By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The McNary High School varsity softball team is headed to the state playoff tournament after blanking Lake Oswego High School 14-0 Tuesday, May 14. The Lady Celts started off the play-in game strong with catcher Kiana Villareal kicking off the Celtic scoring with a two-run homer in [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The McNary High School girls varsity track and field team capped an undefeated run through the Central Valley Conference with a 81-60 win over Sprague High School Wednesday, May 8. The win puts the Lady Celts in the driver’s seat headed into the CVC district preliminaries Wednesday past [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes A sense of urgency carried the McNary High School varsity baseball team to a strong finish in Central Valley Conference games, but it didn’t see the team through a play-in opportunity that could have launched the team into the state playoffs. The Celtics faced Sunset High School in [...]

The McNary High School basketball programs are hosting summer camps for boys and girls in June. First up are the boys with a camp planned Monday, June 17, through Thursday, June 20. Incoming third through fifth graders will meet from 9 a.m. to noon and incoming sixth through eighth graders will meet from 1 to [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Laura Donaldson and Aerial Rice, both members of the Lady Celts’ 4×100 relay team, had been looking forward to a race with Sprague High School all week. It was set for Wednesday past press time, but Sprague’s relay team is the Celts’ closest consistent competitor in the Central [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The McNary High School girls doubles team of Sandy Childress and Alex Henriques da Silva earned a No. 2 seeding in the Central Valley Conference district meet earlier this week. Childress said she was hoping for a second chance at Sprague’s Mackenzie Fraser and Lauren Mann, who dealt [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The McNary High School varsity baseball team again finds itself struggling to snap a losing skid, but the prospect of a play-in game that could launch the team into the playoffs has players hanging on to hope. “We’re trying to get hot in all aspects of the game. [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Celt Daniel Brattain has been battling a sprain for much of the season, but it didn’t stop him from breaking his own school record, 14.62 seconds, in the 110 meter high hurdles two weeks ago. He followed up that achievement by winning the 110 in 14.85, the 300 [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes McNary’s Gary Gao started down 4-0 in the first set of his singles match with a West Salem High School opponent last week, but he was far from out. “I was too impatient at the beginning of the match, and I didn’t settle down until after I talked [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The McNary High School varsity softball team rebounded from a mini-slump to dole out crushing, five-inning wins over McKay and North Salem high schools, but an equally bruising loss to South Salem High School took the wind out of its sails. “We’d been working on our hitting,” said [...]