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KEIZERTIMES.COM McNary swimmers fi nd their stride on senior night KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings McNary’s Kianna Staley competes in the 100-yard butterfl y on Tuesday evening at the Kroc Center. Jackson McCarty swims the backstroke in the 200-yard individual medley. McCarty wound up winning the event for the Celtics with a time of 2:31.98. By MATT RAWLINGS Of the Keizertimes In their fi nal dual meet of the regular season as the host school, the McNary varsity boys and girls swim teams sent the seniors out on a high note. For the second time this season, both Celtic squads beat down McKay in dom- inant fashion, with the girls claiming a 110-59 win and the boys coming up on top 122-43 at the Kroc Center on Tuesday night. “We had some wicked fast swims tonight,” McNary head coach Casey Lewin said. “There were a lot of kids with best times. Across the board, we swam very well.” Only a small portion of both McNary swim teams are made up of seniors, but that didn’t lessen the impact that they were able to have on the program over the course of this season. “It’s a small group, but the leadership they have shown is three times what their num- bers are,” Lewin said. “From the fi rst day at practice, they were setting the example for our freshman and all the un- derclassmen. It’s going to be missed next year.” For the third time this sea- son, the Celtic boys nearly pulled off a sweep of all events as they won 10 out of the 11 races. Nikita Martushev got the fi rst individual victory of the night with his fi rst place fi nish in the 200-yard freestyle, win- ning the race in 2:17.83. The McNary senior was also victorious in the 100-but- terfl y (1:05.14), which he won by nearly 10 seconds. Martushev, however, wasn’t the only senior to have a big day for the Celtics. Harrison Vaughn also took home victories in two events, winning the 50-freestyle (24.44) and the 100-back- stroke (1:04.15). Andrew McCarty easily got the victory in the 200-in- dividual medley (2:31.98), Ethan Whalen won the 100-breaststroke by more than 20 seconds (1:17.18) and Kyle Hooper fi nished fi rst in the 100-free (54.02). “Pretty much all our boys had great swims. I was very, very pleased,” Lewin said. On the girls side, Alex Beard led McNary with her wins in the 200-IM (2:23.76) and the 100-free (1:02.48). In the 200-IM, Beard trailed her teammate, Paris Boyd, by nearly two seconds after the fi rst 50 yards of the race. But Beard was able to make up the difference and touch the line just 0.02 sec- onds ahead of Boyd. “I saw out of the corner of my eye that Paris was ahead of me so I knew I needed to go faster,” Beard said. “It was neck-and-neck.” Boyd, however, was able to come back and get a win of her own in the 500-free (5:50.49). Isabella Beard fi nished fi rst in the 100-breast (1:16.56) and Kaylynn Villalobos won the 200-free. Despite dealing with inju- ries for much of the season, Alyssa Garvey came out and won the 50-free with a time of 26.87. It was the fi rst time that Garvey had ever fi nished the event in under 27 seconds. “Alyssa was fl ying in the 50-freestyle,” Lewin said. “It was a huge confi dence boost- er for her to swim the way that she did.” Big fi rst half propels Celts to victory By MATT RAWLINGS Of the Keizertimes McNary’s Boston Smith wasn’t sure if he was going to go in this one. The senior post banged up his knee in the Celtics 73-63 overtime loss to Sprague on Thursday, Jan. 24 and was deemed a game-time deci- sion for Saturday’s contest against Mountain View. Despite not being at 100 percent, Smith decided that he needed to come through for his team. “I knew that me playing would be a huge impact,” Smith said. Smith led the way with a game-high 23 points — 15 of which came in the second half — and propelled the McNary boys hoops team to a 74-60 victory over Moun- tain View. “(Mountain View) was keying on me in the fi rst half, but I was able to stay calm and let things come to me,” Smith said. Griffi n Oliveira had 12 points for the Celtics and knocked down four shots from behind the arc. Noah Hudkins also scored 12 for McNary. Hudkins was the one that got it going to start the game. After getting an easy hoop thanks to a beautifully set up pick-and-roll, Hudkins bur- ied a 3-pointer from the top of the key to put McNary on top 12-6. KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings Noah Hudkins (20) looks for open space in the paint to get off a clean look in McNary’s 74-60 victory over Mountain View on Saturday. Hudkins and Smith would each convert lay-ups mo- ments later to extend Mc- Nary’s advantage to 16-6. “It felt good to go out there and just run and get it going,” Hudkins said. “I think I just came out with a dif- ferent mindset and I played with an aggressive attitude.” The Celtics kept their lead at 10 to end the quarter after Nate Meithof concluded the period with a left-handed fl ush off a steal. A bucket in the paint from Junior Walling, plus a base- line triple from Oliveira gave McNary the 29-15 lead early in the second quarter. Moun- tain View came back with an 8-2 run to get the defi cit down to single-digits, but the Celtics would respond with a run of their own. Riley Flores, Alfredo Villa- real and Oliveira all knocked treys during McNary’s 11-0 scurry, which extended the McNary lead to 42-23. Whether it was hitting open shots from the perim- eter or getting easy buckets down low, the McNary of- fense seemed to be fi ring on all cylinders in the fi rst 16 minutes of the contest. “We have a lot of guys that can make plays,” Mc- Nary head coach Ryan Kirch said. “We want to play an inside-out game and we trust our big guys to move the basketball around when they are doubled-teamed.” The Celtics went into the break up 46-27, but late in the period, Smith had to be KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings Boston Smith lines up a mid-range jumper in the second quarter. The senior post led the Celtics with 23 points on the night. attended to on the sideline after appearing to re-aggra- vate the injury on his right knee. Smith came out to start the third quarter with a knee brace, but the pain he was in didn’t seem to effect his pro- duction as he scored three buckets in the paint and ended the period with nine points. “(Smith) was dominant inside,” Kirch said. “He is a really mature kid and his leadership has been great.” The Celtics did a poor job of taking care of the basket- ball in the fi nal period, which allowed Mountain View to make the score a little more respectable. Kirch hopes that his team will clean up on the turn- overs as the Celtics head into the second half of their Greater Valley Conference schedule, but he was ulti- mately pleased with how his team performed overall. “Obviously, we need to get a little bit better closing out games, but I’m proud of the way they played,” Kirch said. McNary hosts Summit at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday.
