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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.
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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
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“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
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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
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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.”
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