Sports

With the surprise addition of 10 new freshmen runners, the Healdsburg Hounds hope to boost their chances to make league cross country champs. And although that might depend on the good health of their veteran runners, one can’t deny the fresh energy these freshmen bring to the team.

It had been three years, or as the whisper throughout the crowd put it more exactly, 1,072 days, since the Healdsburg Hounds Varsity football team had won a game. But last Friday night, in front of the jam-packed home grandstands, the Hounds ended that losing streak with a 35-21 win over the neighboring Cloverdale Eagles...

The 2024-25 school year began earlier this month, but the high school’s football players were already practicing—learning blocking, routes and plays—for the third coach in three years...

This year the North Coast Section commissioners have restructured the leagues, producing four divisions of the renamed Redwood Empire Conference. Among them is the Mountain League, where Healdsburg finds itself this year.

Whatever the result of the year’s first gridiron game at Rec Park, the halftime period is worth its weight in gold—in the form of a giant check written out in the amount of $74,160 to the high school’s athletics programs...

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...