Jacob Sanchez drives the ball down the first base line (KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings). Despite their final youth season being lost due to COVID-19, McNary Youth Baseball (MYB) wanted to provide one last memorable experience for their players. The MYB outgoing eighth graders got the chance to…
Volcanoes Stadium The Salem-Keizer Volcanoes have been honoring local cancer survivors, and those who have lost their lives to the disease, at the ballpark for nearly two decades. Even though it will look different than years past, the organization is keeping that tradition alive this…
McNary Youth Football plans to provide a flag football season this fall for kids in kindergarten through eighth grade (Submitted). After the OSAA elected to move their fall sports season to March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tualatin Valley Youth Football League (TYFL) made…
Alex Salazar moves the ball upfield at McNary’s Blue Day event last year. Salazar will be leaving McNary to go the Barcelona Soccer Academy in Arizona (File). Coming in to the 2020-21 school year, it appeared that Alex Salazar would be the main star on…
McNary’s Luke Ellis competes in a cross country race at Bush Park in a meet from last season (File). During a “normal” year, student-athletes across the state would be preparing to gear up for the fall sports season. However, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Oregon…
FROM RIGHT TO LEFT: Jamison Martin, Alex Tavera, Danny Okada, Ethan Patterson and Alex Simpson got to play one final time in their Celtics uniform in the senior day tournament at Volcanoes Stadium (KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings). Even though they didn’t get their final year of prep…
OSAA The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) shifted its traditional Fall sports season contests to begin in March under a new 2020-21 school activities calendar approved by the association’s Executive Board on Wednesday. The Board also voted to waive current out-of-season coaching policies to allow for…
J.T. Vachter delivers to the plate for the Celtics on Wednesday, July 29 (KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings) The McNary Youth Baseball 12U squad exploded for four runs in the first inning and six runs in the fifth on their way to a 14-6 victory over Woodburn on…
Landon Gerig threw three scoreless innings for the Celtics against Cherry City (KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings). It may have only been a scrimmage, but the game was played with the intensity of a state tournament contest. The McNary Youth Baseball (MYB) Senior American squad played to an…