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With Hailey Webb, the team’s only senior, graduating this spring, Coach Jim Lago knows he has his work cut out for him to duplicate this year’s success going forward. But he thinks he has the tools to do it.

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...

It was a mixed bag on the local high school diamonds last week, as the Cloverdale varsity baseball squad stayed in the NCL-1 title hunt while the defending league champion Lady Eagles saw their hopes diminish for a softball repeat.

Four of Healdsburg High’s softball team were named to the NBL All League roster. First team selections were Claire Berry at first base and Izzy Osborn at second; second team members included centerfielder Celia Vallatton and Ashley Jenkins at third base...

Healdsburg ball fans should know that baseball and softball North Bay League championship games, for both the Oak and Redwood divisions, will be played here in town on Friday, May 10. Baseball will be hosted at Rec Park at 3:30pm (Redwood) and 6:30 (Oak). Softball games are played at the HHS varsity field (University and Monte Vista), Oak at 4:30 and Redwood at 7pm...

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's Hailey Webb led the Lady Greyhounds to a 69-47 win over Cloverdale with 32 points, 10 assists, six rebounds and two steals, while the boys' varsity team ended a six-game losing streak with a 57-48 win over Jim Elliot Christian.

All League selections are nominated by their coaches, and voted on by the entire coaching staff of the league. Given that the Healdsburg Greyhounds fell only midway in the playoff rankings, the choice of Pitcher of the Year is especially noteworthy: Alex Mauro-Manos, only a sophomore on the young Greyhounds 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...