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 [...]

Whiteaker and Claggett Creek middle schools met on the McNary High School field for their annual track meet alongside Crossler Middle School Thursday, April 25. Crossler won the boys side of the meet with 300 points to Whiteaker’s 121.5 and Claggett’s 55.5. Whiteaker girls won the meet with 308.25 points to Crossler’s 105 points and [...]

Celts split meet with North Salem

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes McNary High School’s Devin Reynolds will be trading in his Celtic blues for Beaver orange next fall. Reynolds signed a letter of intent to wrestle for the Oregon State University program at a ceremony Tuesday, April 23. “It came down to a final dinner and they threw out [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The McNary High School varsity baseball team had an up-and-down week after snapping a four-game losing skid. The Celts began last week with a 2-1 win over North Salem High School. With the game knotted 1-1, senior Zac Fegles bunted for a single in the bottom of the [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The McNary High School equestrian team is heading to the district competition this weekend at the Oregon State Fairgrounds and hoping to make enough of a show to qualify for the state competition in May. “We’re all excited for team penning and getting a few cows into the [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes When a game goes bad, it’s easy for players to lose their cool, but that hasn’t been the case for the McNary High School varsity softball team. As an example, McNary’s Kinsey McNaught offers up last week’s contest with Sprague High School, April 10, and the reaction on [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes It’s been rare in recent years for the words undefeated and McNary High School tennis to appear in the same sentence, but as the Lady Celts headed into a match with Sprague High School Tuesday, April 16, that was precisely the situation. “It’s been good for them because [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The McNary High School varsity track and field teams made the best of bad weather last weekend at the Sandy High School Invitational Track and Field meet. The boys took third place by half a point and the girls took fifth place for a combined finish of third [...]

The Lady Celt varsity softball team got shut out of the its Central Valley Conference opening game as it struggled to produce offense in the 2-0 loss. The Saxons drove in two runs in the third inning to take the win and pitcher Katie Donovan retired 10 batters to stay ahead of the McNary team [...]