Sports

Early Saturday morning at Spring Lake Regional Park In Santa Rosa, 23 schools from all over the North Bay, including Healdsburg high, descended into the misty valley of the Trione-Annadel hills to run the 37th annual Viking Invitational.

The last time the Hounds Varsity football team scored more than 50 points in a game was in 2016, another non-conference game against the Emery Spartans (62-0). Perhaps not since 1966 has there been such a performance by a Healdsburg quarterback as that by Nova Perrill last Friday...

It was only last weekend, in a tournament in St. Helena, that the Greyhound girls got their first win, a  2-0 shutout over Ferndale. But at least it was a win—and if the volleyball team is burdened by a 1-11 record so far this year, new coach Jonathan Nuttall hopes the win helps turn the tide.

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...