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Changes
coming to
high school
football?
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McNary running back Junior Walling carries the ball against
McKay, which has asked to play in 5A for the next two years.
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary senior Chandler Cavell scored 20 points, including the game-winning free throw as the Celtics defeated South Salem in
double overtime on Tuesday, Jan. 16.
Celts win double
overtime thriller
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
SALEM—It took double
overtime and contributions
from two players that a week
ago were deep on McNary’s
bench to end a six-game los-
ing streak to South Salem, as
the Celtics defeated the Sax-
ons 65-64 on Tuesday, Jan. 16.
McNary led 64-59 with
1:30 remaining in the second
overtime. But South Salem
guard Jaden Nielsen-Skinner
made two free throws and then
a 3-pointer to tie the game at
64-64 with 24 seconds to go.
Chandler Cavell then went
to the free throw line with 8.3
seconds remaining. He made
the fi rst but missed the second.
Nielsen-Skinner’s shot at
the buzzer from half court was
then just short.
“I’d never beat South Sa-
lem on the varsity squad so it
felt amazing,” said Cavell, who
led McNary with 20 points.
“I needed that one. Andrew
Jones, with his stellar defense
on the last shot. He got a hand
on that. I think if he didn’t get
a hand on that, that was going
in.”
McNary junior Alfredo Vil-
larreal and sophomore Junior
Walling came off the bench for
the Celtics and played most of
the fourth quarter and all of
both overtimes.
“We thought Alfredo was
one of our quicker guards
and with their lineup we had
to match that,” McNary head
coach Ryan Kirch said. “Junior
had done a really nice job re-
bounding. I thought his physi-
cal strength inside and he’s a
little bit quicker than Boston
(Smith).”
Walling gave McNary a 53-
51 lead with 1:15 remaining
in regulation and then pulled
down a defensive rebound be-
fore South Salem made two
free throws to send the game
to overtime. Villarreal scored
four points during the second
overtime period.
“I think we’ve got a tough-
ness and competitiveness that
we haven’t had in a while and
that’s credit to our young guys
that came in fearless,” Cavell
said. “We had two guys that
were playing JV two games
ago come in and fi nish the
game for us and play really
well. That’s a tribute to their
toughness and competitive-
ness.”
Villarreal, who entered the
game for the fi rst time late in
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Lady Celts win at the buzzer
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McNary junior Abbie Hawley scored 13 points against South
Salem, including the game-winner at the buzzer.
McNary junior Abbie
Hawley made a shot at the
buzzer as the Lady Celts de-
feated Greater Valley Conferce
rival South Salem 39-38 on
Tuesday, Jan. 16.
Hawley led McNary with
13 points and four rebounds.
Senior Kailey Doutt added
11 points and seven rebounds
in the victory.
The Lady Celts hadn’t de-
feated South Salem since as-
sistant coach Deven Hunter’s
senior year (2012).
McNary rebounded from a
58-39 loss at McMinnville on
Friday, Jan. 12.
Doutt had 21 points and
nine rebounds.
Hawley and Paige Downer
each added seven points.
Sabella Alfaro scored the
only four other points in the
road loss.
The Lady Celts, 11-4 over-
all and 5-2 in league play, are
back in action on Tuesday, Jan.
23 at home against North Sa-
lem at 6:45 p.m.
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
While nothing is fi nal,
OSAA high school football
schedules may look different
than other sports in 2018-19.
When the Executive Board
adopted its fi nal classifi cation
in October, which put McNary
and four other Salem-Keizer
schools in a league with Bend,
it also created a football ad hoc
committee, made up of athletic
directors, coaches and principals
from 1A to 6A.
The ad hoc committee’s task
was reviving a sport that is de-
clining in participation.
One recommendation from
the committee allows football
teams with a Conley winning
percentage of 22 percent or
lower to move down a classifi -
cation for football only. In 6A,
McKay is one of the schools
that has agreed to move down
and play in 5A for two years.
The committee has also pro-
posed alignments for varsity
football only.
In option A, McNary would
play in a 12-team special district
with South Salem, West Salem,
Sprague as well as three Bend
schools and fi ve teams from
Southern Oregon. While op-
tion B would only include the
Salem-Keizer and Bend schools,
minus McKay.
At a meeting on Tuesday,
Jan. 16, the state’s 6A athletic
directors recommended option
B with each team playing four
league games and then having
the fl exibility to schedule fi ve
non-league games.
McNary athletic director
Scott Gragg said that didn’t
mean the Celtics would be
guaranteed to play the three
Salem schools as part of their
league schedule but could hy-
pothetically schedule one of
them for a non-league game.
“I could very easily see each
of the Salem-Keizer schools
having two Salem competitions
and two Bend competitions,
one home and one away,” Gragg
said. “We wouldn’t want to
leave Bend out on an island. By
default we’d play them at least
once anyway. They’re going to
need to play at least their two
and need to look for two more.”
The fl exibility would allow
teams to put together a more
competitive schedule after last
year 42 percent of games were
decided by more than four
Scott Gragg
touchdowns.
The 6A athletic directors are
also recommending a 24-team
playoff, instead of 32, with the
top eight teams getting a fi rst
round bye. The top eight seeds
all won in the fi rst round last
season, outscoring their oppo-
nents 450-82.
“That would be different
from any other sport at any
other level,” Gragg said. “The
committees like to be consistent
across the board. You’re seeing
that in different sport. But what
we’re fi nding out is football is a
different animal.
“The desire is to build foot-
ball programs to create balance
in a way that draws more inter-
est and promotes the sport in a
time when the sport is showing
trends that it is not growing.”
The 6A football recommen-
dations go to the OSAA State
Championship
Committee
and then the Executive Board,
which makes the fi nal call.
“This isn’t fi nal by any stretch
of the imagination,” Gragg said.
The ad hoc committee has
also discussed eliminating con-
ferences altogether, since play-
offs are decided by power rank-
ings anyway, but Gragg doesn’t
see that happening this time,
even though he likes the idea.
“Really, the conferences,
other than identity, are mean-
ingless, because the playoffs are
based off RPI rankings,” Gragg
said. “It makes sense for all sports
but it would also be a schedul-
ing nightmare from an athletic
director’s perspective. But if it’s
in the best interest of kids, it
might be where we land with
all sports. If the ad hoc commit-
tee ever landed there, which I
don’t think is on the books for
this one, we would start with
football and then move on and
see how it goes and add sports
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