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AUGUST 10, 2018, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE B1 KEIZERTIMES.COM Before and after McNary gets new scoreboard Celtic Homes installed McNary High School’s new scoreboard last week. The new $100,000, 18- foot, 9-inch tall and 25-foot wide scoreboard features a 5-foot, 9-inch tall and 15-foot, 11 inch wide LED screen for live track results and sponsors. It was paid for with a $50,000 donation by Skyline Ford and funds from the Ath- letic Booster Club. The booster club will hold a ribbon cutting for the score- board on Blue Day, Saturday, Aug. 18 at noon. KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley McNary High School will have a new scoreboard (right) for its fall sports teams, replacing the old board (left). Lady Celts crowned champions Bullets win PGF Nationals Vandals win Western Nationals ATHLETE of the Week presented by NW BULLETS By DEREK WILEY Of the Keizertimes After the fi nal out, celebra- tion and photos, Taylor Ebbs tweeted “Best day of my life.” The McNary sophomore had just won one of the most decorated softball tourna- ments in the country. The NW Bullets, a travel team in Tualatin, defeated the OC Batbusters 7-1 to win the Premier Girls Fastpitch 14U Platinum Championship Sat- urday, Aug. 4 in Irvine, Calif. Please see BULLETS, Page B2 Submitted McNary sophomore Taylor Ebbs helped the NW Bullets win the PGF 14U Platinum Championship on Saturday, Aug. 4. By DEREK WILEY Of the Keizertimes Coming out of the los- er’s bracket, the NW Van- dals had to beat the team that put them there to win the 14A Western National Championship, and they had to do it twice. But the Vandals also couldn’t get too far ahead of themselves. First, they had to knock off the Nor Cal Legends to get another shot at the Colorado Angels. Playing in Medford on Sunday, Aug. 5, the Vandals shut out the Legends 8-0 to advance to the fi nals. Abbi Covalt, a sopho- more at McNary, was 2-for-3 at the plate as the Vandals scored three runs in the fi rst inning and fi ve in the fourth. Maison Searle, a sopho- more at West Salem, drove in three runs with a double and home run. Reagan Davis, another Please see WEST, Page B3 Submitted Abbi Covalt, a sophomore at McNary, won the 14A Western Nationals with the NW Vandals on Sunday, Aug. 5. McNary coaches, alum win Hoopla title By DEREK WILEY Of the Keizertimes SALEM—McNary High School girls basketball coaches Elizabeth Doran and Deven Hunter, both former Divi- sion I college basketball play- ers, showed they haven’t lost a step, leading Back That Pass Up to the Hoopla Women’s Division I Championship on Sunday, Aug. 5. Joined by 2018 McNary graduate Paige Downer and Morgan McKinney, a 2017 graduate of Lake Oswego High School, Back That Pass Up went 5-0 in the tourna- ment. Ice cold skeez, made up of current McNary basketball players Riley Flores, Junior Walling and Jaime Ochoa, went 3-0 on Saturday. But af- ter winning their fi rst game Sunday, lost in the semifi nals of the 16-and-under boys rec- reational tournament. Please see HOOPLA, Page B4 KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley McNary head girls basketball coach Elizabeth Doran, top left, McNary 2018 graduate Paige Downer, bottom, left, and McNary assistant coach and alum Deven Hunter, right, led Back That Pass Up to the Women’s Division I Champi- onship on Sunday, Aug. 5.
