OCTOBER 25, 2019, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A11
Celtics surrender late goal in 2-2 tie
KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings
McNary forward Julie Dieker (6) keeps the ball in play up the sideline.
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Sprague, however, con-
tempt, the ball trickled out-
of-bounds across the back trolled the tempo to start
line, giving the Celtics a cor- the second half. And in the
43rd minute, the Olympians
ner kick.
Taking advantage of set- got on the board when As-
piece opportunities has been pen DeConcini intercepted
a pass from a
a strength of
McNary play-
McNary all
er and snuck a
season,
and
shot just be-
this game was
low the cross-
no different.
bar to tie the
Santana sent a
game.
beautiful ball
McNary
into the box
defender Re-
on the cor-
gann
Do-
ner kick to
nahue
had
Alfano, who
a
chance
played the ball
to give her
off her right
team the lead
foot before it
back midway
could get to
— Samantha Alfano through the
the
ground
McNary defender
second
half
and
found
after receiving
the back of
a great cross
the net to put
from Santana,
the Celtics up
but her header ricocheted
1-0.
“We really capitalize on off the post and was cleared
set pieces. That is how we out of harm’s way. But Do-
score a lot of our goals,” Al- nahue would help the Celt-
ics get their second score of
fano said.
The Olympians threat- the game just moments later.
After the Celtics were
ened a couple times before
halftime, but each goal-scor- awarded a corner kick, Do-
ing chance was turned away nahue put a well-placed ball
by McNary keeper Ashley into of sea of blue and or-
ange. The ball hit off a play-
Doerfl er.
er’s head and landed at the
feet of McNary forward Julie
Dieker, who easily struck the
ball past Reece for the goal.
“That’s
been
a
point-of-emphasis from day
one, and we do a good job
of taking advantage of those
chances,” McNary head
coach A.J. Nash said about
his team’s ability to capitalize
on corner kicks.
The Celtics stayed aggres-
sive and tried to give them-
selves an insurance goal in
the fi nal 10 minutes of the
game.
It appeared that McNary
had scored when Kennedy
Buss put a ball into the net
on a second effort after her
fi rst attempt was blocked.
But a rare offsides penalty
negated the goal.
Buss had another oppor-
tunity for a score moments
later off a corner kick, but
for the second time in the
game, the shot hit off the
crossbar.
The missed opportunities
proved to be costly for Mc-
Nary down the stretch.
In the 57th minute McK-
enzie Wernicke sent a corner
kick directly into the net,
curving the ball just out of
the reach of Doerfl er, tying
the game at 2-2.
The Celtics pushed more
numbers forward in the fi nal
two minutes to try and re-
take the lead, but were un-
successful.
“The better team on the
pitch is not always the one
that wins the game,” Nash
said. “We should have put the
game away. It’s a disappoint-
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ing result, but I also have to
give credit to Sprague. They
(Just south of Keizer)
came through when they
needed it.”
McNary, however, was
able to defeat Bend by a
score of 2-1 in their fi nal
home game on Tuesday, Oct.
22, keeping their playoff
hopes alive. The Celtics will
play their fi nal contest of
the regular season on Friday,
Oct. 25 at Mountain View.
Game time is 4 p.m.
By MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
The game might have
ended in a tie, but to the
McNary girls’ soccer team, it
felt more like a loss.
Despite leading for the
most of the contest, the
Celtics gave up a goal on a
corner kick with less than
three minutes remaining in
the game, allowing Sprague
to come back and earn the
2-2 draw against McNary on
Friday, Oct. 18.
“When you know you
should beat a team, but end
up tying, it kind of feels like
a loss,” McNary defender
Samantha Alfano said. “It
was pretty frustrating. But
the best team on the fi eld
doesn’t always win.”
After Sprague got off
a pair of shots-on-goal in
the fi rst three minutes of
the game, McNary cleaned
things up on the defensive
side and went into attack
mode.
In the 16th mintue Mc-
Nary midfi elder Ariana San-
tana got off a clean shot deep
in Sprague territory after a
steal. Even though Sprague
goalkeeper Kaile Reece was
able to get a hand on the at-
“When you
know you
should beat
a team, but
end up tying,
it kind of feels
like a loss.”