Mac High Sports Roundup: Grizzly bats nab blowouts in season openers

McMinnville baseball blew out non-league 6A Reynolds in the season opener, jumping out a 9-0 lead early on Tuesday. The game was shortened to five innings as the Grizzlies led 19-2, picking up their first ...

Emily Bonsant/News-Register##Pricila Soto makes the tackle against the Chinook Lady Pack rugby team as fellow Valley Panther Saira Vipperman supports. The Valley Panthers defeated the Lady Pack 39-14 on Saturday, March 15 at Duniway Middle School.

Valley Panthers Rugby opens 2-2 at preseason jamboree

The Valley Panthers Rugby club started the spring 15s preseason with a bang, defeating the Chinook Lady Pack from Clark County, Washington, 39-14 in the season opener. 33 Panthers turned out for spring ...

Submitted photo##Coaches and wrestlers for the Grizz Dawgs celebrate after the middle school state championship tournament at West Albany High School: (left) Tanner Rauch, Coach Brian Barnes, Cole Thomas, Coach Adam Thomas, (center) state champion Patton Greene, Tucker Wilson, Hoyt Thomas, Coach Jeremy Wilson and Coach Jerod Harney.

Greene nabs 175 middle school championship for Grizz Dawgs

Eighth grader Patton Greene of Duniway Middle School won the 175-pound middle school wrestling state championship for the Grizz Dawgs middle school wrestling team on Saturday, March 15 at West Albany High ...

Sports Memory Lane: March 12, 2025

A look back at Yamhill County sports

Spartan boys win at Dayton PacWest Ice Breaker

Sheridan senior Jayden O’Reilly won three events, leading the Spartan boys track and field team to victory at 3A PacWest Icebreaker meet on Monday at Dayton. The Spartan boys won six events at the ...

YC’s Smith takes third at Regionals wrestling tournament

Yamhill-Carlton eighth grade wrestler Eliana “Elli” Smith (220) qualified for the middle school state championship tournament in her first year of wrestling and gained a love for the sport. Smith ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Senior wing Macie Arzner tries to find space to operate in the paint, being held back by Jazzy Davison, a Naismith High School All-American First Team selection.

Grizzlies’ run ends at Chiles Center after two games

After a tough 60-29 quarterfinal loss to Clackamas Wednesday afternoon, McMinnville senior Macie Arzner said she expected a different Grizzly team to show up Thursday morning for its consolation bracket ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Assistant coach Tim Haarsma writes 30-0 on a small standing white board in the screening room at Marshfield High School, a final mark on the undefeated season, as the team cheers.

Family, community ties run deep for 2025 state championship Amity squad

Amity girls basketball final huddle of the season, wasn’t on the Marshfield High School court, the home of the 3A state basketball championship game. The huddle was in an intimate setting, downstairs ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Junior guard Eliza Nisly holds up her piece of the state championship net to the roaring Amity crowd. Nisly was named second team All-State for the second year in a row.

Amity players, coaches reflect on the title game victory over Banks, and their 30-0 season

Sixth time’s the charm, the Warriors claimed the 3A state championship for the first time in school history by two-points against the Banks Braves on Saturday in Coos Bay. Coach Jed McMullen said ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Alison Jensen lets go of a three-point attempt that swishes through the basket Friday’s second round playoff game against Forest Grove. The trey increased the Grizzly’s lead to 39-19.

Grizzlies book trip to Chiles Center

The Forest Grove Vikings’ game plan was clear from the opening tip of Friday night’s second-round girls playoff game in the McMinnville gymnasium: clog the paint, hound Macie Arzner with two ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Junior forward Adie Nisly embraces coach Jed McMullen after the Amity Warriors’ 43-41 3A title win over Banks on Saturday. Amity senior post Saralynn Grove, center, lets out a victory yell to celebrate her final high school game and the Warriors’ first state crown. At right, junior guard Lyliana Rideout and freshman wing Leah Lieuallen take in the win.

Undefeated Warriors win state championship

The 3A state championship game came down just one shot with 4.7 seconds on the clock and the undefeated Warriors made school history, nabbing the title.

19-win season sets new standard for YC girls basketball

The Yamhill-Carlton girls couldn’t generate enough offense to earn a trip to Coos Bay. The Tigers lost Feb. 28 on the road at Coquille in the second round of the playoffs, 48-26. But after the game, ...

Kirby Neumann-Rea/News-Register##Conner Dooley, middle-distance runner for the Linfield men’s track and field team, moves to the front of the pack in his winning 1,500-meter heat at the Erik Anderson Icebreaker event at Maxwell Field.

Sometimes friendship circles start on the oval

The term “town and gown” — that happy link between community and academia – is a cultural concept that can take human form. I saw it up close, and somewhat serendipitously, at ...

Trammell takes fifth for Sheridan

Sheridan’s senior heavy-weight Joseph Trammell went into a tiebreaker against the No. 1 seed Kiason Smith of Warrenton in the semifinals of the 3A State Tournament at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum ...

Three Y-C juniors claims sixth at state

Yamhill-Carlton juniors Kalob Dallas (126), Tyler Pond (175) and Gavin Smith (285) finished in sixth at the 3A State Championship on Feb. 28 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. The ...