Sports

As students return to Healdsburg High School this week, five sports programs including football for the boys, and volleyball for the girls, and others as well covered sports including cross country, golf and tennis...

It was Tucker Bougie who allowed the game-winning home run to the Lincoln Potters on Monday night, as described in this previous article, but there he was on the mound in the top of the ninth of the series final. Instead of facing two...

Tension was high, and the grandstands were filling to capacity for the third game in the series, Friday Aug. 2. Game Three got off to a rough start for the Packers defense, as the visiting Potters a 1-0 lead—without getting a hit. Then the Spirit of Art McCaffrey Field rose up...

An eight-run ninth inning, capped by a three-run homer by pinch-hitter Jason Hanson, gave the home team Lincoln Potters an exhilarating victory over the heavily-favored Packers. The development gives the Potters a 1-0 advantage in the best-of-three series...

The Pacific Empire League just concluded its inaugural season, and to no one’s surprise the Healdsburg Prune Packers walked away from the field in the final standings. But while their 22-5 league record was dominant, and they secured the first-place finish and playoff home field advantage, it wasn’t always easy...

Having already clinched the No. 1 seed in the inaugural playoffs of the Pacific Empire League, the Prune Packers headed north for a three-game series with the then-surging Humboldt Crabs, at their home field in Arcata. And proved you can't win them all...

The Prune Packers sealed the No. 1 seed for the league playoffs last week, with three weeks yet to go in the season, eight full games ahead of runner-up Lincoln Potters (9-9). But here come the Crabs...

The Healdsburg Prune Packers continue to reward their fans, delivering yet another compelling reason for them to visit Rec Park on a hot summer’s day or night...

Carrying an 18-0 record into their June 27 game at Harry David Field in Medford, Oregon, the Pack’s luck finally ran out. The home-team Rogues, who had been defeated by the Packers the previous five games, including two on their own home field, had at last had enough. They handed the Healdsburg team their first loss of the year. But there were more to come...

After the 2001 season the Oakland Athletics lost three of their key players, and general manager Billy Beane responded by adopting the statistical analytics that came to be known as “sabermetrics” to reshape the team for 2002. That year the Oakland A’s put together a 20-game winning streak, the most recent major league team to reach that number. The 17-0 Prune Packers are closing in on that magic number...