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PAGE A14, KEIZERTIMES, DECEMBER 9, 2016 Blythe leads young bowlers 10 percent physical,” he said. “My biggest fl aw in the men- tal aspect, you get inside your own head, that’s what brings you down mostly.” Blythe and junior Tim Kis- er return to the McNary boys team that bowled a near-per- fect 298 game to win the dis- trict tournament last season. “We have really good fresh- men who have come up this year, a couple who could be in the starting lineup,” McNary boys coach Dan Kaplan said. “We have a great future.” The future of the McNary program is Mike Valdez, an eighth grader who Blythe pre- dicts will be even better than him some day. Valdez won’t be able to compete in the district tournament this season but he did place third at Firebird Lanes on Dec. 4 behind only Blythe and Donny Grubaugh, of West Salem. Valdez had 21 strikes and 15 spares in 40 frames. McNary bowlers Konnor Sjullie, Derrick Lucas and Layton Thurlow fi nished in the top 25, placing 11th, 20th and 22nd respectively. Out of 12 teams, the Celt- ics knocked over the second By DEREK WILEY Of the Keizertimes Nick Blythe, the Keizer kid who bowled a perfect game at age 13, is now a senior at McNary High School and knocking down more pins than he ever has. Competing in an Oregon Junior Classic tournament on Nov. 20 in Longview, Wash., Blythe recorded another 300 game, which including prac- tice marked his fourth in less than two weeks. In a high school team tour- nament at AMF Firebird Lanes in Salem on Sunday, Dec. 4, Blythe was the high points all-star. Out of 40 frames, he bowled 30 strikes and nine spares. “It was defi nitely my best high school performance by far,” Blythe said. “I’ve changed my ball driller so I have a bet- ter fi t now. It makes a big dif- ference.” Blythe, who plans to en- roll at Chemeketa Commu- nity College next year as he decides whether to bowl in college or professionally, has worked on being more con- sistent and staying focused. “It’s 90 percent mental and GIRLS, continued from Page 12 “Sydney coming out, I think it was frustrating for her, but honestly for the team it might not be the worst thing in the world,” Handley said. “It made a lot of other girls step up. I knew they (Haw- ley and Lao) were both go- ing to play a lot for us but the fact that we could put both of them in at the same time with our back up post (Kelsey Koenig), between those three to make a run like they did to end the half, ultimately it’s go- ing to be better for our team, just help us with a little bit of depth. I know it was frustrat- ing for Sydney. It was her fi rst game of her senior year but hopefully she’s going to have 28 more opportunities and we’ll work on keeping her in there.” Koenig fi nished with four points and three rebounds off the bench. Committing fouls was a problem for the Lady Celts in the fi rst half. Barlow was in the double bonus midway through the second quarter but went just 3-for-10 from the free throw line in the fi rst half. The Lady Bruins were also held to just two fi eld goals, one in each quarter. “Our game plan, we’ve KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley McNary senior Nick Blythe bowled another perfect 300 game on Nov. 20 in Longview, Wash. most pins, 3,475, through 20 games but lost to Silverton in a head-to-head stepladder competition to place third in the tournament. The McNary girls were also second after 20 games and then fell to McKay to take third. With only three girls, Mimi Gonzalez, Aneeka Ste- phen and Cassidy Steckman, the Lady Celts have combined with Sprague this season. The boys had a similar arrange- ment with West Salem last year. McNary hosts a tourna- ment on Sunday, Jan. 8 at Town & Country Lanes in Keizer. The district tourna- ment is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 22 at Firebird in Salem. been talking about it for the past week, that we need to play with our feet and we go out there and I think the emo- tions had a lot to do with it, play with our hands,” Handley said. “I thought in the fi rst half we played way too emotion- al, a lot of nerves, start of the year so you never know what you’re going to get. It’s also the fi rst time in six months that we’ve played somebody other than ourselves. I thought it took us a good quarter and a half to settle but once we did, we slowed things down and I thought execution got a lot better.” The Lady Celts got revenge on Tualatin Saturday, Dec. 3. The Lady Timberwolves had won the two previous matchups but McNary won the latest 55-51. Doutt had 18 points, eight rebounds, three assists and two steals. 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