By Ray Hamill — The Arcata Tigers and McKinleyville Panthers both improved to 2-0 at the Arcata tournament on Thursday and will play each other on Friday. The Panthers beat Fortuna 66-43 […]
By Ray Hamill — The Corsairs didn’t have a lot of experience coming into this season with just one sophomore on an opening day roster of 71 players. That one sophomore, however, […]
By Ray Hamill — The local high school basketball tournament season gets under way this week, with several varsity teams in action. Two high school tournaments will take place here in Humboldt […]
By Ray Hamill — McKinleyville head coach Cindy Semore Clancy is expecting to see some quality teams at this week’s annual Panthers boys basketball tournament, which tips off on Thursday afternoon. The […]
By Ray Hamill — It’s been’s a difficult preseason for several local basketball teams, with sickness taking a toll on preparations. And that includes the Arcata girls, who finally managed to have […]
By Ray Hamill — When you lead your team to a first league championship in 32 years, you should get some serious consideration for MVP. And that’s what seniors John Randall and […]
McKinleyville’s Damian Dinan and Arcata’s Ai-Lan McGoldrick led the local charge at this past weekend’s North Coast Section Cross Country Championships at Hayward. After both runners were edged out for a league […]
By Ray Hamill — It’s been a busy fall for St. Bernard’s junior Madelyn Shanahan. And quite a successful one too. This week, the multi-sport standout was named MVP of the Little […]
By Ray Hamill — A large Hoopa senior class played their final game together on Saturday, as the Warriors bowed out of the North Coast Section playoffs. Hoopa fell 28-15 to top […]
By Ray Hamill — The H-DNL is known for a physical brand of football, and that often catches opponents down south off guard in the North Coast Section playoffs. And one local […]
By Ray Hamill — Playing on the road against higher seeds doesn’t seem to bother the H-DNL teams when it comes to the North Coast Section football playoffs. Of the seven squads […]
By Ray Hamill — Get ready for a packed couple of days of North Coast Section football playoff action, with seven H-DNL teams playing, three on Friday night and four on Saturday. […]
By Ray Hamill — Seven of the nine H-DNL varsity teams have been included in the North Coast Section football playoff brackets, although only one of them will host in the opening […]
The Hoopa Warriors appear to have done enough to qualify for the North Coast Section playoffs after closing out the regular season with a dominating 37-0 win at Ferndale. The result, coupled […]
By Ray Hamill — Fortuna head coach Mike Benbow and his staff have always done a good job getting the most out of their players and fielding improving teams as the season […]
By Ray Hamill — The North Coast Section playoffs essentially get under way this week for some of the H-DNL football teams, who have to win their final game just to qualify […]
The McKinleyville Panthers apparently weren’t in much of a sharing mood on Friday night. After clinching a co-championship in the Little 4 last week, they sealed it outright this week with a […]
By Ray Hamill — Here we go again. The Hoopa Warriors find themselves in a familiar position heading into the stretch run of the season, needing to win both of their final […]
By Ray Hamill — After watching the weekend game at Albee Stadium, we may have over-estimated the gap between the top two teams in our rankings, but not the order. The Del […]
The North Coast Section volleyball playoffs got under way on Tuesday night with two local teams in action. In Division 3, the Eureka Loggers fell in four sets at Archie Williams, while […]
