The Siuslaw Vikings football team will stay in Class 3A for the next two years.

But it won't be the same Class 3A.

That became a bit clearer Thursday with the latest update from the ad hoc advisory committee of the Oregon School Activities Association.

The biggest change will be the creation of a hybrid 4A/3A district for Eastern Oregon, lumping 4A Baker, La Grande and Ontario in with 3A Burns, Nyssa and Vale.

McLoughlin/Griswold will join that district as a 4A school playing at 3A.

"The district would have the autonomy to determine the process to qualify 4A and 3A teams into OSAA Championships," according to the eight-page update.

"The group supports this new league configuration as it addresses the league size issue immediately and provides an opportunity to demonstrate the mixed classifications within a single district can be viable."

Siuslaw will be in a 13-school 3A Special District 2 with Brookings-Harbor, Cascade Christian, Douglas, Harrisburg, Junction City, La Pine, Pleasant Hill, Santiam Christian, Sisters, South Umpqua, St. Mary's (Medford) and Sutherlin.

Junction City and Sisters are 4A schools moving down to 3A next year, along with Philomath (3A Special District 1) and McLoughlin/Griswold, which played this past fall as an independent.

Additionally, Warrenton is moving back to 3A from 2A and will compete in Special District 1.

The Vikings have played the past two seasons in Special District 2 North with Harrisburg, La Pine, Pleasant Hill, Santiam Christian and Sutherlin.

The next public meeting of the committee is Wednesday, Jan. 22.

The most recent update is available online at http://www.osaa.org/docs/committees/football/20191216update.pdf.