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Celtics fl ying under the radar
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary graduated all fi ve
seniors off of last season’s bas-
ketball team that reached the
sweet sixteen for the third
year in a row.
Luckily for head coach
Ryan Kirch, the Celtics re-
turn two players who would
have probably started on most
teams in seniors Chandler
Cavell and Lucas Garvey.
Kirch also liked what he
saw from the new crop of
players this summer, when
fi ve different guys scored over
20 points in a game.
“We felt really good with
where we’re at,” Kirch said.
“We played and beat some
pretty good teams. We’ll look
a little different this year be-
cause of our size. There’s some
differential between players
where as last year guys were
very similar. I like our group.
I think we’ve got some ag-
gressiveness, we’ve got some
rebounding, we’ve got some
guys that can shoot it a little
bit.”
McNary’s size comes from
two 6-5 juniors—Noah Hud-
kins and Boston Smith. The
Celtics have also added Ric-
cardo Gardelli, a 6-5 senior
exchange student from Italy.
“We’ll see where he fi ts in
the mix as far as getting defen-
sive rotations and those sorts
of things but he’s certainly a
capable scorer,” Kirch said of
Gardelli. “He’s a good athlete
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary seniors Chandler Cavell, left, and Lucas Garvey will lead the boys bas-
ketball team this season after the Celtics graduated all fi ve starters.
with a thick, strong body who
can jump and shoot it a little
bit and dunk in transition. It’s
just a different style of game
for him. He’s been great. He
wants to learn. He’s excited to
be here. We’re excited to have
him.”
Senior Andrew Jones, who
has put on muscle in the off-
season, played varsity last year
and will be counted on more
this season.
“Guys like Andrew and
Chandler and Lucas have
been around long enough
that I think they understand
the expectation and they’ll
do a good job leading,” Kirch
said.
Junior guards Alfredo Vil-
lareal and Griffi n Oliveira,
two swing players last season
between JV and varsity, have
also impressed Kirch.
“Villarreal is a little lefty
guard who can really get af-
ter it and defend and run an
offense,” Kirch said. “Griffi n
Oliveira really surprised us
during the summer with his
competitiveness and plays a
lot bigger than he is.”
Senior Daniel Zwemke
and junior Jacob Jackson will
also be counted on.
Defense and sharing the
ball will again be staples for
the Celtics.
Please see RADAR, Page 11
Swim team participation, focus up
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary’s swim team
keeps growing.
After being late to the
fi rst week of practice for tak-
ing two trips from the high
school to the Kroc Center,
Celtics head coach Casey
Lewin had to go to McNary
athletic director Scott Gragg
and get a bigger bus.
“It’s a good problem to
have,” said Lewin, who enters
his fourth year as head coach.
“I started out with about 35
my fi rst year and each year
add on some. It’s good. I’m
excited.”
McNary will enter the
season with at least 60 swim-
mers, including 20 freshmen,
which is twice as many as the
Celtics normally have.
“I would love to be at 70,”
Lewin said. “That would be
awesome. My goal was like
55 this year and we’ve already
gone past that so I’m pleased.”
Lewin was also impressed
by the focus he’s seen from
the team since practice began
on Monday, Nov. 13.
“We were a super focused
group last year and that car-
ried over,” Lewin said. “Our
fi rst practice on Monday was
probably the best fi rst prac-
tice I’ve had and this will be
my eighth year of high school
coaching. Everybody was on
top of it, listening well, focus-
ing hard. It’s a very coachable
group, which makes our job
super easy.”
Two of McNary’s top girl
swimmers are already out for
the entire season.
Senior Marissa Kuch, the
2016 Female Greater Valley
Conference Swimmer of the
Year as a sophomore, is still
dealing with the same back
pain that caused her to miss
the end of her junior cam-
paign.
Senior Sarah Eckert, who
led the Celtics at the GVC
Championships last season,
fi nishing fi fth in the 500-yard
freestyle and eighth in the
100 butterfl y, tore her ACL.
Returning for the Lady
Celts is senior Haley Deb-
ban, a three-sport (volleyball,
swimming, track) athlete at
McNary who placed eighth
in the 100 breaststroke at the
district meet last season.
Emily Alger and Alyssa
Garvey, who along with
Debban and Eckert, fi nished
fourth in the GVC in the 200
free relay, are also back.
Lizzie Bryant, Emma Gar-
land and Kylie McCarty, who
swam on the sixth place 400
free relay team with Alger, re-
turn as well. Bryant also tied
for seventh in the 100 back-
stroke last season.
Lewin also expects twins
Bella and Alex Beard, who
are both strong club swim-
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McNary senior Haley Debban will lead a girls swim team that has already suffered two season
ending injuries.
mers, to make a splash as
freshmen.
Senior Grant Biondi leads
a McNary’s boys team that
should be much improved.
“It’s great watching my
team throughout the years
grow,” Biondi said.
Please see SWIM, Page 11
Salmon fever on the Nucker
by G.I. Wilson
Submitted
G.I. Wilson and Tom Gerald, of Keizer, caught six nickel bright salmon last month on a trip to
Cloverdale.
Sit in line for an hour, in
the dark, in a cold, bitter rain,
waiting to launch your drift-
boat, then, sit for another hour
in a cold aluminum boat, wait-
ing for enough light to safely
race to a spot.
Salmon fever, accompanied
by an entourage of greed, ig-
norance, lawlessness, fi erce
competition and assorted hu-
man fl aws, has struck again.
This scenario is played out
countless times each fall after
the fi rst major rainfall brings
fall salmon into our coastal
rivers.
When fall salmon move
into coastal rivers, they be-
come restricted to smaller ar-
eas. Anglers seem to become
affl icted by the fever and ex-
hibit strange irrational be-
haviors in an effort to gain an
edge on the competition.
I have spent some 50 plus
years as a casual, objective, ob-
server, and occasional partici-
pant, of this sometimes enter-
taining phenomenon.
Must be a highly conta-
gious fever for normal, ratio-
nal folks to punish their bodies
in such fashion, to get a par-
ticular spot on the river, when
by legal fi shing hours they will
be joined by 13 newest, best
friends.
Quest for the day? A
“chromer, nickel bright, load-
ed with sea lice,” all meaning
a fi sh fresh from the ocean,
which means excellent table
fare.
When the fi rst fall freshet
arrives, salmon storm upriver
headed for their natal spot to
spawn. As the river level drops,
they stop over in deep pools
or “holes.”
These holes become well
known, and consequently,
scenes of the much heralded
“combat fi shing” we read
about in magazines and see on
TV.
Please see WILSON, Page 11