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Hunter back
with McNary
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
Deven Hunter, a 2012 McNary graduate, is back with the girls
basketball team as an assistant coach.
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
When Elizabeth Doran
was named McNary’s head
girls basketball coach in April,
one former player reached
out, making it clear she want-
ed to return and help the pro-
gram.
After four years at Oregon
State University, including a
Final Four run in 2016, and
then four months playing
professionally in Puerto Rico
and another four in Finland,
Deven Hunter now sits right
next to Doran on the Mc-
Nary bench.
Along with assisting the
varsity team, Hunter is also
the junior varsity head coach.
“Right when the coaching
job came up, I wanted to be
with the program either as a
head coach or being an assis-
tant,” said Hunter, who played
AAU ball at Oregon Elite
with Doran’s younger sister.
Please see HUNTER, Page 14
Celtics suffer fi rst
GVC loss at Sprague
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
SALEM—Sprague senior
Teagan Quitoriano entered
last Friday’s game against
McNary averaging 32 points
per game.
The Celtics held Quito-
riano to fi ve in the fi rst two
and a half quarters but the
Olympians fi nished the game
with nine 3-pointers, includ-
ing a back-breaker at the end
of the fi rst half to give Mc-
Nary its fi rst loss in league
play, 70-62.
“From a game plan stand-
point, that’s everything you
could want,” McNary head
coach Ryan Kirch said of
holding Quitoriano to fi ve
points in the fi rst half. “When
you do that, you pack the
middle a little bit and leave
some outside shots open and
they hit a few more outside
shots than we did. And really
that was it.”
Quitoriano fi nished with
20 points, which included
going 9-for-10 from the free
throw line in the second half.
But he also made his mark
on the game when he wasn’t
scoring.
“We tried to have a guy
in front of him and a guy be-
hind him anytime he caught
the ball on the block,” Kirch
said. “We were running a
double (team) at him and re-
ally force him to make some
decisions. Credit to him, he
passed the ball well. When
you’re a guy that’s used to be-
ing dominant, a lot of times
you’ll force plays but he did
a nice job of kicking it out
to the open shooters and they
made shots.
“Very rarely can you fi nd a
guy that scores fi ve points and
really dictate the entire game.
Because he’s there, you’ve got
to take an extra step to him
and everyone’s got to adjust
to that, credit to him. Great
players win games and he did
a great job tonight.”
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary senior Andrew Jones drives to the basket against
Sprague forward Teagan Quitoriano.
McNary led 19-14 early in
the fi rst period but Sprague
answered with two 3-point-
ers within a minute and a half
to take a 22-21 lead. A put-
back by Riccardo Gardelli
tied the game at 24-24 but
two free throws gave the
Olympians the lead for good.
A 3-pointer in the fi nal
seconds of the second pe-
riod by Sprague junior Jailen
Hammer put the Olympi-
ans ahead 35-28 at halftime.
Hammer fi nished with 25
points to lead all scorers.
Two more 3-pointers early
in the third quarter stretched
Sprague’s lead to 43-33.
McNary got within 47-42
on a Lucas Garvey 3-point
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary junior Abbie Hawley defends a Sprague ball handler during the fi rst half of the Lady
Celts 48-24 victory on Friday, Dec. 15.
Defense key
to 7-0 start
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
SALEM—McNary (7-0) continued to crank
up its defense at Sprague on Friday, Dec. 15,
holding the Olympians to just two fi eld goals
in the fi rst half and under 23 percent shooting
for the game in a 48-24 Greater Valley Confer-
ence victory.
“Going into every game, we’re just really
focusing on defense and how we are going to
defend and the girls are doing a great job of
executing what we’re trying to get them to do,”
Lady Celts head coach Elizabeth Doran said.
“They play really hard defensively and that’s
what we’ve got to keep doing.”
McNary jumped out to a 20-6 lead in the
fi rst quarter as Kailey Doutt, Leah Doutt and
Paige Downer each had six points in the pe-
riod.
Holding the Olympians to only a free throw
in the second quarter, the Lady Celts led 31-7
at halftime.
Leading 46-17, McNary started its four
freshmen, Leah Doutt, Mackenzie Proctor,
Kennedy Buss and Annie-Leigh Besa, to begin
the fourth quarter.
McNary junior Sabella Alfaro scored the
only two points of the period, knocking down
two free throws.
Kailey Doutt led the Lady Celts in scoring
with 17 points to go with six rebounds. Leah
Doutt added 10 points and three rebounds.
Downer fi nished with nine points. Abigail
Hawley had seven rebounds and Buss added
four assists.
Through seven games, McNary is averaging
more than 53 points per game while allowing
32.7.
“A lot of our offense is coming from our
defense right now,” Doran said. “We’re getting
steals. We’re executing in transition very well.
We did do a pretty good job against their zone,
moving it around and being patient and look-
ing for openings and getting some high per-
centage shots and we’re shooting well from the
outside, too. That always helps.”
The Lady Celts had eight steals against
Sprague.
Doran would like to see McNary get more
rebounds.
“Once I said something in the fi rst quarter,
we did do a better job offensively crashing the
boards but still we can do a better job defen-
sively,” Doran said. “That’s an area we’re look-
ing to improve in.”
The Lady Celts took a break from league
play to defeat David Douglas (3-4) 63-40 on
Tuesday, Dec. 19.
After Christmas, McNary is playing in the
Lake Oswego Nike Shootout Dec. 27-30.
The Lady Celts open the 16-team tourna-
ment against Clackamas (4-0) on Dec. 27 at 4
p.m.
“It’s a fun atmosphere up there,” Doran said.
“They have good teams usually in that tourna-
ment.”
McNary’s full lineup
defeats South Salem
play with 2:04 remaining in
the third period but never
any closer.
“That was a good, hard,
physical game,” Kirch said.
“That’s a very tough place
to play. Coach (Steve) Mas-
ten does such a great job.
Our guys are disappointed
obviously but I thought we
competed and played hard
and battled and just a couple
more shots went in for them
than they did for us.”
Senior Andrew Jones led
McNary with 15 points and
seven rebounds.
“He’s really put on a lot
of weight in his upper body,”
Kirch said.
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
SALEM—For the fi rst time
in more than a year, McNary
had a full varsity lineup as it
went into South Salem and
won 62-14 on Thursday, Dec.
14 to improve to 2-0 in the
Greater Valley Conference.
“We’re ready to win at any
weight, any where, any place,”
Celtics head coach Jason Ebbs
said.
“That’s something that is
hands down the No. 1 key in-
gredient to being successful in
any sport is having kids that
show up to practice and show
up to matches and it’s been
a while since we’ve had that.
I’ll take these kids anywhere if
they’ll go with me.”
Please see SPRAGUE, Page 16
Please see LINEUP, Page 14
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McNary senior Jerry Martinez won by a 16-0 technical fall at
South Salem on Thursday, Dec. 14.