AUGUST 10, 2018, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE B1
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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.
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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
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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.