It was a home victory for the Dragons boys cross country team on Thursday, Sept. 28. The Delphian School hosted the Conquer the Hill cross country invitational with high school teams competing from Delphian, ...
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3A Baseball: Dayton's Clark leads Pirates to first victory over Tigers in eight years
No Dayton Pirate had hit a home run since 2023 until Owen Clark sent a blast over the evergreen trees at Yamhill Carlton High School on Friday. The freshman had connected with plenty of pitchers already ...
Gallery: The future is bright for Linfield Women's Track and Field
This season, the Wildcats recorded seven top-10 performances in program history, with six marks set by first-year athletes. At the Northwest Conference Championships, four Wildcats earned podium finishes, ...
Mac Tennis: Teams carrying high expectations into respective district tournaments
The common thread linking McMinnville boys and girls varsity tennis this season has been all about strong mindsets. Win or lose, the respective boys and girls Head Coaches Doug Barsotti and Lily Studer ...
Bears break records in final tune-up for conference championship
A slew of McMinnville runners burned rubber at the Garden City Invitational on Friday at Silverton High School. The Grizzly girls placed first out of 10 competing teams, beating out Silverton (2nd, 114.33) ...
Mac Baseball: Grizzlies win first series of season with help from senior bats
McMinnville’s No. 17-ranked varsity baseball team (11-10, 5-7) won its first series of the season on Friday, and it felt good. “It feels like it should feel,” Head Coach Todd ...
Mac Softball: Grizzlies offense awakens, walks-off high-ranked Glencoe
Little stood in the way of victory for the No. 13-ranked Grizzlies (11-10, 5-4) during their most recent week of Pacific Conference play. A 7-4 loss to No. 3 Forest Grove (19-3, 8-1) on Wednesday was ...
3A Softball: Tigers, Pirates, Bulldogs holding onto playoff bids
After a redeeming 4-0 victory over Dayton to close the month of April, Yamhill Carlton’s No. 3-ranked Tigers (20-3, 12-1) have continued their winning ways to possess what is now an 11-game winning ...
Linfield softball to host regional tournament
Linfield’s Northwest Conference Champion softball team will host its fourth consecutive four-team NCAA Division III regional playoff tournament starting on Thursday, May 14, at Del Smith Stadium. ...
Linfield Baseball: ’Cats fall short in NWC title game
The Wildcats, up 7-5 over Northwest Conference regular-season champion Whitworth University, were nine outs from the NWC tournament trophy until the Pirates mounted a comeback in Spokane on Friday. A ...
Gallery: Remembering good times
On Saturday, May 2, Maile Keliiheleua (1995-99), Chris Haddeland (2007-2011), Spencer Payne (2008-13) and the Grizzlies 2006 Boys Soccer Team were officaly inducted into the McMinnville High School Sports ...
Linfield Baseball: Former foes turned teammates help ’Cats to conference tournament
When Wildcat seniors Wyatt Hurley and Ely Kennel faced off in high school — Hurley a star at Yamhill Carlton and Kennel at Santiam Christian — neither thought their baseball careers would end ...
Linfield Softball: Wildcats claim eighth straight conference title
For the eighth consecutive season, Linfield’s No. 7-nationally ranked softball team are Northwest Conference champions. The Wildcats earned their title on Sunday at the home of Pacific Lutheran ...
Trio of up-and-coming track and field stars learning from each other with state dreams in mind
The future of Yamhill County track and field is bright and approaching fast, literally. Amity’s Ella Hatch, Delphian’s Lily Olivares and Willamina’s Katrina Huff — members of the ...
Mac Golf: Grizzly girls win conference, boys send Slaughter to state
For the second consecutive season, McMinnville’s girls varsity golf team will be forgoing its regional tournament. That is because on Tuesday at Chehalem Glenn Golf Course in Newberg, the ...
McMinnville Community Tennis Association offering adult clinics
Beginning Thursday, May 21, the McMinnville Community Tennis Association will offer adult clinics at the Linfield University tennis courts. Clinics will beon Thursdays through August 20 and will be taught ...
3A Baseball: Pirates, Tigers ramping up for first face off
The third and final automatic playoff berth in Class 3A Special District 3 could be decided during a pivotal two-game series between Yamhill County rivals. On Friday, No. 19-ranked Yamhill Carlton (10-8, ...
Mac Tennis: Grizzlies sweep Bowmen, Jaguars, Tide
McMinnville’s varsity tennis teams had a blazing hot week, spearheaded by the Grizzly girls completing a season sweep of Sherwood just weeks after defeating the Bowmen for the first time in five ...
Mac Softball: Kreft, Pesina-Wade, Stephens go deep in 18-3 smothering of Newberg
A parade of home runs helped the No. 15-ranked Grizzlies (9-9, 3-3) topple No. 30-ranked Yamhill County rival Newberg (9-11, 1-5) on Friday as Mac got back on track with an 18-3 road victory. There were ...
Mac Baseball: Woodward stays hot but Bears drop to Vikings
The high point of the McMinnville varsity baseball team’s three-game Pacific Conference set versus No. 25 Forest Grove (10-9, 6-6) was on Wednesday. It was the only game of the series that the No. ...
3A Softball: YC's Bradfield strikes out 13, clobbers home run in 4-0 victory over Dayton
As the upperclassmen gracing the softball diamond for Yamhill Carlton and Dayton have gotten older, the competition has stiffened and the margins have tightened. Such was the case on Thursday, where the ...
