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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.