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Last Friday night, in front of an excited and anxious home crowd, the Healdsburg Varsity Football team lost to the Terra Linda Trojans, unable to put an end to their three-game losing streak. The Hounds, who are now 3-5 overall, played an emotional game, especially in the second half, but their 28-19 loss to Terra Linda gives them a 0-4 record in league play.

Cloverdale wraps up outstanding campaign with 6-5 record

Weight classes have a meaning, and a strategy, although judges today are pretty strict in their weight calls. The technology of measuring weights is so sophisticated these days, there are few if any ways to “nudge” the scale. “So if you go to a competition and you step on a scale, and you are a 10th of a pound over, you are disqualified” in the weight class, Scott Weidemier said. “There’s no leeway. They’re all digital scales these days, that are certified every year.”

Senior and league MVP Tehya Mitchell led the Healdsburg Hounds in girls golf this season. She was medalist in all 12 matches she played in, averaging just one stroke over par this season.

For the student-athletes of the Healdsburg Track & Field team, the Santa Rosa Field Event Jamboree, March 15, and the Dublin Distance Fiesta, March 21-22, bookend the start and end of spring break. “These meets highlight the two extremes of track and field,” said head coach Kate Guthrie.

Cloverdale slips past Granada 54-52 in championship thriller

Healdsburg’s tennis-playing boys are more than holding their own in court competition this spring.

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

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.

The Healdsburg softball team had a series of blowout wins against opponents earlier in the season, until it went to Sonoma Valley and encountered a fired-up Lady Dragons team. Often a league contender themselves, the Dragons had been on an unlucky streak until Healdsburg came to town...