Greyhounds Hunt for a Win in 2024
The 2024-25 school year began earlier this month, but the high school’s football players were already practicing—learning blocking, routes and plays—for the third coach in three years...
New League Brings New Football Foes
This year the North Coast Section commissioners have restructured the leagues, producing four divisions of the renamed Redwood Empire Conference. Among them is the Mountain League, where Healdsburg finds itself this year.
Boosters Deliver $74,000 for Greyhounds
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...
Student Athletes Line Up for Fall Sports
As students return to Healdsburg High School this week, five sports programs including football for the boys, and volleyball for the girls, and others as well covered sports including cross country, golf and tennis...
PEL Trophy Stays Home, League to Expand
It was Tucker Bougie who allowed the game-winning home run to the Lincoln Potters on Monday night, as described in this previous article, but there he was on the mound in the top of the ninth of the series final. Instead of facing two...
Prune Packers Bring 4th Title to Town
Tension was high, and the grandstands were filling to capacity for the third game in the series, Friday Aug. 2. Game Three got off to a rough start for the Packers defense, as the visiting Potters a 1-0 lead—without getting a hit. Then the Spirit of Art McCaffrey Field rose up...
Potters Stun Packers With 8-run 9th
An eight-run ninth inning, capped by a three-run homer by pinch-hitter Jason Hanson, gave the home team Lincoln Potters an exhilarating victory over the heavily-favored Packers. The development gives the Potters a 1-0 advantage in the best-of-three series...
PEL’s First Season Ends With a Blast
The Pacific Empire League just concluded its inaugural season, and to no one’s surprise the Healdsburg Prune Packers walked away from the field in the final standings. But while their 22-5 league record was dominant, and they secured the first-place finish and playoff home field advantage, it wasn’t always easy...
Baseball’s Long Hot Summer
Having already clinched the No. 1 seed in the inaugural playoffs of the Pacific Empire League, the Prune Packers headed north for a three-game series with the then-surging Humboldt Crabs, at their home field in Arcata. And proved you can't win them all...
Prune Packers Clinch #1 Seed
The Prune Packers sealed the No. 1 seed for the league playoffs last week, with three weeks yet to go in the season, eight full games ahead of runner-up Lincoln Potters (9-9). But here come the Crabs...