Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] The Ferndale Wildcats continue their impressive start to the new high school football season with another dominating win over the weekend and they weren't the only local team to impress. Hello and welcome to this week's KMWOOD News Sports Report. I'm Ray hamill with humble sports.com we'll have more on the High Flying Cats 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, as well as some boys and girls soccer, some volleyball updates and why this weekend will be a big one for local motorsports fans. But first up, it was another busy weekend for the local high school football teams, including the Ferndale Wildcats, who won big against Fall river in their home opener. The Cats followed A season opening 57. 0 win at Fort Bragg with a 620 win over Fall river and they have now outscored their first two opponents119.0. Ferndale is firing on all cylinders right now and has been dominating its opponents on offense, defense and special teams. The Wildcats will try to keep their fast start going on Friday night when they make the short trip to Fortuna to play the Huskies in the annual Milk can rivalry game. The Huskies lost their second straight game last weekend, falling 26 to 12 at Ukiah and dropping to 02 on the season. The Huskies started the stronger of the two teams and enjoyed the better of exchanges in the opening half. They led 126 at the break, but Yukaya made some critical adjustments at halftime and outscored Fortuna 200 over the final two quarters to take the victory. Also in action last weekend, Arcata quarterback Luke lemke accounted for four of his team's touchdowns in a 3327 win over Del Norte in a highly entertaining showdown. The win lifted the Tigers to 11 while the loss was the first of the season for Del Norte which dropped to 2 1. The South Fork Cubs got their season started two weeks later than most of the HDNL school, welcoming happy camp to Miranda and running out to a dominating 62. 8 win in eight player football. The Cubs will play a second straight home game on Friday night when they welcome one of the hottest teams in the state to Southern Humboldt. Hayfork will head to South Fork riding a remarkable 28 game winning streak, a run that included perfect seasons in 2023 and 2024. The Timber Jacks are 30 this year. Also in action last week, the St. Bernard's Crusaders improved to 30 with a second straight shutout victory. St. Bernards welcomed the Hoopa warriors to Crusader Field for their homecoming game and cruised to a 440 win with all 44 of their points coming in the opening half. One of the highlight plays of the day was a 51 yard field goal by St. Bernard senior Tyler Heinrichs. The Crusaders will try to keep their impressive start going when they travel to Santa Rosa to play Montgomery on Friday night in their final pre conference game. Mckinleyville and Eureka had buys last week, but both teams will be back in action this weekend with the 1 and 1 Panthers playing at University Prep on Friday night and the one in one Loggers traveling to Nevada on Saturday afternoon. Also this weekend, Del Norte will try to get back to winning ways at Skyline High in Oakland on Friday night, while Arcada will head to petaluma to play St. Vincent de Paul on Saturday night. The Hoopa warriors, who dropped to 1 and 2 after last week's loss, will finally play their home opener when they host Trinity on Saturday night in Mendocino county. Willets improved to 20 last week with a dominating 54. 0 win over Upper Lake while Fort Bragg dropped to 0 3, losing 410 to Clear Lake. It was the second straight shutout loss for the Timberwolves, who will try to get their first win of the year when they host Kelseyville on Friday night. The Wolverines will also be in action under the Friday night lights and will try to make it three straight wins to start the season when they host Healdsburg. The Ukiah Wildcats, who are 2 and 1 after rallying to beat Fortuna, will host Chico on Saturday night. Potter Valley won its season opener last weekend, defeating Roseland University Prep 266 and the Bearcats will try to make it two straight wins when they travel to play Sweat on Friday in local college football. Meanwhile, a tough start to life in the national division continued for College of the Redwoods last weekend after making the switch from the American Division to the more competitive National Division this year. The Corsairs dropped their third straight game to begin the new era last week, although there were some notable signs of improvement. Seor hosted Diablo Valley College at the Redwood bowl in arcada and lost 54 to 28. The game was still well in the balance late in the third quarter, but the visitors finished strong to help seal the victory. While the CR defense struggled to contain a Diablo Valley offense that CR head coach Jason White described as probably the best his team has faced since the program was reinstated a little over three years ago, the team offense had by far its most impressive performance of the season so far. Redwoods will try to secure its first win this Saturday at College of the Sequoias in a game that kicks off early at 11am in local high school girls soccer. Meanwhile, the Big Four and Little Four teams began conference play this week and it was a good start for the Ferndale Wildcats. The cats traveled to St. Bernard's and won 2 to 1 with Madison Gossie breaking a late tie and netting the winning goal just 16 minutes from time. Also in the little four, defending conference champs down north winning opened with a 40 win over South Fork in Crescent City in the big four, Eureka won 21 at Arcata and Fortuna beat McKinleyville 70 in HTNL boys soccer on Wednesday. Fortuna and Arcata both improved to 20 in league play. Caden Loads scored late to lift the Huskies to a 32 win over Del Norte, while Arcata won 140 at St. Bernard's McKinleyville also won, defeating Eureka 21 to go to 11 and dropping the Loggers to 0 in league. In Big 5 volleyball the Eureka girls won an exciting conference opener against Arcata on Wednesday night, rallying from a 2 to 1 deficit to win in five sets. It was the Loggers first win over their Big Five rivals since September 2022. And rounding out a busy week of local sports action, the Redwood Acres Raceway will host the final racing night of the season on Saturday, with the Knight's action getting underway at 5pm and that's this week's KMUD News Sports Report. Until next time, I'm Ray Hamill with humboldtsports. Com.
