NOVEMBER 4, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A11
Lady Celts season
ends at Sunset
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Three of the top 12 teams
in the state, West Salem, South
Salem and Sprague, came out
of the Greater Valley Confer-
ence.
But when asked if Sun-
set was the best his girls have
faced, McNary head coach
Bruce Myers needed only a
couple seconds to answer—
“I’d say yes, that’s the best
team we’ve played.”
The Lady Apollos ended
McNary’s season on Wednes-
day, Oct. 26, defeating the
Lady Celts 3-1 in the fi rst
round of the OSAA state play-
offs.
“I was extremely pleased.
We played extremely hard, just
a couple little things didn’t
go our way,” Myers said. “You
have to credit Sunset. They’re
an awfully good volleyball
team.”
The Lady Apollos, led by
college-bound seniors Emily
DeMots and Rachel Santos
as well as sophomore Sophie
Summers, who played on the
Sunset won the third and
fourth sets 25-15 and 25-20
to move on in the state tour-
nament.
“They made some adjust-
ments and they’re really good
when they’re out of system
because they’re so tall,” Myers
said.
“They can just hit right
over our block. A lot of times
we were in the right place do-
ing the right thing, they just
hit over us.”
Senior outside hitter Syd-
ney Hunter led the McNary
attack with 19 kills. She also
had three digs and three
blocks.
Valerie Diede had six kills
and two blocks. Shaylee Wil-
liams added six kills and Sa-
mantha Van Voorhis had 33
assists.
The Lady Celts fi nished
13-14 in Myers’ fi rst season as
head coach.
“I have wonderful kids,” he
said. “They worked their butts
off. They came everyday to
practice to work hard and to
do their best.”
U.S.A. Youth National Team
during the summer, went
17-7 during the regular sea-
son and fi nished second in the
loaded Metro League, which
was won by No.1-ranked Je-
suit.
“They’re so tall,” Myers said
of Sunset. “They have at least
two Division-I volleyball play-
ers and four other small col-
lege players. They have an ex-
tremely good setter and they
can attack the net from side-
line to sideline and not only
that their libero is extremely
good.”
The Lady Appollos took
the fi rst set 25-19.
“They jumped out on us
real quick but we stayed even
with them, we battled with
them, once we calmed down
and started playing,” Myers
said. “We just couldn’t make
up the ground.”
But the Lady Celts re-
bounded to win the second
game 25-23.
“We served them very as-
sertively and we got them out
of system,” Myers said.
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McNary senior Sydney Hunter led the Lady Celts with 19 kills in a 3-1 loss to Sunset in the fi rst
round of the state playoffs on Wednesday, Oct. 26.
XC teams fi nish at bottom of GVC FALL,
continued from Page 10
McNary fi nished cross
country season at the Greater
Valley Conference Champi-
onship on Wednesday, Oct. 26.
Running at Crystal Lake
Sports Park in Corvallis, ju-
nior Kailey Doutt led the var-
sity girls, placing 17 th in 20:36.
Emma Garland took 27 th in
21:35. Alison Repp (23:37),
Madeline Bielby (24:11) and
Sabella Alfaro (24:26) rounded
out the scoring for the Lady
Muhumed placed fi rst in
15:23, fi nishing ahead of Zane
Fodge (15:32) and three For-
est Grove runners.
The McNary boys took
eighth with 229 points.
Senior Eddie Martinez
was 33 rd in 18:38 and junior
Jonas Honeyman placed 45 th
in 19:12. Brock Wyer (19:30),
Cameron Garrison (19:41)
and Noah Egli (20:26) fi n-
ished in the Celtics’ top fi ve.
Celts, who fi nished ninth in
the conference.
Forest Grove (51) edged
Sprague (53) to win the GVC.
Ginger Murnieks, a soph-
omore at Sprague, beat out
teammate Kaylee Mitchell to
win the varsity girls race in
18:24.
Forest Grove also won the
boys race by only two points,
42-44 over West Salem.
West Salem senior Ahmed
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“Our game plan was work-
ing very well but it was de-
pendent on a couple of people
and one of them (Wyatt) went
out,” McNary head coach A.J.
Nash said. “We lost that nec-
essary defensive player.”
Sherwood went on to score
three goals in the fi rst 40 min-
utes.
“I think we were a little
nervous going in but the
sentiment of the girls at half-
time was they weren’t nearly
as scary as we thought they
might be,” Nash said.
The Lady Bowmens, who
entered the game 11-2-1 af-
ter winning the Three Rivers
League, added four more goals
in the second half.
“I’ll tip my hat to Sher-
wood,” Nash said. “We got
to play one of the best teams
in the state. We were playing
a team that was overwhelm-
ingly seniors that had been
playing together since they
were 10. Even though the
scoreline seems a little bit lop-
sided, we kept up with them
The best teams in the state
get fi rst pick of the toughest
schedules so the more Mc-
Nary improves, the better the
Lady Celts schedule will be in
the future.
“We ask to play the tough-
est teams in the state every
year,” Nash said. “Every coach
does. That’s just what you do.
The problem is the toughest
teams in the state are asking
for that same schedule. We
made the playoffs and fi nished
with a winning record, 8-5-3,
so we should be able to com-
mand a tougher schedule. The
ship can’t turn course in a year.
As a coach I’ve been strug-
gling for an answer on how
do you get those non-league
games and the answer is you
have to earn them.”
for the fi rst 20 minutes and
we battled hard to the very
end. It was great experience.
Next year when we get back
to the dance, we’ll be more
prepared.”
Part of that preparation in-
cludes scheduling tougher op-
ponents.
Sherwood was the fi rst
team in the top 10 McNary
played this season. Greater Val-
ley conference champion West
Albany was 13 th . West Salem
was 17 th and both also lost in
the fi rst round of the playoffs.
During non-league action,
the Lady Celts played only
two teams that made the post-
season the year before, Tigard
and Gresham, and only Tigard
were in the playoffs this season
and also didn’t make it past the
fi rst round.
“We need to play more
games like this preseason to
be ready for that kind of test,”
Nash said. “That was the fi rst
test of its kind that we’ve had
as a program in recent history
and the more opportunities
that we get to play teams of
that caliber, the better we’ll
be prepared when it matters
most.”
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