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Lady Celts top McKay, West Salem
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary’s girls tennis team
improved to 3-0 overall and
2-0 in league play on Mon-
day, April 9.
Sweeping all four singles
matches, the Lady Celts de-
feated West Salem 5-3.
At No. 1 singles, Han-
nah Childress barely broke a
sweat and didn’t lose a game,
defeating Miranda Brewen
6-0, 6-0.
Katherine Perez only
dropped one game, topping
Katie Harrington 6-1, 6-0 at
2 singles.
Helena Gools, a foreign
exchange student from Bel-
gium, won 6-4, 7-6 at 3 sin-
gles.
After not winning a match
last season, sophomore Avery
Haymowicz won 6-0, 7-5
at 4 singles to remain unde-
feated.
“My serves have improved
over the summer quite a bit,”
Haymowicz said. “Last year I
would lose game after game
because I just couldn’t serve.
This season has been a big
improvement and I’m re-
ally happy with the way the
whole team has been.”
Haymowicz
has
also
worked at being more con-
sistent this season.
“I’ve got to be the wall
that keeps hitting it back,”
she said.
McNary’s fi fth point came
at No. 1 doubles. After los-
ing the fi rst set 2-6, Natalia
Gonzalez and Sofi a Zielinski
stormed back to win the sec-
ond set 7-5 and the third 6-1.
“Last year we didn’t win
many matches, except for
like two, and West is a pretty
good school, so it was nice
winning,” Gonzalez said. “I
think we just had the mo-
mentum going with us, as
soon as we won a set. They
kept hitting it to us at the net
and I think both of us play
really well at the net so it was
easy shots.”
West Salem won at 2, 3
and 4 doubles.
The Lady Celts defeated
McKay 7-1 on Wednesday,
April 4 in its fi rst league
match.
Childress again won 6-0,
6-0. Perez captured a 6-3,
6-3 victory and Tanveer
Sandhu came from behind to
win 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 at 3 singles.
McNary then swept dou-
bles action with Gonzalez
and Zielinski winning 6-4,
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McNary senior Helena Gools, left, and sophomore Avery Haymowicz both won their matches at No. 3 and 4 singles on Monday,
April 9 against West Salem.
6-1 at 1 doubles and McK-
enna Sieg and Taylor Walker
winning 6-4, 6-1 at 3 dou-
bles.
The other two doubles
matches both went three sets
with Ainoha Zorzo and Gina
Munguia coming back to
win 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 at 2 doubles
and Haymowicz and Joyce
Yu holding on for a 6-2, 4-6,
6-2 victory at 4 doubles.
Reaching new heights
McNary sets PRs at
Titan Track Classic
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
SALEM—McNary senior
Paige Downer took last track
season off to play AAU bas-
ketball.
She’s returned looking like
she never left.
After setting a 1-foot per-
sonal record of 10 feet in the
pole vault at Forest Grove
to open the season, Downer
cleared 9-08 on Friday, April
6 to place fourth at the Titan
Track Classic at West Salem.
The 10-foot jump is
the best in the Greater Val-
ley Conference this season
and would have been good
enough for second at last
year’s district meet.
“I knew I was going to
come back and vault but
I didn’t know it would be
like this so far. It’s exciting,”
Downer said. “I have hope
for myself and I think that if I
can keep working and putting
in time during practice then I
can achieve great things. I’m
kind of the underdog.”
Three Bend girls tied for
fi rst, vaulting 10-08.
“They vault all year long
so they have an advantage but
they’re very good athletes as
well,” Downer said. “It makes
me want to work harder. If
I want to get up top, I have
to look like these athletes. I
watch them to see what I can
work better on, what they’re
doing right and that I can
critique and fi x.”
Last season’s GVC cham-
pion, West Salem senior
Alyssa Premo, tied for fi fth at
9-02.
Downer also ran on Mc-
Nary’s girls 4x100 relay.
Seeded ninth, Downer, Kai-
ley Doutt and freshmen Ash-
lin Samples and Leah Doutt
fi nished fourth in 51.44 sec-
onds.
Please see HEIGHTS, Page B4
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary senior Paige Downer clears 9 feet, 8 inches in the pole vault in the Titan Track Classic at West Salem High School on
Friday, April 6. Downer’s best vault of the season, 10-foot, lead the GVC as of Wednesday, April 11.
McNary run-rules South Salem
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary senior Haley Ebner runs to fi rst base after laying down
a bunt against South Salem on Monday, April 9.
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
On a quote board in Mc-
Nary’s dugout were the words
“Make it happen.”
Against South Salem, the
Lady Celts did just that, scor-
ing seven runs in the fi rst in-
ning and seven more in the
second to run-rule the Saxons
14-3 in fi ve innings on Mon-
day, April 9.
McNary’s fi rst fi ve hitters
reached via single in the bot-
tom of the fi rst.
“That fi rst inning the girls
came out on fi re,” McNary
head coach Kevin Wise said.
“We just kept fi nding holes.”
Haley Ebner drove in the
fi rst run of the game, scoring
Nadia Witt on a line drive sin-
gle to right fi eld.
“That’s something that we
want to keep working on,”
Ebner said of getting off to the
fast start. “Obviously, if you
score fi rst you control the mo-
mentum of the game. We’ve
been talking about it a lot and
I’m glad that we lived up to it
today.”
The Lady Celts had eight
hits, all singles, in the bottom
of the fi rst, and fi nished the
game with 16 hits.
Emma Kinler had Mc-
Nary’s only extra base hit on a
double to center fi eld to score
Alexa Cepeda and Ebner to
give the Lady Celts a 14-0 lead
in the bottom of the second.
“I felt like I wasn’t really
hitting all that well so I just
went up and there and I was
like I’m just going to hit it
hard, I don’t even care where
it goes and it happened,” Kin-
ler said. “I just really wanted
that hit.”
Kinler was 2-for-4 at the
plate with two runs and three
RBIs. Witt was 4-for-4 with a
run and RBI.
McNary stole fi ve bases
in the game. Kate Ronning
swiped two.
“We have a lot more speed
than probably what we’ve
had in the past. Not that we
haven’t had fast girls but now
as a whole we’re a pretty quick
team,” Wise said. “We’ve talked
to the girls a lot about being
aggressive and they’re stepping
up and doing it. It puts a lot of
pressure on defenses. I love it. I
hope they keep doing it.”
South Salem scored all
three of its runs in the top of
the third, taking advantage of
two infi eld errors.
“We had a little communi-
cation problem in the infi eld,
just being young,” Wise said.
Faith Danner pitched all
fi ve innings for McNary, al-
lowing just two hits.
South Salem played with-
out Maygen McGrath, a senior
who has signed with the Uni-
versity of Montana. McGrath
sprained her ankle last week.
Please see RULE, Page B4