Sports Memory Lane: August 8, 2026

A look back at Yamhill County sports

10 Years Ago

• Former McMinnville High School QB Gage Gubrud lit up the scoreboard and the stat sheet Saturday during an inter-squad scrimmage of the Eastern Washington University football team at Roos Field in Cheney, Washington.

The sophomore quarterback, who is competing for the starting role for the Eagles, threw for 202 yards and had just a single incompletion as the Eastern Washington University offense rolled up 494 yards and 46 points.

Gubrud completed 16-of-17 passes for 202 yards and three touchdowns as EWU concluded its first two weeks of preseason practices with the 71-play scrimmage.

• Two recent Linfield graduates, Eric Lawson and Regan Cox, were honored with placement on the NWC Scholar-Athlete First Team. Lawson and Cox were eligible after achieving a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher while participating in a full varsity season.

The two were among 103 Wildcat athletes representing all 19 varsity athletic programs receiving all-conference scholastic recognitions for the 2015-2016 academic year.

25 Years Ago

• Dominic Doty added to his international soccer experience with a 23-day trip through Europe in June. Along the way, he participated in three youth soccer tournaments.

Doty played for Westside Metro, a Beaverton-based team consisting of youth soccer players from the Portland metro area. The team finished with a 20-2 record.

Metro finished its trip by winning the New Castle Festival, the largest in England. Going 7-0, Metro became the first U.S. team to ever win the Festival.

• Hopes to start a water polo team at McMinnville High School have been put on hold for financial reasons.

Interest in putting together a team has had students and teachers talking over the past months and years. But there is not enough money in the district budget to support plans, according to Athletic Director Marianne Mills.

“We would have to rent pool time at the aquatic center and pay for lifeguards to watch over the practices,” Mills said.

Starting this year, the city is requiring all groups to pay for one lifeguard per 40 swimmers at practice. This is affecting the Mac Swim Club and the school’s budget.

“Once OSAA supports water polo as a high school sport, then there will be a larger push from the community and there would be a possibility to make a team at that time,” Mills said.

50 Years Ago

• Anne Marie Fischer, 18-year-old daughter of Rudolph and Marie Fischer, is one of three Amity High School girls named as Prep Track and Field Athletes of the Year by the editors of Coach and Athlete magazine.

Carol Bryan and Cindy Miller also received the honor.

Anne, a 5-foot-9-inch June graduate of AHS, was named Outstanding Girl Track Athlete and shared Outstanding Girl Athlete of the Year with Miller.

Using the “Fosbury Flop,” she holds the school high jump record of 5-5 3/4 and placed sixth in state high jump competition this fall.

She also holds the school record time for the 110-meter hurdles (16.2), was a long jumper and member of the 440-yard relay team.

• Mary Budke of Dayton scored a first-round victory in the 76th U.S. Women’s Amateur golf tournament in Sacramento on Tuesday.

Representing Michelbook Country Club, she turned in a 5-and-4 victory over Beth Barry of Dauphin Island, Alabama.

Budke won the Women’s Amateur in 1972.