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The road at the start of Connor Astley’s tenure as head football coach at McNary doesn’t get any easier in week two.
Eight days after losing to a top-five program coming off back-to-back quarter finals appearances in Lakeridge, McNary somehow steps up the competition when 2021 runners up Tualatin comes to Keizer, Saturday.
In an early matchup of top-ranked teams, McNary volleyball defeated South Salem on the road to remain undefeated.
The Celtics (4-0) came in having not dropped a single set early in the season, while the Saxons (3-1) had gone 3-2, 3-0 and 3-1 in their three wins. On Wednesday, the two collided in a five-set thriller.
It may have taken an extra week, but Celtic boys soccer started the season with a big win on Wednesday, Sept. 6.
The 3-1 home win against McDaniel, from Portland, comes a week after the original season opener against Century was canceled due to high heat index forecast. But one week later, the Celtics were ready to open their season.
The first game for head coach Connor Astley and the McNary Celtics may not have gone how most of them hoped, but Astley isn’t discouraged.
Following a 47-0 loss to Lakeridge to open the season Friday, Sept. 2, Astley was still positive in his assessment of his team, as well as the talent level of their opponent.
McNary volleyball remained undefeated, opening league play on Thursday with a straight set win against North Salem in the first home game of the season.
The landscape of Salem-Keizer high school football, and football in the state of Oregon as a whole, will look a lot different for the 2022 season.
A new conference brings together five of the six SKPS schools with five southern Oregon schools in the 6A Special District 1 super conference.
New coach on the block, Connor Astley, helped craft the Celtics spread offense as an assistant to former head coach Jeff Auvinen, but now Astley takes the reins to lead a McNary squad that graduated nine all-conference players
The first two matches are in the books, and McNary volleyball is off to a good start.
With wins at Tualatin and Lakeridge, the Celtics (2-0) are among 10 6A teams that remain undefeated, and are ranked No. 3 by OSAA at the time of this story.
McNary heads up to Lakeridge to open the 6A football season on Friday to face a Pacers squad that has had consecutive quarter finals appearances.
New McNary head coach Connor Astley had nothing but good things to say about his team following their jamboree matchups with Sherwood and Tigard on Friday, Aug. 26.
“I thought the kids played exceptionally well,” Astley said. “I thought our defense balled
