Sports

Thanksgiving Day gets off to an early start in Healdsburg, and Nov. 23, 2023, was no different. Almost  3,000 participants registered for the fundraising Turkey Trot benefit, “plus lots of kids in strollers and dogs,” according to Susanne Esquivel. “The youngest Trotter was two...

Picking up where they left off last year, the Healdsburg Greyhound girls basketball team is 6-0 just over two weeks into the season, despite having a small roster composed primarily of junior and sophomore talent. The only senior is Hailey Webb, and while all the...

Last year’s girls basketball team from Healdsburg, the Lady Hounds, were a force to be reckoned with, amassing a 24-5 record overall and dominating the North Bay Redwood League with an 11-1 record. They took that success three games deep into the Division 4 playoffs,...

There’s more than one high school in Healdsburg. As well as the public Healdsburg High School, three miles up Bailache Road south of town is the Rio Lindo Adventist Academy, a private boarding school for grades 9-12. The total enrollment is only 108, on...

The Greyhounds ended their 2023 season last Friday, Nov. 3, with a loss to Piner High in Santa Rosa. The 28-14 final score gave Piner (5-5, 1-3 in the league) fourth place in the five-team NCS Redwood League, ahead of Healdsburg (0-9-1, 0-4). At the...

The North Coast’s top cross-country runners gathered at Spring Lake on Thursday, Nov. 2, and small-but-mighty Healdsburg High went toe-to-toe with the county’s best and grabbed the bronze in the boys competition. Kaeden Anderson, the top Greyhound runner for the past three years, again showed...

The odds did not favor the 0-7-1 Healdsburg Greyhounds for the Oct. 27 Redwood League matchup with the 6-2 St. Vincent Mustangs at Rec Park, and it’s safe to say no one lost their jersey on a bet. Prior to the game, Healdsburg High’s seniors...

The Healdsburg girls’ volleyball team scored its final set-and-match points of 2023  last Thursday, Oct. 19, at Elsie Allen High, when the Greyhounds beat the Lobos 3-1 for the second time this year. A week earlier, in another away game on Oct.12, they defeated St....

Every year starts off with a blank slate, high hopes and dreams of a championship run. But for the Healdsburg Greyhounds, 2023 threatens to look too much like last year’s 0-10 season, with the difference of a 42-42 tie that the home team escaped...

Healdsburg’s cross country team, spearheaded by the Anderson siblings, Kaeden and Sierra, put up increasingly fast times over the last couple of weeks at their home course at Hoot Owl Vineyard in Alexander Valley. Kaeden Anderson, well-recovered from an early season ankle injury, sprinted to...