By Ray Hamill — The Fortuna Huskies ended an eight-year wait for a Charles Lakin tournament championship on Friday. And they did it with an exciting come-from-behind victory over McKinleyville in the […]
By Ray Hamill — One of the largest sporting events the North Coast has seen in recent times will take place at Fortuna High School on Saturday. Just one week after the […]
The Fortuna Huskies and McKinleyville Panthers will face off for the Charles Lakin softball tournament championship on Friday evening after both won their semifinals on Thursday. The Panthers upset the odds against […]
The Fortuna Huskies opened the Charles Lakin softball tournament with a 13-0 victory over St. Bernard’s in five innings on Tuesday night at the Arcata Sports Complex. Junior pitcher Isabel Sanchez continued […]
Charles Lakin Softball Tournament Tuesday McKinleyville 6, Hoopa 1 Fortuna 13, St. Bernard’s 0 Thursday McKinleyville 12, Del Norte 5 Fortuna 7, South Fork 3 Friday Championship game Fortuna 6, McKinleyville 4 […]
By Ray Hamill — To say that the H-DNL athletes saved their best for last might be a bit of an understatement. Close to 100 PRs were set at Saturday’s league championship […]
By Ray Hamill — The competitive nature of this year’s H-DNL was on full display on Saturday, as just one point separated the top two teams in the race for the girls […]
The Huskies celebrated three outstanding seniors on Saturday before cruising to an 18-8 win over Eureka in both teams’ regular-season finale at Fortuna High. Also in action this weekend, on Friday the […]
By Ray Hamill — The schedule for both the baseball and softball Charles Lakin tournaments have been finalized after Thursday’s conference finales. A couple of last-minute changes have been included in order […]
By Ray Hamill — The schedules for this year’s Charles Lakin Tournaments have been announced by the H-DNL. The league’s postseason baseball and softball tournaments will take place next week with five […]
McKinleyville senior Jake Gardner capped a big spring in H-DNL boys golf with his third victory in six rounds on Monday. Competing at the Baywood Golf & Country Club in Arcata, Gardner […]
The Fortuna girls did what they had to do on Saturday. Now they must play the waiting game. With a doubleheader sweep over Arcata, the Huskies closed out the Big 5 with […]
Some strong pitching and timely hitting lifted the Arcata Tigers to a doubleheader sweep against Fortuna in Big 5 baseball on Saturday. The Tigers won game one 6-1 and followed that with […]
It was a good week for several former H-DNL standouts on the college baseball and softball fields, none more so than Eureka’s Kira Morris. The 2023 Eureka High graduate got the win […]
By Ray Hamill — This week was a memorable one in local high school sports for many reasons. We got the week started with the first perfect game of the season in […]
The Arcata girls continued to showcase their depth in track and field with a third straight team win in an H-DNL meet at Del Norte on Tuesday. The Arcata girls won eight […]
As expected, there was little to separate the Del Norte and Fortuna girls in Crescent City on Wednesday. The two heavyweights in this year’s Big 5 faced off in what was essentially […]
The H-DNL athletes are building momentum as we head towards the business end of the 2025 track and field season. On Tuesday, at the fourth and final H-DNL regular-season meet of the […]
The race for this year’s Big 5 championship in baseball took yet another twist on Wednesday. Up in Crescent City, the Del Norte boys took care of business against Fortuna and won […]
The first perfect game of the 2025 H-DNL season helped lift the Fortuna Huskies into top spot in the Big 5 standings. Whether they’ll remain there depends on the biggest game of […]
