PAGE A14, KEIZERTIMES, OCTOBER 13, 2017
Lady Celts come up
short against Sprague
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary came out swing-
ing against Sprague, 17-5
overall and 11-1 in the Great-
er Valley Conference.
The Lady Celts just didn’t
land enough punches, fall-
ing to the Olympians 3-0 on
Monday, Oct. 9.
McNary’s best chance to
pull off the upset came in the
fi rst game, which the Lady
Celts led until Sprague took a
19-18 advantage.
Two kills by sophomore
Chloe Diede kept McNary
within reach at 22-23 and a
block by Valerie Diede tied it
at 23-23. But the Olympians
won the next two points to
take the set 25-23.
“We quit swinging,” Mc-
Nary head coach Crystal De-
Mello said. “The girls are really
good when they keep swing-
ing. They were willing to do
the work. Our serve receive
was on tonight. But when
you’re in the lead, you need to
capitalize and that’s something
that we needed to do tonight
and we’ll keep working on it.”
Sprague took a 6-5 lead in
the second set and never let it
go, winning 25-18 to take a
2-0 advantage.
McNary led 14-13 in the
third game but the Olympians
went on a run to fi nish off the
Celts 25-19.
“They kept us on our toes,”
DeMello said of Sprague.
“They had a couple moves
that we don’t see from oth-
er teams, some things that
we’ll be better prepared for.
They made some great shots
and some great plays that we
hadn’t seen executed before.”
DeMello said the girls also
need to work on communi-
cating, especially when times
get tough.
“It was really, really quiet
in the long rallies and every-
one knows that the longer
the rally, the more we need to
talk,” DeMello said. “It keeps
the cohesiveness of the team
together and keeps them on
the same page and that was
lacking.”
McNary went to Forest
Grove, where they lost to West
Albany 3-0 (16-25, 17-25, 22-
25) but then defeated the host
Vikings 3-0 (25-19, 25-8, 26-
24) on Thursday, Oct. 5.
“West Albany is a great
team and we needed to serve
receive in that game,” De-
Mello said. “To turn around
and come back after playing
West Albany, the team did well
with that and made sure that
they gave the ball to the right
people.”
The Lady Celts are playing
in a tournament at West Linn
on Saturday, Oct. 14 and then
close out the regular season at
home versus South Salem on
Thursday, Oct. 19 at 6:30 p.m.
“It will be a great oppor-
tunity for us to get our mo-
mentum back and it’s always
nice to play a few games in a
row and shake out your feet
and get going,” DeMello said
of the tournament. “That’s the
plan. That’s how we hope to
close out.”
ALLEN,
continued from Page 12
McNary has one more dual
race, Oct. 11 at West Albany,
before the district meet at
Bush Park on Oct. 25.
The top 10 invidual run-
ners qualify for the state meet
on Saturday, Nov. 4 at Lane
Community College in Eu-
gene.
Doutt, who’s competed at
state twice before, and Repp
have ran the 12th and 13th
best times in the Greater Val-
ley Conference this season.
Emma Garland has the
37th best time and Terrazas
the 45th.
“As long as we get healthy
bodies coming back, we think
when we get to districts, as
long as they’ve got the heart
for it and they want to race,
anything can happen,” Hol-
comb said of his girls team.
“Top fi ve, top four would
be amazing. It just comes
down to heart and how bad
we want it.”
“I wanted to get under 20.
I thought I was going to run
a better time than that,” Repp
said. “I need to push myself at
certain spots, I guess.”
The Lady Celts weren’t at
full strength as Emma Garland
missed the race with an injury
and Reyna Terrazas was unable
to fi nish, but were still able to
tie South Salem for fi rst with
35 points.
Freshman Nina Garland
placed sixth in 23:04. Sabella
Alfaro, a junior, took eighth in
23:17.
Sophomore Duyen Barr
was McNary’s fi fth runner,
crossing the fi nish line in
24:49.
Senior Alison Repp won
the junior varsity race at West
Salem in 23:38.
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary senior Valerie Diede hits the ball over the net in the fi rst set of a 3-0 loss to Sprague at
home on Monday, Oct. 9.
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