NED HICKSON , SPORTS EDITOR
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SATURDAY EDITION
❘ DECEMBER 1, 2018 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
Sports
On the
Bite
Calendar
Dec. 4
A weekly
fi shing report for the
local region
• SHS girls BB
at Newport
5:30 p.m.
• SHS boys BB
at Newport
7 p.m.
• MHS boys BB
hosts WVC
5:30 p.m.
• MHS girls BB
hosts WVC
7 p.m.
www.dfw.state.or.us
Dec. 5
• MHS boys BB
hosts Monroe
5:30 p.m.
• MHS girls BB
hosts Monroe
7 p.m.
Tide Tables
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
Dec. 2
8:02am / 7.7
8:33pm / 6.0
1:29am / 1.2
2:40pm / 1.3
PHOTOS BY NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
From above left: Siuslaw senior Zoe Leech pressures Mapleton sophomore Briena Jensen; Siuslaw sophomore Jacob
Foskett leaps for a lay-up during Wednesday night’s OSAA endowment game at Mapleton High School.
V IKING , S AILOR SEASONS OPEN WITH RARE MATCH - UP
Th e non-league OSAA endowment game packed the gym for a night of basketball and shared community spirit
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
Dec. 3
8:48am / 8.0
9:39pm / 6.1
2:26am / 1.6
3:34pm / 0.6
Dec. 4
9:30am / 8.3
10:36pm / 6.3
3:18am / 2.0
4:22pm / 0.0
Dec. 5
10:10am / 8.4 4:06am / 2.3
11:27pm / 6.5 5:05pm /-0.5
For the first time in more than two
decades, the varsity basketball seasons
for both Mapleton and Siuslaw high
schools not only began on the same day
but also on the same court as teams from
both schools faced off in a special
Oregon School Activities Association
(OSAA) endowment game at Mapleton
High School last Wednesday night.
“It was a great opportunity to bring
our two communities together,” said
Mapleton School District Superintendent
Jodi O'Mara. “It was wonderful to see
the large number of community mem-
bers, families and students from both
the Mapleton and Florence communities
together to support our kids.”
Due to different classifications based
on school enrollment, with Mapleton
within the small 1A classification and
Siuslaw in the larger 4A (3A for football)
division, the two teams never play each
other in league or even pre-league com-
petition, and haven’t competed against
each other for league or state titles in
decades.
Two years ago, Siuslaw’s junior varsity
boys basketball team played the Maple-
ton varsity boys team in pre-season play,
but aside from that game and the inclu-
sion of a few Mapleton athletes on Siu-
slaw's varsity baseball team the past few
years, the opportunity for members of
the Florence and Mapleton communities
to gather in the same gym for a night of
athletic competition had been non-ex-
istent prior to Wednesday's basketball
doubleheader.
“We appreciate the OSAA giving us
this opportunity to have an endowment
game,” O’Mara said. “We look forward
to having more of these athletic contests
between Mapleton and Siuslaw in the fu-
ture.”
Dec. 6
10:47am / 8.4
4:50am / 2.6
5:45pm / -0.7
Dec. 7
12:12am / 6.6 5:33am / 2.9
11:23pm / 8.3 6:23pm / -0.8
Dec. 8
12:55am / 6.6
11:59pm / 8.1
6:13am / 3.1
7:00pm / -0.7
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Siuslaw sophomore Gracie Freudenthal nabs a steal
against the Lady Sailors.
Mapleton lone senior Evan Moso enters the court in the
first game of his final season for the Sailors.
B Y N ED H ICKSON
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
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Siuslaw: 20 11 20 24 — 75
Mapleton: 04 07 06 04 — 21
Siuslaw: 14 21 16 16 — 67
Mapleton: 07 10 06 10 — 33
W
hile speaking about Wednesday's match-up with
the Lady Sailors a week earlier, new Lady Vikings
head coach Chad Smith said he saw it as an opportunity
to see how much his team had retained from practices
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t took nearly a full three minutes before the first basket
passed through the hoop during the Wednesday night's
match-up between Siuslaw and Mapleton, and it came on
a hard-driven lay-up by Sailor sophomore JJ Neece. But
the Vikings answered quickly on a long 3-pointer from
GIRLS 2B
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BOYS 2B
MID COAST LAKES:
Stocking of mid coast
lakes stopped in early June,
but fishing for warmwater
spe-cies can still be good in
several area lakes, includ-
ing Ollala Reservoir,
Mercer Lake, Siltcoos Lake
and Tahkenitch Lake.
SIUSLAW RIVER: Fall
Chinook, winter steelhead
Due to lower than
expected returns and con-
servation concerns, Fall
Chinook fishing on the
Siuslaw remains closed
upstream of the Tiernan
boat ramp (down-stream of
Mapleton). Below the dead-
line the bag limit for fall
Chinook is reduced to one
adult Chinook per day and
a limit of 3 now through
the remainder of the sea-
son. Chinook fishing con-
tinues to be slow in the
open area.
All wild coho must be
released for the 2018 fall
salmon season.
Lake Creek, a tributary
of the Siuslaw River, is
closed for the 2018 fall
salmon season.
Trout fishing closed Nov.
1.
Winter steelhead fishing
will open on Dec. 1 and
fish will start entering the
Si-uslaw system throughout
the month of December.
ALSEA RIVER: Fall
Chinook, winter steelhead
Due to lower than
expected returns and con-
servation concerns, fall
Chinook fish-ing is closed
on the Alsea upstream of
the Hwy. 34 bridge. Below
the deadline the bag limit
for fall Chinook is reduced
to one adult Chinook per
day and a limit of 3 from
Nov. 1 through the remain-
der of the season. Very few
fish are being caught below
the deadline and fishing
continues to be very slow.
All wild coho must be
released during the 2018
fall salmon season.
Winter steelhead fishing
is just around the corner.
The Alsea River is known
for its early returning com-
ponent that usually gets
going around Thanksgiving
week-end. The low water
will slow migration but fish
will start entering the lower
river soon. The popular NF
Alsea fishery does not open
until Dec. 1. Bobber fishing
with jigs/bait and casting
lures are all effective ways
to catch these hard fighting
fish.
Trout fishing in streams
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