Sports

The Packers? Are we talkin’ Cheeseheads? Nope. We’re talkin’ Prune Packers, a Healdsburg baseball tradition dating back 100 years.  The Packers’ name stems from the prevalence of the prune industry in this area, and the many people employed in packing sheds that were a part...

An alumni student and an alumni parent have been filling in the coaching duties with the current Healdsburg Girls Tennis Team. And the girls couldn’t ask for better training. Vikram Johnson, alumni of Healdsburg High (2021) and for four years the #1 boys tennis singles...

The Fall 2022 prep sports season got underway for Healdsburg High athletes on Tuesday, Aug. 16, when the girls volleyball Hounds played Middletown Mustangs at home. The varsity girls defeated the visitors, 3-1, while the JV fell 1-2. Other fall sports begin soon, including...

Healdsburg High cross country runners, both girls and boys, are faring well so far this season in this popular prep sport. At the venerated Artichoke Invitational, an annual meeting of runners from large schools and small, races are run in separate heats for each...

For the third time since 2015, the Rio Lindo Lady Spartans have won their league's title. They also have 18 wins on the season, matching the school record.

The Healdsburg Prune Packers once again ended the 2023 season in first place in the California Collegiate League’s northern division, but they had to rely on another wine country team to get them there. As the season’s final home game played out at Rec Park...

Healdsburg Golf Club at Tayman Park has installed a Toptracer machine in all 18 hitting bays at their driving range, which allows users to track their golf shots and play games such as Go Fish and Longest Drive competitions.

“We have a great team,” said Mary Beth Chandler, head coach of the Healdsburg High School varsity girls tennis team. She points not only to the winning record so far this season but the energy her players bring to their game. Those players include Isabel...

The Healdsburg Greyhounds football team has had a difficult year, and returns to their home field for the season’s last game on Friday, Nov. 4.  Although the 2021 record of 3-6 raised hopes that the Hounds could compete this year, to this point they are...

The Greyhound girls soccer team is having a dominant year so far, running up a 5-0 record and outscoring opponents 22-2. Healdsburg trounced Cloverdale 8-0 in the last game of 2022, on Dec. 15; that followed a 6-0 walk over St. Vincent. Their next...