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Celtics open playoffs vs Tualatin
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary’s baseball team
(13-11, 10-6) will face a famil-
iar opponent in the fi rst round
of the state playoffs when the
16-seeded Celtics host No.
17 Tualatin (13-10, 12-5) on
Monday, May 22 at 5 p.m.
The two squads met on
April 29 with McNary win-
ning 13-7.
But Celtics head coach
Larry Keeker isn’t taking too
much away from that victory.
“We’d just got off a three-
game week and so did they,”
Keeker said.
“I’m a 100 percent sure nei-
ther team saw the No. 1 pitch-
er from either side. We have at
least some data on their hitters,
which is helpful. We have that
to go by. Of course they have
it as well. We know we’re not
going to see the same pitcher,
at least we wouldn’t expect it.”
Tualatin fi nished third in
the Three Rivers League be-
hind two top 10 teams in the
state—No. 9 Tigard and No. 1
West Linn.
“They took West Linn right
to the wire three times in a
row so they’re certainly capa-
ble,” Keeker said.
“Regardless of who we’re
playing, we feel like we can
compete with pretty much
anybody. We’re certainly not
afraid of anybody.”
McNary senior Josiah Gil-
bert will get the start on the
mound against Tualatin. But
Riley Hays, Kyle McCallis-
ter and the rest of the Celtic
pitchers will be ready if need-
ed.
“He’s (Gilbert) the guy that
deserves to be on the hill so
he’s going to get the ball fi rst,”
Keeker said. “There’s no to-
morrow. If we have to make
a change somewhere in the
game than we will. It’s not like
we’re going to save somebody
for game two because we have
to win game one just to get to
game two.”
McNary swept McKay 6-1,
12-2 on May 10 and 12 to fi n-
ish fi fth in the Greater Valley
Conference.
On senior night, Hays won
the fi rst game, allowing just
three hits and one run over
seven innings.
McCallister and Carl Rum-
baugh combined to shut down
McKay in the second game.
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McNary honored its 10 seniors, Daniel Johnson, front, left, Jonah Geist, Riley Hays, Joshua Benson, Brendan Frizelle, Caleb Kiefi uk
Yates, Kevin Martin, Tyler Ellertson, Matthew Ismay and Josiah Gilbert before its fi nal regular season home game on May 10.
The Celtics combined for
23 hits over the two games.
Matthew Ismay was 6-for-
8 in the series with four runs
and three RBIs.
Brendan Frizelle was 4-for-
CCMS boys, Whiteaker girls
win all-city championships
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Keizer athletes dominated
the All-City Middle School
Championships.
Claggett Creek’s boys and
Whiteaker’s girls each bested
10 other teams to win the
track and fi eld meet at North
Salem High School on Tues-
day, May 9.
Dyami Ross led Claggett
Creek, winning the 100-me-
ter run in 11.61 seconds and
the 200 in 24.98.
Ross also ran the anchor
leg on the top 4x100 relay
team, which along with Ga-
briel Martinez, Ethan Martin
and Amanuel Figueroa, fi n-
ished in 46.68.
Martin placed second to
Rios in both the 100 in 11.74
and the 200 in 25.21.
Rian Canini led the White-
aker boys to fi fth place in the
team standings by winning the
100 hurdles in 15.61 and the
high jump in 5 feet, 8 inches.
Cole Garland leaped 18-07.25
to take second in the long
jump.
Whiteaker’s girls fi nished
more than 52 points ahead of
second place Judson.
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Perez, who primarily played
No. 3 doubles last season, also
gives McNary head coach
Garrett Jensen an example of
how far hard work and a posi-
tive attitude can take a player.
“She put in time, which is
the biggest thing and she has
a really good attitude,” Jensen
said.
“She’s always receptive to
anything I’m telling her to
8 with four runs and three
RBIs.
“It was good for us to score
some runs,” Keeker said. “It
allowed our pitchers to relax
and throw strikes.”
McNary fi nished the regu-
lar season on a six-game win-
ning streak.
“You want to be hot,”
Keeker said. “And the loss-
es prior to those wins were
tight losses. We feel that we’ve
done a pretty good job at the
plate lately and guys are being
productive up and down the
lineup. We’re by no means sat-
isfi ed.”
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Amanuel Figueroa passes the baton to Dyami Ross.
Leah Doutt paced the team,
winning the 100 in 13.14 and
the 200 in 27.41. She then
joined Kylie Nepstad, Taylor
Ebbs and Kennedy Buss to
clock the fastest time in the
4x400 relay—4:34.63.
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05.5 to win the discus for
Whiteaker.
Ashlin Samples fi nished
fi rst in the 100 hurdles in
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work on. It’s nice to have one
of those examples on your
team. ‘Look at how much im-
provement Kat made in one
year’ and also when they play
a girl and say ‘I’m never beat-
ing this girl’, just because you
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mean you can’t beat her now.”
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Cervantes won her fi rst round
match 6-7, 6-3, 6-1 over
Nancy Hernandez of North
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simova, the No.1 seed, 6-0,
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