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.
We got to spread the ball
around quite a bit, and
people got a lot of touch-
es, some guys on defense
got some sacks, and it was
great.”
The Sailors’ final game
of the season, which is also
Senior Night, is at home
this Friday starting at 7
p.m.
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Viks
from 1B
with 8:55 left in the first
quarter.
Soon after, Junction City
scored another touchdown
on a 79-yard pass, then
scored the PAT. The Tigers
would score once more in
the quarter, breaching the
end zone with 5 seconds
left to move ahead 21-6.
In the second quarter,
the Vikings’ Skyler Loomis
Soccer
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saves in the half as well.
In the second half,
Siuslaw took another five
scored a touchdown off of
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the score to 21-14 less than
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Coming back in the
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The Vikings were able to
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tire period, plus also score
early in the quarter when
Braydon Thornton caught
an eight-yard pass from
Camp Lacouture — who
also kicked the extra point.
Loomis then had another
touchdown, this time on a
five-yard run and, follow-
ing the PAT from Lacou-
ture, the Vikings cut their
deficit to 14.
However, it was as close
as Siuslaw would get to
catching the Tigers, who
went on to win it, 34-48.
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training to prepare for the
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