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By halftime Tuesday night the Healdsburg Greyhounds basketball team seemed to have things well in hand. After a relatively quiet first period that ended 7-6 to the home team’s advantage, the Lady Greys exploded for 19 points in the second quarter, doing what they do best with a smothering defense and rapid, accurate shooting from inside the key—and beyond the arc. Then it turned around.

Cloverdale represented in two age divisions

The Lady Greyhounds defeated Rancho Cotate by a comfortable 12-point margin, giving them the right to hang the NCS-Redwood pennant in the Smith Robinson gym for the second year in a row.

“Greatest loss of my career,” Coach Mike Domenichelli said. “The players gave it everything they had. The crowd was electric and it was like playing at Yankee Stadium. It was just unfortunate that someone had to lose.”

The 2015/16 basketball campaign is shaping up as a good one for Cloverdale High School boys and girls teams, with both poised to kick off what figures to be a strong league season.

With winter sports barely in the rear-view mirror, here comes spring down the road to shift focus—to badminton, swimming, boys tennis, and track and field, and especially baseball and softball.

At the upcoming Chamber of Commerce mixer on Feb. 22, attendees will get the opportunity to explore a brand new asset in the community—Cloverdale High School’s new Technology Center, known colloquially as the maker space.

The Cloverdale Eagles Cross Country team hosted Fort Bragg, Willits, Saint Helena and Pacific Union College Prep at Cloverdale’s Asti Winery three mile course on Wednesday Oct. 15.

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...

The harsh reality of the North Coast Section playoffs sets in when one team celebrates while the other goes home.