Sports

With only a little over a week left in the 2022 California Collegiate League (CCL) baseball season, the Healdsburg Prune Packers are poised to repeat their 2021 state championship—if they can survive the playoff rounds, set to begin in just over a week. Last weekend...

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...

It was a perfect day for a run—as it so often is—and for 150 folks it was a day to return to Healdsburg for the “annual” Kiwanis Fitch Mountain Footrace.  Though there were fewer participants than in the pre-Covid past, it was the first time...

State Sen. Mike McGuire, a Healdsburg native, threw out the first pitch. Some said it looked something like a strike from certain angles, but for the 42-year-old politician—the majority leader in the California State Senate, former assemblyman, former county supervisor and former Healdsburg mayor—it...

The Healdsburg Prune Packers were locked in a pitcher’s duel with the San Francisco Seals through 6 innings this past Saturday, June 11,  but in the bottom of the 7th, Braydon Runion (U. of New Mexico) hit a 3-run homer deep over the left...

As the 2021-2022 school year comes to a close, the North Bay League (NBL) and Healdsburg High School would like to recognize and honor our All-League athletes. These student-athletes were chosen by the coaches of the NBL to receive All-League recognition. Congratulations to them...

NBL Redwood Swimming, April 13 swim meet results against Rancho Cotate High School Submitted by Lorna Martin-Hayman Boys: Healdsburg 116, Rancho Cotate 23200 Medley Relay  Healdsburg( M. Ridder, Y. Lemus, D. Madrano, J. Parmeter) 2:34:29, Healdsburg- ( M. Cabrjal, M. Neilson, J. Lucia, J. Johansen) 2:52:82 200...

The West County High School (WCHS) varsity softball team recorded its first highlight of the spring campaign last weekend at the 20th annual Dandelion Days Tournament in Jackson, winning three of four games played to hoist the first-place Silver Division trophy.

Healdsburg winning streak reaches first straight; pushes overall record to 5-2 The varsity baseball Greyhounds continued their hot start on the high school diamond circuit, recording successive victories over Kelseyville (3-0), Piner (6-2) and Cloverdale (8-5). The wins extended the Hounds’ win streak to five...

It may have taken the Healdsburg High School varsity softball team four preseason games, but all was forgiven on March 8 when the Lady Greyhounds notched their first win of the spring campaign, routing the visiting Kelseyville Knights, 16-11.