Schools

The Healdsburg boys soccer team, with their 3-2 record so far this year, has found much of their success in games at home—including an 8-0 trouncing of St. Helena last Friday night. The girls, meanwhile, are undefeated at 7-0.

That the sport of badminton is again being played in high school gyms around the area is due in large measure to the efforts of Scott Bischof. A former competitor and founder of the World Badminton Museum, he introduced the sport at several schools including Healdsburg.

With the football Greyhounds taking a break this past weekend (their Sept. 12 game against Santa Rosa forfeited due to injuries and suspensions), sports fans turned up at Frost Gym on Thursday to see the girls volleyball teams take on Montgomery High in not one but three games: freshman, JV and varsity teams all competed for a full evening of action in the close quarters of the former East Gym on the high school campus.

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,...

The Cloverdale High School JV softball team had a great showing at its own tournament last weekend, winning two of three games to take home a second place trophy.

Unbeaten Cloverdale faces stern test at St. Helena on Friday

A pair of great seasons came to an abrupt end last week for Cloverdale High School baseball and softball teams, with both advancing in the North Coast Section Division-4 playoff tournament before being bounced in the quarterfinals.

The 74th year of the Redwood Empire Invitational Basketball Tournament kept both teams and fans busy last week during four days of action at Healdsburg High’s main gym, Smith Robinson, and its smaller, older East Gym. “REIBT is a fundraiser traditionally used for Healdsburg basketball,”...

Healdsburg is justifiably proud of its student-athletes, and since 1992 has honored them by inclusion in an Athletic Hall of Fame. There are currently 49 members of this exclusive club, including honorary members, and on Feb. 25 five more names were added to the rolls.

Lady Eagles no longer unbeaten in league