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Sports &
Recreation
Calendar
Winter Sports
openers:
Dec. 4
• SHS boys BB
hosts Newport
7:15 p.m.
• SHS girls BB
hosts Newport
5:45 p.m.
• MHS boys BB
hosts Lowell
7 p.m.
• SHS girls BB
hosts Lowell
5:30 p.m.
7 p.m.
PHOTOS BY JARED ANDERSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
Members of the Siuslaw girls cross country team display their second-place trophy from last weekend’s 4A state meet.
L ADY V IKS SECOND , BOYS SIXTH AT STATE MEET
B Y J ARED A NDERSON
Siuslaw News
I
t was a day of mixed emotions for
Siuslaw Cross Country at the OSAA 4A
State Championship on Saturday.
The girls team took second — a repeat
performance from last year — while the
boys took sixth, besting their eighth-place
finish the year prior. Individually, Hannah
Rannow took third overall in the girls’ race,
while Brendon Jensen took fifth in the
boys’ division.
“You have to be pretty excited about a
top-six finish for the boys. That’s top six in
the state. Obviously, the girls were second
place, and that’s great too,” Coach Chris
Johnson said. But still, both teams felt a
twinge of disappointment after Saturday’s
race was finished.
“The girls were trying to win a state title
and the boys were trying to trophy — and
we both came up short,” Johnson said.
“That’s athletics, I guess.”
The teams followed their usual strategy,
running at an even pace.
“You look at Brendon Jensen, he was
moving up the entire race and was aggres-
sive,” Johnson said. “He got all the way to
fifth place, which was a great performance.
The rest of the kids didn’t move up. It’s hard
to explain, I don’t know why. I don’t think
we went out too hard, we didn’t come out
too slow. We just weren’t aggressively mov-
ing up, which has been kind of our hall-
mark over the years. For one reason or the
other, we just couldn’t move up through the
ranks.”
The placement is particularly tough for
the teams when considering the expecta-
tions.
“You come into a situation where you
think you can win, and you don’t — It’s
tough,” Johnson said. “Last year, we got
Dec. 6
• SHS wrestling
at Harrisburg
Noon
Tide Tables
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
Nov. 13
12:29am / 6.5
11:50pm/ 8.0
5:57am/2.6
6:45pm/ -0.5
Nov. 14
1:11am / 6.5
12:21pm / 8.0
6:32am / 2.9
7:23pm / -0.6
7:10am/3.2
8:05pm/ -0.6
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
Nov. 16
2:45am / 6.3
1:37pm / 7.7
7:53am / 3.5
8:51pm / -0.5
Nov. 17
3:39am / 6.1
2:25pm / 7.3
8:44am /3.6
9:43pm / -0.2
Nov. 18
4:38m / 6.1
3:24pm /6.9
9:49am / 3.7
10:41pm / 0.1
Nov. 19
5:39am / 6.3
4:39pm / 6.4
11:09am / 3.6
11:43pm / 0.4
second place and we felt like we were on
top of the world because it didn’t feel like
we had any chance to win. This year, 10
days before, we beat the team [Marist] that
won the state title. Obviously, you’re excited
to win second place. But when you think
you have a chance to win, second place
sometimes is a bitter pill to swallow.”
Before Saturday, Siuslaw was riding high
with a pair of first-place wins at the Sky-Em
League meet, with both teams beating rival
Marist by one point.
“During that game, Siuslaw was pre-
pared, aggressive and competitive, and we
were able to beat the defending state cham-
pions,” Johnson said.
But Marist didn’t seem to take the loss
lying down, especially on the girls’ side.
“Maybe it was like shooting a bear with a
.22,” Johnson said. “I think we just made
Marist mad, and they came out and ran an
inspired race. We didn’t run poorly, but we
didn’t run with the type of intensity it takes
to beat a team like Marist. Not on that day.
Maybe where I screwed up is, it’s difficult to
come back and match the same intensity
you had the week before when you come
out victorious. Marist was upset that they
lost district, and they were determined to
come out and put up a fight.”
That doesn’t mean that Siuslaw wasn’t
fighting on Saturday.
On the girls’ side, Rannow ran one of her
fastest time ever, finishing with 18:34.0.
Sisters harrier Ella Thorsett capped a
stellar year, finishing the race with an out-
standing time of 17:43.7 for first place, fol-
lowed in second place by Junction City’s
Anika Thompson, who is “far and away the
best athlete in the state this year,” Johnson
said. To come in third above the Marist
runners, along with harriers from
Tillamook and Stayton that were running
personal bests in the race, Rannow finished
her high school cross country career strong.
“Obviously, she would love to have a
state title, but I have to hand it to her,”
Johnson said.
Viking, Sailor football post seasons end
Nov. 15
1:56am / 6.4
12:57pm/ 7.9
Siuslaw seniors Brendon Jensen (left) and Hannah Rannow each stood on the
podium Saturday, with a fifth-place medal for Jensen and third for Rannow.
Both the Viking and Sailor
football seasons continued well
into the November night lights
for the first time in years this
season, with Mapleton reach-
ing the post season for the first
time in nearly two decades.
For Siuslaw, it was the first
November game since 2015,
during long-time coach Tim
Dodson’s final season.
And in the case of both
teams, the play-offs ended on
the road over this past week-
end — Siuslaw at Hidden Val-
ley and Mapleton at Camas
Valley.
For Siuslaw, it was a partic-
ularly tough draw, with the Vi-
kings taking on the undefeated
Mustangs (10-0) during the
first round of the 3A division
playoffs last Friday night.
While senior runningback
Hector Garcia had a breakout
game with 176 yards on 33
carries, and sophomore quar-
terback Elijah Blankenship
stepped into the recordbooks
as Siuslaw’s unofficial (final
numbers are still being tallied)
all-time leader in single-sea-
son pass completions, it wasn’t
quite enough to overcome the
Mustangs’ 40-12 victory.
After Hidden Valley took a
6-0 lead following the first play
of the game on a 47-yard pass
from junior quarterback Sam
Vidlak, the Viks’ Garcia an-
swered at the top of the second
quarter on a 3-yard scamper
into the end zone that tied the
game at 6-6.
The Mustangs then went on
to score 20 unanswered points
until, just 15 seconds before
halftime, junior runningback
Skyler Loomis broke through
on a 2-yard run to score.
The Viks came up short on a
conversion attempt and trailed
26-12 at the half.
The Mustangs then shut
out Siuslaw in the second half,
holding off goal-line threats
from Garcia and Bankenship
and taking advantage of Viking
errors to secure the win and
end Siuslaw’s first post-season
bid in four years.
The next day, it was Maple-
ton’s turn to face a top-tier op-
ponent in undefeated Camas
See
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VIKS 2B
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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. In the
mid-coast these lakes include:
Olalla, Big Creek reservoirs,
Cleawox, Mercer, Munsel, and
Siltcoos.
Warmwater fisheries are
slowing down for the year as
water temperatures cool.
FOOTBALL 2B
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FISHING 2B
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