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after placing third or better in
the district tournament.
In addition to the top placers
– more on them in a moment
– Gage Mance took fourth
place after losing to teammate
Taran Purkey in the third place
match-up. William Smith also
took fourth. Riley Repp land-
ed in fi fth place, and Carlos
Vincent, Ryan Edsall and Isaiah
Putnam placed sixth.
Putnam pulled off one of
the most monumental feats in
the Celtic ranks. After Purkey
dropped to 170 pounds for
the tournament, there was an
opening at 182. Putnam was
wrestling up 16 pounds and still
managed to place.
Overall, McNary placed
third as a team.
Joey Kibbey
(106 pounds, second place)
Junior Joey Kibbey dropped
weight to wrestle at 106 pounds
in the tournament, and had a
spot in the semifi nals by mid-
afternoon the fi rst day.
He ended up losing in the
fi nals to McMinnville High
School’s Alvaro Flores.
“I wrestled him freshman
year and he beat me pretty bad-
ly, but this was only one point
that gave him the title. I was re-
ally happy with the match de-
spite that,” Kibbey said.
He hopes to get his hands on
Flores again in the state tourna-
ment.
Brayden Ebbs
(120 pounds, second place)
Freshman Brayden Ebbs was
the No. 1 seed headed into the
tournament and won his fi rst
two matches with a pin in 15
seconds and a major decision.
He drew Forest Grove’s
Christian Guerra in the fi nals.
“It was 2-2 all the way
through the third round,” Ebbs
said. “Then it went into over-
time. I shot in, got a leg and
was close to taking him down. I
fl ipped my hips, turned around
and missed a half-nelson. He
fl ipped his hips and got around
on top of me.”
That single move gave
Guerra the district title.
Jonathon Phelps
(126 pounds, second place)
Jonathan Phelps was disap-
pointed he didn’t take fi rst in
Above: Isaiah
Putnam
fi nished sixth
in the district
tournament
wrestling 16
pounds above
his usual
weight class.
Left: Wyatt
Kessler takes
control in his
quarterfi nals
match.
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Eric A. Howald
the tourney, but his fi nal oppo-
nent was Matthew Johnson of
Forest Grove, a longtime rival.
“It was a best two out of
three this season, I beat him
the fi rst time and the second
time he won 11-3,” Phelps said.
“This time, he just kept getting
his takedowns.”
Johnson won it in a 7-2 de-
cision.
Michael Phelps
(132 pounds, second place)
Senior Michael Phelps
turned in his best-ever perfor-
mance at the district tourna-
ment, but ended up forfeiting
the fi nals match due to a lin-
gering knee injury.
“After the fi rst day, it was
hurting pretty bad and I de-
cided I wanted to save it for the
state tournament,” Phelps said.
He said his semifi nal match-
up gave him the biggest scare of
the tournament.
“It was 0-0 the whole time
and he locked up a cradle on
me, but I got out of it and
scored on the reversal,” he said.
Wyatt Kessler
(145 pounds, third place)
Sophomore Wyatt Kessler
had the toughest route of Mc-
Nary’s top placers. Two wins
took him to the semifi nals, but
a loss there meant he had to
wrestle twice more to get back
in the mix, Both opponents
were from Sprague. He won
both.
“It meant that much more
because it was beating them at
their own house,” Kessler said.
“It also meant a lot because I
had to sit out last season after
knee surgery.”
His fi rst match of the tour-
nament, Kessler beat the No. 3
seed in a major decision. He
entered the tournament seeded
sixth.
Taran Purkey
(170 pounds, third place)
While excited to be going
to the state tournament for the
second time, senior Taran Pur-
key was disappointed that his
road to placing at state will be
one of the tougher ones.
“The fi rst match at districts
was actually the toughest one.
He was a good wrestler, I was
just better,” Purkey said.
Purkey dropped 12 pounds
to wrestle at 170 in the tour-
nament and said it’s both an
exciting and nerve-wracking
situation.
“The nice thing is none of
them will know what I bring
to the match, but I won’t know
much about them either,” Pur-
key said.
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Morgan Raymond is direct-
ing The Courtroom. As a dancer,
she’s putting a lot of focus on
the actors’ movement.
“I’ve talked with them a lot
about what the horsemen rep-
resent and want them to use
their voice and body language
to inhabit the characters. It’s
kind of crazy to call myself a
director, but I like it more than
acting and being up there my-
self,” Raymond said.
Myers said the One Act Fes-
tival serves three purposes: it
gives freshman and sophomore
students their time in the spot-
light, lets upperclassmen direct
performances and it’s relatively
low budget.
Producing student work
means the drama department
doesn’t need to pay the some-
times steep royalties for each
performance. For the whole
run, it will end up costing the
department about $500.
“For Legally Blonde, the
production rights alone were
$5,600,” Myers said. “The good
thing was the ticket sales cov-
ered it. It was the most success-
ful musical we’ve had since I
started at the school fi ve years
ago.”
It might come as some-
thing of a surprise to learn that
McNary’s drama department
survives on ticket sales alone.
Whatever profi ts it turns fi -
nance future productions as
well as smaller trips to thespian
festivals and outings to other
local productions.
“I try not to turn a lot of
those costs over to students, but
there are times when we have
to do it,” he said.
McNary’s annual Knight of
Arts fundraiser – set for Satur-
day, March 7 – helps provide a
cushion in the event of a short-
fall, but the Fine Arts Depart-
ment is also hoping to install
a closed circuit camera system
that will enhance the ability to
record high-quality renditions
of every performance on the
Ken Collins stage.
The largest costs, year-in and
year-out, come from lighting
and paint.
“We spent $500 on paint
for Legally Blonde. Some of the
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Playwright Alohi Tombleson (standing) and director Morgan
Raymond will stage a production of The Courtroom next month.
McNary’s annual Knight of Arts is
slated Saturday, March 7. The event
features student work and a play
alongside silent and oral auctions.
Tickets are $10 and on sale at the
McNary main offi ce.
lumber we use to build sets is
special order,” he said. “Even
things like painter’s tape and
masking tape add up.”
However, there are also
some occasions when Oregon’s
tight-knit high school theatre
community can come to the
rescue. Last year, McNary put
together an extravagant steam-
punk production of William
Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Most
of the equipment is now on
loan to St. Helens High School.
“We really do try to pay it
forward. And, every year, we are
putting more and more of an
emphasis on making things that
we can reuse for future produc-
tions,” Myers said.
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