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Van Voorhis torches McKay
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McKay had no answer for
Brendan Van Voorhis.
Not when he ran right up
the middle of the Scots kick-
off team for a 90-yard touch-
down.
Not when he caught a
short pass from Josiah Gilbert,
made a defender miss and used
his 100-meter track speed to
score an 81-yard touchdown
to give McNary a narrow lead
at halftime.
And certainly not when
Van Voorhis beat a corner-
back and safety help to grab
another ball from Gilbert and
raced to the end zone for a
76-yard touchdown to fi nish
off McKay 46-41 on home-
coming night.
“That’s one of the better
games we’ve had around here,
that’s for sure,” McNary head
coach Jeff Auvinen said of Van
Voorhis’ performance.
Gilbert went up to Van
Voorhis before the game,
played on Friday, Sept. 23, and
told him he would score four
touchdowns. But Van Voorhis
decided to do him one better,
fi nishing with fi ve scores and
more than 400 yards in the
shootout.
“That kind of put a number
in my head to try and get and
(Gilbert) put the ball where it
needed to be for me to score,”
Van Voorhis said. “We were
fi red up about this game. We
came out here and played like
we were fi red up. We wanted
to win real bad.”
McNary made it a point
to get the ball in Van Voor-
his’ hands. Along with eight
catches for 275 yards, he also
had 44 yards on six rushing at-
tempts.
“I knew (Van Voorhis) was
just going to take over and he
did,” Gilbert said. “It’s phe-
nomenal.”
The Celtics needed all fi ve
of Van Voorhis’ touchdowns.
McKay quarterback Noah
Tavera passed for 350 yards
and three scores.
The Scots did most of their
damage on fade routes with
McKay receivers out-jumping
McNary defenders for the
ball.
“They were very accurate
and went and got it and we
didn’t play the ball very well,”
Auvinen said. “We’ll keep
working on it.”
McKay also scored 14
points on defense, twice re-
turning interceptions for
touchdowns.
Gilbert threw for 316 yards
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McNary sophomore Gina
Munguia heads the ball during
the fi rst half of a 4-1 loss to
West Salem.
McNary
drops
league
opener
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McNary senior Brendan Van Voorhis runs away from two McKay
defenders for a 76-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter.
and fi ve touchdowns but also
had three interceptions and
lost a fumble.
McNary defensive back
Lucas Garvey twice intercept-
ed Tavera, including once in
the end zone at the end of the
fi rst half to set up Van Voorhis’
81-yard go-ahead score.
The Scots got on the score-
board fi rst.
After converting a fourth-
and-6 at the Celtic 41-yard
line with a 36-yard comple-
tion by Tavera, Matthew Jard-
ing reached the end zone on a
5-yard run with 7:57 remain-
ing in the fi rst quarter.
McNary marched down
the fi eld as well but its open-
ing drive stalled at McKay’s
5-yard line when Josh Benson
was tackled behind the line
of scrimmage on fourth-and-
goal.
Garvey’s fi rst interception
gave the ball right back to the
Celtics and Gilbert found Van
Voorhis for a 40-yard touch-
down. On the fi rst play of the
second quarter, the two con-
nected again for a 46-yard
score
but McNary twice
failed to convert two-point
attempts and led 12-7.
McKay answered with
14 straight points on a Tav-
era touchdown pass and then
a pick-6 to go ahead 21-12
with seven minutes remaining
in the fi rst half.
But Van Voorhis returned
the following kickoff for a
touchdown to get the Celtics
within 21-19.
McNary Varsity Football (2-2)
SEASON STATS
RUSHING
CARRIES
Marc Baiza
52
Josiah Gilbert
44
Lucas Garvey
43
AJ Johnk
10
Xavier Martinez
15
Brendan Van Voorhis
6
YARDS
172
160
187
56
50
44
TD
2
2
1
0
1
0
PASSING
C/ATT
57/109
YARDS
963
TD
11
REC
24
3
17
3
4
5
YARDS
227
32
575
38
22
69
TD
1
0
9
1
0
0
PATs
12/12
FG
1/2
LONG
25 yds
Josiah Gilbert
RECEIVING
Josh Benson
Brody Nepstad
Brendan Van Voorhis
Kyle McCallister
Marc Baiza
Lucas Garvey
KICKING
AJ Johnk
INT
7
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Lopez leads Celtics in 0-0 draw
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
With McNary struggling
to score goals, Sebastian Lopez
stepped up.
The sophomore goalkeeper
saved a free kick in the fi nal
10 seconds as the Celtics tied
Forest Grove 0-0 at home on
Tuesday, Sept. 27.
“It felt great, just a rush of
energy goes through and then
when you hear them counting
down, it’s a big relief,” Lopez
said. “It’s good, especially at
the beginning of the season
because it gets your confi -
dence up for the rest of the
way.”
Senior captain Gustavo Vil-
lalvazo was the fi rst to con-
gratulate Lopez, then head
coach Miguel Camarena.
“That’s what we want, for
him to be the leader in the
back,” Camarena said. “Our
defense was solid. They didn’t
have a lot of penetration, just
long balls and fouls but noth-
ing through. Championship
teams don’t allow goals.”
After scoring just three
goals in its previous four
games, Camarena moved Vil-
lalvazo from the back to for-
ward.
He put a shot on goal in
the fi rst fi ve minutes and an-
other one over the post in the
10th minute.
Villalvazo fi red another
shot off the post early in the
second half and a free kick
over the goal in the 56th min-
ute.
“We create opportunities
but we can’t put one in the
net,” Camarena said. “He’s
(Villalvazo) got a leg. That kid
can strike a ball anytime. He
had some chances and we’ll
continue to do that.”
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McNary sophomore Sebastian Lopez makes a save late in the Celtics match with Forest Grove
on Tuesday, Sept. 27.
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Someone had to start with
West Salem.
On Thursday, Sept. 22, it
was McNary, as the Lady Celts
lost 4-1 to open Greater Valley
Conference play.
“This is generally the fa-
vorite in our conference,”
McNary head coach A.J. Nash
said. “They’ve got a great team.
They’ve got a really talented
midfi eld. My goal tonight was
to compete until the end and
the whole game I feel like we
competed but they put a few
more goals in than I was hop-
ing. I think we can clean that
stuff up though.”
West Salem capitalized on
a Lady Celts mistake in the
box to take a 1-0 lead in the
fourth minute. But McNary
kept battling the defending
conference champs and trailed
by just one goal at halftime.
After nearly tying the game
in the fi rst 10 minutes of the
second half, freshman Ju-
lie Dieker fi nished a goal in
the 53rd minute to even the
match 1-1.
The equalizer started in the
midfi eld with a ball played up
the left side for Jessy Shore
who then drove a ball through
the box just ahead of three at-
tacking Celts.
Abigail Hawley then passed
the ball back across the box to
Dieker, who put it in the back
of the net.
“It was a clinical fi nish that
I haven’t seen much of yet and
I was proud of them,” Nash
said.
West Salem quickly an-
swered when a Titan forward
dribbled past two McNary
defenders and scored in the
lower corner of the goal.
“This is a team (West Sa-
lem) that has been deep in the
playoffs and sometimes a goal
fuels them,” Nash said. “Most
of their wins this season have
been come from behind
against really good teams.”
The Titans scored a third
goal in transition in the 65th
minute and added a fourth
from thirty yards out into the
upper corner of the goal late
in the contest.
“Our goal is to make play-
offs and we need fi ve results
in conference to assure that,”
Nash said. “We knew this was
going to be one of the tough-
est people we faced so now
we need fi ve results out of
seven games. I still feel good
about the season and great
with how they played. I’m
proud of them.”