Four H-DN track and field athletes were crowned North Coast Section champions on Saturday, with a total of 16 top-three finishes for the league. The Big 5 schools traveled for the Redwood […]
Big day for H-DN at NCS meets with 16 top-3 finishes
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK — Track stars take center stage
By Ray Hamill — It was a good week for some local high school track and field athletes as the H-DN season concluded with the league championships at Fortuna High last weekend. […]
H-DN teams poised for success as NCS brackets released
By Ray Hamill — Just one day after completing a first-ever Big 5 and Charlie Lakin double championship for the school, the Fortuna boys received a No. 1 seed for the North […]
Six H-DN softball teams qualify for NCS postseason
By Ray Hamill — Six of the eight H-DN softball teams have been included in the North Coast Section playoff brackets, which were released on Saturday, including four that will open at […]
Morris, Loggers shut out the Warriors in Charlie Lakin decider
By Ray Hamill — After seeing the Del Norte Warriors take the Big 5 championship this spring, the Loggers were clearly in no mood to allow the same thing happen in the […]
H-DN numbers on the rise again after challenging few years
By Ray Hamill — H-DN track and field appears to be firmly putting COVID-19 in the rear view mirror. The pandemic had a hugely detrimental effect on all local sports and 2023 […]
Changes in store for this year’s NCS playoff seedings
By Ray Hamill — The H-DN baseball and softball teams won’t have to wait quite as long this year to find out their playoff seed and opening opponent. Because of Mother’s Day […]
Softball semifinals go down to the wire on exciting day of action
By Ray Hamill — After battling all the way to the final day of the regular season for the Big 5 championship, the Del Norte Warriors and Eureka Loggers will match up […]
Cervantes leads H-DN contingent at NCS D-II championships
Fresh off his league championship last month, St. Bernard’s Esteban Cervantes led the H-DN at Monday’s North Coast Section Division-II Golf Championships. Nine H-DN golfers traveled to Petaluma to compete in the […]
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS — So who are the fastest athletes in the H-DN?
By Ray Hamill — A freshman and a senior are the fastest athletes in the H-DN this year, and they’re only getting faster. At Saturday’s H-DN track and field championships in Fortuna, […]
Fortuna pole vaulters rise to the occasion at league championships
Two Fortuna Huskies flew higher than anyone else at the weekend H-DN track and field championships at Fortuna High — literally. Juniors Chloe Cox and Christopher Duey were the only non-Del Norte […]
Several PRs set at competitive H-DN track and field championships
By Ray Hamill — Arcata senior Ai-Lan McGoldrick won all four of her events at the H-DN track and field championships at Fortuna High School on Saturday, but it was the Eureka […]
Charlie Lakin tournament brackets set after league champs crowned
By Ray Hamill — The schedules and brackets for next week’s Charlie Lakin H-DN Tournaments have been finalized. The action in both softball and baseball gets under way on Wednesday and will […]
Warriors take the Big 5 after Huskies top the Loggers
The Del Norte Warriors have been crowned outright Big 5 champs in softball after a key showdown in Fortuna went their way on Friday afternoon. The Del Norte girls closed out league […]
Warriors step up to the challenge in baseball and softball
Thursday was a good day for Del Norte sports. With a pair of victories over the Arcata Tigers in softball, the Warriors clinched at least a share of the Big 5 title, […]
Huskies end long championship drought as Arcata, Del Norte split
This year’s Big 5 has been anything but predictable, and that continued to be the case in the final week of action. On Thursday, the Fortuna Huskies clinched at least a share […]
SOFTBALL ROUNDUP — Loggers, Warriors hold serve as exciting race continues
By Ray Hamill — Kira Morris threw a second no-hitter in eight days on Wednesday, as the Eureka Loggers and Del Norte Warriors remain deadlocked atop the Big 5 standings heading into […]
BASEBALL ROUNDUP — Advantage Fortuna as Del Norte beats Arcata
Senior Cody Collins continued to play at an MVP level as the Fortuna Huskies scored three early runs on the way to a 3-1 win over Eureka in Big 5 baseball on […]
Schedule changes announced for this week’s H-DN games
By Ray Hamill — Several of this weekend’s Big 5 and Little 4 baseball and softball games have been brought forward because of expected weather conditions. All four baseball doubleheaders that were […]
BASEBALL ROUNDUP — Still all to play for in very competitive Big 5
The race for the Big 5 championship took another twist on Saturday when the Arcata Tigers and McKinleyville Panthers split a league doubleheader at Mack High. The host school took game one 2-1 […]
