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Vik wrestlers pin third at Harrisburg
Siuslaw freshman Mason Buss provided Siuslaw with a win at 120 lbs.
By Jared Anderson
Siuslaw News
The Siuslaw wrestling team
took fourth place overall in its
first meet of the season last Sat-
urday, Dec. 7, with freshman
Mason Buss taking first place in
the 120-lb. division.
“Mason was outstanding,”
Viks wrestling coach Neil Wart-
nik said in his recap of the Deven
Dawson Memorial Tournament
at Harrisburg High School. “He
defeated a pair of formidable
wrestlers from Central Linn en
route to his championship — I
mean, they were outstanding
wrestlers. He fought off his back
in the semi-finals before pin-
ning his opponent, and he over-
came a 1-point deficit by scor-
ing a takedown as time expired
to nab a 1-point victory in the
finals. Both matches were in-
tense. In both, Mason exhibited
great composure, skill and men-
tal toughness.”
Buss earned 24 points for the
Viks in team scoring, which
earned Siuslaw third place
overall. However, Wartnik add-
ed that one could dispute that
placement if they were so in-
clined, noting that the score-
keeper room at Harrisburg
failed to include Yoskar Delam-
ora’s fourth-place finish in the
Vikings’ overall score.
Officially, Oakland came in
second with 146 points, fol-
lowed by Siuslaw with 129. De-
lamora’s score wouldn’t have
pushed Siuslaw into second, but
if there were other errors, the
rankings could have changed.
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Calendar
ODFW R EGIONAL F ISHING
R EPORT
Dec. 12
• MHS Basketball
at Yoncalla
Girls at 5:30 p.m.
Boys at 7 p.m.
• SHS Basketball
at Harrisburg
Day 1
Girls at 8:30 p.m.
Boys at 7 p.m.
Dec. 13
• SHS Wrestling
at North Bend HS
Day 1
1 p.m.
• MHS Basketball
at Douglas
Girls at 3 p.m.
Boys at 4:30 p.m.
• SHS Basketball
at Harrisburg
Day 2 (TBA)
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
SIUSLAW NEWS FILE PHOTO
6-foot-3 junor Jacob Foskett breaches the key for for a jump shot for Siuslaw.
S IUSLAW FALLS TO P LEASANT H ILL
Tide Tables
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
Dec. 11
10:46am / 8.3
4:52am/ 3.1
5:49pm/ -0.7
Dec. 12
12:19am / 6.5
11:22pm / 8.4
5:31am / 3.2
6:28pm / -1.0
Dec. 13
1:02am / 6.6
12:00pm/ 8.4
6:13am/ 3.3
7:08pm/ -1.1
Dec. 14
1:46am / 6.6
12:41pm / 8.4
6:56am / 3.4
7:51pm / 1.0
Dec. 15
2:32am / 6.7
1:27pm / 8.1
7:45am / 3.4
8:36pm / -0.9
Nov. 16
3:21m / 6.7
2:18pm / 7.6
8:40am / 3.4
9:24pm / -0.5
Dec. 17
4:12am / 6.8
3:18pm / 7.0
9:44am / 3.3
10:15pm / 0.0
VIKS 2B
B Y J ARED A NDERSON
Siuslaw News
Pleasant Hill d Siuslaw boys
27-58
Pleasant Hill d Siuslaw girls
20-48
T
he Viks fell to the Billies
of Pleasant Hill last
Friday night as both
girls and boys basketball teams
lost their first away games of
the season.
On the boys side, coach
Dylan Perry said that the team
had a decent first half, but
some pivotal missed shots in
the second quarter kept the
Viks from taking the game.
“We hit our offense relative-
ly well, but we ended up with a
lot of open shots outside that
we needed to hit — but we
didn’t knock them down,” he
said. “We also went 4-14 at the
free throw line, so we left 10
points on the board there.”
For the first three quarters,
the Viks remained within a
handful of points of the Billies.
In the middle of the second
quarter, Siuslaw trailed by 10
points, which the Viks shrunk
to an 8-point deficit in the
third quarter.
“But in the third quarter, we
started to scramble a bit, try-
ing to put more pressure on
JARED ANDERSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
Siuslaw junior Gracie Freudenthal lines up for a freethrow.
[Pleasant Hill], trying to get
the ball, seeing if we could
make something happen,”
Perry said. “It kind of back-
fired on us, and the end score
didn’t really show what the
score was for most of the
game.”
Perry pointed to Avery
Hart’s performance to demon-
strate the team’s potential.
“He was aggressive, taking
the ball to the basket. He also
played very good defense, with
a couple of big blocks,” Perry
said.
Last game’s MVP, Braydon
Thornton, was contained
throughout the game by the
Billies’ defense.
“Braydon created shots for
his teammates, but we didn’t
knock the ones down that we
needed to reflect on the score-
board there,” said Perry.
Another standout was Liam
McClellan, who played his
first game after being out sick
for two weeks. He didn’t score,
“but he came back and played
well defensively.”
Perry chalked the perfor-
mance up to nerves, pointing
out that the team is still rela-
tively young.
“It’s an experience thing,” he
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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
down.
SIUSLAW RIVER: Fall
Chinook
Fall Chinook fishing con-
tinues to be fair on the
Siuslaw River. The river is low
and clear and there are still
some fish in the estuary, but it
has been slow. Fish are still
holding in the upper tidewa-
ter areas waiting for the next
big rain event. Expect more of
the same until we get some
more rain.
Reminder: Lake Creek (a
tributary of the Siuslaw River)
is closed for the fall salmon
season to protect the forecast-
ed low number of returning
Chinook.
Due to low forecasted fall
Chinook returns, this year’s
daily bag limit has been
reduced to 1 wild Chinook per
day and 5 per year for the mid-
coast aggregate (Siletz River to
Siuslaw River).
No wild Coho retention for
the 2019 season.
ALSEA
RIVER:
Fall
Chinook
Fall Chinook fishing on the
Alsea River continues to be
slow with the low and clear
conditions. There are still
being some fish caught in the
estuary as fish start to stage
and wait for the next big rain
event. With little rain in the
10-day forecast expect more of
the same for the next few
weeks.
Due to low forecasted fall
Chinook returns, this year’s
daily bag limit has been
reduced to 1 wild Chinook per
day and 5 per year for the mid-
coast aggregate (Siletz River to
Siuslaw River).
No wild coho retention for
the 2019 season.
Trout fishing in streams
closed Oct. 31.
SALMON RIVER: fall
Chinook
Fall Chinook fishing has
slowed down on the Salmon
River with the low and clear
conditions. Most of the fish
have moved up and out of the
estuary headed for the spawn-
ing grounds and the run is
almost done for the year. A few
fish are still being caught in
the estuary and the pressure
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