SEPTEMBER 30, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A13
Lady Celts fall to
Sprague at home
McNary
rebounds
against
Vikings
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Sydney Hunter threw
down three thunderous kills,
each more powerful than the
last, to give McNary a 24-23
lead in the fi rst set, but that’s as
close as the Lady Celts would
get to knocking off Sprague.
The Lady Olympians ral-
lied to take the next three
points and controlled sets two
and three to defeat McNary
3-0 (26-24, 25-16, 25-22)
Thursday, Sept. 22 in Keizer.
The Lady Celts trailed for
much of the fi rst game, by as
much as fi ve points, and didn’t
take their fi rst lead until 24-
23.
But McNary then hit a
serve into the net to tie the
set and Sprague won the next
two points to go up 1-0.
Serving was a problem for
the Lady Celts throughout the
opening game.
“The fi rst set was god-
awful,” McNary head coach
Bruce Myers said. “We missed
seven serves. After that, we
settled down on our serves.
But their fi rst 11 points, we
created nine unforced errors.
That was huge.”
Sprague dominated the
start of the second set, jump-
ing out to a 12-2 advantage.
“I don’t think we were de-
moralized or anything,” Myers
said. “We just came in the sec-
ond set right off the bat and
we were fl at. We didn’t pass
the ball well. Unfortunately,
they’re too good of a team for
us to allow them to get a six
or seven point run on us. They
had a couple of good serves
and we just didn’t respond and
make some good passes.”
McNary fell behind again
in the third game but rallied
from a 17-23 defi cit to get
within 22-24 before putting
another serve into the net to
end the match.
The Lady Celts fi nished the
night with 13 service errors to
just four aces.
McNary had 28 kills, 22
digs and seven blocks.
“We weren’t consistent
enough and we played too re-
actionary instead of proactive,”
Myers said.
“It starts with our passing.
We just didn’t pass very well
and when you don’t pass well
you give them free balls and
easy hits and then they’re on
the attack so we have to stay
on the attack.”
Hunter led the Lady Celts
with 11 kills and fi ve digs.
Valerie Diede added fi ve kills,
two aces and two blocks.
Sophia Salinas had the oth-
er two aces.
Shaylee Williams had fi ve
kills Caiya Ewert led the team
with four blocks and also add-
ed three kills.
Samantha Van Voorhis had
25 assists and Jaylene Montano
provided 15 digs.
The loss to Sprague was
McNary’s fi rst at home.
The Lady Celts came back
Tuesday, Sept. 27 with a 3-1
(22-25, 25-21, 25-19, 29-27)
road win against Forest Grove.
Hunter had 25 kills and fi ve
blocks. Williams added 13 kills
and three blocks.
TORCH,
continued from Page 10
“Coaches have been telling
me to go to the middle every
time and I’ve been going out-
side but tonight I went to the
middle and it worked,” Van
Voorhis said.
After Van Voorhis scored his
fourth touchdown with three
seconds remaining in the fi rst
half to take a 25-21 lead into
halftime, McNary committed
to the run in the second half.
On the Celtics fi rst posses-
sion, Xavier Martinez had fi ve
carries for 26 yards but the
drive ended with no points
as A.J. Johnk missed a 45-yard
fi eld goal.
After the McNary defense
forced a three-and-out, the
offense got the ball right back
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McNary senior Shaylee Williams had fi ve kills in a 3-0 Greater Valley Conference loss to Sprague
at home on Thursday, Sept. 22.
and Marc Baiza scored its only
rushing touchdown to stretch
the lead to 32-21 with 4:48
remaining in the third quarter.
Scott rushed for 20 yards
on 10 carries. Garvey and
Martinez had 33 and 32 yards,
respectively.
“The line had a nice second
half,” Auvinen said. “The con-
sensus between (coaches) was
let’s get some push on the line.
We weren’t driving our feet or
getting down fi eld with our
linemen. We got after them a
little bit and they responded
very well.”
The Scots fumbled away
their next possession and
Gilbert, playing safety, recov-
ered. At quarterback, he then
connected with Benson for a
7-yard touchdown and Mc-
Nary led 39-21.
McKay didn’t give up as Ta-
vera threw his second touch-
down pass and then Zontel
Brown returned an intercep-
tion for a score to get within
39-34 late in the third quarter.
The Scots then drove down
to the McNary 7-yard line but
missed a 24-yard fi eld goal.
Gilbert and Van Voorhis
needed just three plays to
strike again and stretch the
Celtics lead back to two scores,
46-34, with 6:32 remaining in
the game.
McKay scored again two
and half minutes later but
McNary was able to pick up
BETTER THAN NEW
enough fi rst downs to run out
the clock and fi nish off the
Scots.
Three of the Celtics four
games have been decided by a
total of 13 points.
“It looks like it’s going
to be a battle every week,”
Auvinen said.
Up Next
If McNary is going to win
back-to-back games for the
fi rst time this season, the Celt-
ics will face the right oppo-
nent Friday, Sept. 30 at home.
At least on paper.
Forest Grove (0-4) hasn’t
scored a point since Sept. 9
when it lost to North Sa-
lem 15-14. The Vikings fell at
McKay 43-0 on Sept. 16 and
then 51-0 at home to West Sa-
lem on Sept. 23.
Forest Grove opened the
season with a 48-16 loss to
West Albany.
McNary won last season’s
matchup with the Vikings 51-
28.
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