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SN THESIUSLAWNEWS.COM WEDNESDAY EDITION | NOVEMBER 6, 2019 | $1.00 Sports & Recreation Calendar Nov. 8 • SHS football 3A state play-offs TBA Nov. 9 • MHS football 1A state play-offs at Camas Valley 1 p.m. • SHS cross country 4A state meet LCC-Eugene Girls: 11:45 a.m. Boys: 12:20 p.m. Tide Tables Entrance Siuslaw River High Tide Low Tide Nov. 6 8:08am / 6.3 7:45pm / 5.7 1:23am / 1.2 2:17pm / 2.9 Nov. 7 8:48am / 6.6 8:45pm/ 5.8 2:15am/1.4 3:06pm/ 2.3 JARED ANDERSON/SIUSLAW NEWS The Sailors have been holding evening practices this week under the lights in preparation for Saturday’s play-off game. P LAYING UNDER THE N OVEMBER LIGHTS “W “This is a big deal for them, and we’re going to make it a big deal for them in Mapleton.” e haven’t practiced “We’ve overcome so much sick- under the lights for ness and injury with our kids,” 17 years,” Mapleton Greene added. “They made it over football coach Jeff Greene said. the hump we’ve been waiting to get “This is the first opportunity we over all these years. We made it to get, practicing with the lights on.” state as a large berth. All the stuff For the past 17 years, the Sailors they’ve overcome — it’s been practiced during the months of — Sailors head coach Jeff Greene, speaking about the the incredible. Most teams would have September and October, just before been done. With us, we man-up. team’s first November game in nearly two decades Daylight Savings Time. They ran That’s what I’m proud about.” plays into the early evening, where The adversity has been catching cracks of sunlight make their way up to the Sailors recently. After a you know? You want to make it to through the hill and the November. We made it. We’re in the sweet 6-0 win streak, they’ve lost the last three fog, illuminating the 16. Anything can happen.” games on the road, most recently to By Jared secluded football field Anderson Greene believes the players haven’t real- Perrydale, 40-70. above the Mapleton ly grasped the magnitude of the moment. “We started off really good,” Greene Siuslaw School District. News “This is a big deal for them, and we’re said. “We scored within a minute in the By the time November going to make it a big deal for them in first quarter, going up 8-0 on them. hits, along with early Mapleton,” he said. “We’re going to get a Everything was looking good.” black skies brought on by the time change, banner up for them in the gym. I’m really Until it wasn’t. The Sailors’ bench was the Sailors are benched as other teams con- proud of our kids and just how hard they short from the get-go when Kody Soverns, tinue into the playoffs. fought all year. It never goes the way you the team’s starting running back and cor- But not this year. plan it, but it’s a hell of an accomplish- ner, had to call out due to sickness. Last week, Coach Greene was turning ment.” “So, we were short again,” Greene said, the lights on for a night-time practice. And it’s an accomplishment that’s been an issue that has been plaguing the Sailors “It’s the first time we’ve been to state in difficult to achieve for the rag-tag group of the latter half of the season. 17 years,” he said. “That was a cool thing players. The team has battled injuries, con- for our kids. It’s the little things like that, cussions, two blown-out knees. See SAILORS 3B Nov. 8 9:21am / 6.9 9:37pm / 6.0 3:00am / 1.5 3:48pm / 1.6 Viks prepare to face Mustangs Nov. 9 9:52am / 7.2 10:23pm / 6.1 3:40am / 1.7 4:25pm / 1.1 Nov. 10 10:21am / 7.5 11:06pm / 6.3 4:16am / 1.8 5:00pm / 0.6 Nov. 11 10:50am / 7.7 11:47pm / 5.4 4:50am /2.1 5:34pm / 0.1 Nov. 12 11:19m / 7.9 5:24am / 2.3 6:09pm / -0.3 ODFW R EGIONAL F ISHING R EPORT Though Siuslaw fell to Sutherin, their playoff run continues By Jared Anderson Siuslaw News Siuslaw football closed out its regular season with a loss on Friday night, with the Viks falling to the Sutherlin Bull- dogs 18-56 — due in large part to a string of injuries that had beset the team. Going into the game, the Viks had high hopes. “We were thinking it would be really nice to win the game, but we had already earned a playoff spot,” quarterback Elijah Blankenship said. “We still had to play our cards, but knowing Camp [Lacouture] would be out was a bummer.” Runningback Skyler Loomis added to the lament over La- couture, who will be out for the rest of the season. “Usual- ly, Camp has about 200 yards a game on our offense, and usu- ally has five or six tackles on defense. So, it did impact our game a lot.” In addition, safety Beau Erickson was also out for the season and, for Friday night, a host of other players had inju- ries that prevented them from being on the field — including senior lineman Matthew Hor- rillo and wide-receiver and safety Brady Libby. Despite that, the Viks came out fighting in the first quar- ter, with Blankenship making a 50-yard pass to Braydon Thornton for 6 points just a minute into the game. “That definitely boosted our confidence,” Blankenship said. “It was definitely an uplifting moment.” But then Sutherlin answered back halfway through the first quarter, crossing the end zone twice in a two-minute period. “It was kind of a punch in the face,” Loomis said. “But you gotta come back and keep playing your game.” They did come back when Blankenship again passed to Thronton for a touchdown with three minutes left in the quarter, but the Bulldogs See www.dfw.state.or.us/RR MID COAST LAKES: Stocking of the mid-coast lakes ended in June. Check the stocking schedule online for dates and locations of stockings. Some of the bigger lakes have “hold-over” trout and the fishing typically picks up in the fall when these trout are feeding to prepare for the winter months ahead. 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