A busy spring for the Institute of Combat youth wrestlers continued this past weekend, when head coach Cass Bell traveled with two of his young grapplers to the state Greco Roman championships […]
With men’s wrestling set to return to Cal Poly Humboldt for the first time since the early 1990s, Lennie Zalesky has been hired as the team’s new head coach, the Jacks announced […]
By Ray Hamill — The Corsairs will make a little bit of history this weekend. On Saturday morning, College of the Redwoods will host a first-ever women’s wrestling tournament in their first […]
Five local wrestlers qualified for this weekend’s CIF state wrestling championships in Bakersfield and all of them were in action on Friday. In the boys championships, at 138 pounds, Del Norte junior […]
By Ray Hamill — It was another impressive week for local high school wrestling, with the H-DNL claiming almost a quarter of the entire North Coast Section wrestling championships. The league took […]
By Ray Hamill — Fortuna seniors Mason Evanow and Chloe Cox made school history last weekend by becoming the school’s first-ever two-time qualifiers for the state wrestling championships. Now they’re hoping to […]
By Ray Hamill — Three Del Norte Warriors will compete for a state championship in wrestling this week, as all three look out to close out a memorable campaign on the mats […]
Three H-DNL wresters were crowned North Coast Section champions on Saturday and five have advanced to next week’s state championships. Competing at James Logan High School, Del Norte’s Curtis Bartley (140 pounds) […]
By Ray Hamill — Two weeks after winning a first-ever H-DNL dual meet championship, the Arcata Tigers were crowned league champions in girls wrestling at Eureka High School on Saturday. The Tigers […]
By Ray Hamill — The Del Norte boys defended their H-DNL championship in wrestling in emphatic fashion at Eureka High School on Saturday. The Warriors finished with five individual champions and four […]
By Ray Hamill — When you achieve something only one H-DNL team has ever achieved before, you get to be Humboldt Sports Team of the Week, sponsored as always by College of […]
It was a day that will go down in H-DNL wrestling history as one of the most memorable ever. On Saturday, the league won a pair of North Coast Section dual meet […]
By Ray Hamill — A number of local players have joined the elite 1,000-points club recently, including three Little 4 seniors who are enjoying outstanding seasons. And that makes them our athletes […]
By Ray Hamill — One week after seeing their seven-year unbeaten H-DNL dual meet run end in a loss to Arcata, the Del Norte Warriors bounced back with a dominating victory at […]
Despite dropping their final H-DNL dual meet of the season against Arcata on Tuesday night, the Fortuna Huskies are well positioned to make some noise in the upcoming league and North Coast […]
The Tigers are ahead of schedule. A young Arcata wrestling team was supposed to challenge the dominating Del Norte Warriors for an H-DNL dual meet championship in the near future, but they […]
Brandon Hilligeist led the McKinleyville charge at the weekend Corning wrestling tournament, placing first in his bracket at 123 pounds. Hillegeist, who is now 15-4 on the season, defeated Durham’s Haden Solinger-Owings […]
By Ray Hamill — With just seven wrestlers on their roster, the Del Norte girls wrestling team may not have the depth to challenge defending league champs Eureka at next month’s H-DNL […]
By Ray Hamill — The Del Norte boys wrestling team could make a case for being the most dominating high school sports program on the North Coast right now. On Tuesday, the […]
By Ray Hamill — The McKinleyville Panthers are building a nice foundation for the future on the wrestling mats this year with eight freshmen on the team. And the present isn’t too […]
