Sports

The varsity volleyball team from Healdsburg High currently has compiled a winning record, exclusive of tournament play, of 9-6, as the non-league part of the season winds down. And despite some setbacks, the Greyhound girls look ready to take on the North Bay Redwood...

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...

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 Fall 2022 prep sports season got underway for Healdsburg High athletes on Tuesday, Aug. 16, when the girls volleyball Hounds played Middletown Mustangs at home. The varsity girls defeated the visitors, 3-1, while the JV fell 1-2. Other fall sports begin soon, including...

The Healdsburg Prune Packers tore through the CCL championship weekend, outscoring opponents 35-8 over three games, climaxed by a 14-1 drubbing of #1 ranked  Conjeo Oaks on Saturday night. This makes it two championships in a row for the Healdsburg team, which plays in the...

“Are you guys a basketball team?” Dave Hopla, an NBA shooting coach who was sitting on a bench in Healdsburg Plaza, asked Chicas Healdsburg. They were wearing their uniforms to take photos. Linda Sanchez, who is part of the team, replied, “Yes, we are.” It was...

With only a little over a week left in the 2022 California Collegiate League (CCL) baseball season, the Healdsburg Prune Packers are poised to repeat their 2021 state championship—if they can survive the playoff rounds, set to begin in just over a week. Last weekend...

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...

It was a perfect day for a run—as it so often is—and for 150 folks it was a day to return to Healdsburg for the “annual” Kiwanis Fitch Mountain Footrace.  Though there were fewer participants than in the pre-Covid past, it was the first time...

State Sen. Mike McGuire, a Healdsburg native, threw out the first pitch. Some said it looked something like a strike from certain angles, but for the 42-year-old politician—the majority leader in the California State Senate, former assemblyman, former county supervisor and former Healdsburg mayor—it...