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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.
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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
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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. In the
mid-coast these lakes include:
Olalla, Big Creek reservoirs,
Cleawox, Mercer, Munsel, and
Siltcoos.
Warmwater fisheries are
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down.
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