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came back,” said. Greene.
But the small numbers
began to wear on the
Sailors, and soon the
Sailors were down to seven
players on the field against
the Warriors’ eight.
“We just didn’t have any
more bodies to throw at
them and we ended up los-
ing by two touchdowns,”
Greene said.
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the playoffs. He just con-
gratulated us for making
the playoffs.”
It had been years since
the Viks had made the
playoffs, and the magni-
tude of the moment
seemed to stick. The play-
ers were silent, smiling.
“There wasn’t much any-
one could say, really,”
Blankenship said. “We
were at a loss for words.”
He’s still pretty much at a
loss for words. Last week,
Blankenship said that if the
Viks won the homecoming
game, “It’ll be awesome.”
That pretty much
summed up his feelings
Friday night.
“Winning felt really
great,” Blankenship said. “I
But the loss was nothing
to be ashamed about. Of
the Sailors that remained
on the field, three of the
seven were freshmen.
None of the players gave
up.
“They could have just
rolled and been done with
it, but they didn’t,” Greene
said. “They battled and
made it a game. The young-
er kids did such a good job
for what we asked them to
do. They did everything
they could possibly do in
the game.”
Greene singled out
newer players such as Jeff
Bernhardt,
Mason
Flansberg, Kody Wierichs
and Jesse Hughes for stick-
ing it out and giving every-
thing they could.
“Just battling. The
younger kids did a good
job for what we asked them
to do,” Greene said. “They
did everything they possi-
bly could in the game. I
was so proud of those guys,
sticking through it and bat-
tling through adversity.”
Neither Greene nor the
team are worried about
their playoff chances. The
past two losses have lit a
fire that the Sailors needed.
“It’s like our kids have to
get mad before they start
playing well,” Greene said.
And the kids will be
healthy. For the first time
in weeks, a roster of 12
players will be taking the
field this Friday night at
Perrydale.
“We’re excited for the
opportunity this week,
having everybody back,”
said Greene. “If we beat
Perrydale, we could possi-
bly have a home game for
state.”
The Sailors have been
watching
tapes
on
Perrydale, are practicing
hard and believe they have
a good chance of taking the
game.
“We can do it,” Greene
said. “The kids are excited
about next week, I’m excit-
ed. They’ll come out, fired
up and ready to go. It’s a
great opportunity for our
kids. We’ve just got to put it
all together and have
everybody on the field.”
Kick-off for this Friday’s
game at Perrydale is set for
7 p.m.
mean, we made the play-
offs! Wrapping up the sea-
son, not losing at home was
pretty cool. That was awe-
some.”
Going into the game, the
Viks knew they would have
to run the ball a lot against
the Hawks.
“It was just a matter of
who would be tougher,”
Blankenship said. “The
start of the game, they were
running a four-front. They
left a huge hole there that
we could just run the ball
through. We took advan-
tage of that.”
The Hawks noticed this
and called a time out early
in the first quarter.
“When they do that, you
know you’re doing some-
thing right,” Blankenship
said.
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Siuslaw sophomore tight end Rhys Fleming takes to the outside with blocking from Braydon Thornton.
previous Viks home games
were missing this time
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The majority of points
scored by the Viks were
made in the first half. Rhys
Fleming caught an 8-yard
pass from Blankenship in
the first quarter, and then
Camp Lacouture scored
the second touchdown
halfway through the sec-
ond quarter.
The third quarter saw no
points, and it looked like
the fourth quarter would
be a repeat until — at the
last minute — the last min-
ute,
when
Braydon
Thornton caught an inter-
ception, ran 88 yards and
scored an unexpected
touchdown.
“Normally, we score
consistently throughout
the game,” Blankenship
said, “This game we just
scored the end of the first
quarter into the second
quarter, and that was it.”
The Viks are currently in
a holding pattern, unsure
what the playoff landscape
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going to attend between
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(OSU) or Oregon Institute
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The sophomores were
actually absent during the
will look like after they
play Sutherlin for the final
regular-season game this
Friday.
“Yesterday,
[Coach
Johnson] was saying we
probably won’t have a
home playoff game, which
is kind of a bummer,”
Blankenship said, though
it’s no fault of the Viks.
Only the top eight teams
get a home playoff game.
While Blankenship held
out hope last week that the
rankings would go in their
favor, Siuslaw is now
ranked 12th — and the
odds of breaking the
threshold are slim.
“But we can still go
somewhere else and play
and win,” Blankenship said.
“We just gotta win this next
game to help our ranking.
We’ll see.”
As for Friday’s game
against Sutherlin, the teams
are evenly matched.
Sutherlin, ranked 10th, has
the same 3-1 league record
as Siuslaw, and 6-2 overall.
Like the Bulldogs’ only
league loss was against
Santiam Christian.
“It will all come down to
our offensive and defensive
lines,” Blankenship said.
“They’re just going to run
the ball all game, more
than any other team we’ve
played,” Blankenship said.
“If we can stop the run
from them, it’ll be a pretty
good game. And if we can
score early and get ahead,
then it will be hard for
them. Our offense just
needs to be working hard
and scoring early.”
Blankenship and the rest
of his team realizes that
from here on out, the
games will not be easy.
“We definitely can’t get
soft now,” he said. “We’ll be
playing a lot better teams
now, so we’ll need to
toughen up and start play-
ing harder than we have
before.
“And we will.”
Friday night lineup, with
Princess Graci Immel off
scaring small children at
the CROW Haunted Maze.
Her favorite subject is
Honors English and loves
to write and dance in her
free time. She wants to
become a psychiatric nurse
in the future.
Price Camp Lacouture
is a football player who
was in a locker room hud-
dle during the lineup. His
favorite class is math,
though he’s not a fan of the
homework. He plans on
attending a church mis-
sion, followed by going
t o B r i g h a m Yo u n g
University,
major
unknown.
Freshman Prince Odin
Smith was with Lacouture
planning the second half
of the game. The football
player also loves basketball
and track, and plans to
attend community college
where he’ll most likely fig-
ure out what he wants to
do with the rest of his life
and go on to a four-year
university.
Princess
Sunshine
Armer was on hand to
greet the crowds. She loves
anything to do with the
outdoors, especially play-
ing softball.
She plans to go to
Oregon State University
for a degree in the medical
field.
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