Sports

Week by week, the Healdsburg Greyhounds show improvement under new head coach Randy Parmeter. In their first game on Sept. 1, they gave up a touchdown every time St. Helena had the ball, losing 62-27. A week later in Sonoma Valley they got some...

This past Saturday, the Healdsburg Cross Country team woke early to participate in the Viking Opener at Spring Lake Park. The two-mile race is attended by many schools in the Sonoma/Marin/Napa region. It gives the runners a chance to run against local teams at...

In some ways, Healdsburg High and Sonoma Valley have similar football programs—new coaches, young rosters, each coming off disappointing seasons. And going into the Sept. 8 game, both were winless this year. In Sonoma last Friday, however, it was the host Dragons who earned their...

“We have a great team,” said Mary Beth Chandler, head coach of the Healdsburg High School varsity girls tennis team. She points not only to the winning record so far this season but the energy her players bring to their game. Those players include Isabel...

The Healdsburg High School fall sports calendar is filling up with games, matches and sets in five sports—boys football, co-ed cross country, and girls golf, tennis and volleyball. Football The first football game on Sept. 1 found the Hounds on the short end of a 56-27...

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...

The term “three-peat” is well known though rarely earned in sports. But the Healdsburg Prune Packers proved themselves in exclusive company by winning their third consecutive championship title in the California Collegiate League (CCL). The entire series, as it is every year, is played in...

The Healdsburg Prune Packers once again ended the 2023 season in first place in the California Collegiate League’s northern division, but they had to rely on another wine country team to get them there. As the season’s final home game played out at Rec Park...

After starting the 2023 season with 19 straight wins, the Healdsburg Prune Packers are now fighting for the right to represent the Northern Division in the California Collegiate League playoffs in August. As of Wednesday, July 25, their league record stands at 24-7, but the...

As the final two weeks of the 2023 summer California Collegiate League season take shape, the Healdsburg Prune Packers remain in first place in the northern division with a league record of 22-3, 31-3 overall. But all eyes are on the season’s final week,...