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Cloverdale hosts Middletown Friday in home grid finale

CHS boys and girls teams preparing for playoff hoops

Cloverdale notches wins over Middletown, Lower Lake

Not everyone is glued to the NFL playoffs this year, for obvious reasons. The NBA has its disappointments, too, and that college football season was even longer than usual. What’s a sports fan to do? The answer is obvious: watch the Greyhounds play.

Cloverdale High School varsity basketball teams kicked off the NCL-1 schedule last week in similar fashion, gaining a split in a pair of games.

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...

One quarter into last Friday's Healdsburg football game against Lower Lake, the word in the press box was that the two teams – then tied, 6-6 – were pretty evenly matched. “It’ll take a mistake or a lucky break for somebody to win,” said a long-time Boosters member. Then the breaks started...

Healdsburg’s girls basketball team is having their best year in years, and they’ve had some good ones.

Cloverdale High teams resume league this week

Pitcher Eric Nielsen struggled in the top of the first inning, loading the bases with only one out on a hit and two walks. The coach called for someone to loosen up. Then Nielsen righted the ship and struck out the next two batters. He gave up no more hits and struck out 11 to win the game, 11-0.