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School district presents case against OSAA
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Salem-Keizer won’t have to wait
much longer to fi nd out if fi ve of its
high school athletic teams will com-
pete in a league with three Bend
schools beginning this fall.
After listening to eight hours of tes-
timony from the Salem-Keizer school
district and the Oregon School Ac-
tivities Association on Monday, Jan. 29,
justice Michael Gillette said he would
produce a written decision in 10 days
to two weeks.
“I will try to do it as quickly as I
possibly can,” said Gillette, a retired
Oregon supreme court judge. “I’ve
written over a thousand published le-
gal opinions and this is not simple…
I haven’t the foggiest idea. I will end
up writing an opinion that comes out
each way and then reading them both
and fi nd out which one makes the
most sense to me.”
OSAA decided on Oct. 16 that Mc-
Nary, South Salem, Sprague, West Sa-
lem and McKay would be placed in a
league with Bend, Mountain View and
Summit. Salem-Keizer then appealed
the decision in November.
The school district went fi rst at the
appeal hearing, arguing that the OSAA
did not stick to their criteria of safety,
minimizing loss of instructional time,
cost and school enrollment data, but
instead placed McNary and four Salem
schools with Bend because of “com-
petitive balance.”
“We win or die on this case wheth-
er they followed the criteria,” said Paul
Dakopolos, the school district’s lawyer,
in his closing argument.
In his opening statement, Dakopo-
los said, “seeking competitive balance is
impossible in Oregon.”
Alan Bushong, executive director
of CCTV and a witness for the school
district, noted Jesuit’s 63 state champi-
onships over the last 11 years.
“Maybe it’s noble, but it’s not hap-
pening,” Bushong said of competitive
balance. “You can’t do it.”
Peter Weber, OSAA executive di-
rector, argued competitive balance fell
under the criteria of school enrollment
data. He noted that Oregon moved
from a four to six-class system in 2006
due to competitive balance and that it
wasn’t based on state championships
but how teams do during the regular
season.
“Being successful varies by school
and community,” Weber said.
Frank Coburn, girls basketball
coach and parent at McKay, argued
that OSAA’s public meetings to look
at classifi cation were inconvenient,
during the work day in Wilsonville.
He also felt the OSAA wasn’t being
transparent with its information, add-
ing he couldn’t fi nd it on their Website.
Coburn gave testimony at the Oct. 14
meeting but said, “It felt like the room
and board was full of people who had
already made a decision.”
Answering questions from OSAA
attorney Jonathan Radmacher, Weber
testifi ed that the Classifi cation and
Districting Committee’s fi rst draft was
Please see APPEAL, Page B2
McNary loses
top fi ve battle
KEIZERTIMES/Delek Wiley
McNaly juniol Boston Smith scoled eight points in a 56-47 loss to top-lanked Splague on Fliday,
Jan. 26.
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary stuck to the game
plan of holding Sprague to
just three 3-pointers and mak-
ing reigning Greater Valley
Conference Player of the Year
Tegan Quitoriano earn every
point.
But that wasn’t enough as
the Celtics fell 56-47 on Fri-
day, Jan. 26.
“I thought for the most
part, our defense was really, re-
ally good tonight and the kids
executed the game plan,” Mc-
Nary head coach Ryan Kirch
said. “If we make a few shots,
it’s a different story.”
The Celtics trailed by fi ve at
halftime and then eight when
Sprague junior Jailen Hammer
knocked down a 3-pointer to
open the third quarter. How-
ever, McNary answered with
an 8-0 run to tie the game at
30-30 with 2:58 remaining.
Riccardo Gardelli, who led
the Celtics with 14 points and
seven rebounds, gave McNary
a 35-34 lead to begin the
fourth quarter. But Sprague
answered with a 13-0 run to
take control of the game.
“They made some tough,
contested shots and we just
didn’t shoot well and that’s
a credit to them,” Kirch
said. “They guard well and
I thought there were times
where we forced it a little bit
and we didn’t move the ball as
well as we would have liked
and we didn’t draw as many
fouls as a result.”
The Celtics didn’t score
again until an Alfredo Vil-
larreal three-point play with
1:41 remaining to get Mc-
Nary within 47-38. But all the
Celtics could do from there is
foul and the Olympians went
5-for-8 from the free throw
line to fi nish the game.
“They’re No. 2 in the
state for a reason,” Kirch said.
“They’re pretty darn good.
Give them a lot of credit.”
Sprague climbed to No. 1
in the OSAA power rankings
with the win. McNary re-
mained at No. 5.
Gardelli scored 11 points in
the fi rst quarter but the Celt-
ics went to the second period
down 15-13.
Quitoriano appeared to
pick up his third foul on a
charge with 5:30 remain-
ing in the second but the call
was overturned to a defensive
foul on McNary. Quitoriano
wasn’t called for a third foul
until 3:11 remaining in the
game.
“Coach (Steve) Masten did
a good job of protecting him a
little bit with the zone,” Kirch
said.
The Celtics led 22-20 but
Sprague fi nished the fi rst half
on a 7-0 run over the fi nal 4
minutes.
Chandler Cavell, McNary’s
leading scorer this season, fi n-
ished with only fi ve points,
which included a 3-pointer
with only 28 seconds left to
play.
“Hammer does a really nice
job, he’s physical with him,”
Kirch said. “We had a tough
time inside, they sagged off of
the high post. He had some
good looks. He just missed
some shots.”
Cavell also had six rebounds
and fi ve assists. Lucas Garvey
and Boston Smith each fi n-
ished with eight points. An-
drew Jones added six points
and four rebounds.
Celtics to fi ght for district crowns
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Missing most of last season
with an injury, Enrique Vin-
cent was able to sneak up on
other wrestlers to win the dis-
trict title.
As the No. 1 seed this
year, Vincent is determined
to make sure the same thing
doesn’t happen to him.
“I have a pretty good feel-
ing about it but that can always
happen,” Vincent said. “There
can always be people I don’t
even know that can sneak up.”
Vincent will enter the dis-
trict tournament at McKay
on Feb. 2-3 undefeated at 126
pounds in league duals this
season. He expects Ethan Ty-
ler of West Albany and Luke
Merzenich of Sprague to be
his toughest competition.
At 160 pounds, Brayden
Ebbs will also enter the dis-
trict tournament undefeated,
but did miss two duals, For-
est Grove and Sprague, with a
concussion.
“I’ve had a few big wins
and I feel very confi dent go-
ing into my district tourna-
ment and I intend to win it,”
Ebbs said.
His toughest match came
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McNaly seniols Blake Nolton (220), left, and Blayden Ebbs (160) will lead the Celtics into the distlict toulnament at McKay High School on Fliday and Satulday.
in a 6-4 win over David Ru-
bio of McKay.
“It wasn’t my best match
that I wrestled but I was fresh
off a concussion and just get-
ting back in my groove pretty
much,” Ebbs said. “Two weeks
off takes some conditioning
off you. I’ve been focusing a
lot more on my conditioning
and getting in better shape so I
can be in that third round and
not have to worry about being
in a close match.”
McNary freshman Grady
Burrows hasn’t lost at 106
pounds but didn’t wrestle in
the Celtics fi nal four duals
against North Salem, McKay,
West Salem and West Albany.
Logan Basham of North
Salem and Bollong Joklur of
Sprague are the other wres-
tlers to watch at 106.
McNary senior Blake Nor-
ton went 7-1 at 220 pounds
with his only loss coming to
Jacob Luna of Sprague.
As a team, the Celtics fi n-
ished third in the Greater Val-
ley Conference this season at
5-3, behind West Albany and
Sprague.
McNary placed seventh at
the district meet last year, fi n-
ishing only three points out of
third.
Head coach Jason Ebbs
projects this year’s tournament
to be just as tight.
“Our league has a lot of
parity and everybody’s got
their strengths and weakness-
es,” Ebbs said.
McNary is expected to fi ll
23 of 28 spots at the district
meet.
Wrestling begins Friday at
11:55 a.m. and then resumes
Saturday at 10 a.m.
Third/fourth and fi fth/
sixth place matches will start
at approximately 3:30 p.m.,
followed by championship fi -
nals at 4:30.
The top four from each
weight class advance to the
state tournament on Feb. 16-
17 at Veterans Memorial Coli-
seum in Portland.