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For more informa- tion, or to view the gal- lery, go to “Virtual Tour Fresh Impressions Reception 2020” on Facebook. individual skills and fundamentals as well as off ense, defense and spe- cial teams. I also had to measure and line the rodeo are- na where we played our games. (on dirt). Losing this season would be disappointing to the town of Spray; to the seniors wanting to play high school foot- ball for their fi rst — and probably only — time and also as my fi rst sea- son as a football coach. Together, we were able to be victorious six times in eight games that sea- son. In 1980-81, I coached the Siuslaw High School JV girls’ basketball team. Jay Scanlon, the varsi- ty coach, allowed me to keep several talented players on my team be- cause we wanted those girls to experience suc- cess on the court. Th is team won 19 games and lost but once in a home- cooked game against the Elmira Falcons. Two weeks earlier, we easily defeated the Fal- cons on our home court by 20 points. When the buzzer sounded to end our game in Elmira, there were four start- ing Vi-kings sitting on the bench aft er having fouled out. Even before looking at the scorebook I knew we were called for over 30 fouls. By comparison, the Falcons were called for less than 10. Th is season laid the foundation for the Siu- slaw Vikings’ future. Led by now SHS Hall- of-Famer Stephanie Os- born, the Viking girls went on to take a state title in 1987. Th e loss of this season may have delayed the success of the Siuslaw High School girls’ basketball pro- gram. My 1986 SHS varsi- ty baseball team won 11-straight games in the middle of the sea- son, with wins over Brookings and Reed- sport during that stretch awakening Viking base- ball support. Aft er our 11th win, I was instruct- ed to have the players wash their uniforms. Not knowing we would have such success, I told the players, aft er beating Reedsport 1-0, not to wash the winners’ dirt off their uniforms. Now that we were re- versing that idea, I did add they did not have to wash their dirty (win- ning) socks. Poor play —not clean uniforms — resulted in our los- ing the next game. Th en, in a must-win game, we missed the playoff s when a passed ball in the last inning brought the winning run home for our opponents. Two of the six seniors on that 1986 team would go on to set Siuslaw baseball rec-ords that may never be broken: Shortstop Piper Harris scored in every game that season and stole 57 bases; pitcher Dean Anderson would pitch 12 innings in a dou-ble- header against Brook- ings without allowing a single earned run. When the 1990 foot- ball season began, my Siuslaw JV football team had won 27 leagues ti- tles in a row — and I knew league teams would be primed to end our streak. During that time, Coach Len Lutero discovered that talent- ed sophomores on my team were game-ready because each had played considerable time as freshman. As a result, he began to move more players up to the varsity level dur-ing this season. We were able to re- main undefeated going into the fi nal game of the season at Gold Beach. However, due to play- ers moving up to varsity (which is the goal of any JV program), I was with- out six players who start- ed games for me during the sea-son. In the Gold Beach game, we found ourselves behind, with four minutes to play and on our own 45-yard line. We used the bread-and- butter plays that have been the foundation of Viking football for three decades. We ran the ball. It was veer right and veer left until we scored with under a minute to play. Th at victory conclud- ed four years of unde- feated league seasons. It was the most diffi cult of all the undefeated JV teams I ever coached. Next week, I will fo- cus on the parents in the fi nal installment of this three-part “what if ” series. What is it like for parents to miss watching their athletes com-pete, particularly their senior year? 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