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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Schedules: After week of softball league play, 3A YC, 2A/1A Willamina atop leagues
After the first week of league play, a pair of Yamhill County softball teams leapt to the top of their districts. At 3A, Yamhill Carlton (5-3) shutout Santiam Christian and Sheridan in its first ...
Baseball: Yamhill Carlton hindered by errors, off to slow start
Yamhill Carlton baseball boss Jake McGraw was clear after the Tigers’ 11-1 defeat to league foe Taft on Friday, April 5. The team is not performing up to its own expectations, especially ...
Softball: Mac gets right with shutout of Mountainside
After losing three of its last four games, McMinnville softball bounced back in a big way with a 10-0 no-hitter victory against Mountainside on April 5. Grizzly freshman Ariel Glynn was the hero ...
Kiyan Vrell, Mya Haarsma set new Amity track records
Amity is humming early in the season, as evidenced by the individual performances at the league meet on Thursday, April 4 at Amity High School. The Warriors saw a pair of school records fall to ...
McMinnville boys tennis edges past Glencoe
The McMinnville boys tennis team made the trek up to Glencoe on Thursday, April 4 to earn a razor-close 5-4 team victory. The Grizzlies and Crimson Tide split the four singles matchups, and it ...
Valley Panthers down Canby in Round 3 action
The Valley Panthers got their first win of the spring season in their second game. The 20-7 victory came at the Canby Cougars’ expense on April 6 at Duniway Middle School in McMinnville. The ...
Baseball: Mac loses nailbiter to Bowmen in extra innings
The Grizzlies first two league outings were close, but ultimately went the other way against the Pacific Conference’s defending champion, Sherwood. The Bowmen defeated McMinnville 5-2 on ...
Remembering YC's Tom Jernstedt, Father of March Madness
The Final Four of the NCAA March Madness is upon us, which is as good a time as any to remember the contributions of Yamhill Carlton’s own Tom Jernstedt. Jernstedt, who passed away in September ...
Athlete of the Year: ARZNER ARRIVED
McMinnville junior basketball player Macie Arzner loves to fish. Whether it’s slaying salmon, steelhead or trout, there is something about the solitude of finding herself near a river, focusing ...
Mac girls tennis sweeps Liberty
In a comprehensive sweep, McMinnville girls tennis team defeated Liberty 9-0 on April 2 in a road dual. The Grizzlies gave up just three sets all day; No. 1 singles player Maddie Hendricks, No. ...
Mac boys tennis sweeps Liberty 9-0
McMinnville’s boys tennis team continues to look solid against Pacific Conference opponents. Most recently McMinnville hosted Liberty on April 2 and were victorious, walking away with a 9-0 ...
The Nines at The Preserve opens to golfers
On Tuesday, Josh Kay got to play golf for the first time as a course owner. “I brought three friends out. There were bald eagles flying above. The course was full. It was amazing to see,” ...
Bulldogs bullied by Western Christian 19-3
The Bulldogs struggled from the start in the Tuesday, March 26 clash with Western Christian. The Pioneers took home a 19-3 win over Willamina to drop the home team to 1-2 overall. Willamina’s junior ...
SOFTBALL: Mac softball downs West Salem, Canby
McMinnville’s hot start to the season continues. The Grizzlies played a pair of games earlier in the week, home games against West Salem and Canby on March 18 and 19, respectively, and won ...
Mac girls tennis sweeps first league match against Century
The Grizzly girls tennis team traveled up to Century High School on March 19 to face the Jaguars, and returned with a 9-0 sweep and their first league win of the season. “It was a fantastic ...
McMinnville boys tennis gets first win
The McMinnville boys tennis team got its first win of the season at the expense of the Century Jaguars. On March 19, the Grizzlies hosted visiting Century and won the dual 6-3 with the Grizzlies’ ...
Willamina softball, Caitlyn Manley get first win over Dayton
Caitlyn Manley’s journey from Willamina softball player to Willamina head softball coach is complete. Under the former Bulldog softballer, Willamina won its first game of the season, a stern ...
BASEBALL: Mac falls 8-0 to defending champ West Linn
The Grizzlies non-league schedule has had no easy matchups, and the most recent was no different. McMinnville hosted back-to-back defending state champions West Linn on March 19 and were soundly ...
Athlete of the Year: Cohen Haller is overlooked no more
Willamina senior point guard Cohen Haller summed up his team’s mentality this past season neatly and succinctly. “We felt like we were overlooked but not underdogs,” Haller said. That ...
‘Spark moments’: Coach and author inspires YC soccer kids
“Keep your eyes up, score big in the game of life and help make our world a better place, one person at a time,” wrote soccer coach and motivator TJ Kostecky as he signed copies of his new ...
