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SN Siuslaw News Sports & Lifestyle SPORTS CALENDAR Siuslaw and Mapleton All events subject to change September 1 • SHS Soccer vs. Creswell — 6:30 p.m. September 3 • MHS Football vs. Jewell — 7 p.m. THESIUSLAWNEWS.COM | WEDNESDAY EDITION | SEPTEMBER 1, 2021 | $1.00 Mapleton volleyball plays season-opener By Zeahna Young/Siuslaw News Mapleton d C.S. Lewis Academy: 25-11, 25-12, 21-25, 26-28, 15-6 Pacific d Mapleton: 15-25, 13-25, 25-21, 19-25 Mapleton’s volleyball team has had an ac- tion-packed week, playing a doubleheader at home against C.S. Lewis Academy and Pacific on Thurs- day, Aug. 26, and a tournament at C.S. Lewis this past Saturday, Aug. 26. “We won our first game, so that’s a great way to start it off!” said senior Brier Shird, who plays out- side hitter for the Lady Sailors. Senior libero Summer Flansberg said, “The rest of them have been really close, so I think we’re go- ing to have a good season this year!” The girls are definitely having fun so far, cele- brating their first win while taking their first loss in stride with positive attitudes. Coach Molly Dooley discussed her reactions after both games. “The first one we came out and played really hard,” Dooley said. “Morgan [Milbrett], one of our freshmen setters who is also our lead-off server, had three aces in a row with five aces total in that first set, which was pretty darn awesome.” It was serving that carried the Lady Sailors through, proving the importance of those fun- damental skills Dooley has been working on strengthening with her girls in practice. “We had some really strong serving in that first set, and actually, throughout the entire game we had some really strong serving, which makes me See VOLLEYBALL page 2B Libero Summer Flansberg digs the ball for the Lady Sailors at their tournament last weekend. September 6 • SHS soccer at North Bend — 6 p.m. September 7 • MHS volleyball vs. Alsea — 6 p.m. Tide Tables Entrance Siuslaw River High Tide Low Tide August 28 5:32 a.m. / 4.8 Sisters Lexi Flansberg and Tanae Robbins (10 and 4) sub in for sisters Opal and Helen Burruss (11 and 7). 11:23 a.m. / 1.7 5:34 p.m. / 5.8 August 29 6:33 a.m. / 4.4 12:30 a.m. / 1.0 6:15 p.m. / 5.6 12:03 p.m. / 2.3 Siuslaw soccer kicks off their season in Newport August 30 7:49 a.m. / 4.1 1:31 a.m. / 1.0 7:06 p.m. / 5.5 12:55 p.m. / 2.7 August 31 9:16 a.m. / 4.1 2:39 a.m. / 1.0 8:07 p.m. / 5.5 2:07 p.m. / 3.0 September 1 10:33 a.m. / 4.3 3:45 a.m. / 0.8 9:12 p.m. / 5.6 3:26 p.m. / 3.1 September 2 11:27 a.m. / 4.6 4:44 a.m. / 0.5 10:12 p.m. / 5.8 4:33 p.m. / 2.9 September 3 12:07 p.m. / 4.9 5:33 a.m. / 0.1 11:04 p.m. / 6.1 5:26 p.m. / 2.6 September 4 6:14 a.m. / -0.2 12:42 p.m. / 5.2 6:11 p.m. / 2.2 11:52 p.m. / 6.4 September 5 6:52 a.m. / -0.5 6:52 p.m. / 1.8 1:13 p.m. / 5.5 Coach Londi Tomaro gives her team a pep talk at the start of their first game of the season against Newport High School. By Zeahna Young Siuslaw News On Aug. 26, Siuslaw’s soccer team played their season open- er at Newport High School. It was a hard-fought game, but the Vikings succumbed to Newport late in the second half after the Cubs reached an eight-point ad- vantage. “We went into the game ex- pecting a tough matchup,” said Coach Londi Tomaro. “Our Var- sity team had a full squad at the game; every player got minutes and contributed to the match. Although we did not score and the game ended 0-8, we did get several good chances, especially in the second half.” One major disadvantage for Siuslaw occurred about half- way through the first half of the game when goalie Kayden Lane was given a red card ejec- tion after accidentally tripping a player in front of the goal while trying to defend. As a result, the Viks had to play almost three quarters of the game one player down, and Lane will also have to sit out of their game tonight, serving a one-game suspension. “Although it was an unlucky play, it was an automatic red card ejection because it denied an obvious goal scoring oppor- tunity,” said Tomaro. “The kid was six yards away from the goal Senior Jason Garcia goes for a shot to move the ball up the field. with an empty net, and he would have had to really flub up to miss — he could have just walked the ball into the net at that point. “The referee came over and talked to Kayden at halftime and said he knew it was just unlucky—Kayden got beat and turned around and tried to dive for the ball, and acciden- tally tripped the kid. Anywhere else in the box, or even if there was a defender back there, it would have been a yellow card and penalty kick still, but he wouldn’t have been ejected from the game. So, even though it wasn’t a malicious foul, it’s really situational.” According to Tomaro, “A lot of times, a red card is for things that are really bad — hitting somebody, kicking somebody, spitting on somebody, yelling swear words directed at a per- son — if you yell in frustration and swear, it’s a yellow card, but if you swear at somebody, or use derogatory language at a person, then it’s a red card. So, when you hear about a red card in soccer, it’s usually all these really bad things, but there’s also this one situational red card which is automatic, and there’s no wiggle room. It just has to be an ejec- tion.” Aside from being forced to See SOCCER page 2B