By Ray Hamill — Five McKinleyville Panthers have been named to the Big 5 All-League Team in softball, including conference MVP McKennah Sargent. Sargent was a force all spring for the conference […]
By Ray Hamill — When all was said and done, the Panthers left no doubt as to who was the best team in this year’s Big 5. In what was one of […]
This year’s Big 5 was everything we expected as the race for the championship went down to the final day of action. In one of the most competitive Big 5s we’ve seen […]
The Fortuna Huskies did what they needed to do to keep their Big 5 softball championship hopes alive on Saturday. Now they must play the waiting game to see if it was […]
As expected, the race for this year;’s Big 5 championship will go down to the final day off action. But on Saturday, the field of contenders was narrowed down to two, as […]
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 […]
