
recess most days. Though
most schoolyard games are
just for fun, I say many
meet the criteria of a sport.
Exertion, rules and a result
are all present.
My early games were
RIVER:
Steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing
has improved. Rain over the
weekend has raised the
river level and got fish
moving again. Casting
spinners, drifting bait or
using a bobber and jig can
be effective.
ALSEA
RIVER:
Steelhead
Winter steelhead has
picked up throughout the
river. Rain over the week-
end has raised the river
level and got fish moving
again. A mix of wild and
hatchery fish are being
See
FISHING 3B
T IDE T ABLE
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
March 10
1:21pm / 1.3
March 11
8:06am / 6.3
10:06pm/ 5.4
March 12
9:08am / 6.4
10:51pm / 5.8
6:00am / 6.4
8:03pm / 5.2
1:13am / 3.6
3:24pm/ 1.2
3:23am / 3.6
4:16pm / 0.9
FILE PHOTOS BY NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
Returners for this season’s Siuslaw High
School track and field team will include
senior Kyle King (above), who was named
first-team all-league this past basketball
season and was a standout in the jumps
last spring. Siuslaw’s line-up will also
include junior Madison Reynolds, who
placed third at district last season in the
shot put as a sophomore, behind a pair
of Far West League seniors who have
graduated — creating the potential for a
top finish at district this season.
March 13
10:03am / 6.6 4:18am / 3.2
11:28pm / 6.0 5:00pm / 0.6
March 14
5:04am / 2.8
10:51am / 6.9 5:38pm / 0.4
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V IKS
LEAP INTO TRACK SEASON
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
March 15
12:00am / 6.3 5:44am / 2.3
11:33pm / 7.1 6:13pm / 0.2
March 16
12:30am / 6.6 6:22am / 1.8
12:14pm / 7.3 6:46pm / 0.2
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LITTLE 2B
With the departure of several state
qualifiers due to graduation at the end
of last season, outside appearances may
be that Siuslaw’s track and field team is
in a “rebuilding” year — which, in
most cases, could set mediocre expec-
tations. But despite not having stand-
outs like Clark Hooper, Jack Pickell,
Carissa Oliver, Celie Mans and Destine
Tatum in this season’s line-up, an
influx of talented freshmen combined
with solid returners spread throughout
the sophomore, junior and senior levels
could set a tone that is anything but
mediocre.
For the girls, second-place finishes
last season in the 1,500 and 3,000
meter events at district for then-fresh-
man Hannah Rannow bodes well for
Siuslaw, particularly with senior Kayle
Graham returning in both hurdles
events. Also returning is junior
Madison Reynolds, who finished third
in the Far West League in the shot put
last season, behind a pair of seniors
who have since graduated.
In addition, the girls team will get an
injection of freshman talent from Brea
Blankenship, Gracie Freudenthal and
Andrea Osbon, all of whom were mid-
dle school district champions last year
as eighth graders.
And though the only returning state
qualifier for the boys team is current
school-record holder in the discus and
javelin Trent Reavis, who is still on the
mend from a basketball injury, Siuslaw
still fields a group of strong performers
from last season.
Among them are sophomore Ryan
Rendon-Padilla in the javelin and fel-
low sophomore Kiger Johnson in the
800-meter event.
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TRACK 2B
S PORTS
Calendar
• MARCH 14
SHS/MHS BASEBALL
HOSTS P. HILL
4 P.M.
SHS TRACK
AT P. HILL
3 P.M.
• MARCH 16
SHS SOFTBALL
ODFW trout stocking schedule now mobile friendly
SALEM — ODFW released its 2018
Weekly Trout Stocking Schedule for
western Oregon on its recently
launched website MyODFW.com., and
like the new website itself, the new
trout stocking schedule is mobile-
friendly and easier to use.
Anglers can now search by water-
body for a complete list of stockings in
that lake or pond for the entire year.
Users can also search by date for all
stockings in Oregon’s six Fishing
Zones for a certain time period.
Previously, all stockings were listed
in a PDF document organized by stock-
ing date, making it difficult to see a
waterbody’s full stocking schedule for
the year.
“‘When are you stocking my pond or
lake?’ is one of the most popular ques-
tions we get at ODFW. Some anglers
even plan their vacations around it,”
said David Lane, Acting Deputy
Administrator, I&E, ODFW. “Now, it’s
much easier to find the stocking
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TROUT 2B
HOSTS SUTHERLIN
4 P . M .
• APRIL 6
MHS TRACK
AMJ INVITE
4 P.M.