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PAGE2A14,2KEIZERTIMES,2OCTOBER220,22017 Claggett Creek remains undefeated Claggett Creek defeated Stephens 38-6 on Wednesday, Oct. 11 at home. The Panthers led 14-6 at halftime before running away with the game in the second half. “Rudy Garcia and Aron Montoya ran the ball excep- tionally well in the second half,” CCMS head coach Aar- on Carr said. “The defense held strong against Stephens.” Montoya scored four touch- downs in the rout. Garcia and Even Cornell had the other two. The Panthers are 4-0, hav- ing outscored their opponents 132-18. Whiteaker White aker’s varsity football team fell to Parrish 28-22 on Wednesday, Oct. 11. Prior to kickoff, the fans were treated to the presenta- tion of the Colors by the Mc- Nary High School JROTC cadets, and a stirring rendition of the National Anthem per- formed by Whiteaker seventh grader Cristian Gloria-Garcia. “Every year I invite [JROTC Commander] Major Garcia and his cadets to present the colors, and we are so grate- ful that they serve the White- aker community in this way,” Tom Larimer, head coach at Whiteaker, said. “Those young men and women demonstrate dignity, pride, and respect in everything they do, and they will be back at Whiteaker for as many years as I am around.” Larimer also complimented Gloria-Garcia: “Crisitian did an amazing job. He is a talented vocalist, and it shows great ma- turity to do a solo performance of our National Anthem— a capella no less—at such a young age. Next year Cristian will be playing football for us, but I also plan to talk him into singing the Anthem a few more times.” In a seesaw game that saw both teams strike for long scores, Whiteaker came up just short. “I’m proud of these kids and love coaching them,” Larimer said. “It’s becoming a recurring theme: our offensive line— Spencer Millis, Isaiah McGrath, Carlos Saldaña, Ethan Fisler, and Jordan Jarnagin—play great, so we control the clock and score points, but we are just so shorthanded on defense and give up too many big plays. Al- most all these kids are playing football for the very fi rst time and we have lost more than we have won, but my staff (Marcus Larimer, Zachary Drake and Kurt Barker) has done a great job teaching them the game and making them competitive in almost every game. Most importantly, we are all having a great time and I think almost all these kids will continue to play at McNary. I’ll be really sad to see this season end.” The Wolverines scores came on a touchdown run by Jared Garibay, and two touchdown passes from Porter Vaughn to Carson Long. Whiteaker closes its season with games at Adams Stephens on Oct. 24 and versus unde- feated Claggett at McNary on Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. Alon2Montoya2luns2past2a2Pallish2defendel2and2into2the2end2zone2ealliel2this2season.2Montoya2 scoled2foul2touchdowns2on2Wednesday,2Oct.2112against2Stephens.2 BEND, continued from Page 12 to continue our relationships with the Southern Oregon schools,” Wittman said. “We’ve felt an obligation to help out our brothers and sisters down South. My teams at West cur- rently play down there regu- larly. Those relationships will cease because of where we are with travel budgets. If you’re looking at mileage as the ba- sis for making your decision, take a look at league and non- league mileage.” Brian Armstrong, athletic director at South Salem, added he’d hate for students in tradi- tionally non-cut sports to not be able to compete because there wasn’t enough seats on the bus “We want kids to be in- volved,” Armstrong said. “We want kids to be connected. We want kids to graduate.” Sprague athletic director James Weber said the OSAA was choosing competitive bal- ance over safety and educa- tional time. Athletic directors from the Southwest Conference weren’t happy with the fi nal proposal either but for a com- pletely different reason. “All a long we’ve main- tained that the worst thing to happen to us is to end up with six schools in our conference,” Roseburg athletic director Russ Bolin said. “In football, South Eugene may be in a situation where they go inde- pendent. We have four league games and we’re going to try to fi nd fi ve football games. We won’t fi nd them. There’s no way to fi nd those games. We’re going to be stuck with some of those scheduling aspects.” But Bolin didn’t want the Bend schools either. “They’re (Salem-Keizer) saying it’s not safe for their kids to travel over all the passes but all of the sudden it’s safe for all of our kids to travel all over the passes,” Bolin said. “In reality, the passes that we’re traveling over are a lot more dangerous than the passes that they would be traveling over. I have a hard time saying it’s not okay for their kids but it’s okay for our kids. It’s less safe for us to go there and more mileage.” Bolin wanted Willamette, which has moved down to 5A, to remain in the Southwest Conference. No one from the Bend high schools (Bend, Summit, Mountain View) testifi ed at the meeting. Neither did any- one from McNary or Keizer. from the starting whistle and in the sixth minute junior Na- talia Gonzalez found the lower corner of the goal off a cross from sophomore Julie Dieker to start the scoring. In the 15th minute it was junior Katy Wyatt inside the six yard box who found the end of a Dieker cross for the Lady Celts second goal. Soph- omore Haley Hughes then slotted home a third goal, ser- viced by sophomore defender Samantha Alfano in the 24th minute. Junior Abigail Hawley found the ball off a turnover in the North Salem end, and placed a shot to the lower left corner from 20 yards out to give McNary a 4-0 lead at halftime. Seven minutes into the sec- ond half, Buss nearly stretched the lead to 5-0, fi ring a shot off the post. But 15 seconds later, Buss was able to fi nish on a cross into the box from Shore. Shore’s two goals came less than two minutes apart. After fi ring a shot off the cross bar, sophomore Ariana Santana was able to fi nish a shot in the lower right hand corner in the 59th minute. Ito’s header came in the 62nd minute. McNary mostly called the dogs off in the fi nal 17 minutes, kicking the ball around in the back. The win over North Salem was the Lady Celtis ninth of the season, which is the most in the program’s history. “This year we got to honor those who have really given to the program, whether it’s one year or their full four years,” Nash said. out by South Medford the next week 55-6. South Med- ford only beat South Salem 28-21. North Medford is 22nd in the power rankings. McNary is 18th. “Week in and week out, they’ll be very competitive teams down there,” Auvinen said. “It will be interesting, a long trip. The kids aren’t used to that. These kids I don’t think have ever gone on one. We’ve played Crater and North Medford in non- league but it was a long time ago before these kids were playing.” With last week’s win at West Albany, the Celtics are third in the Greater Valley Conference behind West Sa- lem and Sprague and in a good spot to fi nish at least in- side the top four. “I told the kids last week before the game that it’s go- ing to be kind of a playoff en- vironment, starting with West Albany,” Auvinen said. “North Medford, I think is a playoff caliber team.” The Southwest Confer- ence, which has just six teams (Grants Pass, North Medford, Roseburg, Sheldon, South Eu- gene and South Medford), will have to schedule four non- league football games. While the Southwest Conference has partnered with the GVC in the past, McNary’s foot- ball team is playing at North Medford Friday, Salem-Keizer schools would no longer be- ing able to afford to do so after traveling to Bend. That leaves the Southwest Conference having to travel to Portland. “If Salem is in a league with Eugene, the amount of money that we’d save from our Bend travel budgets is enough SENIORS, continued from Page 12 “She had leadership quali- ties even as a freshman that you can build a program around,” Nash said. “She’s been a huge part of the culture that’s been built and we’re going to miss her next year.” Ito joined a defense that returned only one starter this season but has allowed only nine goals in 12 matches. “She’s added a toughness to this team,” Nash said. “In training and in games, we can count on her to bring that in- tensity and more importantly that toughness.” McNary controlled the game against North Salem TRIP, continued from Page 12 teams ranked in the top six in the OSAA power rankings. Sheldon, No. 4, gave West Salem its only loss, 41-7, on Sept. 18. North Medford gave Sheldon a slightly closer game, losing 35-7, but were blown KEIZERTIMES/Delek2Wiley Although athletic director Scott Gragg previously told the Keizertimes McNary would adapt to whatever the execu- tive board decided. “You can look at it two ways,” Gragg said. “You can look at it as a problem or a negative or you can look at it as an opportunity. I’m sur- rounded by leadership 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.” KEIZERTIMES/Delek2Wiley McNaly2 sophomole2 Julie2 Diekel2assisted2the2Lady2Celts2 fi2lst2 two2 goals2 against2 Nolth2 Salem.2 E.Z. 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