PAGE 14, KEIZERTIMES, JANUARY 9, 2015
JV Celts clean
Lady Celts strike fear in WRESTLE:
up at Cali tournament
hearts of leading 5A team
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Even a low point during the
winter break was something of
a high point for the McNary
High School girls varsity bas-
ketball team.
During a winter break tour-
nament in Bend, the Lady Celts
started off with a 45-35 win
over Willamette High School,
the defending 5A champions.
It set up a game with the cur-
rent 5A leaders, De La Salle
High School, which the Celts
lost 61-49.
“We don’t like talking about
moral victories, but De La
Salle’s closest game of the sea-
son before us was a 37-point
victory,” said Derick Handley,
McNary head coach. “We gave
them a scare and it came down
to a 12-point run that spanned
the fi rst and second quarters.”
The
Celts
outscored
Knights in the second half, an
almost unheard of feat against
the Portland team. A De La
Salle player who drained three
four treys in the fi rst half didn’t
make a shot in the second half.
“It was one of our bet-
ter games and we had a lot of
energy and effort even when
their lead went to 20 points,”
said McNary’s Jaylene Mon-
tano.
In the win over Willamette,
Handley said it was Montano
and junior Vanessa Hayes who
helped spark the team to a
win. Neither player had seen
signifi cant times at that point
in the season, but injuries to
two starters, Emma Jones and
Madie Rohl, have opened up
both players’ opportunities.
“Both of them gained a lot
of confi dence in that game and
then Jaylene came out a week
later with an even better game
against Sandy (High School),”
Handley said.
Junior Madi Hingston led
the team with 13 points, Kaelie
Flores had nine; Kailey Doutt
put up six points; and Jasmine
Ernest, Sydney Hunter and
Hayes had four points apiece.
We attacked the hoop, made
plays easier for teammates and
fi nally got some shots to fall.”
Handley credited Flores
with gains that have helped
open up the Celtics inside
game.
“She’s getting comfortable
with the idea of being a post
and a guard and she’s getting
more consistent for us. Her ef-
fort on defense has really been
improving and the other kids
are starting to notice,” Handley
said.
The Celts were neck-deep
in preparation for a game with
perennial rivals South Salem
High School Tuesday, Jan. 6.
“We need to show them
how fast we are and get a lot
of fast breaks. They have three
really good players that we’ll
have to shut down,” Doutt said.
“The key is to keep be-
ing confi dent and aggressive,”
Montano added. “We have to
give it our all and never give
up in every game.”
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with a fi rst-round pin; Sean
of a team atmosphere than Burrows made it to the third
anyone else. We had everyone place match before succumb-
right there next to the mat ing in a tech fall; Blake Gerst-
with us. It actually felt better ner made it to the third place
than wrestling here in Oregon match before getting pinned
because they didn’t know us in the second round; and Vin-
and we didn’t know them. cent took fi fth with a major
Everything felt like more of decision.
a fi ght,” said
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he spent time
press time and
studying Ven-
were headed
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to the win in California.
at Cleveland High School this
“Alvarro takes more shots weekend.
than the rest of us and he gets
“Don York is a practice for
more takedowns. I focused on our regional tournament. All
doing that and I only did one of our kids go into the same
breakdown the entire fi nals pool and there’s no JV and
match,” Purkey said.
varsity. We tell the younger
A number of other wres- ones, ‘You’re not a JV kid,
tlers placed high on the board. you’re a wrestler that beats
Jonathon Phelps took third other teams’ varsity wrestlers.’
place with a 7-0 decision; Wy- That’s what we’re doing again
att Kessler took third place this year,” Ebbs said.
“ Everything
felt like more
of a fi ght.”
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Jaylene Montano, a McNary sophomore, gets a wide-and-clear
shot at the hoop in the Sandy game Friday, Jan. 2.
McNary also suffered a
painfully close 37-35 loss to
Milwaukee High School at the
Bend tournament.
The Lady Celts returned to
McNary Friday, Jan. 2 for the
game with Sandy. The Celts
outshot the Pioneers 26-8 in
the fi rst frame, but a pair of
second quarter runs helped Pio
team cut the lead to six points.
“Our intensity was up in
the fi rst quarter, but then we
started to lose it and we got it
back in the second half,” said
Kailey Doutt, a freshman.
In the second half, McNary
locked down on ball possession
and shot out the lights en route
to a 78-57 win.
“We ended the game with
seven turnovers and fi ve of
those came in the fi rst half
so we really took care of the
ball,” Handley said. “Once we
broke their press we were re-
ally aggressive even though
they were sitting in their zone.
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