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The Miranda Mustangs eighth grade boys basketball team has had its ups and downs over the first nine games of the season, playing well at times and not up to potential at others. The team has had to deal with cancellations due to weather, resulting in long weeks of games with little time to rest or practice. Last weekend the
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South Fork High’s varsity boys basketball team split with the Humboldt felines last week, hanging tough with the McKinleyville Panthers, falling 66-53, and then playing what head coach Todd Vandenack called “their best game of the season so far,” walloping the visiting Ferndale Wildcats 64-38 on Friday. At home on Monday against the Panthers, the Cubs were within 3 points
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South Fork High’s Varsity girls basketball team lost to Ferndale Friday night at home 69-26. The Lady Cubs had defeated Ferndale earlier in the season 45-43, but the Wildcats got their revenge on the South Fork floor with a monster 27-point 3rd quarter from which they never looked back. The two teams played somewhat evenly through the first half, with
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All four high school teams and both junior high teams were in action over the weekend. While South Fork lost all four games to St. Bernard’s, both Miranda Mustangs teams beat Winship. The Varsity Boys fell to the Crusaders 69-47 in the Humboldt Del Norte Little Four Conference League opener in Eureka Friday night. With just 7 players available compared
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Last Friday night in Willits, South Fork High’s varsity boys basketball team crushed Willits 50-27. “We’ll take the W,” said head coach Todd Vandenack, “but it wasn’t our best game.” With many players a little off their rhythm coming out of the winter break rest, the Cubs had a slow start in the first half against the young rebuilding Wolverines.
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South Fork High’s Lady Cubs varsity basketball team has gained valuable experience in pre-season games and tournaments and brings a 4-9 record into the much needed winter break hiatus before beginning league play in the new year. “The girls are really coming together as a team and are playing great basketball right now,” said head coach Shylo Wantt. She attributes
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From December 5th through December 16th, South Fork High’s Varsity Boys’ Basketball team played 9 games, seven of them on the road at least three hours away and went 7-2 during the exhausting stretch to bring their mid-season record to 8-6. Now with the team on a well-deserved break from school as well as basketball, we caught up with head
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South Fork High’s Varsity Girls basketball team took 2nd place in last weekend’s Gene Duffy Holiday Classic Basketball Tournament in Calistoga. The girls had to play Tomales twice in the tourney due to the pool play structure of the event and improved on their first performance against the strong team, closing the gap from a 24 point loss to a
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South Fork High’s Varsity boys’ basketball team got its first win against Elsie Allen on Thursday night in Kelseyville during tournament play. The Cubs, a Division 6 school, squeaked by the much bigger Division 3 school 42-40 in what head coach Todd Vandenack called a “great defensive battle.” Crediting the whole squad with outstanding team defense the young Cubs were
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After a disappointing loss to Laytonville last Tuesday, South Fork High’s JV boys’ basketball team bounced back with an impressive performance at the annual Potter Valley tournament, getting their first two wins of the season to reach the championship game and then taking second place after losing to a strong Ferndale team in the final. The Cubs opened the tourney
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