Local sports and the weather

Taking a look at Coast Radio Sports…

Tickets are still available for Saturday night’s Siuslaw Athletic Booster Club auction at the Florence Events Center. Money raised at the annual dinner and auction is used to support athletics at Siuslaw High School and Middle School. Dinner is $40 and tickets are available at Coastal Fitness. The fund-raiser follows the first-ever Siuslaw Athletic Hall of Fame induction at 3:30 that afternoon… tickets for the induction are $10 and available at the door.

The Eugene Emeralds used a big sixth inning to break a two-game losing streak and bested the Tri-City Dust Devils 9-4 yesterday at PK Park. An early Dust Devil lead put the Ems in a hole, but they got back on top in the middle innings, only to see Tri-City tie it up in the top of the sixth. Three Eugene runs in the bottom of that inning gave the Ems the lead for good. Game two of three in the series is tonight in Eugene.

Weather for Florence and the Central Oregon Coast:

The forecast called for mostly cloudy skies today with a 20- percent chance of rain or drizzle early and patches of fog. Today’s high near 63 degrees and calm conditions early with a northwest wind eight to 11 miles an hour developing.
A chance of drizzle again late tonight, mostly cloudy skies and overnight lows around 54.
Tomorrow morning we’ll see a chance of more drizzle, then mostly cloudy skies and a high near 62.

Partly sunny Friday, mostly cloudy Saturday, then partly sunny again on Sunday.

The marine forecast shows a southwest marine wind five knots veering to the northwest this afternoon… then increasing to ten or 15 knots overnight. Low tide… 10:11 this morning. High tide at 4:29 this afternoon.