Sports

Celtics varsity cross country topples Olympians

Both boys and girls varsity squads came out on top when McNary cross country hosted Sprague at Keizer Rapids Park on Wednesday.

The Celtics boys varsity edged out the Olympians 19-40. Sophomore Brayden Kaehler finished first with a time of 18-minutes, 21.8 seconds. Sprague senior Tucker Piper was second at 18:42.9, while the five remaining McNary runners filled out the rest of the top-seven. 

McNary runners took all five of the top spots in the girls varsity race. Freshman Jocelyn Schnurbusch finished in first for the second race in a row, with a time of 21:24.2. As a team, the McNary girls won 15-40. 

The McNary JV squads didn’t fare quite as well. The boys narrowly lost 27-28, while the girls went down 27-32.

5,000 Meters Boys Junior Varsity

Team Scores:

  1. Sprague 27

2. McNary 28

Individual Results:

  1. Kelson Whalen, junior, 20:17.6

2. Annon Schnell, freshman, (Sprague) 20:53.4

3. Michael Willis, freshman, (Sprague) 21:00.0

4. Pawit Potisuk, junior, 21:16.7

5. Cole Gwyn, freshman, (Sprague) 21:41.3

6. Cody Vandecoevering, junior, 22:00.4

7. Ryan Bese, senior, 22:01.7

8. Elijah Moon, junior, (Sprague) 22:11.9

9. Miguel Perez, senior, (Sprague) 22:16.8

10. Gideon Carpenter, freshman, 22:21.7

11.Blake Kalar, sophomore, (Sprague) 22:27.2

12. Carson Brown, sophomore, 22:28.9

13. Jacob Olmos, sophomore, 22:37.7

14. Austin Smith, junior, (Sprague) 22:44.0

15. Ty Hilker, senior, (Sprague) 23:07.4

16. Aaron Boston, junior, (Sprague) 23:13.4

17. Cian Lundy, freshman. (Sprague) 23:37.6

18. Parker Hilgemann, sophomore, 23:38.1

19. Westly Higgins, freshman, (Sprague) 23:38.5

20. Ian Crites, junior, (Sprague) 24:07.7

21. Lukas Fenk, freshman, (Sprague) 24:18.8

22. Eric Gemmill, senior, (Sprague) 24:19.3

23.Rigoberto Maciel, junior, 24:26.8

24. Elijah Bird, junior, (Sprague) 24:44.5

25. Israel Olmos Lopez, junior, 24:47.1

26. Yurek Ledesma, junior, (Sprague) 24:47.2

27. Kellen Laukkanen, freshman, 25:05.9

28. Fernando Maciel, freshman, 25:20.3

29. Quinlan Lally, sophomore, (Sprague) 28:14.2

30. William Nyleen, sophomore, (Sprague) 28:14.8

31. Nathanael Dimaya, sophomore, (Sprague) 28:31.5

32. Ken Bailey, freshman, 28:52.7

33. Eric Pugach, sophomore, (Sprague) 29:19.0

34. Jamie Mason Jr., freshman, (Sprague) 29:30.4

35. Phu Nguyen, sophomore, (Sprague) 33:31.6

36. Jordan Jeripothula, freshman, (Sprague) 33:38.5

37. Austin Bodda, sophomore, (Sprague) 38:45.7

38. Julian Thompson, sophomore, (Sprague) 46:19.0

5,000 Meters Boys Varsity

Team Scores: 

  1. McNary 19

2. Sprague 40

Individual Results:

  1. Brayden Kaehler, sophomore 18:21.8

2. Tucker Piper, senior, (Sprague) 18:42.9

3. Vince Estrada, sophomore, 18:46.5

4. Pawat Potisuk, junior, 19:22.7

5. Cain Duncan, junior, 20:13.3

6. Josiah Ziesemer, junior, 20:14.6

7. Connor Bowlby, freshman, 20:20.2

8. Gabriel Schnell, senior, (Sprague) 21:16.5

9. Orion Powers, senior, (Sprague) 21:17.8

10. Dakota Neaman, sophomore, 21:19.8

11. Merrick Scott, sophomore, (Sprague) 21:21.5

12. Seth Gray, junior, (Sprague) 21:21.7

13. Colin Williams, sophomore, (Sprague) 21:23.6

14. Anders Hagen, freshman, (Sprague) 21:23.6

15. Eelan Nevel, junior, (Sprague) 21:34.1

16. Brody Piper, sophomore, (Sprague) 21:36.6

5,000 Meters Girls JV

Team Scores: 

  1. Sprague 27

2. McNary 32

Individual Results:

  1. Arabella Pobuda, junior, (Sprague) 25:04.1

2. June Higgins, junior, 26:05.5

3. Andrea Maciel Rodriguez, sophomore, 26:19.6

4. Siosi Utaatu , junior, 26:47.0

5. Emma Lotze, freshman, (Sprague) 27:21.3

6. Breanna Waldrop, freshman, (Sprague) 27:24.1

7. Lexi Smith, freshman, (Sprague) 27:53.5

8. Ella Trussell , freshman, (Sprague) 27:57.1

9. Arianna Leber, sophomore, (Sprague) 27:59.0

10. Tally Harmon, sophomore, (Sprague) 28:02.8

11. Kenzie Strasser, sophomore, 29:50.4

12. Megan Curran, freshman, 29:53.3

13. Aubrey Zach, freshman, (Sprague) 30:17.5

14. Madelyn Howe, freshman, 32:16.5

15. Margaret Stahr, junior, (Sprague) 33:11.6

16. Emily Keel, junior, (Sprague) 40:27.4

17. Gabi Akimoff, junior, (Sprague) 42:20.8

18. Mary Brown, sophomore, (Sprague) 42:20.8

5,000 Meters Girls Varsity

Team Scores:

  1. McNary 15

2. Sprague 40

Individual Results:

  1. Jocelyn Schnurbusch, freshman, 21:24.2

2. Nicole Schnurbusch, junior, 21:33.6

3. Cassidy Kerner, freshman, 23:54.2

4. Mckenna Unger, freshman, 23:58.3

5. Kalolaine Utaatu, freshman, 25:18.4

6. Tatum Jones, freshman, (Sprague) 25:23.5

7. Isabella Terzenbach, sophomore, (Sprague) 25:25.2

8. Azure Johnson, freshman, (Sprague) 25:31.6

9. Abigail Alburn, sophomore, (Sprague) 25:37.4

10. Emilie Robin, sophomore, (Sprague) 25:41.1

11. Mary Jespersen, junior, 25:49.5