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MAY 1, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A11 Grizzlies pin down Celts on track, fi eld By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes With a team nearly 200 athletes deep, the McMin- nville High School Grizzlies easily took down the McNary High School Celtics in a track and fi eld meet last week. The boys lost 101.5 to 43.5 and the girls lost 107.5 to 37.5. One bright spot for the teams is the boys relay. The 4x100 team took fi rst in com- petition with McMinnville in 43.14. Currently, the team of Brendan Van Voorhis, Riley Moore, Kyle Torres and Austin Brown possesses the second- best time in the state. The 4x400 team, comprised of the same runners, has the fourth best time in the state. “We’re working really hard in practices and trying to take it one step as a time. We stay pretty close in practice and hang out outside of practice, which makes competing eas- ier,” said Moore. Event wins for the boys and girls were few and far be- tween, but a number of sec- ond place fi nishes kept the meet from being a complete disaster. Torres took fi rst in the 400 meter in 50.17 and Antoine Wilder won the 110 hurdles in 16.36. For the girls, Danielle Du- ran won the 400 meter in 1:01.28; Kailey Doutt won the 800 meter in 2:25.51; and Annabel Guptill took fi rst in the 3,000 meter in 11:42.53. Head Coach Frank Gauntz said the team has been bol- stered by the younger athletes of late. “The young kids on our team have really stepped up and risen to the challenge,” he said. With the Greater Valley Conference district meet a scant two weeks away, Mc- Nary’s teams will begin to ta- per off their specialty events in preparation for the big show. Gauntz said both teams are likely to have a hard path to district championships, but they should produce a handful or more of individual district champs. LAX, continued from Page A10 KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Lady Celt Sami Trowbridge airs out a return volley in a match earlier this season. Trowbridge and her doubles partner went 2-2 last week. Girls surge on court The McNary High School girls varsity tennis team scored a 5-3 win over Sprague High School Tuesday, April 21. Two wins in singles and three in doubles paved the way to victory. Ami Chikatsu won with set scores of 6-4 and 3-2 after her opponent bowed out. Taslima Sidhu notched a singles win with set scores of 7-5 and 6-1. In doubles, Sandy and Han- nah Childress won in sets of 6-4 and 6-0; Ariana Neads and Sami Trowbridge beat their op- ponents in sets of 6-3 and 6-1; and Maria Munguia-Ortiz and Katelyn Kolb won in sets of 7-6(7-3) and 6-4. Life is a Garden… Dig It! 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The Childresses picked up singles wins with identical set scores of 6-0 and 6-1; Krissy Kelty won in sets of 6-3 and 7-5; Neads and Trowbridge won with set scores of 6-1 and 6-2; Cambria Rushton and Katherine Patterson won in sets of 6-3, 7-6(7-4); Rachel Mor- row and Chikastu won in sets of 6-0 and 6-2; and Blanca Te- peque and Munguia-Ortiz won in consecutive 6-4 sets. In boys tennis action, the Celtics were blanked by Sprague Tuesday, April 21. Scores for the team’s South Sa- lem match-up were not avail- able at press time. to Thurston High School in March, a 13-3 blowout. “Thurston clearly was a bet- ter team and were made up of seniors who had played togeth- er as a core group since sixth grade. We had a couple mo- ments that we put our offen- sive game together, but at the last moment big brother came in and swatted the ball into the stands. If we had another chance to play them right now I know, with the growth the boys have made, we have a great chance to beat them,” Bowlby said. While lack of experience, especially in the midfi eld and at goal, was disconcerting at the outset of the season, the team managed to allay Bowlby’s fears quickly. “Chad Pinney has been ex- celling as our second faceoff midfi elder winning 15 of 28 face-offs. Jonathan ‘Skittles’ Williams is playing some great defense and is the second best midfi elder at getting ground balls. Kory Pagels has fi nally discovered that he can shoot and we want him to,” Bowlby said. If McNary can beat Corval- lis as well as West Salem High School in the second go-around, the Celts still stand a chance of splitting the North Valley title and raising a new banner inside the McNary gymnasium, a fi rst for the club team. 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