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2022 Spring Sports Preview

Mapleton & Siuslaw Varsity Team Photos, Schedules & Roster Produced by the Siuslaw News | March 2022

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2022 Spring Sports Preview

In this special publication, find Mapleton & Siuslaw High School Varsity Team Photos, Schedules & Roster for track & field, baseball, softball and golf.

People can submit their sports, outdoors and recreation events and news to Siuslaw News Sports Reporter Zac Burtt at ZBurtt@TheSiuslawNews.com

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Siuslaw Track & Field Schedule

March 17 Siuslaw Icebreaker - Florence March 23 Bay Street Pole Vault Competition - Florence April 2 @ Marist Catholic, - Eugene April 9 AMJ Invitational - McKenzie April 9 Big Foot/Pepsi/Jim Robinson Twilight Invitational - Roseburg

April 14 Philomath Invitational April 16 20th Annual Prefontaine Rotary Invitational - Marshfield April 22 Central Coast Invitational - Florence April 22-23 Oregon Relays - Hayward Field - Eugene April 29 Nike/Jesuit Twilight Relays - Portland April 30 Stayton Invitational

April 30 56th Centennial Invitational - Gresham May 3 Sky-Em Meet - Coos Bay May 6 Wally Ciochetti Invitational - Cottage Grove May 13-14 Sky-Em District Championships - Junction City May 20-21 OSAA 4A State Championships - Hayward Field - Eugene

Team Roster BOYS

Freshmen Justin Allen Raymundo Brito-Xilot Landon Curley Chaz Edblom Isaac Głowacki Kyler Hammerburg Korbyn Marler Nicholas May

Wesley Nicholls Deegan Smith Sophomores Samuel Castle Owen Garneau Brayden Linton Hunter Pimlott Talan Ross David Sassone

Landon Severy Cort Waggoner

Jonathan Rose Samuel Ulrich

Juniors Jacob Blankenship Alex Goss Tyler Hendershot Noel Hernandez Kyle Hughes Hunter Petterson

Seniors Rhys Fleming JC Gentry Avery Hart Chad Hughes Camp Lacouture Joseph Slaughter

James Smith

Girls

Freshmen Makayla Bender Jaamise Huff Macali Ladę Addison McNeill Macy McNeill Maya Wells

Sophomores Madison Carnahan Corduroy Holbrook Iriena Khufu Jane Lacouture Daelyn McGee

Seniors Rylee Colton Alizabeth Norton

Juniors Gillian Norton

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Siuslaw Varsity Softball VIKING PROUD!

Team Roster Head Coach Jason Lipe Assistant David Bitner Baily Myrick OF/1B (11) Brooke Olson OF (12) Maggie Manning C (12) Makayla Freeman OF (10) Meika Shappell 3B (10) Bailey Overton SS (12) Ashley Hennessee OF (10)

Schedule March 15 @ Sutherlin (DH) 2:30 p.m. March 19 @ South Umpqua (DH) noon March 25 Coquille (DH) noon April 1 Pleasant Hill (DH) 3 p.m. April 5

Brynlee Manues C (10) Mary Fontenot OF (11) Jessika Vargas OF (10) Kimberly Martinez-Munoz OF (9) Cate Waggoner C (10) Kristin Wall 2B (10) Megan Alberty OF (9) Claire Lindell OF (9) Rosa Velasco Mendez OF (10) Jordyn Breeden C (9) Jolee Erickson RHP/SS (9) Abigail Riggs Utility (9)

Creswell 5 p.m. April 12 @ Marist 5 p.m. April 15 Junction City (DH) 3 p.m. April 19 Cottage Grove 5 p.m. April 22 @ Elmira/Mapleton (DH) 3 p.m. April 26 @ Marshfield 5 p.m.

April 29 Marist (DH) 3 p.m. May 3 @ Junction City 5 p.m. May 6 @ Cottage Grove (DH) 3 p.m. May 10 Elmira/Mapleton 5 p.m. May 13 Marshfield (DH) 3 p.m.

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Schedule

Henry Rankin C/1B (12) Andrew Jensen-Norman RHP/1B (10) Joel Sissel OF/RHP (9) Ian Sissel OF/C (11)

March 15 @ Sutherlin (DH) 2:30 p.m. May 18 @ Mazama 4 p.m. March 19 @ Klamath Union (DH) noon

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Jacob Welton RHP/OF (11) Ethan Halpin RHP/OF (11) Isaac Garza RHP/1B (12) Noah Dotson OF/RHP (11) Victor Ayala U/OF (11) Beau Erickson SS/RHP (12) Armando Galvan-Mendez 3B (10) Jason Garcia RHP/U (12) Ethan Aaron OF/RHP (12)

March 25 Coquille (DH) noon April 1 Pleasant Hill (DH) 3 p.m. April 5 Creswell 5 p.m.

April 12 @ Marist 5 p.m. April 15 Junction City (DH) 3 p.m. April 19 Cottage Grove 5 p.m.

April 22 @ Elmira (DH) 3 p.m. April 26 @ Marshfield 5 p.m. April 29 Marist (DH) 3 p.m.

May 3 @ Junction City 5 p.m. May 6 @ Cottage Grove (DH) 3 p.m. May 10 Elmira 5 p.m.

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Schedule

March 16 Run for the Clover Waldport March 26 MCTF Icebreaker McKenzie March 30 1A-SD2 League Meet Mapleton April 2 1A-SD2 League Meet McKenzie April 9 AMJ Invitational - McKenzie April 12 Cinder Classic - Crow April 15 @ Reedsport April 22 Central Coast Invitational Siuslaw

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R ECORD BOOK REPLAY The greatest game no one even noticed Siuslaw and Bandon played a historic baseball game in 1956

By Zac Burtt Siuslaw News n April 2, 1956, Siuslaw Viking baseball opened the season when the team traveled to Bandon for what was expected to be just a normal nonleague high school baseball game. When the team headed home many hours later, they had participated in one of the most amazing games in Siuslaw sports history. Little did the fans in attendance realize at the time, but they had also seen one Viking player put on one of the greatest displays of pitching ever seen by a high school athlete, ever, anywhere. Strangely, it seemed besides a few small newspaper stories the day after the game, almost no one noticed how special this game was. The game started quietly. Viking starting pitcher Jackie Gardiner was pitching well when he lost some control of his pitches in the second inning. He walked two and hit a batter and a run scored on an error. The score was 1-0 Bandon. The Vikings answered in the third after scoring as the

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Siuslaw Viking baseball player Jackie Gardiner set the Oregon high school record when he struck out 24 Bandon Tigers on April 2, 1956. Here Gardiner is seen at his Siuslaw Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2014.

result of two errors by the Tigers. This was the only run Bandon starting pitcher Mike Jesperson would allow. After the third inning, Gardiner and Jesperson settled into a pitcher’s duel. Both pitchers proceeded to strike out batter after batter at a historic rate. Neither team could make anything happen, offensively, as both pitchers were nearly unhittable.

High school games are scheduled for seven innings but with the score still tied at 1-1, the game went into extra innings … lots of extra innings. The game went on … and on … and on. When Gardiner was finally pulled for reliever Jack Stonelake after 14 innings, his stat line was one of the most amazing ever seen: 14 innings pitched, 3 hits al-

lowed, 6 walks, one run and what is still, to this day, the Oregon High School record, a remarkable 24 strikeouts. Though not the result the Viks had hoped for, the game was finally resolved in the 16th inning when Bandon centerfielder Rod Martindale doubled and moved to third on a Siuslaw throwing error. Bandon catcher Jack Yager, probably quite sore after catching 16 innings, was

able to make contact and drive in the winning run. He mercifully ended this marathon of a game 2-1. The winning pitcher, Bandon’s Jesperson, also had an amazing performance; 16 innings pitched, 6 hits allowed, 6 walks, 1 unearned run and, like Gardiner, he pitched one of the most amazing games by a high school baseball player in Oregon, ever. According to the website ORHSsportsrecords.com, that 16-inning game ties a 2012 game between Canby and Lake Oswego as the longest game in Oregon high school baseball history. The Bandon-Siuslaw game that included two of the greatest pitching performances ever seen in the state was given just a little bit of space in a couple papers on the Oregon Coast the next day. Soon, the game faded into obscurity, never given the recognition it deserved as the one of the most amazing in Oregon sports history. Viking pitcher Gardiner did receive some much deserved recognition many years later when, in 2014, he was inducted into the Siuslaw Athletics Hall of Fame.