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Lady Celt catcher
Kansas-bound
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Lady Celt Kiana Villarreal is
taking a major leap of faith in
August.
Villarreal, a just-graduated
McNary High School alumna,
signed to play softball with
Kansas’ Seward County Com-
munity College last month,
and she’s never even seen the
place.
“We had a tournament in
Huntington Beach, Calif., and
I got recruited over there. A
couple of weeks later, I started
checking out their website and
seeing what it was like,” Villar-
real said.
She met with the Saints’
coach, Andrea Gustafson, dur-
ing Christmas break last De-
cember and said it was Gus-
tafson who convinced her it
would be a good fi t.
Villarreal’s McNary coach,
Kevin Wise, has nothing but
faith that Villarreal can do
whatever job she’s called upon
to do in Liberal, Kan.
“Kiana is one of the hard-
est workers I’ve ever been
around,” Wise said. “Being a
catcher, you get beat up. There
are some balls that I think I
would be down crying, and
she gets up and shakes it off.
She’s like steel.”
Wise said her work ethic
made her a role model on the
team the past two seasons.
“She’s the fi rst one on the
fi eld and last one to leave
whether she’s working on
skills or just picking stuff up,”
Wise said.
Work ethic aside, Villarreal
has the numbers to back her
up.
Prior to the Lady Celts
making it to the post season,
she batted .491 with seven
doubles and four home runs.
Behind the dish, Villarreal
started 12 games with one er-
ror and 59 putouts. She’ll play
catcher for the Saints as well.
Volcanoes
return June 17
The Salem-Keizer Volca-
noes return to Keizer with a
game vs. the College All-Stars
Wednesday, June 17. The game
begins at 6:35 p.m.
The team follows their de-
but with a fi ve-game home
stand vs. the Vancouver Ca-
nadians. Game times are 6:35
p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and Monday. The Sunday
game begins at
5:05 p.m.
Kids wearing
their 2015 Awesome
3000 T-shirts will
be
admitted
to
Saturday’s
game free and
will be able
to meet the
team on the fi eld if they arrive
by 5:45 p.m.
Sunday’s game coincides
with Father’s Day and visitors
can have photos of their dads
displayed on the jumbotron by
e-mailing jwalker@volcanoes-
baseball.com.
The Volcanoes are seeking
host family candidates for the
season. Host families provide
a home for the Volcanoes in
their fi rst years as a pro base-
ball players. Additionally, host
families gain access to a variety
of in-season benefi ts for open-
ing their homes to to players.
Volcanoes players are in
their fi rst or second year of
professional
baseball,
ranging in age from
18 to 24 years old
while coming from
very diverse back-
grounds.
Players
move to Salem-
Keizer for the
N o r t h we s t
League sea-
son from all
across
the
country and world.
Volcanoes players arrive in
early June and depart in early
September. If you are inter-
ested in the program or want
to fi nd out additional infor-
mation, please contact Rick
Nelson at 503-390-2225 or
via email at rnelson@volca-
noesbaseball.com.
Future Celt basketball
camp starts June 15
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McNary High School alumna Kiana Villarreal recently signed with Kansas-based Steward County
Community College to continue her softball career.
Villarreal said she’s look-
ing forward to playing at the
next level and comparing it to
to what she’s already experi-
enced, even if it means she’ll
have to do some new bond-
building.
“We’ve had such a close
team this season and it’s going
to be a very new experience
going into games not knowing
the other players as well. You
get used to having the same
faces around, but it should be
fun, too,” Villarreal said.
The McNary High School
boys basketball program is
hosting summer camps for
boys this month.
The
camps
are
planned for Monday,
June 15, through
Thursday, June
18.
Incoming
third
through
fi fth graders will
meet from 9 a.m.
to noon and in-
coming sixth through
eighth graders will meet
from 1 to 4 p.m.
Camps will focus on de-
veloping fundamentals like
footwork, shooting technique,
passing and catching, drib-
bling and rebounding. Cost
is $55 and includes a T-shirt.
Send registration forms
and payment (checks
payable to Mc-
Nary Boy’s Bas-
ketball Club) to:
McNary High
School, c/o Boys
Basketball, 595
Chemawa Road
N., Keizer, OR
97303.
For more information con-
tact Ryan Kirch at 541-908-
1609 or rkirch@hotmail.com
Midget team takes third in Westview Invite
Submitted
Team Saigon players were, back row, Marco Trout, Nico Brown,
Alberto Lemus and Damian Camarena. Jorge Garcia is seated
in front.
Saigon wins MHS
Intramural title
Saigon defeated Los Morros in the championship game of
the McNary High School intramural soccer league, Thursday,
May 28.
This year alone, the school had 120 students and 10 facul-
ty members participating in the soccer program. A basketball
league played earlier this spring.
Los Morros players were Alfred Licona, Tony Trout, Noel
Ramirez, Alejandro Ceja, Bryan Keo, Javier Zepeda and Drew
Faatz.
Submitted
Keizer’s JBO Midget American team earned a third place fi nish with a 3-1 record at the Westview Invitational Tournament May 30
and 31.
Pictured left to right, front to back: Ty Borde, Ben Allen, Devin Burruss, Caden Briola, Jake Allen, Landon Gerig, JT Walsh, Jesiah
Bartlett, Kelson Whalen, and Cammron Ferrando. Players not pictured are: Riley Dewater and Trace Thompson. Coaches are Tom
Oglevie, Ryan Walsh, Nick Gerig, Dean Allen and Dustin Ferrando.