Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] The Ferndale Wildcats continue their incredible season on the football fields with another huge win on Saturday while three more league champions were crowned in other sports this week. Hello and welcome to this week's KMUD News Sports Report. I'm Ray hamill with humble sports.com we'll have much more on the record setting Wildcats and their pursuit of perfection in just a moment as we take a look at all of the big local sports stories of the week, including all the latest high school and college football news, some youth football news, some high school and college soccer, some volleyball and why it was a particularly historic week for one HDNL team. But first up, the Ferndale Wildcats continued their remarkable season in football with a 720 win over Arcata on Saturday.
[00:00:45] With the victory, The Cats improved to 70 on the season and they have now incredibly outscored their opponents 4500 in those seven games. Prescott Langer and Tanner Pigeon each scored five touchdowns in the win, which leaves Ferndale all alone ATOP of the Little Four stand halfway through conference play with three games remaining against Hoopa, McKinleyville and Arcata, three teams that they have beaten by at least 72 points each. The Wildcats are now closing in on an historic season of all shutouts. This weekend they will welcome HOOPA to Coach Carlson Wildcat Field in Ferndale as they look to secure a conference sweep over the warriors.
[00:01:27] Also in the little four. Last weekend, Hoopa edged McKinleyville 3429 in an entertaining showdown at Mai, giving the warriors their first conference win. Arcata remains second in the Little Four standings with a record of 2. 1 and the Tigers are now 34 overall while Hoopa is 1 and 2 in the Little Four and 2 and 5 overall and McKinleyville is 032 5. A win for Ferndale this weekend coupled with an arcada loss to McKinleyville would see the Wildcats claim at least a share of this year's conference championship. St. Bernard's could also clinch at least a share of the Big Four title with a win this weekend and a Fortuna loss at Del Norte Last week, the Crusaders ended a long eight game losing streak to Del Norte that had dated back to 2017 with a 16.0win in Crescent City to keep their unbeaten season going. With the win, St. Bernard's improved to 3. 0 in the Big 4 and 70 overall while Del Norte dropped to 12 and 4. 3. Fortuna also was in action and beat Eureka 5215 at the Redwood bowl to keep their conference championship hopes alive. The Huskies improved to 2 and 1 in the Big 4 and 3 and 4 overall while Eureka, which has now lost six straight games, dropped to 0316. Fortuna travels to Del Norte on Friday night while Saint Bernards plays Eureka at the Redwood bowl on Saturday night. The South Fork Cubs were also in action last week and fell 56 to 34 at Tamales. The loss ended a three game winning streak for the Cubs, who dropped to 21 in the NCL 3 and 4. 2 overall. South Fork will try to bounce back at Calistoga on Friday night in Mendocino county. Football Meanwhile, Willits won 4228 at Kelseyville last week and improved to 6. 1 overall and 4. 1 in the NCL1 while Fort Bragg fell 388 to Middletown and is now 3. 5 overall and 3 and 3 in the NCL1. The Ukiah Wildcats also were in action and beat Santa Rosa 50 to 24, improving to 4 and 3 on the season this weekend. Willits plays at Cloverdale on Friday, ukiah plays at St. Vincent de Paul on Saturday and Fort Br has a buy in local college football news. It was a good week for a College of the Redwoods. The Corsairs traveled to Shasta and trailed by 18 points late in the third quarter, but they would rally for a 1918 win with the game winning touchdown coming on a quarterback sneak with just 23 seconds remaining in the game. Sior, which is now 11 in conference and 1. 6 on the season, will play a home game this Saturday for the first time in a month when Santa Rosa travels to the Redwood Bowl. Kickoff is set for 1pm in local youth football, the Six Rivers Conference kicks off three weekends of playoff action on Sunday with the three championship games set for Nov. 9 at Ferndale High School. In local high school soccer, meanwhile, the Ferndale Wildcats won the Little Four title with three games to spare. On Saturday, the impressive Ferndale girls traveled to South Fork and won 50 to officially clinch just the program's second ever league title and first since 2009. The Cats also beat St. Bernard's 3 on Tuesday to stretch their unbeaten run to 16 straight games, a run that includes 15 wins. Ferndale, which is the top ranked girls fall soccer team in the entire north coast section, has not lost since a season opening defeat at Kelseyville all the way back in August. Also in girls soccer action on Tuesday, Del Norte and South Fork tied 0 0, Arcata defeated Eureka 30 and Fortuna defeated McKinleyville 6 0. In boys action on Wednesday, Del Norte tied Arcad 2 2, Eureka got the better of South Fork 32 and McKinleyville beat Saint Bernards 110 in college soccer, the Cal Poly Humboldt women saw a program record run of six straight shutouts come to an end in a 32 loss to Cal State San Bernardino on Sunday. The Lumberjacks dropped to 312 in conference and 544 overall, but remain in the chase for this year's conference championship in local high school volleyball. Meanwhile, an exciting three horse race for this year's Big Five championship ended on Tuesday. The Eureka Loggers traveled to Crescent City to play Del Norte and won in five sets to capture their first conference championship since 2018. The Lagers edged Arcata and Del Norte for the championship, with their only conference loss coming at Arcata in five sets. Saint Bernards was crowned Little four champion last week and capped a dominating run through conference play with a straight sets win against Hoopa on Tuesday, a victory that lifted them to 90 in the little four. And rounding out another busy fall week of local sports, on Monday, the Del Nor warriors captured a first ever HGNL championship in girls golf. The Del Norte girls had an impressive three golfers place in the top six in the final league standings, including runaway champion Bria Larson and her teammate Jaylee Keeling, who finished second. And that's this week's KMUD News Sports Report. Until next time, I'm Ray Hamill with humboldtsports. Com.
