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Siuslaw News
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&
Leisure
Sports Calendar
May 15
• SHS track & field
hosts Sky-Em League
Championships
11 am
• SHS Baseball
at J. City noon/2 pm
• SHS Softball
at J. City noon/2pm
May 18
• SHS girls BB
at P. Hill 6 pm
• SHS boys BB
hosts P. Hill 7:15 pm
• MHS BB at Siletz
Boys 5:30 pm
Girls 7 pm
PHOTOS BY ZEAHNA YOUNG/SIUSLAW NEWS
Siuslaw coach Teri Straley (back row, center) and the Siuslaw High School cheerleading squad prepare for their final competi-
tion of the year, which was held virtually this past Wednesday. The Vikings cheerleaders (below) hit their finishing pose at the
end of their routine.
Cheer team holds final competition — virtually
May 19
• SHS girls BB
hosts N. Bend
5:45 pm
• SHS boys BB
hosts N. Bend
7:15 pm
May 20
• MHS BB at Eddyville
Boys 5:30 pm
Girls 7 pm
May 19
• SHS girls BB
at N. Bend 5:45 pm
• SHS boys BB
at N. Bend 7:15 pm
Tide Tables
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
May 15
2:07am / 6.9
4:05pm / 5.6
9:20am / -0.5
9:04pm / 3.5
May 16
2:42pm / 6.7
4:55pm / 5.4
10:02am / -0.3
9:49pm / 3.6
May 17
3:23am 6.4
5:50pm / 5.4
10:49am / -0.1
10:46pm / 3.6
May 18
4:15am / 6.1
6:46pm / 5.4
11:41am / 0.1
May 19
5:22am / 5.8
7:38pm / 5.7
12:00am / 3.6
12:38pm / 0.3
May 20
6:41am / 5.5
8:25pm / 6.0
1:20am / 3.2
1:36pm / 0.5
May 21
8:03am / 5.5
9:08pm / 6.6
2:31am / 2.4
2:32pm / 0.7
year coaching the squad at
Siuslaw.
“This season has gone pretty
n Wednesday (May 12), well,” admitted Straley. “It was
really rough with all of the
Siuslaw’s cheerleading
squad, who is a compe- COVID changes, and with
tition team as well as being the cheer, it got changed so often; I
think almost every month up
voice of the Vikings during
until about February, I was get-
football and basketball games,
ting a new email with updates
performed virtually in its final
competition for the school year. and changes. We started in
November, but we were doing
Coach Teri Straley discussed
virtual practices, because we
some of the challenges she has
had to overcome with her team couldn't find a place on campus
this year, which was her second that was safe for all of them to
By Zeahna Young
Siuslaw News
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practice.”
Since the team competes
throughout the year, and state
championships are typically in
Febru-ary, November was a
very late start for the squad. In
addition, figuring out the logis-
tics to ad-just from virtual to
in-person practices was a battle.
However, the team struggled to
find a place it could practice,
starting outside due to the
stunting in preparation for the
football sea-son.
In addition, the team was
Viks enter final week around diamonds
By Zeahna Young
Siuslaw News
CHEER 3B
ODFW REGIONAL
FISHING REPORT
MID-COAST LAKES:
Mid-coast lakes are full of
trout and the fishing has
been good. Many of the
lakes have been stocked
twice now and several others
received stockings in mid-
March. Here is a list of the
lakes that have been stocked
so far this year: Thissel
Pond, Cleawox, Munsel,
Mercer, Alder, Dune, Buck,
Lost, Carter, Devils,
Woahink, Elbow, Siltcoos,
Eckman, and Big Creek
Reservoirs #1 and #2. All of
these lakes are scheduled to
receive more trout stockings
in April as well.
SIUSLAW RIVER: Winter
steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing
continues to be slow on the
Siuslaw and is slowing down
for the season which closed
March 31. Trout fishing in
streams opens on May 22.
DIAMONDS 2B
(Top) Senior Kya Blake com-
pletes the put out at first
base; (bottom) Junior Beau
Erickson prepares to throw
the ball infield after catch-
ing a pop fly.
See
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
“Tonight’s game against
the league-leading Marist
Spartans ended in a loss for
the Vikings. This was Senior
Night as it was the last home
game of the season,” ex-
plained coach Sean O’Mara
of the Lady Viks’ match on
Tuesday (May 11).
Siuslaw
honored
Kya
Blake, Adri Edwards and Liz-
beth Garcia-Galvan for their
careers playing Vikings’ soft-
ball just before the game.
The match itself, which
ended after three innings,
was stopped with a final
score of 19-0 in favor of the
Spartans after the Vikings
failed to score in the bottom
of the third.
The first inning was the
See
trying to learn its competition
routine at the same time —
which is something that the
squad does every year — multi-
tasking both sports season rou-
tines as well as competition
routines.
“That was a really big differ-
ence and a challenge this year,”
Straley said.
A major turning point for the
team came as a result of injuries
to among the squad.
PHOTOS BY ZEAHNA YOUNG/SIUSLAW NEWS