It appears the Siuslaw Vikings will be headed back to the Sky-Em League for the four-year time block starting in the fall of 2018.

That is the preliminary recommendation of the Oregon School Activities Association's Classification and Districting Committee following its sixth public meeting Monday in Wilsonville.

"The Committee is currently supporting Draft No. 13 — 5 Classification and is seeking feedback on the cutoff points, league alignments and school placements," it said in a release of its proceedings.

"Please note that this is a draft proposal and is not a final recommendation."

Siuslaw would be in a nine-school Class 3A league with Creswell, Elmira, Harrisburg, Junction City, La Pine, Philomath, Pleasant Hill and Sisters.

Siuslaw currently is in the six-school Far West League.

Brookings-Harbor, Douglas and South Umpqua will join the eight-school Southern Cascade League, while Marshfield and North Bend will return to a seven-school Midwestern League.

The football-only draft for schools has been tabled for now, but "could come back into the conversation as the process moves forward," according to the committee.

The committee will make its final recommendations at its Oct. 16 meeting.

To read the full report and the committee's current five-classification proposal, go to:

http://www.osaa.org/docs/committees/classification/20170320update.pdf

NOTES

Siuslaw would be one of 24 schools among the current Class 4A's 40 schools that would be in 3A. ... Some 26 schools would join them, all smaller than Siuslaw. ...

Marshfield and North Bend would be among 16 current Class 4A schools that would be in the new 4A. ... Others include Newport, Cottage Grove, Cascade, Stayton, Phoenix, Mazama, Scappoose, Sweet Home, Crook County, Gladstone, Madras, Molalla, Henley and Klamath Union. ...