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Sports Calendar
March 17
• MHS Volleyball
hosts T. Lake 6 pm
March 18
• SHS Soccer
at Marist 7 pm
• MHS Football
host Walport 7 pm
• SHS Volleyball
at Marist 6:45 pm
March 19
• SHS Football
at Harrisburg 7 pm
March 20
• SHS Cross Country
at Marist 9 am
March 23
• SHS Volleyball
at Marshfield 6:45 pm
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PHOTOS BY NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
Siuslaw senior quarterback Elijah Blankenship is pressured by the Eagles' defense in the third
quarter as he looks for an open receiver.
Viks land short of Eagles
By Zeahna Young
Siuslaw News
Siuslaw: 21
Santiam Christian: 47
On Friday (March 12), the
Vikings went head-to-head
with Santiam Christian’s Ea-
gles at Hans Petersen Field
and, while Siuslaw played a
dominant first half, it couldn’t
hold on to that mo-mentum in
the second half — eventually
falling to the Eagles, 47-21.
The Vikings started the first
quarter with extreme tenac-
ity fueled in part by Camp
Lacouture, who stunned San-
tiam Christian with a 38-yard
run. Then, with just under
5 minutes remaining in the
first quarter and nabbing an
Eagles’ fumble, quarterback
Elijah Blankenship managed
Siuslaw junior lineman Henry Rankin leaps for a tackle
against the Santiam Christian Eagles on Friday.
to explode through the line on
a 52-yard touchdown run for
the Viks. Skyler Loomis then
ran in the 2-point conversion
for an 8-0 Siuslaw lead.
With little over than 1 min-
ute left in the quarter, Blan-
kenship found Rhys Fleming
on an eight-yard pass to the
end zone to put Siuslaw ahead
14-0 to end the first quarter.
Siuslaw also did a great job
on defense in the first quarter,
with the defensive backs cre-
ating two turnovers and suc-
cessfully blocking any
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VIKINGS 2B
Mid-coast lakes were
stocked the first couple
weeks of February. The lakes
that have been stocked
include: Cleawox, Munsel,
Lost, Carter, Dune and Alder
lakes. All these lakes are full
of trout and are scheduled to
be stocked again in March.
Additional lakes are being
stocked during the first two
weeks of March: Siltcoos,
Lost, Woahink and Mercer
lakes.
SIUSLAW RIVER: Winter
steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing
continues to be slow on the
Siuslaw. The river is now low
and clear making it tougher
to catch these fish, but there
are still some fish being
caught. The Siuslaw typically
peaks in February and starts
to slow down in March. The
Whitaker Creek area is the
best place to target returning
hatchery fish.
Hatchery fish are also
planted in Lake Creek and
are released into Green
Creek. These returning
hatchery fish will start to
show up in December and
peak in January and
February.
ALSEA RIVER: Winter
steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing
continues to be slow on the
Alsea. The river is now low
and clear making it tough for
the bank anglers on the NF
Alsea but conditions are
good for the drift boaters in
the mainstem. Although it
has been a slow year there
are still fish to be caught in
the system through the
month of March. The later
returning wild broodstock
fish are providing the majori-
ty of the catch now and typi-
cally peak in March.
Reminder: The popular
winter steelhead bank fishery
around the Alsea Hatchery
remains open but the hatch-
ery grounds are closed to the
public. Anglers are required
to park in the designated
parking lot to access the river
and can't park near hatchery.
March 17
3:01am / 7.1
3:40pm / 6.0
9:35am / 0.9
9:26pm / 2.2
March 18
3:30am / 7.0
4:27pm / 5.6
10:16am / 1.0
9:57pm / 2.8
March 19
4:01am / 6.8
5:25pm / 5.2
11:03am / 1.2
10:32pm / 3.4
March 20
4:39am / 6.5
6:37pm / 4.9
11:59am / 1.2
11:21pm / 3.7
March 21
5:30am / 6.3
8:02pm / 4.9
1:06am / 1.2
March 22
6:37am 6.2
9:19pm / 5.1
12:37am / 4.0
2:18pm / 1.1
March 23
7:54am / 6.3
10:12pm / 5.5
2:08am / 4.0
3:22pm / 0.8
SHS cross country on course for runaway season
By Zeahna Young
Siuslaw News
Last week, the Vikings’ cross
country teams had stellar perfor-
mances in two meets. The first
was a dual meet against Marsh-
field on Wednesday (March 10)
at the Millicoma Trail. The sec-
ond was an invitational at Ban-
don Fugate Farms, where Siuslaw
faced off against one of its main
competitors this season, Bandon.
The men’s and women’s teams
took wins at both meets, show-
casing their athleticism by run-
ning two meets in three days.
Athletic Director and head coach
Chris Johnson explained his
reasoning behind keeping both
meets on the schedule last week.
“When I put our schedule to-
gether several months ago, ev-
erybody was at the extreme risk
[level], so it was looking like dual
meets would be all we could do,”
said Johnson. “As things have
changed, it's opened up opportu-
nities, but I felt like with agree-
ments I made a while back, we
needed to honor those.”
ZEAHNA YOUNG /SIUSLAW NEWS
Siuslaw freshman Rylee Colton (left) keeps pace with senior
Brea Blankenship, who finished first and second, respective-
ly, at last week's Millicoma and Bandon meets.
As Johnson explained, “It was
such a frenetic pace trying to put
things together that I don't know
if we really realized that the Ban-
don meet and the Millicoma
meet were only two days apart,
and that's certainly not what we
do. I like to race once a week,
and this sport is way more about
training than it is about racing.”
At Millicoma, the Lady Viks
finished first overall with a score
of 15, with all five runners from
Siuslaw finishing in the top six.
Rylee Colton (19:44.9) and
Brea Blankenship (20:18.1)
placed first and second respec-
tively. Next across the finish for
Siuslaw was Gracie Freudenthal
in fourth place with a time of
21:28.4. Jane Lacouture placed
fifth, and Corduroy Holbrook
was sixth, with times at 23:16.2
and 23:26.5, respectively.
Johnson said the course at
Millicoma helped the runners a
great deal. “The course is pretty
cool down there,” said the coach.
“A lot of it was on the track; they
have a 2K loop on a trail in the
back of the track, and another
2K loop, so they could run pretty
fast considering they didn't have
to put a full effort in. It was more
like a practice with uniforms on
than it was a meet.”
The men’s team finished just as
strong, with Siuslaw scoring 15,
and Marshfield 48. In addition,
the boys had eight runners fin-
ish in the top 10. The first three
to cross the finish for Si-uslaw
were Chad Hughes (16:54.8),
Samuel Ulrich (17:26.5) and Kyle
Hughes (17:46.2). They were
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