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Celtics torch Grants Pass, Oregon City
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McNary senior Adam Harvey had 17 points against Oregon City
on Tuesday, Dec. 6.
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Before the season, Mc-
Nary boys basketball coach
Ryan Kirch said, “Scoring
won’t be an issue for us.”
That wasn’t just coach
speak.
After blowing out Grants
Pass 81-34 on the road Fri-
day, Dec. 2, the Celtics throt-
tled Oregon City 85-54 at
home on Tuesday, Dec. 6 to
start the season 2-0.
“A lot of our guys can re-
ally shoot the ball so we’re
tough to guard,” Kirch said.
“When we give up a good
pass knowing it may not
be my night, I may get two
(points) tonight and 18 to-
morrow, that’s just so diffi -
cult to guard and prepare for.
Buying into that and under-
standing it’s for the good of
the group, and our guys have
done that. A lot of that is at-
tribute to their leadership, a
bunch of veteran guys who
have been around a little bit
and they want to enjoy the
heck out of their senior year.”
Easton Neitzel was the
star Friday night. The senior
went 5-for-8 from behind
the 3-point arc to fi nish with
26 points along with eight
rebounds.
Alex Martin went 5-for-
5 from the fl oor to add 10
points, six rebounds and
four assists. Cade Goff had
12 points, fi ve rebounds and
four assists.
As a team, McNary shot
33-for-45 from the fi eld,
made six of nine 3-pointers
and was 11-for-12 from the
free throw line.
“We’re very skilled in-
dividually and the guys are
very unselfi sh,” Kirch said.
“Guys are making extra pass-
es. Our shooting percentage
is pretty high because we’re
taking good, fundamentally
sound, balanced shots.”
The Celtics never trailed
Tuesday. After winning the
tip, Matthew Ismay threw a
perfect bounce pass to Neit-
zel who laid it up to give
McNary a quick 2-0 lead.
The Celtics led 11-1 be-
fore Oregon City answered
with a pair of 3-pointers to
get within 12-10. The Pio-
neers knocked down another
3-pointer to tie the game at
16-16.
Leading just 25-24 early
in the second quarter, Mc-
Nary closed the fi rst half on
a 16-5 run to enter halftime
up 41-29.
“We called the timeout
and had a real spirited one-
way conversation that kind
of lit a fi re under the guys a
little bit,” Kirch said. “With
guys like this that’s about
all it takes for them to get
back engaged and check
right back in to where they
needed to be and I thought
we played very selfl ess offen-
sively.”
With 18 points, Ismay led
the scoring effort as the Celt-
ics continued to stretch their
lead in the second half up to
62-44 heading to the fourth
quarter.
“We had a good start and
we were ready and we lost
energy a little bit,” Ismay said.
“We were up 11-1 and we
have to not let them back in
the game when we get a lead
like that because I think we
just lost energy and thought
it might be an easy game or
something but we need to
play harder.”
Cade Goff and Adam
Harvey each had 17 points.
Chandler Cavell added 16 off
the bench.
Through two games, Mc-
Nary is averaging 83 points.
To compare, the Celtics only
scored 80 or more points
once last season in a 102-70
win over McKay.
“We have more guys that
can score all over the court,”
Ismay said. “We’re a lot more
veteran overall this year. To-
day, we got a ton of points in
the paint.”
As happy as Kirch is with
McNary’s offense, the team
has work to do on defense.
Please see CELTICS, Page 13
Lady Celts start 3-0
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
With the graduation of
three of its top four scorers,
McNary is looking for girls to
step up and put the ball in the
basket.
For game one, it was Jay-
lene Montano and Kailey
Doutt, who combined for 27
points as the Lady Celts rolled
past Barlow 58-23 at home
on Thursday, Dec. 1.
Montano, a senior point
guard, knocked down two
three-pointers in the fi rst 1:05
to give McNary a quick 6-0
lead.
“Coach (Derick Handley)
has been telling me to shoot
more and said I’m taking a
new role this year and just be
confi dent with it so I kind of
took that on,” Montano said.
“He said miss or make, keep
shooting. I was just following
what he was saying.”
Doutt, a junior, fi nished
with 12 points, including six
in the fi rst half as the Lady
Celts went into intermission
with a commanding 26-7
lead.
Montano’s hot shoot-
ing continued in the second
half as she made three more
3-pointers in the third quar-
ter to fi nish the game with
15 points by going a perfect
5-for-5 from behind the arc.
With McNary up 47-15,
Montano didn’t play in the
fourth quarter.
“Her (Montano) and Kai-
ley Doutt are two girls that
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McNary senior Jaylene Montano was a perfect 5-for-5 from be-
hind the 3-point arc against Barlow.
we’ve talked a lot to the last
couple of days,” Handley said.
“For us to be successful we
need them to have confi dence
in the outside shot and for
Jaylene I think the fi rst one
falling kind of got her going
for the rest of the day. I’m
hoping that it can be consis-
tent. It’s not one of those she
needs to make the fi rst one to
keep it going but she is such a
steady player for us.
“I talked a lot about trying
to stay level emotionally, she’s
the prime example of it. She’ll
never get too frustrated. She
never gets too excited, even
today she hits her 3-pointers
and she comes into the locker
room and she’s embarrassed
about it. She’s going to have
a really good year and she’s a
girl that will surprise a lot of
people.”
Senior Sydney Hunter got
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary junior Kailey Doutt drives past a pair of Barlow defenders on Thursday, Dec. 1 to score
two of her 12 points.
into foul trouble, picking up
her third on a charge three
minutes into the second quar-
ter, but still managed a dou-
ble-double of 14 points and
11 rebounds.
In her absence, sophomores
Abigail Hawley and Anita Lao
got more playing time.
Hawley fi nished with three
points, fi ve assists and four re-
bounds.
Lao added fi ve points, two
assists and three rebounds.
Please see GIRLS, Page 14
Burrows, Hernandez, Vincent lead McNary
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Sean Burrows, Nick Her-
nandez and Carlos Vincent
opened the 2016-17 wrestling
season with a bang.
Competing in the McNary
Duals on Friday, Dec. 2, all
three Celtics went an unde-
feated 3-0.
“Those kids did an excep-
tional job against a pretty de-
cent group of kids,” McNary
head coach Jason Ebbs said.
“Those kids have put in some
time and they’re showing if
you stick with wrestling, you
can grow and you can get bet-
ter.”
At 132 pounds, Burrows, a
two-time district placer who
fi nished one spot away from
advancing to the state tourna-
ment last season, started the
McNary Duals by pinning
Jon Lee of Milwaukie. Against
Renegade, Burrows won by
forfeit and then pinned Emilo
Jimenez of Tigard to fi nish the
tournament.
“My hope is that he has
his eyes set on going to the
state tournament this year and
maybe doing some things to
get on the podium,” Ebbs said.
“He’s been around the block
a little bit. He knows how to
wrestle.”
At 138, Hernandez, a soph-
omore, pinned Milwaukie’s
Deontrey Hannan-Storm and
Renegade’s Anthony Knudsen
before winning a 12-9 deci-
sion over Jonathan Grasser of
Tigard.
“He’s one of those guys
that’s coming up through
our program that’s got a nice
little edge to himself,” Ebbs
said. “He wants to compete.
I love seeing him go 3-0. He
wants to get better. He’s will-
ing to do a little extra work to
do that. It’s a pleasure to see
him have that kind of success.
It’s good to see him get some
of his hard work pay off like
that.”
Hard work also paid off for
Carlos Vincent, who wrestling
at both 160 and 170, pinned
Milwaukie’s Vinny Pederson,
won by forfeit against Ren-
egade and then edged Tigard’s
Marshall Smith 4-1.
Please see WRESTLE, Page 13
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
Sean Burrows went 3-0 in the McNary Duals on Friday, Dec. 2, including a pin of Milwaukie
wrestler Jon Lee.