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SATURDAY EDITION | SEPTEMBER 21, 2019
T IME
O UT
By Lloyd Little
Retired teacher, coach and
game offi cial
Sports &
Recreation
With more than55 years as an
athlete, coach, parent and
spectator, Lloyd Little has gained
some insights and perspectives
regarding athletics. Each week,
he shares what he's learned about
sports from his multiple points of
view.
Exercise to be ‘FIT’
Calendar
Sept. 21
• MHS volleyball
hosts Lewis Acady.
noon
hosts E. Linn
3 p.m.
• SHS volleyball
at Sisters Tourney
TBD
NICK SNYDER/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Sept. 24
• SHS volleyball
hosts Marist
6:30 p.m.
• MHS volleyball
at Crow 6 p.m.
vs Oak Hill 7 p.m.
Sept. 26
• SHS volleyball
at Marshfield
6:30 p.m.
• MHS volleyball
hosts T. Lake
6 p.m.
Tide Tables
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
Siuslaw’s Elissa Hurley leaps for a kill against the Lions at Cottage Grove on Thursday
V IKS NARROWLY NIPPED BY L IONS
B Y J ARED A NDERSON
Siuslaw News
C. Grove d Siuslaw:
21-25, 25-21, 19-25, 25-10,
15-10
It was another close loss
for the Siuslaw volleyball
team Thursday night as the
Vikings lost a five-set match
to the Cottage Grove Lions
during the Sky-Em League
opener. But despite the loss,
the team is nowhere near
discouraged.
“This was nothing to hang
our heads about,” Viks head
coach Jonathan Hornung
said. “We just kept swinging.
We played hard and forced
them to be us. In other
games, there were times
when we got tired or just got
psychologically beat. But in
this game, we played hard to
the last point.”
The Viks knew it was
going to be a battle going in.
Cottage Grove is ranked as
one of the best teams in the
league, being the runner up
the year prior after a 9-1
league record.
And then there’s the
height.
“Three of their girls were
listed at six feet or taller, but
we still got four stuffs,” said
Horning, adding that the
team maintained a heavy
focus on defense throughout
the game.
The match was grueling,
with the Viks trailing from
the beginning.
“But they had the belief
that they could do it,” said
Hornung, and the Viks
fought back for dramatic
25-21 win to open the match.
The second set was equally
tough, with the Lions eeking
out a 25-21 win. The Viks
answered back with a 25-19
win in the third set.
“The fourth set, we came
out flat,” Hornung said, with
the Lions dominating for a
10-25 to once again even the
match at 2-2 and force a deci-
sive fifth set.
Though the Viks kept
things closer during a tight
game, Cottage Grove man-
aged to secure a narrow win,
15-10.
The lesson of the game for
Honung wasn’t that they lost,
but that the young team is
ready for the season.
“If you’re going to lose,
you go downplaying hard,
and we did that,” said
Hornung. “It was fun to
watch because both teams
battled. After that game, we
know that if we keep playing
at that level, we’ll take games.
We can hang with any team.”
Mia Collins led scoring
with 17 kills, followed by Kya
Black with 5, 4 kills each
from Elissa Hurley and Desi
Tupua, 3 points from Zoe
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VIKS 2B
Sept. 21
6:01am / 5.1
5:14pm / 6.5
11:06am / 3.2
Sept. 22
7:21am / 5.0
6:22pm / 6.5
12:37am / 0.8
12:18pm / 3.5
1:49am / 0.5
1:44pm / 3.5
Sept. 24
9:40am / 5.7
8:52pm / 6.9
2:57am / 0.2
3:03pm / 3.1
Sept. 25
10:30am / 6.2
9:57pm / 7.3
3:55am / -0.2
4:07pm / 2.4
Sept. 26
11:13am / 6.7
10:56pm/ 7.7
4:47am/ -0.6
5:02pm/ 1.5
Sept. 27
11:53am / 7.3
11:51pm / 7.9
B Y J ARED A NDERSON
Siuslaw News
McKenzie d Mapleton
25-19, 25-15, 25-18
Sept. 23
8:38am / 5.3
7:38pm / 6.6
W INLESS S AILORS HAVE WINNING ATTITUDE
5:34am / -0.7
5:53pm / 0.8
It was a hard-fought game
for the Mapleton Sailors last
Tuesday night as they hosted
the McKenzie Eagles. Even
though they suffered losses
in all three sets, the Sailors
kept fighting to the end.
“We did really good,”
Mapleton volleyball head
coach Molly Dooley said.
“Honestly, they’re improving
so much every single game,
which is great. They showed
that [Tuesday].”
Even though Tuesday
marked the 10th-straight loss
for the young team, the play-
ers have refused to get dis-
couraged. Last week, the
team had some steep losses
during a UVC tournament,
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Mapleton junior Briena Jensen makes a diving dig
against McKenzie during last Tuesday's home match.
with one set against Umpqua
Valley Christian High School
resulting in a 25-2 loss.
“We were playing some
really tough teams, so they
had a tough time keeping
their heads up. But today,
they just brought it back like
it never happened,” Dooley
said. “There were some great
saves tonight where I didn’t
think the ball would be saved
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MAPLETON 2B
Come Jan. 1, many of you
will make a New Year’s resolu-
tion about your health and fi t-
ness. You’re going to eat better.
Reduce stress. Exercise more
and pick up your cell phone
less. It’s one thing to make a
mental or verbal promise about
changes you intend to make to
improve your health. But if you
write them down, it increas-
es the possibility of successful
changes. Also, talking to your
family and friends about your
intentions will gain support in
your eff orts.
When it comes to exercise
goals, one way to accomplish-
ing them is to establish a “FIT”
schedule — Frequency, Inten-
sity and Time — that you can
stick to. Frequency is the num-
ber of days per week you will
devote to your goal; Intensity
is the eff ort you will put forth
during the days you are exercis-
ing; and Time is the actual min-
utes you will be actively work-
ing on your goal each day.
Once you have made a de-
cision for your specifi c fi tness
goal, consider researching the
best methods available to attain
that goal and the questions you
might need answered should
include which muscle groups
you need to make improve-
ments on.
Skeletal muscles are respon-
sible for movement. Th e slow-
twitch muscles need more time
for change to occur; the fast-
twitch muscles benefi t from
short bursts of movement. Lon-
ger time is needed for improv-
ing slow-twitch muscles than is
needed for fast-twitch muscles.
Using the same location, you
can actually improve either set
of muscle fi bers by changing
the workout. To improve slow-
twitch muscles endurance,
muscles used in climbing stairs
can be strengthened by running
up and down the stairs for 10
minutes or more.
To improve fast-twitch mus-
cles — or your power mus-
cles — use the same stairs you
would run up and down fast.
Take a 30-second break and re-
peat at least fi ve times.
One of the most common
methods of strength and en-
durance training is a circuit.
During your circuits, you devise
a new FIT schedule to apply to
each station. For endurance,
use weight you can lift 10 to
15 times easily. For power, use
heavier weights and lift them
quickly — but no more than
fi ve times. Rotating stations will
provide rest for just-used mus-
cles and resistance for a new
muscle group.
Th e number of stations can
be as few as eight and as many
as 15. Your available time will
infl uence the number of sta-
tions you have. Make sure you
allow for upper and lower body
training. If you neglect a bal-
anced circuit you might just
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LITTLE 2B
As soccer gains foothold at SHS, fans discover ‘It’s not boring’
B Y J ARED A NDERSON
Siuslaw News
“Okay, I have a comment on
this one,” Siuslaw School District’s
Assistant JV Soccer coach Nyra
Campbell said. She was discuss-
ing American’s views on soccer
along with Siuslaw’s head coach,
Londi Tomaro.
The anti-soccer backlash in
America has been strong for
decades. A quick websearch of
the phrase “Why is soccer so bor-
ing” gets thousands of results,
including National Review article
titled “Against Soccer: Hyper-
regulated, low scoring, boring to
watch.”
Voting website “The Top Tens”
listed soccer as the third-most
boring sport in the world, just
below baseball and golf — but
more interesting than cricket,
curling and gardening.
Cambpell had something to
say about these sentiments.
“I can’t tell you who the biggest
star is at all in Europe right now,”
she said, admitting that she’s not
a fervent watcher. “But I will play
a pickup game with anyone, any-
time, anywhere because I love it.
A friend from work disdains
watching soccer. I said you don’t
have to watch it — but play it. It’s
tons of fun to play.”
And it’s through playing the
game that a person can gain a
real appreciation for what is
going on, even if it ends in a 0-0
tie.
“The score does not reflect the
pace of the game,” Tomaro said.
“You’re constantly moving the
ball, running here, running there.
The other team is constantly try-
ing to get the ball from you.
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SOCCER 3B