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By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary’s young boys cross
country team showed off its
potential on Saturday, Sept. 30
when runners from all over
the Pacifi c Northwest con-
verged at Portland Meadows
for the Nike Portland XC In-
vitational.
Competing against 26 oth-
er teams, McNary’s freshmen
placed sixth overall and sec-
ond in Oregon behind only
Sunset.
Ethan Whalen led the
Celtics, fi nishing 31st out of
333 runners in 18:46. Tristan
Proctor (19:15), Emmanuel
Figueroa (19:20), Brennan
Whalen (19:22) and Nathan-
iel Prout (19:56) followed.
McNary junior David Al-
len (18:20) and senior Jonas
Honeyman (19:00) ran in the
Division 3 varsity race.
Francisco Orta and Brock
Wyer fi nished in 19:15 and
19:17 in the junior/senior
race.
McNary senior Kailey
Doutt and freshman Reyna
Terrazas ran in the girls Divi-
sion 2 race. Doutt took 16th
Schools and the public will
have the opportunity to re-
spond to the committee’s rec-
ommendation in writing or in
person at the meeting.
Whatever the board de-
cides, athletic director Scott
Gragg said McNary will adapt.
“We will make things
work,” Gragg said. “That’s
what athletes do and that’s
what athletic directors need
to do. We face adversity or we
face a challenge and we make
the most of it and we get bet-
ter from it.
“You can look at it two
ways. You can look at it as a
problem or a negative or you
can look at it as an opportu-
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McNary senior Jonas Honeyman fi nished the Portland Mead-
ows course in 19 minutes on Saturday, Sept. 30.
in 20:07 out of 184 runners.
Terrazas crossed the fi nish line
in 23:06.
Nina Garland had a PR of
22:50 in the girls freshman/
sophomore race.
Sabella Alfaro fi nished the
junior/senior race in 23:39.
The Celtics are run-
ning against West Albany and
Sprague at Crystal Lake Park
in Corvallis on Wednesday,
Oct. 11. The district meet is
Oct. 25 at Bush Park.
But Williams saw other is-
sues on the Forest Grove fi lm
as well.
“A lot of times we ended
up throwing check down
routes when we could have
hit a deep ball and a few bad
routes, so we’re working on
fi xing that,” Williams said.
The Celtics will face a Mc-
Minnville defense that has al-
lowed an average of 38 points
over the past three games, the
latest a 39-37 loss to South Sa-
lem on Friday, Sept. 29.
Watching the Grizzlies play
McKay, a game they won 35-
14 on Sept. 8, Williams be-
lieves McNary has the skill
players to exploit McMin-
nville’s defense.
“Watching that fi lm, I think
we can defi nitely take advan-
nity. I’m surrounded by lead-
ership in our district that will
use it as an opportunity and
we’ll make the best and make
sure that our kids are engaged
and safe and successful.”
Gragg came to McNary
from Montana, where his
daughter played volleyball
and the closest game outside
of town was 108 miles away.
Teams played on the week-
ends and some of the smaller
schools even went to a four-
day school day to avoid miss-
ing class time.
“I don’t think we’re in the
realm but there’s all kinds of
ways and I feel fortunate to
have experienced that model
fi rsthand,” Gragg said. “I think
I might have some ideas that
maybe haven’t been tried in
Oregon and maybe works for
us, if we’re traveling long dis-
tances.”
McNary currently has
block schedule on Friday,
where student athletes would
miss a lot of class time if
they’re traveling on a regular
basis.
Gragg is looking forward
to the OSAA making its fi nal
decision. He estimated teams
are two to three months be-
hind scheduling next year’s
fall sports waiting for classifi -
cation.
“Whenever there’s a pro-
posal made, you start brain-
storming and right now that’s
all we can do because we don’t
know what the fi nal say is go-
ing to be,” Gragg said. “Once
that fi nal says happens, then
we will start and those brain-
stormings will have to for-
mulate into real plans moving
forward.”
tage of some opportunities in
the secondary,” Williams said.
The Celtics defense is play-
ing at its best, having allowed
just one touchdown to both
McKay and Forest Grove the
past two weeks.
McNary head coach and
defensive coordinator Jeff
Auvinen said the key has been
getting all 11 players on the
same page.
“Kids are fl ying around and
starting to trust their neigh-
bors and starting to disguise
what they’re doing and I think
it’s paid dividends,” Auvinen
said.
“It’s a combination of our
blitzing and our D-lineman
doing what they should be
doing and our linebackers
getting to the right spot at
the right time. Our coverage
looks better. Kids are starting
to understand their zones.”
The Celtics also hope to
get senior Tim Kiser back, af-
ter the defensive lineman suf-
fered a concussion on Sept. 15
against Sprague.
McMinnville
graduated
quarterback Wyatt Smith and
running back Cedric Agcao-
ili-Ostrom, who rushed for
200 yards and two touch-
downs in last year’s game.
“They do a lot of different
things on offense so I think
it’s going to be quite a bit to
contend with there,” Auvinen
said.
“They have some skill play-
ers that are pretty good. I like
their best receiver. They’re
throwing the ball a decent
amount. They seem to be pass-
ing a little more than their run
this year. Still, they want to
run as well. They’d like to be
a split team. I think they still
are. I just don’t think they’re
as physical as they have been
sometimes in the past.”
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