OCTOBER 1, 2021, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A13
McNary cooks Crescent Valley
in fi nal non-conference game
SPORTS
McNary midfielder Oscar Chavez boxes out a Crescent Valley defender to track down a loose ball.
BY MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
After suff ering a tough defeat
against Newberg in their previous
game, the McNary boys' soccer squad
bounced back in their fi nal non-league
contest.
With the score tied at 1-1 going into
the half, the Celtics rallied for three
unanswered goals over a 20-min-
ute stretch in their 4-2 victory over
Crescent Valley on Friday, Sept. 24.
“The win was good for the kids.
It's good for their confi dence going
forward,” McNary head coach Miguel
Camarena said.
The Celtics missed out on a pair of
opportunities early, but made a con-
nection in the 11th minute to take the
1-0 lead.
Off a throw-in by midfi elder Oscar
S ccer
Chavez, Johann Singh Sanchez split
a pass by a pair of Crescent Valley
defenders to an open Axel Zapien,
who took advantage of his one-on-one
opportunity with the opposing keeper
and sent a shot into the right corner of
the net.
“As soon as I got the ball on the
breakthrough, it was all about taking
it to the front of the goalie and then
shooting it to the side. It was pretty
much a tap in,” Zapien said.
McNary was able to keep posses-
sion of the ball for the majority of the
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fi rst half, making it diffi cult for the
Raiders to get shots-on-goal. However,
when Crescent Valley did fi nally get
a clean look at the net, they made it
count thanks to a Celtics miscue.
Raiders freshman forward Alex
Westberry created some space for him-
self and fi red a shot at the net from
about 30 yards away. McNary goal-
keeper Emerson Carella was in perfect
position to stop the attempt, but the
ball slid right through his hands and
into the back of the net, which tied the
game at 1-1.
Despite the error, the Celtics
responded in the fi rst fi ve minutes of
the second half.
After McNary's Aldair Cruz Barocio
cleared the ball from the back line past
the midfi eld, Celtics forward Hudson
Brunk outran a Crescent Valley
defender for the ball, then placed an
impressive touch shot off the hop and
into the goal to give McNary the lead
back.
“I had a similar play in the fi rst half,
but the goalie was a little closer the fi rst
time and I wasn't able to chip it over
him. But this time I had a little more
space and got it over him,” Brunk said.
“It's always nice to get the lead and I
See SOCCER, page A16