Sports

The Healdsburg Prune Packers opened their 2023 season in dynamic style by winning six straight games against four different opponents. All games were played at their home field at Rec Park before near-capacity crowds who cheered their home team loudly and, as it turned...

For the Healdsburg varsity baseball team, the first few weeks of the schedule have produced mixed results—a couple of tournament wins last week following five straight losses, adding up to a 3-5 record overall.

The Redwood Empire Invitational Basketball Tournament (REIBT) unspooled at both Smith Robinson and the East Gym on the Healdsburg High School campus, from Wednesday to Saturday last week.  Todd Sheehy, one of the tournament’s directors this year along with Lance Munselle, was understandably proud of...

The world of summer community baseball was hit by a screwball this week, as the Healdsburg Prune Packers—perhaps the most successful of such teams in Northern California—announced its divorce from the California Collegiate League (CCL) and the formation of a new confederation of teams,...

The Healdsburg High varsity soccer team has turned into quite a threat in the North Coast Section (NCS) playoffs, with the championship match in sight. The semi-final game in the Division 4  tournament is being played as the Tribune goes to press Wednesday night,...

The Greyhounds didn’t take long to notch their first wins of the spring baseball season, claiming victories over Kelseyville and Credo to even their record at 2-2.

When the Healdsburg Prune Packers set out to win an unheard of three-peat as California Collegiate League champions, their chances looked pretty good. Now they look better. With 14 straight victories without a loss over both league and non-league opponents, the 102-year-old franchise is setting...

The Healdsburg High girls basketball team ended the regular 2023-24 season on a high note—a 15-game winning streak, capped by a 12-0 sweep of the other teams in the North Bay Redwood league. But now the going gets tough: a two-game championship series began on...

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...

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...