By Ray Hamill — After winning six straight games to close out the season, including Saturday’s historic championship victory, the South Fork Cubs are getting some notice well beyond the Redwood Curtain. […]
By Ray Hamill — Games between Nos. 2 and 3 seeds are not supposed to be this lopsided. But when teams accustomed to playing on all-weather fields come to Humboldt County in […]
There’s something to be said about peaking at the right time. And there’s something to be said for Humboldt County weather. And Humboldt County football. On Saturday afternoon, the South Fork Cubs […]
By Ray Hamill — There’s a good chance of rain in Eureka on Saturday afternoon and that may play into the Crusaders’ favor. St. Bernard’s will host Analy in a 2 vs. […]
By Ray Hamill — The Fortuna Huskies are the sort of team no one wants to meet in the playoffs. Since a conference-opening loss at St. Bernard’s on Oct. 21 — a […]
By Ray Hamill — One of the most storied programs in H-DNL history will play for a place in a North Coast Section championship game for the first time since 2019 on […]
By Ray Hamill — Three of the five H-DNL schools in action on Friday night won their North Coast Section playoff openers, including the Fortuna Huskies, who rolled over Middletown 36-0 thanks […]
By Ray Hamill — Get ready for a big weekend of North Coast Section playoff football, with six of the nine H-DNL programs in action over the next two days. Five of […]
It was a rough week for three of the four H-DNL teams in the North Coast Section football playoffs on Friday and Saturday. St. Bernard’s, McKinleyville and South Fork all were missing […]
The Warriors defense stepped up to the challenge of playing one of the best teams in the entire North Coast Section on Saturday afternoon, but they were unable to match that on […]
By Ray Hamill — Two programs that have become familiar with each other in recent years will face off once again on Friday night, when St. Bernard’s travels to Novato to play […]
By Ray Hamill — Four local teams remain in the hunt for a North Coast Section championship as we head into this weekend’s semifinals. Three of them, however, will have to play […]
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 — Just a couple of weeks after winning a first league championship in 32 years, the McKinleyville Panthers ended another long drought on Friday night. In a defensive showdown, […]
It’s safe to say the North Coast Section seedings committee got this one wrong. Despite a dominating season that saw them clinch a Big 4 championship, the Del Norte Warriors were handed […]
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. […]
Check out one of Payton Harbin’s eight interceptions above … By Ray Hamill — Several H-DNL football players feature at or near the top in multiple statistical categories in the North Coast […]
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 […]
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 […]
