The Siuslaw Vikings baseball teaml is on the cusp of its first OSAA Class 4A play-in game in eight seasons.

The quest resumes at 5 p.m. today at Junction City, continues with a doubleheader at home Wednesday against Cottage Grove and is capped Friday with a game at Cottage Grove.

The Wednesday doubleheader was announced Tuesday by Siuslaw athletic director Chris Johnson.

"The weather for Friday doesn't look promising so we want to get games in while we can, as the end of the season is fast approaching," Johnson said. "There is still some bad weather in the forecast."

Siuslaw enters today's game 6-11 overall, 1-5 in the Sky-Em League and ranked No. 19 by the OSAA computers.

Junction City (11-6, 6-2) is ranked No. 11, while Cottage Grove (2-16, 0-8) is ranked No. 32 among the 33 4A schools.

Eight schools advance to the playoffs as automatic qualifiers, while 16 will be paired off in play-in games. That's 24 schools still alive when the regular season ends.

Two or more wins this week will go a long way in securing one of the six spots based on ranking.

Only nine schools are eliminated at the end of the regular season, and 10 schools have worse records than Siuslaw — 0-13 Corbett, 1-15 Ontario, 2-17 North Valley, 2-16 Cottage Grove, 3-14 Sweet Home, 3-15 Klamath Union, 3-13 Molalla, 3-12 Cascade, 4-9 McLoughlin and 5-13 Astoria.

Information on the 4A OSAA baseball playoffs are online at https://www.osaa.org/activities/bbl/qualifications.

Current rankings are online at https://www.osaa.org/activities/bbl/rankings?div=4A.

SIUSLAW RECORD
Record: 6-11 overall, 1-6 Sky-Em League
March 15 — Siuslaw 7, at Sutherlin 1, 1st game
March 15 — Siuslaw 7, at Sutherlin 5, 2nd game
March 18 — at Mazama 9, Siuslaw 2, at Klamath Falls
March 19 — Siuslaw 13, at Klamath Union 3, 5 innings, 1st game
March 19 — Siuslaw 22, at Klamath Union 0, 3 innings, 2nd game
March 25 — at Siuslaw 9, Coquille 2
April 1 — Pleasant Hill 12, at Siuslaw 9, 1st game
April 1 — Pleasant Hill 6, at Siuslaw 5, 2nd game, 5 innings, darkness
April 5 — Hidden Valley 8, at Siuslaw 2
April 7 — Creswell 5, at Siuslaw 2
April 12 — at Marist, postponed
April 15 — Junction City 5, at Siuslaw 1, 1st game
April 15 — Junction City 11, at Siuslaw 2, 2nd game
April 18 — at Marist, 5 p.m.
April 19 — Cottage Grove, postponed
April 21 — at Marist 12, Siuslaw 2, 5 innings
April 22 — Elmira-Triangle Lake 9, Siuslaw 3, 1st game, at Elmira
April 22 — Siuslaw 5, at Elmira-Triangle Lake 4, 2nd game, at Elmira
April 26 — at Marshfield 11, Siuslaw 4
April 29 — Marist 9, at Siuslaw 0, 1st game
April 29 — Marist 3, at Siuslaw 0, 2nd game, suspended after 3 innings
Tuesday, May 3 — at Junction City, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4 — Cottage Grove (DH), 3 p.m.
Friday, May 6 — at Cottage Grove, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, May 10 — Elmira-Triangle Lake, 5 p.m.
Friday, May 13 — Marshfield (DH), 3 p.m.

VARSITY ROSTER
  1 Eaden Mead, sophomore, infielder/RHP
  2 Isaac Garza, senior, RHP/2B
  3 Noah Dotson, junior, OF/RHP
  4 Beau Erickson, senior, SS/RHP
  5 Victor Ayala, junior, U/OF
  9 Ethan Halpin, senior, RHP/1B
10 Henry Rankin, senior, C/1B
12 Ian Sissel, junior, OF/C
13 Jason Garcia, senior, RHP/U
14 Joel Sissel, freshman, OF/RHP
15 Jacob Welton, junior, RHP/OF
21 Andrew Jensen-Norman, sophomore, RHP/1B
22 Max Reynolds, freshman, U
34 Armando Galvan-Mendez, sophomore, 3B
Coach: Tom Shinn
Assistants: Dan Rankin, Jim Baxter (JV head coach)