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2B | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2020 | SIUSLAW NEWS Siuslaw from 1B at the same time, you sort of know that, because of what's been happening with the pandemic, maybe it's not a fair fight. We're obviously happy with what we did, and it's always fun to go and be dominant — but sometimes it felt like it was a gunfight and we were the only ones who had the guns.” Johnson, while speaking humbly about his athletes, was very careful to note that even though Siuslaw may have had an advantage over other schools as far as train- ing consistency this year, his teams absolutely deserved all of the accomplishments they achieved this season. “I think that the kids on my team prioritized training during all this, and this sport rewards people who prioritize training, consis- tency and focus,” said Johnson. “We had five girls and nine boys who made it a priority to show up and practice every day when there were a lot of reasons maybe not to. It would’ve been easy to make excuses and find reasons not to train hard, but they trained hard anyway.” Sailors from 1B “AJ Moso got our first touchdown from about 25 yards out with JJ Neece throwing to him,” said Greene. Next, Joe Shepard got a touchdown on a screen pass from 10 yards out to put Mapleton ahead 14-0 at the end of the first quarter. In the next quarter, Jeff Bernhardt rushed the Pi- rates’ quarterback and, after being hit, their quar- terback threw the ball as he was going down. The half-hearted pass went straight to Moso on the defensive end, with Moso running it back 94 yards for the pick six. Greene explained that this was a key point for breaking Perrydale’s mo- mentum. “Perrydale threw that long pick, and that kind of broke them,” said Greene. “Instead of being 14-6 it ended up being 20-0 and you could tell it hurt the momentum.” After this, the Sailors did a trick play allowing Neece Another factor to consid- er is that, in cross country, no matter how hard a team works throughout the sea- son, until the district meet occurs there is no telling who will qualify for state. According to Johnson, “There's always that trepida- tion of, ‘It looks like we're supposed to crush the com- petition at district and we have a chance to go to state next week and do pretty well,’ but we have to qualify first. So, it's like a pressure cooker. And I'll give the kids credit — they handled the pressure, and we qualified, so we live to fight another day.” Each team had standout performances. The girls team had all five runners place in the top 10. Rylee Colton, who placed second overall, came in first for the Vikings with a time of 20:06.4. “Rylee just continues to keep improving and looks great,” said Johnson. “She's been good since she stepped onto the scene as a fresh- man, but she's just getting more and more mature as a racer, and she's going to be a force to reckon with next week.” Colton was followed by Brea Blankenship in fifth place overall with a time of 21:21.0. The senior finished strong despite sustaining an injury during the race when she stepped into a whole and rolled her ankle. “Brea looked great in practice all week and she looked great the first half of the race. I didn't talk to her after the race to find out what happened,” said Johnson. “Her ankle is a lit- tle bit swollen but Brea’s a competitor and she's tough. She'll pull herself together and she'll be ready to rock next week.” Blankenship was followed by Gracie Freudenthal in seventh (22:14.9), Jane Lacouture in ninth (22:50.4), and Corduroy Holbrook in 10th place (23:10.6). On the boys’ side, Siuslaw had six runners finish in the top 10, including five finish- ers among the top six. First across the finish was Chad Hughes with a time of 17:10.6. “Chad Hughes is just a great story,” said Johnson. “He was getting ready to run and he's like, ‘Last year, I wasn’t even running varsity at this thing!’ and then he went on to have a dominant performance.” to score from 55 yards out. “It was a double pass,” said Greene. “We handed it off to Jeremy, he pitched it to AJ, then AJ threw it across the field to JJ and he ran 55 yards for the score to make it 26-0.” Mapleton was able to score once more before the end of the second quarter, bringing the score to 32-0 at the half. In the third quarter, the Sailors were able to get a stop immediately, regain- ing possession of the ball. Mapleton the spread out its offense, faked a play and went up the middle. “Since we had been going outside a lot of times, that middle was wide open,” said Greene. Neece ran 55 yards for the score to make it is 38, then scored on an- other run play, bringing the score to 44-0 by the end of the third quarter. Perrydale was finally able to score at the very end of the game, bringing the ending score to 44-6. Greene explained that, this week, the Sailors’ de- fense really helped to bring them the win. “I think we had a really good scheme that week,” said the coach. “Perrydale’s [players] were really big; they looked like Tarzan, but they didn't play like Tarzan — and our kids were a little more aggres- sive than they were.” After a season with so many changes and cancel- lations, the Sailors were glad to have a solid win and, hopefully, that energy and momentum will carry over into this week’s final scheduled match at home against Falls City/Kings Valley. “[Perrydale] was a much-needed game,” said Greene, “because last week our game got canceled, and we had that Waldport taste in our mouth and we want- ed to get rid of it. [On Fri- day], we're going into our last game of the year. It's senior night, and it's a lot of lasts for a lot of people.” For Greene, who marked his 20th season as coach this year, it's will be his last game as head coach for the Sailors. “And it might be the last Following closely was Samuel Ulrich in second (17:30.4), Kyle Hughes in third (17:31.1) and Jaxson Jensen in fourth place (17:59.8). Brayden Linton finished sixth and Dylan Jensen finished ninth, with times of 18:14.8 and 18:45.5, respectively. “Kyle Hughes had a great race, too,” said Johnson. “Ryan Jennings is banged up, which is really tough because he's been so great this year. We had to pull him out of the race halfway through, and he's been our third guy or fourth guy most of the year. But Brayden [Linton] really stepped up and had a fantastic race.” This Saturday’s state championship meet was moved from Tillamook due to the latest state risk assess- ment. Instead, Siuslaw will compete at Marist High School once again, facing 24 other leagues in the 4A divi- sion, including Marist, who came in second at the Sky- Em district finals. A total of 124 individual boys and 101 individual girls will compete Saturday. The girls race begins at 11:15 a.m., followed by the boys race at noon. game for the football pro- gram unless we get more kids,” Greene added. “I don't even know if we’ll have enough for six-man next year. I hope we do, but I won't be there. Brian Moore has coached with me for 20 plus years, and this will be his last game too. And of course, for our seniors, this will be their last game.” In all, Greene said he was pleased that the Sailors had the opportunities they did this season, and the win made it all the more enjoy- able. “It was a good game for our kids,” said Greene. “They don't have a whole lot to celebrate this year, and I'm just glad these kids got to have some fun. 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