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Lady Celts cruise to second round
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
McNary High School’s get-
out-of-zone free card, Madi
Hingston, was working hard in
a fi rst round state playoff game
with Century High School
Tuesday, March 1.
Hingston earned that moni-
ker because when teams like
the Jaguars attempt to keep the
Celts from attacking the rim
with a zone defense, a three-
pointer by the McNary senior
typically prompts them to go
back to man-to-man coverage.
Hingston drained four shots
from three-point range on the
night to as McNary blazed a
trail to the second round with
a 63-34 win.
“Mentally and emotionally,
I was really proud of the way
the girls carried themselves.
You would never think it was a
team that hadn’t won a playoff
game in six years,” said Derick
Handley, McNary head coach.
Three of Hingston’s four
treys came in the fi rst frame,
but the Keizer team as a whole
buttoned up on defense to
keep the Jaguars from going on
long runs.
“We knew that they were
a better than decent shoot-
ing team and really good from
the three-point range,” Hings-
ton said. “We knew they had
some good guard play and we
wanted to be on them so they
couldn’t get outside of the arc
and set their feet.”
McNary was up 14-3 when
Century went on a short run
to close the gap to 14-11. Af-
ter shutting down the the Jag-
uar offense, McNary answered
with an 10-0 run to fi nish the
period up 24-11.
“Our girls were the fi rst to
calm down and they were able
to stop the runs. Every time
Century started to make a run
our girls were able to shut them
down and then go on a run of
their own,” Handley said.
By halftime, McNary was
riding a comfortable 39-22
lead to the locker room.
“We didn’t want to settle
because they are a good shoot-
ing team. We wanted to keep
the pace up but not lose com-
posure,” Hingston said.
Coming out of the break,
the Celts took the foot off the
gas offensively, but foiled nearly
every possession by Century.
The Jaguars scored only four
points in the third and McNary
led 49-26.
“Our passing was phenom-
enal, a few times we got a little
sloppy and didn’t use ball fakes,
but for the most part we did
a great job. Our posts did a
Please see CELTS, Page A15
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
ABOVE: Sydney Hunter makes a charge to the net in the game
with Century High School Tuesday, March 1. RIGHT: Kaelie
Flores hooks in a shot.
Coaches pick Cavell Ebbs, Burrows fourth
in
state,
Phelps
fi
fth
as Player of the Year
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Harry Cavell’s route to be-
coming the unanimous Great-
er Valley Conference basketball
Player of the Year as a McNary
High School senior was circu-
itous at best.
As a freshman he started out
playing for West Salem High
School’s junior varsity team
with a handful of minutes on
the varsity court.
“It was nice to be part of a
winning program and see what
that felt like. I also got to play
with my brother which was
great,” Cavell said.
As a sophomore, he attend-
ed a prepatory boarding school
in South Carolina, which is
where he discovered his pas-
sion for the game.
“We would practice twice a
day and work out. It’s where I
learned to be serious about the
game, but I pretty much ate,
slept and breathed basketball
and school,” he said.
While the experience
helped him grow, Cavell said
he and his parents were ready
for him to return home when
his junior year rolled around.
Technically, Cavell should
have been part of the McNary
program for his fi rst two years
of high school, but the Celtic
program was just beginning to
emerge from an era of diffi cult
seasons with the help of a new
head coach, Ryan Kirch.
When Cavell enrolled at
McNary as a junior, he wasn’t
sure what to expect, despite
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McNary senior Harry Cavell was the Greater Valley Conference
unanimous selection as Player of the Year.
having grown up alongside a
number of the Celtic veterans.
As it turned out, he needn’t
have worried quite as much.
“Tregg (Peterson) and
Devon (Dunagan) and Cole
(Thomas) were all good friends
of mine and they all welcomed
me back into the program
even after I should have been
at McNary my fi rst two years,”
Cavell said. “I just wanted to
play with my friends again.”
Please see CAVELL, Page A15
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The McNary High School
varsity wrestling team posted
three state placers at the
tournament held in Portland
Feb. 26 and 27.
Celt sophomore Brayden
Ebbs led the way, fi nishing
fourth in the 138-pound
weight class. He improved
on his sixth place fi nish as a
freshman.
“I wrestled hard and did
most of the things I should
have. I had a pretty quick fi rst
day, but the second day you
have to have a completely
different mindset because
every match is going to
get tougher and tougher,”
Brayden said.
While Brayden was visibly
disappointed in not coming
home with a state title, father
and McNary Head Coach
Jason Ebbs said there was
little reason for it.
“He walked into the
state tournament with his
confi dence exactly where he
needed to be, but there were
fi ve returning state placers at
his weight class,” Jason said.
“Watching him go out there
with that confi dence facing
those odds was comforting.”
Ebbs made it to the
semifi nals before getting
ousted from title contention,
but already has his sights on
goals for next year.
“I’m defi nitely still chasing
that state title, but I also hope
to go undefeated next year,”
Brayden said.
Senior Jon Phelps placed
fi fth at 132 pounds. Phelps, how to work hard and love it.
the third of three brothers to I love working out and being
graduate from the program, good and taking the wins and
scored the family’s biggest the losses,” Phelps said.
trophy.
Freshman Brooke Burrows
“Jon beat the No. 3 seed in took fourth in the girls state
the tournament
tournament at 106
right off the bat.
pounds.
Burrows
He not only
won the regional
made it to the
championship three
podium, he beat
weeks ago.
some
tough
“It didn’t go as
kids along the
well as I’d hoped, but
way,” Jason said.
I fi gure I’m still a
“The
great
freshman and I placed
thing
about
fourth in the state,”
Jon is that once
Burrows said. “The
he believed he
goal next year is to go
could make it
to state again and win
Brayden Ebbs
to state and then
more matches than I
place, he let
did this year.”
nothing stand in
Her coach offered
his way.”
Burrows about the
Phelps said
highest compliment
he got on a
he can offer any
hot streak the
wrestler
in
his
fi rst day of
program.
competition,
“She is the toughest
but felt a little
106-pound wrestler
off kilter the
in Keizer right now,”
second day.
Jason said.
Brooke Burrows
“Still,
I
McNary’s
Isaiah
recovered
Putnam, a sophomore,
and took fi fth
and Wyatt Kesler, a
and this feels
junior, also made it to
a m a z i n g ,”
the state compeition,
Phelps said.
but came up short of
Phelps
is
placing at state.
joining the U.S.
“I’m sure they’re
Marines
after
both disappointed, but
he
graduates
both of them are the
and said he’ll
types of wrestlers who
take important
are going to come
Jon Phelps
lessons
from
back next year with
wrestling with
bigger goals and a
him into the Armed Forces.
better idea of how to achieve
“I’ve learned discipline and them,” Jason said.