By BRUCE MEADOWS SEPTEMBER 2022 What’s old is new again . . . Many years ago, while perusing the merchandise at a local charity thrift store, I spotted a barrel of miscellaneous golf clubs priced at $5. I tend to think along the lines of “you never know if you don’t look,”…
By BRUCE MEADOWS SEPTEMBER 2022 First Tee comes to Foxtail GC . . . The First Tee program is being introduced at Foxtail with instructors Matt Anderson and Jason Schmuhl leading the way. A six-week has already started with another six-week class set for the beginning of…
Article by Ryan Giacomini The St. Vincent de Paul girls basketball program gets a new head coach, Will Bullard. Bullard was born and raised in Detroit, MI where he would start his basketball career at just the age of 13. Come college, Bullard would walk on at Marygrove College before transferring to Richland College in…
Feature image by Sumner Fowler Article by Petaluma High School Class of 2022 Alum & Cal Poly student Ryan Giacomini High School Football is right around the corner and the Vine Valley Athletic League is more competitive than ever. Last season the Casa Grande Gauchos topped the Vine Valley Athletic League going 5-1 in league…
Story by Cardinal Newman HS student Hugo Traverso | Feature image by Jim Rael The NBL Oak will kickoff this year on October 7th with Cardinal Newman taking on Montgomery, Analy taking on Rancho and Windsor taking on Santa Rosa. The Oak added 2 teams this year but also lost 2. Montgomery joined this year…
Story by Maria Carrillo High School student Caroline Cooper As football season steadily approaches, teams of the North Bay Redwood League are preparing for their first season fully unaffected by the COVID-19 virus. Players and coaches have been preparing for upcoming scrimmages and pre-season games. The NBL Redwood League is home to a host of…
By BRUCE MEADOWS AUGUST 2022 Good idea, but is it legal ? ? ? This happened quite a few years ago but it always stuck with me. I was playing golf with a good friend, a lefty. We both hit our drives on a par-4 hole,…
By BRUCE MEADOWS AUGUST 2022 More changes at BV . . . Bob Borowicz has been the face of golf at Bennett Valley GC for a long, long time, but things have changed. Touchstone Golf has taken over management of the 18-hole Santa Rosa course, which at one point was in…
By Hugo Traverso The Healdsburg Prune Packers faced the Sonoma Stompers at Recreation Park in Healdsburg on Tuesday, June 21st. Noah Rennard started for the Pack and delivered 4 innings only allowing 4 hits, a walk and 2 runs, all while striking out 6 of the 17 batters he faced. Christian McInerney started for Sonoma…
JUNE 2022 By BRUCE MEADOWS New and old look at Bennett Valley Bennett Valley, the only true public, 18-hole golf course in Santa Rosa, has been in the news a lot lately. Will the course close in the future? Will it be reduced to 9 holes? Will the course be eliminated…