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Duran, who focused on
sprints in the early season, put
up the third best time in the
state in the 300 hurdles after
running it for only the second
time in competition. She’s got
the top time in the GVC by
more than a second.
Partridge set out to break
100 feet in the discus when the
season began and achieved that
with a personal record of 102-
8 about three weeks ago. She’s
close to cracking the top three
marks in the GVC.
In the boys’ events, Gauntz
said Brendan Van Voorhis,
Anthony Nguyen and AJ Johnk
have shots at making it to state.
“Brendan is peaking right
when he needs to be. Anthony
is coming off ACL surgery
from last year, but he’s almost
to where he was before the
surgery. AJ is also coming
back from ACL surgery, but
he’s running a bit better than
he was before he got injured,”
Gauntz said.
Van Voorhis has the GVC’s
top times in the 200 and 400
meter races and ran the 100
in 10.97 at the Nike/Jesuit
Twilight Relays Friday, April
29, which is the third best time
in the conference in that race.
Nguyen is sitting in the
“We might decide to make it a fundraiser in
a few years depending on the success, but our
goal it so simply foster the community around
McNary basketball,” he said. “We’ve been very
lucky to build some excitement around the
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Alyssa Looney takes fl ight in the pole vault April 27.
middle of the top 10 in the 100
meter, and his times have been
dropping all season.
Both the boys and girls relay
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teams are hovering close to the
top times in the conference.
Gauntz said that going to make
those races exciting.
“If we run well, we might
have a good opportunity to
go to state, but we have to run
well, and even then it’s going to
be a challenge,” he said.
The McMinnville Grizzlies
brought a stacked roster to the
dual meet last week and took
team wins over McNary. The
Grizzly boys won 109-36. The
McMinnville girls won 101-43.
Event winners for McNary
were: Van Voorhis in the 100
in 11 seconds; Austin Brown
in the 400 in 50.92 seconds;
Brown,
Levi
Timmons,
Nguyen and Van Voorhis in the
4x100 relay in 43.39; Courtney
Geissinger in the girls’ 100 in
13.19 seconds, and the 200
in 27.70 seconds; Brooke
Burrows in the 1,500 meter in
5:30; Duran in the 300 hurdles
in 46.50 seconds; and Burrows,
Kailey Doutt, Duran and
Daumanique Rodriguez in the
4x400 relay in 4:23.40.
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Aguilar took the fi rst pitch
and scored Van Cleave to end
the game.
“It was a line drive to the
right-center gap. I wasn’t
trying to do too much with
it,” Aguilar said.
Keeker said Aguilar has
been working hard at the
plate all season and it was nice
to see it pay off in a big way
for him.
Earlier in the week, the
Celts beat North Salem High
School 7-0 and lost to the
West Salem High School
Titans 11-3.
“We knew that the West
Salem game would be a tough
one for us, but coming out of
the week with two wins was
our goal and we felt good
program in the past four or fi ve years and, I
hope, this becomes a way to grow our fanbase.”
Current Celtics will be running time clocks
and acting as hosts for the tournament, but
Kirch is hoping the exposure to players that
have come before them has an impact beyond
the court.
“We want the guys on our roster now to see
where they can be in 10, 15 or 20 years. This is a
way to put everyone in the same room,” he said.
about that,” Keeker said.
The Titans already had a
4-0 lead by the time McNary
made it to the board in the
fourth inning. Aguilar scored
on a ground out by Ismay. In
the fi fth inn Van Cleave scored
on a throwing error, but West
Salem unloaded for six runs
in the bottom of the frame.
In the sixth, Brendan Frizelle
scored on a ground out by
Trevor Gilbert.
The Celts are still striking
out too frequently, but Aguilar
said there wasn’t a single cause.
“It’s a little bit of
everything, for some of us
it’s the fundamentals of our
swing, for others it’s seeing
too many pitches or being too
timid,” he said.
The Celts spread out their
runs in the game with North
Salem High School, a four-
run sixth was the best of them.
T. Gilbert hit a bases-load
Game, set,
match
McNary’s Carlos Ramos
attacks the ball in a match
earlier this season. The boys
varsity tennis team had
only one match last week
and the West Albany High
School Bulldogs blanked the
Celtics 8-0.
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triple scoring Aguilar, Frizelle
and Ismay, and then scored on
a ground out by Van Cleave.
The Celts traveled to meet
McKay High School Tuesday,
May 3, and had a rematch
with Forest Grove at home
Friday, May 6.
Keeker said the pressure
was on for the rest of the
season.
“We have games with
South Salem, McMinnville
and Sprague after this week
and those are games we’ll
need to win to have a shot
at the fourth playoff spot,”
Keeker said.
Aguilar said the team is
working on its entire approach
to the remainder of the season.
“We’ve been tentative as to
how well we’re going to try
to play. Now we’re trying to
be more aggressive and have a
more killer mentality,” Aguilar
said.