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Siuslaw athletes
receive Sky-Em,
state honors
Earlier this week, Viking
athletes from softball, baseball,
cross country, football and
soccer received recognition
with all-league and OSAA Ac-
ademic All-State honors.
Sky-Em League—
Softball:
• Bailey Overton
1st team, infield
• Adriana Edwards
2nd team, catcher
• Hayden Muller
2nd team, outfield
• Lizbeth Garcia-Galvan
honorable mention, infield
• Kya Blake
honorable mention, infield
Baseball
• Beau Erickson
honorable mention, infield
• Jason Garcia
honorable mention, catcher
• Elijah Blankenship
honorable mention, utility
• Ian Sissel
2nd team, DH
OSAA Academic All-State
Siuslaw News
Community
&
Lifestyle
Sports Calendar
May 26
• SHS wrestling
at Sweet Home
5 pm
COURTESY PHOTO
Senior JJ Neece (far left) and junior Joe Shepard (far right) with their medals in the triple jump.
Sailors nab 1A state medals
May 27
• MHS boys BB
at Crow 5:30 pm
• MHS girls BB
at Crow 7 pm
• SHS boys BB
at Marist 5:45 pm
• SHS girls BB
at Marist 7:15 pm
this fall to play football, partici-
pated in the javelin and the triple
jump, placing first in the javelin
with a throw of 152-3, and third
in the triple jump with a leap of
40-7.
Junior Joe Shepard also partic-
ipated in the triple jump, and
placed 6th with a jump of 40-4
.25 which was a personal record.
By Zeahna Young
Siuslaw News
O
n Saturday (May 22),
Mapleton had two ath-
letes compete in the 1A
State
Track
and
Field
Championships.
Senior JJ Neece, who is attend-
ing Western Oregon University
Boys Cross Country: Brayden
Linton, Cayden Gray, Chad
Hughes, Dylan Jensen, Jacob
Blankenship, Jaxson Jensen,
Kyle Hughes, Ryan Jennings,
Sam Ulrich, and Talon Ross.
Girls Cross Country: Brea Blan-
kenship, Corduroy Holbrook,
The Sailors scored a total of 19
points which placed them 12th
out of 34 teams in the 1A divi-
sion for all of Oregon.
Said Athletic Director Carrie
Dean, “It was a good ending to
the season! They did well and
represented Mapleton well.”
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HONORS 2B
Viking track teams bring home state hardware
June 1
• MHS boys BB
vs McKenzie 5:30 pm
• MHS girls BB
vs McKenzie 7 pm
• SHS boys BB
vs Marshfield 5:45pm
• SHS girls BB
vs Marshfield 7:15pm
Tide Tables
PHOTOS BY ZEAHNA YOUNG/SIUSLAW NEWS
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Siuslaw’s girls’ team (above) takes second place in the 4A State Track and Field Championships; Siuslaw’s boys 4x400 relay
team (above right) after placing fourth in their race.
Low Tide
May 26
1:20pm / 6.5
6:52am / -2.1
6:40pm / 0.9
May 27
12:35am 8.7
2:14pm / 6.5
7:40am / -2.4
7:29pm / 2.4
May 28
1:21am / 8.5
3:08pm / 6.4
8:29am /2.4
8:21pm / 2.6
May 29
2:09am / 8.3
4:03pm / 6.3
9:19am / -2.0
9:17pm / 2.9
May 30
3:01pm / 7.7
5:00pm / 6.1
10:11am / -1.5
10:19pm / 3.0
May 31
3:57am / 7.0
5:58pm / 6.0
11:06am / -1.0
11:29pm / 3.0
MMM 22
5:00am / 6.2
6:55pm / 6.1
12:02am / -0.3
for the Vikings, including se-
nior Brea Blankenship, who fin-
ished first in the 800-meter race
(2:24.36a, a season record [SR])
and the girls’ team came in sec-
ond overall at the meet with 50
points.
“There were so many people
who were willing to get their
hands dirty and come out and
support us; there were 100 vol-
unteers there,” said Johnson.
Hans Petersen Memorial Field
By Zeahna Young
Siuslaw News
“We were determined to host
the state meet at Siuslaw because
we knew we could do it right.
We have a fantastic facility —
and props to our community for
that,” said Athletic Director and
coach Chris Johnson of the 4A
State Track and Field Champi-
onships this past weekend (May
21-22). Several athletes placed
was fully decked out with Amer-
ican flags around the entire sta-
dium thanks to Shannon Sheets
and the Kiwanis Club, and the
event started on Saturday with a
special flyover courtesy of one of
Florence’s own retired colonels.
“We could do some things that
they can’t do at Hayward Field,”
explained Johnson, “and there
will never be a flyover at a state
meet again; there will never be
a victory lap at the state meet
again. There will never be kids
getting championship T-shirts
and huge bouquets of beautiful
flowers ever again.
“So, that was what we wanted
to do, because the kids who were
here two years ago lost a whole
year of their career, and this was
a shortened season. We were de-
termined to make this the best
state meet that we could host.”
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STATE 2B
Vik wrestlers shows strong in first meet, sweep Marshfield duals
By Zeahna Young
Siuslaw News
Siuslaw’s wrestling team par-
ticipated in its first two meets
over the weekend. The first,
which was held on Friday (May
21) at Sutherlin, began as a rare
outdoor round-robin invitation-
al tournament. However, about
two hours into the evening meet,
the air became too damp for the
mats to stay dry, so all partici-
pants came together to transport
everything inside to finish the
meet. Fortunately, ordinances
had just changed, allowing the
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quantity of people at the event to
be inside.
“When the mats got slick, they
were very quick about moving
things into the gym,” said Siu-
slaw coach Neil Wartnik. “I just
thank God that the governor’s
mandate allowed the wrestlers
to wrestle without masks. As I
was entering the day, just look-
ing at it, I thought, ‘Wow, what
a blessing that we have this op-
portunity!”
While no team scores were
kept, the meet allowed the
Sophomore Mason Buss, undefeated thus far, prepares to pin
his competitor from Oakland.
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VIKS 2B
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