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PAGE B6, KEIZERNIMES, MARCH 2, 2018 Whiteaker outduels Claggett By DEREK WILEY Of the Keizertimes When 160-pounder Jer- emiah Ratliff earned a pin on Thursday, Feb. 22 at McNary, he didn’t just get his fi rst win of the season. Ratliff also sealed the vic- tory for his team as Whiteaker Middle School topped Clagget Creek 58-36. “He’s worked hard last year and this year,” Whiteaker head coach Kelly Hafer said. “He’s just wrestled studs all year and he got a great win to seal the win for the team.” Whiteaker led from the be- ginning as CCMS had to for- feit the fi rst two weight classes, 75 and 80 pounds, as brothers Brandon and Max Blanco, both undefeated, were absent. Jesse Dyer (85), who fi n- ished the season undefeated at 10-0, then won his match 7-0 to give the Wolverines an early 15-0 lead. Jordan Orr (90) got the Pan- thers on the scoreboard with a pin. CCMS then won by for- feit. But Whiteaker won fi ve of the next six matches to take control. Hunter Ruberto (102) and Jacob Moore (110) both won by fall. Ben Standley, who fi nished the season 8-0, added a 16-4 major decision at 125 pounds. Aiden McCoy (132) then won by decision and Des- tiny Rodriguez (140), who fi nished the season 9-0, got a quick pin. “I’m just really happy with how my kids wrestled,” Hafer CHAMPS, continued from Page B1 “This is the best night of my life,” Gardelli said. “We played like a real team, like a family. I’ve never been on a team where they take me like a member of the family and I’ve been here just six months and to me it’s just like a second family. I feel blessed. I’m from the middle of nowhere and I’m winning a league champi- onship. League championship, I can’t stop saying that. “I’m always trying to get better and this game is showing off the work that I did. I don’t know how many rebounds I get. I don’t know how many points I get but I know that we’re a beautiful team. We all play together. Everybody was on fi re tonight.” Cavell, who had 16 points to go with fi ve rebounds, was at a loss for words after win- ning the league. “I’ve got nothing,” Cavell said. “That was a goal from the fi rst practice of the year. It feels amazing. Winning with my friends, that’s the best part.” Sprague had appeared to wrap up the GVC title with a 56-47 win at McNary on Jan. 26. But the Olympians lost three in a row to West Sa- lem, McKay and McMinnville, and the Celtics took advan- tage closing the season with convincing wins against South Salem, West Salem and Mc- Minnville. Now McNary turns its at- tention to the state playoffs and getting to the quarterfi nals at the Chiles Center, where it KEIZERNIMES/Derek Wiley Jordan Orr earned a pin at 90 pounds for Claggett Creek against Whiteaker. ATHLETE of the Week KEIZERNIMES/Derek Wiley Whiteaker wrestler Jeremiah Ratliff won his match at 160 pounds to seal the win over rival Claggett Creek at McNary High School on Nhursday, Feb. 22. said. “They always run back to the middle. That’s huge. That shows a lot of hard work and belief in the fact that hustle and pressure wins matches You can have a couple of trick moves and that works most of the time but the kid with good sol- id technique who can pressure his or her opponents is going to win more often than not.” Claggett fi nished the dual strong, winning four of the fi - nal six matches as Aron Mon- toya (150), Jakob Munson (175), Luis Cortez (195) and Layne Runyan (220) all won by fall. The Panthers also picked up at win at 117, where Reilly Bandfi eld earned a pin. “Overall, these kids com- peted and worked hard,” said CCMS head coach Aaron Carr. “Whiteaker got us today. Hav- ing those two forfeits early cost us.” Aldo Villalvazo (275) fi n- ished the dual with another pin for the Wolverines. Whiteaker, which had 57 wrestlers, including 10 girls, both school records, fi nished the season 8-2. “We really turned it on the last half of the season,” Hafer said. “We kind of got our feet under us the fi rst half of the season and we were fortunate to have the schedule we did before we hit the tough part of our schedule. It really worked out well.” Claggett had 42 kids partici- pate in wretling this season and fi nished 6-3-1. “Numbers are growing so that’s great for McNary,” Carr said. “The more kids we can send into the program, the bet- ter they’re going to be.” hasn’t been since 2004. The Celtics opened the 6A boys state playoffs on Wednes- day, Feb.28 against Sherwood. With a win, McNary would host either Tualatin or Shel- don on Saturday in the second round. “We know once we get to playoffs there’s no room for er- ror,” Kirch said. “You slip up a little bit, you miss some shots and that can be it. I think our kids are mature enough to un- derstand that and again we’ve just got to keep getting better and keep practicing and take one practice at a time and then one game at a time. “First goal was tonight and we’re going to enjoy it like crazy but we’ve got to get to the round of 16 and then we’ll have the opportunity to go to Portland and then we’ll just keep going one at a time. There’s more work to do but this is pretty sweet tonight.” DENIED, continued from Page B1 Gillette added that the dis- trict’s arguments about safety of students, loss of instruc- tional time and additional ex- penses were “such that I might be persuaded by one or more of them.” But it wasn’t his role to de- cide the case on its merits. It presented by Lucas Garvey Senior at McNary High School McNary senior Lucas Garvey scored 20 points, which included going 5-for-8 from the 3-point arc as the Celtics defeated McMinnville on Wednesday, Feb. 21 to win the Greater Valley Conference championship. is OSAA’s task to make the decision. “My only task is to assure that the choice that OSAA made is one among many that it has a right to make,” Gillette wrote. “Here, its choice is pre- cisely that.” Gillette added that the same concerns from Salem-Keizer could be shared by the three other districts that could’ve been placed with Bend, and all three districts are farther from Bend than Salem is. “All three face roads at least as treacherous—and longer— than those faced by Salem,” Gillette wrote. “All three face at least an equal if not a great loss of class time than does Salem. And all three will face added transportation costs. Choosing among the four groups of schools was a thank- less task, but it was a choice that OSAA could not refuse to make.”
