Ray Hamill previews this weekend's North Coast Section football championship games involving local teams, with three Humboldt and Mendocino schools in action, as well as taking a look at all of the big local sports stories of the week, including some college and high school basketball, why it was a big week for two local cross country runners and how the Cal Poly HUmboldt women's soccer team fared in the NCAA playoffs.

Backcountry Pess, a local independent book publisher, awarded a National Outdoor Book Award for "California Trees: A Field Guide to the Native Species. Gabriel Zucker Reports