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Celts earn fi rst conference dual victory
KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings
McNary wrestler Gavin Anderson (blue singlet) fi ghts for position in the 195-pound bout against McKay’s Andy Nguyen.
KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings
Gilbert Parra prepares to takedown McKays’s Kash Trevino in
the 145-pound match.
By MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
In their fi rst action after
the holiday break, the Mc-
Nary wrestling squad won
their fi rst Mountain Valley
Conference dual meet of the
season on Thursday, Jan. 9,
defeating McKay 46-29.
Despite not having Grady
Burrows, one of the best
120-pounders in the league,
the Celtics still wrestled with
a full lineup, which ended up
making a difference on the
scoreboard.
“When we see a full line-
up, it means our kids and our
families are committed to be-
ing successful, and I consider
that a gift. We bought into
the training and development
that we are doing,” McNary
head coach Jason Ebbs said.
“And kids feed off each oth-
er when that happens and
the kid that steps in, steps up
and wrestles at a higher level
because they are expected to
fi ll in some pretty big shoes.
That type of buy-in is what
makes kids successful.”
McKay was forced to sur-
render a pair of forfeits early
on in the dual, giving Mc-
Nary the advantage on the
scoreboard.
Rigoberto
Hernandez
(120 pounds) got the Celt-
ics fi rst win of the evening
with a 13-4 major decision
over Tess Barnett. The match
was competitive in the fi rst
two rounds, but Hernandez
outscored Barnett 7-0 in the
fi nal round to get the com-
manding victory.
McNary had several wres-
tlers in this match that end-
ed up victorious after facing
a fi rst round defi cit, starting
with 138-pounder Joshua
Friesen.
Friesen fell behind 3-0 in
the fi rst round against En-
rique Montoya, but in the
second round he took con-
trol of the match, scoring 12
of the next 15 points before
eventually getting the pin in
the third round.
“You have to keep your
composure. I knew I was los-
ing, but I just stayed calm,”
Friesen said. “I was being
cautious with my choices and
I wasn’t making dumb moves.
I still have some stuff to work
on, but I defi nitely did well.”
McNary’s Gilbert Parra
got a second round pin in the
145-pound match. However,
the Celtics would lose the
next fi ve bouts and found
themselves trailing 29-28
with three matches to go.
Fortunately for McNary,
Gavin Anderson’s perfor-
mance in the 195-pound
bout was what turned the
tide.
After falling behind 2-0,
Anderson was the aggressor
in the second round and saw
the opportunity to go for
the cradle, grabbing his op-
ponent’s neck with one arm
while wrapping his other arm
around the opponent’s knee.
Anderson’s
teammates
started going crazy when
they saw him go for the cra-
dle — which is rare to see
at the high school level. But
they went even more ballistic
when the ref gave Anderson
the pin 16 seconds into the
second round.
“I just twisted him up.
I saw his leg, then I saw his
head. For me, that’s cradle
city. I was able to turn him
over and the ref gave it to
me,” Anderson said.
Ebbs added: “He got the
cradle and used his brute
force muscle that he has de-
veloped over the years and
peeled the guy over to the
other side, which is not very
easy to do. That was awesome.
He was clearly determined
and he knew the only way
out of his situation was to
pull that guy over the top.”
With a 34-29 lead, the
Celtics clinched the dual
victory when Anthony Gar-
cia-Reyes (220) pinned Jorge
Martinez 39 seconds into the
fi rst round.
Aldo Villavazo capped off
the night with an impres-
sive victory of is own in the
285-pound match.
There wasn’t a lot of ac-
tion in the fi rst four minutes
as Villavazo trailed Anthony
Valdez 1-0 going into the
third round.
But at the start of the fi nal
two minutes, Villavazo earned
a two-point reversal and
gained control of the match.
Villavazo was then granted
the pin midway through the
round.
“It just comes down to
position. He’s has been get-
ting better the last few weeks
of recognizing when a guy is
on top of him and getting out
from underneath it. He capi-
talized at the right moment,”
Ebbs said.
The Celtics will be wres-
tling in Redmond at the Or-
egon Classic — one of the
largest wrestling tournaments
in the state — starting Friday,
Jan. 17.
“We’re still moving up-
wards, that’s the part that
makes me the happiest. We’re
aren’t coming out of the
break lethargic and not mov-
ing well. We’re coming out
on an upward trend,” Ebbs
said.
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com.
Out of the comfort zone
As we begin a new decade,
I’m tempted to refl ect on the
past 10 years of fi shing. Time
is an illusion and we are pris-
oners of the present. But, if
we don’t look back, we’re
left with no experience and
baseline to move forward. So
let’s look back.
I grew up fi shing rivers.
My dad didn’t own a boat so
when we fi shed a lake it was
from the bank or
a rented craft. We
didn’t use fl ies. In-
stead we used bait
or lures. It was fun
but not as enjoy-
able as the rivers.
This passion for
rivers persist-
ed into my
adult
life
and
the
habit of ig-
noring the
still waters
was learned
in my youth.
I didn’t real-
ly know how to
fl yfi sh lakes and my success
fi shing the rivers was enough
to make me happy and I was
comfortable.
That all changed this past
decade. I would always fi sh
the Deschutes River in late
spring. It was some of the
best and enjoyable fi shing
I ever did. Unfortunately it
began to get very crowd-
ed. With new river permits,
camping restrictions and en-
vironmental degradation of
water quality cause by PGE,
I looked for somewhere else
to fi sh.
My conundrum was I
knew of no other river that
offered anything comparable
with the Deschutes within
a reasonable distance. It was
then, out of necessity, I had
an epiphany: lakes. They had
some advantages. They pro-
vide larger fi sh and it’s easier
to get away from other fi sh-
ermen. Those are both good.
I have a drift boat that works
fi ne as a long
as I don’t need
to venture out
long distances
over open wa-
ter.
One
big
problem: I had
little knowl-
edge
of
how to fl y
fi sh lakes. I
would have
to get out
of my com-
fort zone. I’d
fi shed
one
lake a num-
ber of times
with my father when I was
a teenager. It offered larger
rainbow trout and the op-
portunity to fl yfi sh for them.
With the help of the internet
I was able to discern the fl y
line and fl y patterns I would
need. I persuaded a gullible
friend to go along. Off we
went into the unknown; we
had enough luck to ensure
another trip.
I have always said that if
there’s ever a time I go fi sh-
ing and don’t learn some-
thing I’ll fi nd a new hobby.
Solving problems to entice a
fi sh to grab your fl y is part
of the intrigue of fl y fi shing.
Every time I fi shed this lake
I’ve learned something new.
Different spots at different
times of the day, different or
improved fl y patterns and
different techniques. Getting
out of my comfort zone was
beginning to be fun.
Throughout the decade
we learned more and more
about fi shing this lake and
our catch rates have improved
greatly. Days of hooking 10
or 20 fi ve to 10 rainbows are
not uncommon when con-
ditions are right. The best
three-day trip we ever had
we fi shed absolutely alone;
never saw another fi sherman.
So looking back enabled
me to venture forward and
expand my fi shing hori-
zons. Now that I’ve learn to
try something different, I’ve
even started fi shing a second
lake. We’ve fi shed it a few
times now and have caught
some nice rainbows. It is
completely different with a
new learning curve and that’s
proved enjoyable.
I don’t know where this
new adventurous attitude will
take me next, but wherever it
is, it will add to enjoyment of
my sport. Anybody interest-
ed in traveling to Tierra del
Fuego at the southern tip of
Argentina? Flyfi sh for huge
sea-run brown trout. I will
bet we’d be alone and either
out of our comfort zone or
out of our minds. Don’t wor-
ry about the horses being
blind. Hook up the wagons.
KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings
McNary forward Carson Long (right) boxes out Forest Grove’s Ayden Case to get in position for
an offensive rebound.
Fourth quarter rally puts
McNary over the edge
By MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
The McNary boys basket-
ball team held the lead for less
than four seconds in the sec-
ond half.
Fortunately for the Celt-
ics, it was enough to pull
out the victory in their fi nal
non-conference game.
Nate Meithof, who led Mc-
Nary with 18 points, knocked
down the game-winning free
throw with 3.1 seconds left as
the Celtics erased a 10-point
fourth quarter defi cit to de-
feat Forest Grove 58-57 on
Friday, Jan. 10.
“When we’re down, we
aren’t going to give up. Even
when we were down by 10,
we kept things going and
kept our confi dence up,”
Meithof said.
These two teams met back
on Dec. 28 in a tournament
at North Medford. In that
game, Meithof went off for a
career-high 39 points in Mc-
Nary’s 64-43 victory.
This time around, Forest
Grove implemented a new
defensive strategy to try and
neutralize Meithof, hav-
ing a player face-guard Mc-
Nary’s star at all times. When
Meithof did get his hands on
the ball, another defender
would rotate over to provide
an extra line of defense.
Even though Forest Grove
played with more physical-
ity in this contest, Meithof
remained poised and didn’t
force anything on the offen-
sive end, while still being pro-
ductive.
“I was proud of Nate’s
composure. He was frustrated,
they were holding him and
fouling him. But he never let
it show in his body language.
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