Titles, bids & bragging rights - Yamhill County baseball & softball's final week

It's the final week of the regular season for high school baseball and softball, and Yamhill County has some skin in the game.

Newberg baseball controls own destiny for Pacific title

Baseball Standings

The Newberg baseball team (20-4 overall, 11-4 Pacific Conference) enters the final week of the regular season a game up on rival Sherwood (15-8, 10-5) in the 6A-3 Pacific Conference.

The Tigers take on Century (15-9, 9-6) this week while the Bowmen face Liberty (11-13, 5-10).

NHS hosts Monday (4:30 p.m.), plays at Century Tuesday (5 p.m.) and hosts again at 4:30 p.m. Thursday. The Tigers - ranked ninth in 6A heading into the week) have clinched an automatic spot into the 6A Tournament with a guaranteed top-three finish in the conference.

The top three teams in each of the seven 6A conferences get an auto bid with the next 11 teams in the rankings that haven’t qualified to fill out the rest of the 32-team tournament.

McMinnville - ranked 15th in 6A and coming off a 6A state semifinal appearance in 2025 - will look to leap into one of the top three spots as it sits in fourth place - two games back of Century as the Grizzlies get set to take on last-place Glencoe (at home Monday and Thursday, on the road Tuesday).

In 3A, Yamhill-Carlton (13-11, 8-6) still has a shot at the state tournament - though it will likely have to receive one of the at-large berths as the Tigers are in fourth place in Special District 3 with only a non-conference home game against Rainer left on Monday. Fifteen teams receive an automatic berth in 3A with the next five in the rankings receiving the at-large bids.

Ranking and cutoff dates are Thursday with the first round of the state playoffs set for May 25 (next Monday). Foll

YCHS, Dayton softball battling for 3A-SD3 title

Softball Standings

A pair of Yamhill County teams are battling for the 3A-SD3 as No. 4 Yamhill-Carlton (22-3, 14-1) leads No. 3 Dayton (20-4, 14-2) by a half game heading into the final week.

YCHS wraps up its regular season and can clinch the league title outright Monday at Salem Academy, Dayton plays a pair of non-league games at home this week - Monday against Harrisburg and Wednesday against Astoria.

Willamina/Sheridan (11-11, 9-6) also wraps up its regular season at Yamhill County-foe Amity on Monday. YCHS, Dayton and Willamina/Sheridan have all locked up one of the district’s four automatic bids into the 3A state tournament.

In 6A, McMinnville (11-11, 5-5) enters the final week a game back of Glencoe (20-6, 6-4) for the final auto-bid in the Pacific. The Grizzlies have one conference game left - a 4 p.m. Tuesday home matchup against Yamhill County-foe Newberg (10-15, 2-9) - while also hosting key non-league 6A matchups against Central Catholic (11-12) on Monday and Sheldon (12-13) on Thursday.

The Grizzlies sit 12th in the OSAA rankings - so a good showing this week should lock up a spot into the postseason no matter Glencoe’s result at Forest Grove on Tuesday.

Ranking and cutoff dates are Thursday with the first round of the state playoffs set for May 25 (next Monday).

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