The Colusa High girls volleyball team will finally get a chance to defend its latest Northern Section championship – two years later.
The Sutter High football team extended its league winning streak to 28 games Friday night at home following a 42-7 win over Gridley in the final battle between the two schools within the Northern Section.
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Colusa 3, Winters 0
Colusa (1-0) at Central Valley (2-0)
Colusa 26, Mount Shasta 8
Marc Engellenner of Lincoln made a smashing success in his Arbuckle Golf Club championship debut Sunday.
Earlier this month, athletes young and old from around Colusa County were honored at the Colusa County Sports Hall of Fame Awards and Senior Athletes of the Year Banquet.
Ben Geyer knows his golf game is getting better.
The Colusa Little League junior all-star softball team finished 3-0 in two days to claim the District 2 tournament.
Postseason honors for the recently completed high school sports season continued on Thursday with the formal release of prep baseball, boys basketball and a complete rundown of each award given to Pierce High School throughout the modified year.
Colusa 13, Live Oak 1 (5)
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The conclusion of high school football typically means that basketball is right around the corner.
The Colusa High baseball team recorded three wins last week, improving 15-0 overall and 2-0 in the Sacramento Valley League.
Colusa junior varsity baseball stayed unbeaten with an 8-7 win in five innings at home over Princeton last week.
Colusa High has officially elected to move on with winter and spring outdoor sports.
Like death and taxes, the annual Colusa County Cup golf tournament has become quite predictable.
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For only the second time, the eighth annual Arbuckle Fun Run 5K took place in the spring rather than the fall due to yet another COVID-19 scheduling change.
Makayla Frias was shut down a mere six games into her first varsity season with the Colusa High softball team a year ago.
Jeff Thomas of Arbuckle and Scott Bement of Elk Grove thought a chance to win slipped away when both four-putted the 18th green Sunday in the annual Almond Blossom Invitational Golf Tournament at the Arbuckle Golf Course.
For the first time in almost a year, an athletic contest took place in the Yuba-Sutter-Colusa region.
High school athletic competitions in the Yuba-Sutter-Colusa region are slowly returning with the first confirmed contest on the schedule starting today (Wednesday, Feb. 3).
While there is still much to be figured out in the next few months regarding high school athletics reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a few guidelines came into clearer focus at Wednesday’s Northern Section executive committee teleconference meeting.
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Pierce High School Athletic Director Michael Barber said the “Let Them Play,” movement on Facebook increased by 25,000 members in just a week.
The turn of the calendar to 2021 hasn’t changed the fact that high school sports in California remains in limbo due to the ongoing public health crisis surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a glimmer of hope that prep sports will begin at some point this year.
The following is a compilation of reactions from our area’s sports world following certain phases of the COVID-19 restrictions and cancellations that occurred throughout 2020. They were taken directly from published stories in the Appeal and the Colusa County Sun-Herald.
The safety protocol surrounding an indoor volleyball practice in California these days is complex with lots of rules and regulations in order to keep players and coaches safe from exposure to COVID-19.
The drop into the most restrictive tier (purple) for the vast majority of the 58 counties across California has forced a delay in any guidance regarding high school sports for the 2020-21 school year.
Arbuckle Golf Club members enjoyed some “good ol’ home cookin’” last weekend in continuing their dominance of the Tri Club Ryder Cup play.
Colusa High volleyball returned to the gym recently to begin preparing its title defense following last year’s Northern Section Division V championship and 30-win season.
With a lot of disinfectant at its disposal, the Colusa High football team returned to the field for two-day-a-week conditioning practices in preparation for a scheduled seven-game season beginning Jan. 8 at Pierce.
Octogenarian Bill Werry pulled off a recent rare double that surprised his Arbuckle Golf Club playing partners.
– Tyler Wells, a two-sport star for Maxwell High 10 years ago, set a season record for most consecutive games with a touchdown pass (13). He also finished among section leaders in season yardage (3,237) in 2011. SJ Brown, a former quarterback out of East Nicolaus, amassed 3,199 yards in 2015…
Thomas Steinhoff kept a firm grip on the Arbuckle Golf Club championship this past weekend.
Baseball is running into the same problem as the rest of the United States: Its coronavirus testing is frustratingly too slow. At least two MLB teams canceled Monday workouts because they’ve been waiting days for test results, while two more said they may postpone workouts.
Days before departing for Florida, the Kings have canceled individual workouts at the team facility after another member of the organization tested positive for the coronavirus.
Arbuckle Golf Club continued its dominance over Colusa this weekend in the Colusa County Cup golf tournament.
Thomas Steinhoff and Nic Weber produced ironman performances last week in the first Arbuckle Golf Club fundraising event to help fight Lou Gehrig’s Disease and to benefit junior golf.
Giants kicker Aldrick Rosas was arrested on the morning of June 15 by the California Highway Patrol after a high-speed hit-and-run near Chico, in which the responding officer said “alcohol impairment is believed to be a factor.”
Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease specialist, said he’s been mistakenly painted as an obstacle to the National Football League’s upcoming season and only gave its officials advice after they requested it.
The 1,000 or so in the Homestead-Miami Speedway grandstands on Sunday for NASCAR’s Dixie Vodka 400 were part of a monumental moment in American sports. The invited military personnel and first responders, their families, New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara and at least one diehard N…
The NASCAR Cup Series boys are hard on the gas pedal this week with another midweek catch-up race followed by a trip to South Florida.
Following a weekend in which dozens of protests took place around the Bay Area and a week in which thousands occurred around the country, San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler posted in support of Black Lives Matter on his Instagram Monday.
There remains a chance that baseball will not be played in 2020 as Major League Baseball and the Players’ Association continue to lumber through labor strife without haste. While the absence of the sport during these uncertain times is daunting, it’s time to look forward and direct our atten…
The 2020 Boston Marathon has been canceled.
NBA coaches are taking a stand.
In a call with the league’s Board of Governors, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver presented multiple return-to-play scenarios and set a target date of July 31 for a return to games, according to people with knowledge of Friday’s call.
The National Federation of State High School Associations NFHS Sports Medicine Advisory Committee endorses a three-phase plan as the most effective way to integrate sports back into student life.
Editor’s Note: In a normal year it would be time for spring football camps to be gearing up around the area. This year, however; due to the ongoing public health crisis surrounding coronavirus, many teams are still uncertain about when they can begin working out, and if there will even be a …
Spencer Dinwiddie, the Brooklyn Nets guard who has become one of the most vocal players in the league during the COVID-19 pandemic, tweeted a date – July 15 – that’s been bandied about privately as a possible return date for the NBA.
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