By Ray Hamill — The upcoming year in prep sports is going to present some unique challenges for the H-DNL and high schools everywhere. On Monday morning, the California Interscholastic Federation announced […]
H-DNL coaches react to CIF decision
Important Dates — NCS releases calendar for 2020/21 sports
By Ray Hamill — Practice for football and the other fall season sports will begin on December 14, the North Coast Section announced on Monday. The NCS calendar for the year was […]
CIF pushes back high school sports seasons
By Ray Hamill — As expected, the California Interscholastic Federation announced on Monday morning that the fall high school sports seasons have been pushed back due to ongoing concerns over COVID-19 and […]
Decision day looming for local sports
By Ray Hamill — The next couple of weeks will be crucial for local athletes and sports fans who are eager to see a return to action, with big decision days looming […]
Scheduled openers now just nine weeks away
By Ray Hamill — There are exactly nine weeks to go until the scheduled season opening weekend for high school football. Of course, it remains to be seen if the season will […]
H-DNL submits CIF guidelines for return to county officials for approval
By Ray Hamill — The H-DNL has submitted the California Interscholastic Federation’s return to activity guidelines to the county health department for approval. The CIF guidelines were released earlier this month, with […]
Positive news from the CIF, with big decision looming in July
By Ray Hamill — The California Interscholastic Federation appears determined to avoid canceling any more prep sports seasons because of COVID-19, with a big decision looming next month. After a meeting with […]
Prep athletes of the year and other awards, Part III
By Ray Hamill — In part III of our three-part look back at the high school sports year, we close out our annual prep awards with our Boys Athlete of the Year, our […]
Prep athletes of the year and other awards, Part II
By Ray Hamill — We continue to take a look back at the 2019/20 local high school sports year in Part II of our three-part series, while handing out several more awards. […]
The most popular high school stories of the past year
By Ray Hamill — There was a clear common thread among the most read high school sports stories of the 2019/20 school year here on HumboldtSports.com. Actually two common threads — Del […]
Prep athletes of the year and other awards, Part I
By Ray Hamill — It was, to say the least, a thoroughly disappointing end to the school sports year for obvious reasons, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t plenty to celebrate in […]
Towles twins, Cruz commit to play at CR
By Ray Hamill — Ferndale High’s Towles twins, Bekah and Elizabeth, have committed to play at College of the Redwoods after graduation, benefitting a pair of teams at the local community college. […]
Five reasons we can’t wait for some local football
By Ray Hamill — There are only 128 days to go to the new prep football season, and the way things have gone recently it will probably be one of the most […]
H-DNL stadiums light up the night for student athletes
By Ray Hamill — The Humboldt-Del Norte League schools paid tribute to their student athletes who had their spring sports canceled this year by lighting up the night on Monday. At 8:20 […]
Coaches will be challenged more than ever in 2020
By Ray Hamill — It’s been a challenging spring to say the least, and that’s not likely to change any time soon. In fact, local coaches are probably going to be challenged […]
H-DNL schools to light up their stadiums in honor of student athletes
By Ray Hamill — The Humboldt-Del Norte League will light up the night in honor of its student athletes this Monday night. In an event initiated by Manny Machado of Redwood News, […]
Six local QBs who could be fun to watch this fall
By Ray Hamill — It’s the most talked about position in all of sports, often getting too much credit when things go right or too much blame when things go wrong, but […]
Ferndale coach among the most underrated in the nation
By Ray Hamill — Ferndale’s Reggie Christiansen is gaining national attention as a baseball coach, with Baseball America this week naming him one of the most underrated head coaches in NCAA Division-I. […]
One month on from the last game, when can we expect to see local sports again?
By Ray Hamill — Exactly one month ago today the sports world as we know it changed in ways we could never have anticipated. When Ferndale’s Landon Gomes threw the final pitch […]
Multi-talented Gomes makes difficult college decision
By Ray Hamill — Landon Gomes admits it was a difficult decision deciding whether to play football or baseball in college, but after much deliberation the Ferndale senior star has made up […]
