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SATURDAY EDITION | MAY 11, 2019 | $1.00
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T IME
O UT
By Lloyd Little
Retired teacher,
coach and game
offi cial
Sports &
Recreation
Too Many Cooks
Calendar
May 11
• MHS track & field
District meet
at McKenzie H.S.
11 a.m.
PHOTOS BY NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
Siuslaw coach Tom Shinn shares a fist-bump with the Vikings, who upset Elmira last Tuesday.
V IKS LAND UPSET OVER F ALCONS
May 17
• MHS track & field
1A state meet
at W. Oregon Univ.
Day 1 — 1 p.m.
• SHS track & field
4A state meet
at Mt. Hood C. Col.
Day 1
1 p.m.
May 18
• MHS track & field
1A state meet
at W. Oregon Univ.
Day 2 — 10 a.m.
• SHS track & field
4A state meet
at Mt. Hood C. Col.
Day 2
10 a.m.
Siuslaw sophomore
Elijah Blankenship
(left) and junior
Jared Northrop
helped secure the
Viks’ victory over
the Falcons.
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
EHS: 000 010 0 — 1 6 2
SHS: 200 002 X — 4 6 3
At 0-11 coming into last
Tuesday’s home game against
visiting Elmira, there was no
chance for the Vikings base-
ball team to reach the post
season as the Far West League
rolled into its final week of
league play
But that didn’t keep Siuslaw
from mounting one of its best
performances of the season,
much to the chagrine of the
Falcons, who came i to the
game hoping to secure a state
play-off position with a win.
Siuslaw had other ideas,
instead playing spoiler to
Elmira’s post-season
hopes by landing the
Falcons for a 4-1
upset victory.
“I cant express
how proud I am of
the men tonight,”
said Siuslaw coach
Tom Shinn, follow-
ing Tuesday’s win.
“They played hard
and executed very
well defensively.”
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Lady Viks fall to
Falcons, finish season
EHS: 002 502 3 — 12 14 0
SHS: 001 000 0 — 1 3 8
Tide Tables
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
May 11
5:03am / 6.5
7:11pm / 6.0
12:16pm / -0.3
VIKS 4B
NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
Siuslaw junior pitcher Nina Aaron
went 2-for3 with a double during
Tuesday’s match-up with Elmira.
The Lady Vikings soft-
ball team opened its final
week of play with a tough
loss against visiting Elmira,
who strung together 14 hits
and 12 runs in an errorless
outting.
The Vikings’ (3-10, 3-16)
one run was batted in by
senior catcher Lexie Smith,
who went 1-for-3 with an
RBI.
Suslaw junior pitcher
Nina Aaron had the day’s
second-best offensive per-
formance after going 2-for-
3 at the plate with a double.
Last night, Siuslaw host-
ed Marshfield in a double-
header (after press dead-
lines) for the final games
of the season for the Lady
Viks.
The evening also marked
the final games in the ca-
reers of the team’s six se-
niors: Lupita Figueroa, Hay-
ley Meier, Alyssa Richards,
Angela Bartlett, Audrey
Lowder and Lexie Smith.
May 12
6:20am / 6.1
8:11pm / 6.2
12:45am / 3.1
1:21pm / 0.0
Florence Golf Links to host PNGA tourney
May 13
7:42am / 6.0
9:03pm / 6.6
2:07am / 2.5
2:24pm / 0.2
May 14
9:01am / 6.0
9:50pm / 7.1
3:17am / 1.7
3:22pm / 0.4
May 15
10:10am / 6.0
10:33pm/ 7.6
4:16am/ 0.8
4:15pm/ 0.7
May 16
11:12am / 6.2
11:14pm / 7.9
5:09am / -0.1
5:04pm / 1.0
May 17
12:08am / 6.4
11:53pm/ 8.1
5:56am/ -0.8
5:50pm/ 1.3
The three-day tourney will host two senior amateur divisions
Florence Golf Links, in part-
nership with the Pacific North-
west Golf Association, has an-
nounced it will serve as host of
the 55th Senior Men’s Amateur
Championship, and 10th Super
Senior Men’s Amateur Champi-
onship this June 4-6.
“Florence Golf Links is very
excited to host this prestigious
annual PNGA championship,”
said General Manager Rick
Reed. “This will be the third
PNGA championship we have
hosted over the last four years,
after the PNGA Men’s Mid-Am-
ateur and the PNGA Junior
Boys’ and Junior Girls’ Am-
ateur Championships.”
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“We are excited to head out
to the Central Oregon Coast
to hold our Senior Champion-
ships at such an outstanding
golf course,” said Scotty Crouth-
amel, Senior Director of Rules
and Competition for the PNGA.
“Florence Golf Links has been a
favorite of PNGA players for a
long time, and we look forward
to a great week of golf in June.”
Entries are open to amateur
golfers who are members of a
PNGA member club, meet the
age requirements and have a
USGA Handicap Index or Golf
Canada Handicap Factor not
exceeding 8.4 for the Senior
Championship, 12.4 for the Su-
per Senior Championship, and
16.4 for the Open Division.
The field limit of 72 in the
Senior Championship, 42 in the
Super Senior Championship,
and 30 in the Open Division
will be filled first by exempt
players, followed by order of en-
try receipt. Since all of the above
are conducted concurrently,
the PNGA reserves the right to
modify the field limits to reach a
full field of 144 players.
Senior Championship and
Open Division entrants must be
55 years of age or older by June
4. Contestants entering the
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GOLF 4B
Th ere is an old say-
ing about too many
cooks spoiling the
whole broth. Th at
being said, I wor-
ry that the well-in-
tentioned parents of
Florence-area youth
sports are fragmenting
our community youth
sports programs.
We are not a large
enough community to
have selected children
pulled from the ranks
of our population.
From the 1980’s
through the fi rst part
of this century, the
spring sports soft ball
and baseball league
season
produced
competitive programs
while in the capable
hands of Rick and
Corrine Gehlke.
Th eir
organized
tryouts,
schedules
and summer all-stars
selected by coach-
es upon completion
of the regular season
produced competitive
teams
representing
Florence in several
summer tournaments.
I empha-size the sum-
mer for the all-star
tournaments.
Th e regular season
games were played
throughout various
loca-tions in Flor-
ence. Practice areas
and games were even
scheduled
be-hind
the old Siuslaw Mid-
dle School. Eventually,
Miller
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MID
LAKES
COAST
Stocking of the
mid-coast lakes will
begin the first week of
February. Check the
stocking
schedule
online for dates and
locations of stockings.
These early stockings
include: Alder and
Dune Lake, Cleawox,
Lost Lake, Munsel
Lake, Thissel Pond,
Mercer Lake, Big
Creek
Reservoirs,
Ollala Reservoir and
Devils Lake.
Trout fishing in
streams will reopen
May 22.
SALMON RIVER:
Winter steelhead
Winter steelhead
fishing closed on the
Salmon River on
March 31.
Trout fishing in
streams will reopen
May 22.
SILETZ RIVER:
Winter steelhead
Both bank and boat
anglers are catching
some nice bright fish
mixed in with darker
fish
and
some
spawned out fish.
The Siletz River is
open year-round for
steelhead and we
should start seeing the
first summer steel-
head the beginning of
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