By Ray Hamill — It was another busy weekend on the basketball courts for the local contingent of varsity teams, and it was a impressive few days for one team and for […]
ATHLETE AND TEAM OF THE WEEK — Impressive weekends for Schmidt, SB girls
BOYS BASKETBALL — Crusaders prevail in tough environment
The St. Bernard’s boys basketball team rose to the challenge on the way to winning the championship game at the Kelseyville tournament on Saturday night with a sixth straight victory. The Crusaders […]
BOYS BASKETBALL — Warriors keep rolling after Escalera buzzer-beater
Damian Escalera scored a game-winning basket on a buzzer beater at the Anderson tournament on Friday evening, as the red-hot Del Norte Warriors stretched their winning streak to five straight with a […]
Five HDN teams ranked in the top 20 in the North Coast Section
By Ray Hamill — The early-season North Coast Section rankings are in and it makes for some impressive reading for some of the H-DNL teams. None more so than the St. Bernard’s […]
Arcata boys tournament highlights another busy week for local teams
By Ray Hamill — A December of tournaments continues this week in local high school basketball, highlighted by the always anticipated Arcata boys tournament. The action gets under way on Thursday afternoon […]
HDN basketball the real winner as Redwoods women host Marin
By Ray Hamill — Local sports fans got a timely reminder of the quality of girls basketball here on the North Coast over the weekend, when the College of the Redwoods women […]
Busy weekend in store for local high school and college teams
By Ray Hamill — A much-anticipated state football semifinal isn’t the only big game here on the North Coast this week. Get ready for the first real busy weekend of the new […]
Hagemann, Sellars and Pidgeon all earn Little 4 MVP honors
By Ray Hamill — Hard work and dedication to their craft has paid off for three Little 4 MVPs. This week, the H-DNL announced the 2025 Little 4 All-League team and MVPs, […]
Championship team captains named league MVPs in soccer
By Ray Hamill — Arcata’s Cruz Aguilar and Jada Lusk have been named MVPs in soccer after leading the Tigers to league championships this fall. Aguilar, a senior and team captain, scored […]
H-DNL players set to reunite as CR hosts Marin in home opener
By Ray Hamill — The quality of talent the H-DNL is developing will be on full display on Saturday afternoon, as the College of the Redwoods women’s basketball team gets set for […]
Four local teams qualify for the NCS football playoffs
By Ray Hamill — As expected, four local teams have advanced to the North Coast Section football playoffs, including two who could face off in a huge semifinal showdown in two weeks. […]
Hard work pays off for Little 4 MVP; All-League team announced
By Ray Hamill — It all came together on the volleyball court this season for Brittyn Ikeya. The St. Bernard’s junior was one of the most improved players in the H-DNL, and […]
NCS SOCCER — More excitement, close games for local teams
A run of exciting and close games continued on Friday afternoon for the local contingent of teams in this year’s North Coast Section soccer playoffs. Two H-DNL boys teams traveled to the […]
NCS second-round matchups set with seven HDN teams still playing
By Ray Hamill — The H-DNL’s dominance in girls Fall soccer is guaranteed to continue this year after the league teams secured all four semifinal spots in the Division-1 bracket. Since most […]
What’s at stake on the final weekend of the regular season?
By Ray Hamill — Believe it or not, we have reached the final weekend of the regular season in local high school football. And for most of the nine H-DNL programs, there’s […]
BOYS SOCCER — Arcata Tigers, South Fork Cubs win NCS openers
The H-DNL champion Arcata Tigers are moving on in the North Coast Section boys soccer playoffs. And so too are the South Fork Cubs. The Tigers, who are seeded No. 6 in […]
Wildcats seeded No. 1 as 11 HDN teams make the NCS playoffs
By Ray Hamill — The Wildcats’ success on the soccer fields this fall is not going unnoticed. Despite being the smallest school in the bracket, the Ferndale girls received the No. 1 […]
SOCCER ROUNDUP — Warriors end Cats’ winning streak ahead of NCS play
On Tuesday evening the Del Norte Warriors managed to do something no other H-DNL girls soccer team has done this season. On the final day of conference play, the Del Norte girls […]
Loggers hold on at South Fork after strong first half of play
The Eureka Loggers battled to a 3-2 win at South Fork in H-DNL boys soccer on Wednesday night. The visitors came out ready to go and enjoyed the better of exchanges in […]
Conference titles could be won on wild weekend for local football
By Ray Hamill — Get ready for the biggest weekend of the local football season so far. On Sunday, the Six Rivers Youth Football teams will begin their playoffs, with the championship […]
