Taylor Dotson is taking her Senior Nights as a Siuslaw Viking one sport at a time.

Last fall it was volleyball.

This spring it will be softball.

Tuesday, it's girls basketball, Siuslaw playing its final home game of the season, hosting Douglas at 6 p.m.

It will be a bittersweet moment, indeed, for the Vikings' starting center.

"It's going to be like I wish I still had another year," Dotson said. "I have to play all out, leave it all out on the court."

She and the Vikings may be limping into the game following a loss Friday at home to Brookings-Harbor.

The No. 5-rated Bruins wrapped up a Far West League title with an impressive 58-26 victory at Glen Butler Court.

Dotson had 6 points, 2 blocked shots and a team-high 6 rebounds before taking a shot to her left eye and exiting in the game's final minute.

"She came down with her hand and smacked me beside my left eye," Dotson said. "I'm OK. I just thought I'd lost one of my contacts."

Teammates Sierra Potter and Destinie Tatum weren't as lucky. Potter dislocated a finger on her shooting hand, while Tatum battled hamstring woes, fouling out early in the second half with a season-low 1 point.

"Sierra dislocated a finger on her shooting hand," Vikings coach Clint Tatum said. "It's an old injury. Every so often it pops out, and turns sideways. We just have to pop it back in."

Potter still finished with a team-high 7 points, including a 3-pointer.

But it wasn't nearly enough as the Vikings fell to 5-15 for the season, 1-7 in league.

Brookings-Harbor, on the otherhand, is 8-0 in league, 18-4 overall and looking like a real threat to win a Class 4A state title this season.

"That's the program we want to be," Clint Tatum said of the Bruins. "That's what we're shooting for."

For now, the Vikings' first-year coach will be shooting for a strong finish to the season, beginning Tuesday with Senior Night, then Friday's season finale at North Bend.

"The girls always play hard," Tatum said. "I can't question their effort."

That's something that Dotson takes pride in, too, despite the wins and losses.

"Tonight, I just tried my hardest, doing what I could for the team," she said. "We have the potential. For the most part we're a pretty good team, and we do our best."

NOTES

Dotson, Potter and Anna Minten are the seniors who will be honored Tuesday. Minten is a transfer student from Belgium. ...

Dotson will be the fifth and final sibling to wear the Blue and Gold, following in the footsteps of brothers Josh, Jordan and Joseph and sister Teahna.

Josh is a Florence police officer, Jordan is in the Air Force and Joseph is a freshman decathlete at Southern Oregon University. Teahna is a new mom, and Taylor, who wants to be a nurse, spent Friday's postgame holding 4-month-old niece, Preslee. ...

One of the biggest cheers of the night Friday was for elfin freshman Zoe Leech, who drained a long shot late in the game for her first points on the varsity.

"She didn't want to be listed as 4-8 (on the roster), so we gave her a couple of inches," Tatum chuckled. "I told her I couldn't make her 5 foot." ...

Junior guard Claire Waggoner has been honored with a Spirit of a Champion Award, presented annually by the Oregon Athletic Directors Association and sponsored by Bi-Mart.

The honor is "For demonstrating good sportsmanship, outstanding effort, great integrity, and being a terrific ambassador for your school and community this year."

Senior Kenneth Thrall was the boys' recipient for Siuslaw. ...

In other Far West League play Friday, North Bend beat Marshfield 41-33 and Douglas throttled South Umpqua 68-18.

SCORING

BROOKINGS-HARBOR     20     18     14     6     —     58
SIUSLAW                              2     14       4     6     —     26

BROOKINGS-HARBOR — Courtney Bay 5 6-8 18, Abby Farmer 5 0-0 12, Siena Worthey 4 3-6 11, Drew Farmer 4 0-0 8, Malia Leddy 1 0-0 3, Vanessa Hernandez 0 2-4 2, Brooke Raiter 0 2-2 2, Tisha Bailey 0 2-2 2. Totals 19 15-22 58.
SIUSLAW — Sierra Potter 3 0-0 7, Taylor Dotson 3 0-2 6, Claire Waggoner 2 1-2 5, Nikki Launius 1 0-0 3, Carreina Greenburg 1 0-0 2, Zoe Leech 1 0-0 2, Destinie Tatum 0 1-2 1, Marika White 0 0-0 0, Abby Watkins 0 0-0 0, Madison Reynolds 0 0-0 0, Anna Minten 0 0-0 0. Totals 11 2-6 26.
3-point goals — Brookings-Harbor 5 (A. Farmer 2, Bay 2, Leddy 1). Siuslaw 2 (Potter 1, Launius 1). Total fouls — Brookings-Harbor 10, Siuslaw 17. Fouled out — Tatum.