JUNE 1, 2018, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE B1
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Doutt signs with George Fox
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
After playing basketball
and running track at McNary
for four years, Kailey Doutt
couldn’t pick a favorite.
At George Fox University,
she won’t have to, as Doutt has
signed to play both sports.
“I defi nitely didn’t want
to give up one or the other,”
Doutt said. “I decided to look
into basketball and track and
George Fox is perfect for that
and I’m super excited about it.
It played a big role in my deci-
sion. It wasn’t the only reason
I chose to go there. I love the
coaches and both of the pro-
grams are super good and the
academics are great there.”
Doutt knows George Fox
well after watching her older
brother Johnathan play basket-
ball there over the past four
years.
“I knew he had a really good
experience there and we know
that he got a good education
and he really liked the school
and the program and the coach-
es kind of knew me through
him so that kind of helped
initiate contact,” Doutt said. “I
was familiar with the campus.
I actually went with him when
he went on his freshman orien-
tation. I’ve watched him play
multiple times so I know the
facilities.”
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Basketball is in the Doutt’s
blood.
“My grandpa coached my
mom in high school and she
won state championships and
my dad also won a state cham-
pionship so it’s been in the
family forever,” Kailey said.
“My grandpa was a really good
basketball player and then my
brother growing up, I watched
him play so that got me into it.”
But Kailey wasn’t always
sure it was her game.
“I actually did gymnastics
and dance and was a super big
girly girl when I was younger
and my parents didn’t think
I was going to play,” Doutt
said. “They were very worried
about it but that didn’t happen.”
Doutt’s
parents
began
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McNaly seniol Kailey Doutt will lun tlack and play basketball at Geolge Fox Univelsity in Newbelg.
coaching her in the third grade
in the Keizer Youth Basketball
Association.
“They coached me through
eighth grade and then they
also coached my sister (Leah)
fi fth through eighth grade,”
Doutt said. “They coached two
teams at one point at one time.
They’re super into it and they
want to continue coaching so
we’ll see if that happens. It’s a
big part of my family. Everyday
there’s something basketball,
either my brother’s games, our
games, practice.”
As a sophomore at McNary,
Doutt was voted Greater Valley
Conference Defensive Player
of the Year in 2016 as the Lady
Celts fi nished fourth at the state
tournament.
Doutt was then selected
Girls Basketball Player of the
Year as a senior after averaging
18.4 points and 6.9 rebounds
for the Lady Celts.
Please see DOUTT, Page B4
Witt repeats as
Player of the Year
KEIZERTIMES/Delek Wiley
McNaly seniol Nadia Witt hit .602 with 29 RBIs and 46 luns fol the Lady Celts this season.
McNary senior Nadia Witt was voted Greater
Valley Conference Softball Player of the Year for
the second consecutive season.
Witt, who has signed with the University of
California, Riverside, posted a .602 batting aver-
age in her fi nal season with the Lady Celts. She
recorded 23 extra base hits, including 11 doubles,
six triples and six home runs. Witt had 29 RBIs,
scored 46 runs and stole 17 bases.
McNary freshman infi elder Taylor Ebbs joined
Witt on the First Team. Ebbs led the Lady Celts
with 36 RBIs and scored 29 runs while recording
a .539 average.
McNary senior Haley Ebner and sophomore
Haley Bingenheimer were voted to the Second
Team. Ebner hit .371 with 19 RBIs and 26 runs.
Bingenheimer hit .414 with 19 RBIs and 15 runs.
McNary junior Faith Downer was selected as a
Second Team pitcher. Danner went 16-9 for the
Lady Celts, with a 3.09 ERA over 140 innings.
Emma Kinler (outfi eld), Alexa Cepeda (outfi eld),
Kate Ronning (infi eld) and Abbi Covalt (infi eld)
were all honorable mention selections.
BASEBALL
McNary juniors Jacob Jackson and Ty Covalt
were voted to the All-Greater Valley Conference
First Team. Playing shortstop, Jackson hit .395
with 14 doubles, two home runs, 14 RBIs and
26 runs. At catcher, Covalt hit .341 with eight
doubles, 20 RBIs and 14 runs.
Seniors Collin Wentworth, Lance Becktel and
Carl Rumbaugh were selected to the Second
Team. At second base, Wentworth led the Celt-
ics with 22 RBIs, scored 14 runs and posted a
.319 average. Becktel, an outfi elder, hit .294 and
scored 19 runs. On the mound, Rumbaugh was
4-5 with a 2.00 ERA over 49 innings.
David Allen (pitcher) was honorable mention.
Yellowstone in the spring Keizeltimes columnist
wins Legacy Awald
Interested in sharing Yel-
lowstone National Park with a
few hundred people, or would
you prefer to wait until sum-
mer and join the fi ve million
that will come later?
Jo and I were in Montana
the last weekend of April at-
tending an outdoor writer’s
conference. We decide to visit
Yellowstone.
We invite Ron and Deb-
bie Kerr, of Kimberley, British
Columbia, to join us. They are
also attending the conference.
Ron has enjoyed a long and
distinguished career as an out-
door writer and photographer.
We hope to see baby bison.
We have lodging in West
Yellowstone, about a half mile
from the west entrance to the
park.
As we draw closer to West
Yellowstone, clouds become
darker and drop lower. Snow
comes next.
Soon we are driving past
snow piled several feet deep
along the highway. Fortu-
nately, the new snow melts on
by G.I. Wilson
contact with the road and we
have safe driving conditions.
We go to bed with snow
and wake up to snow. Streets
are still clear. We decide to stay
in town and wait for better
weather tomorrow.
We wake up to sunshine,
blue skies and spectacular
views of snow-covered peaks.
Time to head for Yellowstone.
Our destination for the day
is Old Faithful, the most pop-
ular site in the park.
We drive along the beau-
tiful Madison River. Canada
geese are busy nesting along
the banks of the gin-clear
waters. One creative pair has
built a nest in a hole on top of
a huge boulder in the middle
of the river, safe from four
legged predators.
We pass along riverside
meadows sprouting new grass
for the summer.
We resist joining other
tourists busy snapping photos
of the fi rst bison of the day. We
know we will see hundreds
over the next few days.
Soon we can see beautiful
white skeins of steam climb-
ing through a backdrop of
green. A heavy odor of sul-
phur permeates the area.
A quick vote. No one is
interested in a stroll along the
elevated walk ways.
Old Faithful is busy as usu-
al. Nothing like what we ex-
perienced a few years back in
September.
Forty minutes until the
next eruption. Jo and Debbie
check out the gift shop while
Ron and I marvel at the piles
of snow pushed from path-
ways and parking lots.
Please see WILSON, Page B4
Keizertimes columnist G.I.
Wilson, was awarded the
Northwest Outdoor Writers
Association's Outdoor Writ-
ing Legacy Award at the an-
nual conference in Choteau,
Mont. in early May.
The association of writers
and photographers encom-
passes Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
Oregon, Washington, Alberta,
British Columbia, Northwest
Territories, and Yukon.
Wilson also won two
awards in the Excellence In
Craft competition: Songs of The
Rogue, and How Bad Can Fishing
Get, columns featured in the
Keizertimes.
Submitted
G.I. Wilson, long-time col-
umnist fol the Keizeltimes,
won the Nolthwest Outdool
Wlitels Association Outdool
Wliting Legacy awald.