The Huskies completed a conference sweep of Del Norte and kept their championship hopes alive with a 7-3 win in softball at Fortuna High on Wednesday. But the game was close throughout […]
Freshman Cabella Carper enjoyed one of the best games of her young career on Wednesday, as McKinleyville inched closer to a Big 5 championship in softball. The Panthers traveled to Eureka and […]
The race for this year’s Big 5 championship in softball remains up in the air after Saturday’s four games, as the excitement continued to build. Conference leaders McKinleyville traveled to Fortuna and […]
By Ray Hamill — Fasten your seat belts, the next two weeks in Big 5 softball should be a wild ride. And a lot of fun. The most wide-open championship race in […]
Pitchers Isabel Sanchez of Fortuna and Mackenzie Wolff of Eureka combined to strike out 25 on Wednesday in yet another competitive and highly-entertaining Big 5 softball game. The two schools faced off […]
Seniors Liana Stumpf and Mckennah Sargent each hit two home runs on Saturday, as the Panthers exploded for seven home runs in a doubleheader sweep at Arcata. The McKinleyville girls took the […]
The McKinleyville Panthers continued to set the pace in a competitive Big 5 after withstanding a late Del Norte rally in softball in Crescent City on Friday afternoon. The Big 5 leaders […]
The Huskies have put their early-conference struggles behind them with three wins in three games this week. On Friday, the Fortuna girls traveled to Arcata for a make-up softball game and won […]
A little over a week into the Big 5 softball schedule we are beginning to see a logjam atop the standings. Four conference games were played on Monday, with the Fortuna girls […]
What a difference a year makes. Through the first half of the 2026 local high school softball season, the Eureka Loggers have been one of the stories of the year so far, […]
By Ray Hamill — Get ready for a dog fight in the race for this year’s Big 5 softball championship. The action gets under way on Saturday with two doubleheaders on tap, […]
By Ray Hamill — The Panthers were in no mood for sharing on Saturday. And the Loggers weren’t going down without a fight. And that made for an entertaining day of softball […]
By Ray Hamill — The Panthers held their nerve on Saturday, completing an historic double by clinching the Big 5 championship in both baseball and softball. Both McKinleyville teams came into the […]
It took them a little longer than hoped for, but on Friday the Fortuna Huskies got their first league win in their final game of the season. And they did it with […]
By Ray Hamill — The schedule makers could not have planned it any better than this. The top two teams playing for the Big 5 title on the final day of the […]
The McKinleyville Panthers celebrated Senior Day by clinching at least a share of the Big 5 title on Wednesday afternoon, defeating Eureka 7-4. A class of 10 seniors were honored before the […]
The Del Norte Warriors edged Fortuna 6-4 in Big 5 softball in Crescent City on Wednesday, getting their second league win of the spring. McKenzy Fernandez finished with three hits in the […]
By Ray Hamill — It’s been an exciting spring on the local high school baseball and softball fields, with all four local conferences set to go down to the final day of […]
Arcata High will host the first annual Coach Cheek Invitational softball tournament this weekend, with the action getting under way on Friday afternoon. The tournament will feature six teams playing three games […]
The Arcata Tigers are going back to the playoffs, and the Eureka Loggers are still on track to challenge for the Big 5 title, after the two teams split a high-scoring softball […]
