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 […]
Rare triple play preserves shutout victory for Huskies in Lakin action
Panthers overcome early deficit in Lakin tournament opener
The McKinleyville Panthers are moving on in the Charles Lakin baseball tournament after a come-from-behind win over Hoopa in their opening game on Tuesday. Playing at Belotti Field across from the Redwood […]
Charles Lakin baseball and softball tournament results and schedules
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 […]
Close to 100 new PRs set at weekend league championships
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 […]
Local high school swimmers cap breakthrough season with strong showing at NCS championships
Eureka sophomore Amalia Baugh led the H-DNL charge at this past weekend’s North Coast Section swimming championships in what has a breakthrough season in the sport for the local league. Baugh was […]
Warriors, Loggers crowned HDN track and field champs
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 […]
WEEKEND SOFTBALL — Huskies celebrate their ‘Swiss Army Knives’; Crusaders edge Arcata
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 […]
Cubs hope the season will be a learning experience for young team
With just one senior on this year’s roster, it was a challenging season for the South Fork baseball team. The Cubs closed out the season with a 10-0 loss to Ferndale in […]
Tigers celebrate their seniors with exciting extra-innings win over SB
The Arcata Tigers celebrated their seniors with an exciting extra-innings win over Little 4 champion St. Bernard’s in non-conference baseball on Friday afternoon. Four of the six seniors all played a big […]
Schedules finalized for 2025 Charles Lakin tournaments
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 […]
Panthers standout commits to play for D-III program on the rise
By Ray Hamill — McKinleyville’s Tatum Fisher has been playing basketball for about as long as she can remember, and that’s not going to change anytime soon. On Tuesday, the Panthers senior […]
TEAMS OF THE WEEK — Del Norte Warriors standing tall
By Ray Hamill — To say the least, it was a good week for Del Norte High School sports. The Crescent City school’s baseball and softball teams both clinched Big 5 championships […]
Hoopa girls continue late-season surge with doubleheader sweep at St. Bernard’s
By Ray Hamill — An 0-9 start to the season must seem like a long time ago to the Hoopa Warriors. No team in the H-DNL has improved as much from the […]
Pidgeon returns with a bang, as Cats and Cubs split doubleheader
Tinnley Pidgeon returned to the Ferndale lineup for the first time this season on Thursday and had an immediate impact. The junior standout and teammate Madison Gossi hit home runs on back-to-back […]
Warriors take second in L4; coin flip held to determine third seed for Lakin tourney
By Ray Hamill — The field has been set for next week’s Charles Lakin softball tournament after Thursday’s Little 4 action, but it took a coin flip to finalize things. On the […]
LITTLE 4 ROUNDUP — Warriors, Wildcats win conference finales
The Hoopa Warriors have qualified for the Charles Lakin tournament for the first time, and they’ll carry some momentum into the postseason tournament. On Thursday, the Warriors traveled to St. Bernard’s and […]
Warriors take care of business, end long wait with outright title
By Ray Hamill — After waiting 11 years for a Big 5 championship, the Del Norte Warriors were in no mood to share. On Wednesday, four days after they clinched at least […]
BIG 5 SOFTBALL — Del Norte girls leave no doubt, cruise to outright title
By Ray Hamill — The Del Norte girls won a third straight championship in softball this spring, and on Wednesday they made sure it would be a third straight outright championship. After […]
Panthers edge rivals in pitchers’ duel, but fall just short in Big 5 bid
The McKinleyville Panthers will be hoping to meet Del Norte once again in next week’s Charles Lakin tournament. On Wednesday, they closed out the regular with a hard-fought 1-0 win at Arcata, […]
Charles Lakin baseball and softball tournament schedules set
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 […]
