Sports

“It is hard for a season like ours to end so abruptly,” said coach Lago on Monday. “One day we have plans to go deep into the playoffs and the next we run into a private school with extraordinary talent and size.”

The high school soccer season is in its final weeks, rounding out the winter season with a handful of games remaining for both boys and girls teams. While neither squad can boast a winning record, both deliver exciting games against their North Bay opponents, with home games played under the lights at the Healdsburg High School field on University Street.

Healdsburg’s Rec Park rocked once again to the sounds of football as the home team Greyhounds faced off against the visiting Timberwolves from Fort Bragg on Friday night, Aug. 26. The final score was no indication of the energy and enthusiasm the fans, and the...

The Healdsburg High School varsity football team is ready to turn the page. The team, which hasn’t won a league game since 2017, is preparing for the 2023 season with dogged determination under new head coach Randy Parmeter. Long associated with the program at El...

Despite the recent high temperatures and pouring rain cutting into competition and practice time, Healdsburg High School cross country teams have logged some miles in invitational tournaments so far this fall, with some exciting opportunities ahead. The prestigious Lowell Invitational on Sept. 10 found Healdsburg...

The Healdsburg High swimming teams are making their move as the spring 2023 season nears its final weeks.  Tuesday night, April 11, both boys and girls squads swamped Windsor High at the Healdsburg swim center, under head coach Dean Clark and coaches Lorna Hayman and...

The boys of early autumn are out on the practice field every waning day of the school week, and carry that energy into their varsity football games. It doesn’t convert to many points, but nobody finds an easy opponent in the Healdsburg High Greyhounds. And...

The Healdsburg Prune Packers, one of the oldest and most venerated community baseball teams in the state, got its season underway with a ceremonial first pitch by Mayor Ariel Kelley at 6pm on Tuesday, June 6. Clarence Ruonavaara Grandstands at Art McCaffrey Field began filling...

The Packers? Are we talkin’ Cheeseheads? Nope. We’re talkin’ Prune Packers, a Healdsburg baseball tradition dating back 100 years.  The Packers’ name stems from the prevalence of the prune industry in this area, and the many people employed in packing sheds that were a part...

The struggling football team at Healdsburg High School has a fresh new leader looking to help tell a comeback story under the Rec Park lights. HHS alum Christian “Criss” Rosales, 28, comes in hot: He’s been assistant-coaching for the past couple of years at St....