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Lady Celts defeat
Forest Grove in fi ve
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary played its best
when it had to in a 3-2 win
against Forest Grove on Tues-
day, Sept. 26.
The Lady Celts fell behind
4-11 in the fi rst game before
storming back to win 25-21.
Sofi a Zielinski started the run
with back-to-back aces. Kara
Thomas twice tied the set, 18-
18 and then 19-19, with kills,
before McNary won fi ve of
the last six points to put away
the Vikings.
The Lady Celts found
themselves in a similar situ-
ation in the second game,
falling behind 14-19. After a
timeout, McNary got within
20-21 but couldn’t complete
the comeback, losing 22-25.
“They struggled tonight,”
McNary head coach Crystal
DeMello said. “You’re always
positive and optimistic and
hoping that they can just stick
to the basic technique and ex-
ecute but some nights you’re
just off and some nights you’re
recovering. The entire team
has been out sick at some
point but it’s no excuse for
sloppy play. They still need to
remain disciplined.
“We panicked in situa-
tions when we didn’t need to
panic. Common plays that we
practice all of the time, they
looked puzzled.”
With the match tied 1-1,
the Lady Celts dominated the
third game. Caiya Ewert had
three aces as McNary jumped
out to a 14-3 lead before fi n-
ishing off Forest Grove 25-10
on a kill by Taylor Ebbs and
block from Thomas.
“Serving kept us in the
game,” DeMello said. “That
was our strong point tonight,
which is good, when you go
back there and have the game
in your hands, it’s the one time
you do have complete control.
I will commend those serving.
They did a good job execut-
ing.”
But the fourth game looked
more like the fi rst two as the
Lady Celts again got behind,
14-18, and had to mount a
comeback.
McNary got within 19-20
but Forest Grove held on to
win the set 25-21 and tie the
match 2-2.
“When we win by a lot,
a lot of times we expect the
other team to roll over and it’s
something that we need to fi x
because obviously no team is
just going to roll over,” Ewert
said.
The Lady Celts controlled
the fi nal set from the begin-
ning, winning 15-7.
“We knew we couldn’t
mess around so we just got it
done,” Ewert said.
McNary senior Valerie
Diede warmed up before the
match but didn’t play as she’s
working back from a concus-
sion. Diede was expected to
return to practice Wednesday
and then play at West Salem.
Hannah Corpe has started
in her place.
“Val is really big part of our
team but I think Hannah has
really stepped up,” Ewert said.
“We obviously really miss Val
but Hannah’s been doing re-
ally well for her.”
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McNary junior Hannah Corpe has stepped up in the abscence of senior Valerie Diede, who has
been out with a concussion.
McNary runs past McKay
Up Next: Forest Grove, See Page B3
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
SALEM—McNary senior
Hakam Nagra could not re-
main silent as the Celtics
went into halftime trailing at
McKay.
“When I saw the potential
that we had, we weren’t living
up to it, it just lit something in
me,” Nagra told the Keizertimes
after the game. “I just let it all
out, everything I had to say.
I had to motivate my team. I
had to get them going. I saw
that they were a little fl at. This
football team, I’ve never had
better chemistry with. We’re
all a bunch of brothers. We go
to each other for everything.
If somebody is down, we pick
them back up. That chemistry
I just didn’t see on the fi eld.
That’s what ignited me.”
The speech was just what
McNary needed as it came
from behind to defeat the
Scots 21-7 on Friday, Sept. 22.
Jose Solorio was one of
the player’s that took Nagra’s
words to heart.
Down 7-0 to open the sec-
ond half, Solorio and quarter-
back Erik Barker connected
for a 41-yard touchdown on
third-and-long to tie the game
with 10:24 remaining in the
third quarter.
“We just played to our
competition level,” Solorio
said. “It took a half to wake us
up.”
Junior Walling started the
scoring drive with runs of 23
and 34 yards.
“We had to do exactly what
Sprague did to us, be mean,
mad, show McKay that we’re
not soft and we can compete
with the teams all around,”
Walling said.
McKay answered with a
long drive but on the 10th
play ended with a fumble that
McNary junior Jacob Jackson
recovered at the Celtic 4-yard
line.
McNary then drove back
into McKay territory but Kyle
McCallister dropped a pass on
fourth down.
The Scots looked to strike
quickly on a reverse pass but
a wide open streaking receiver
dropped the ball.
Jackson then intercepted a
McKay pass to give the ball
back to the Celtics, who went
65 yards on 10 plays to take a
14-7 lead with 10:11 remain-
ing in the fourth quarter. Wall-
ing capped off the drive with a
1-yard touchdown run.
Barker added a 1-yard
touchdown run with 37 sec-
onds left to play to seal the
victory.
Struggling in the passing
game, McNary had to do most
of its damage on the ground
without its leading rusher as
senior Lucas Garvey left in the
fi rst quarter with a shoulder
injury and didn’t return.
Walling took the load of the
work, fi nishing with 171 yards
on 29 carries. Senior Freddy
Jimna added 31 yards on eight
attempts. Robert Benson,
who had mostly played junior
varsity this season, picked up
37 yards on nine carries as
the Celtics fi nished with 281
yards on the ground.
“You take one of your best
players on both sides of the
ball and take him out of the
picture,” McNary head coach
Jeff Auvinen said of losing
Lucas Garvey. “We had three
other running backs go in
there and play like they were
possessed and really got every
inch they could. I was pleased
with all three running backs.
It’s something we had to do.
We weren’t executing throw-
ing the football so we went
mostly run with a little bit of
play-action. The kids did real
well with that.”
Devyn Schurr, a junior var-
sity cornerback, took Garvey’s
place on defense.
Penalties, eight for 70 yards,
killed the Celtics in the fi rst
half.
McKay scored its only
touchdown on a short fi eld.
Starting from the McNary 35-
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
ABOVE: McNary sophomore Junior Walling rushed for 171 yards and a touchdown on Friday, Sept. 22 at McKay. BELOW: Junior
Robert Benson added 37 yards on the ground as the Celtics won 21-7.
yard line, the Scots were aided
by two defensive offsides pen-
alties. On offense, the Celtics
were constantly facing second
and third-and-longs.
Barker threw two intercep-
tions in the fi rst half, including
one in the end zone, trying to
get the ball to McCallister.
“We’re playing with a lot
of guts and a lot of heart but
we’re not playing with our
mind much,” Auvinen said of
the fi rst half. “I thought we
battled. We just made a ton of
mistakes throughout the game.
We kept shooting ourselves in
the foot, penalties and missed
assignments, especially on of-
fense.”
Solorio had two intercep-
tions, one in each half, as Mc-
Nary was plus-3 in turnover
margin.