SACRAMENTO — The Napa High School varsity girls basketball team couldn’t have ended its 2005-06 season on a poorer note. With just two losses under their belts the Indians (31-3 overall) played their worst in Saturday night’s CIF Northern California Division I championship game at Arco Arena to lose 66-28 to Berkeley (21-11 overall).

“I thought we had a great season and tonight’s game was the worst game we’ve played all season,” Napa head coach Darci Lewis said. “I don’t know why. I have nothing to say because I don’t know why we played the way we did. It’s hard to get back in it. It went from bad to worse.”

Saturday night’s Regional championship game was Berkeley’s 10th appearance at NorCals, ranking it second to Archbishop Mitty-San Jose (13). Berkeley is now 7-4 in the NorCals, giving it the most Regional championships. The Yellowjackets have previously won titles in 1990, 1991, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2001.

“My job is to prepare them to win a state championship, to give them the chance at a state championship,” Berkeley head coach Gene Nakamura said. “Those early season losses were good for them. They’ve grown and developed.”

Napa got off to a slow start and was never able to gain momentum. Defensively, the Indians were a poor match for the Yellowjackets, who consistently found holes to drive through and score. Berkeley shot 47 percent from the floor while Napa shot 24 percent. Berkeley also outrebounded Napa, grabbing 49 to the Indians’ 23.

Leading scorers for the Yellowjackets were 6-foot-3 center Alexandria Mitchell with a game-high 17, Jennifer Gross with 16 and Jazmine Perkins with 15.

Berkeley’s defense suffocated Napa from minute one allowing only six points in the first quarter. Napa’s Heather Gunderson put up her second 3-pointer with 7:06 left in the second quarter to come within eight points at 17-9. Gunderson was the only Indian to score a field goal until Nicoletta Geyer sank a field goal with 4:39 left in the half to close in to 24-16.

Gunderson led the Indians on the scoring front with 14 points while Katie Keilig and Lindsey Dreher were both held to six points each. Geyer chipped in two. Dreher was the game’s leading rebounder with 10 while Berkeley had three players with eight: Perkins, Mitchell and Dominique Williams-mcnac.

The Indians stepped it up briefly in the second quarter, putting up 14 points to the Yellowjackets’ 19, but Berkeley had jumped to a 34-20 lead by halftime.

Dreher ended a Berkeley eight-point run that started in the second quarter when she hit a jumper with 6:32 left in the third to bring the score to 38-22. When Mitchell hit a deuce 10 seconds later, Napa seemed to give up.

The Indians slowed down and their aggression lessened. Dreher sank a field goal and Keilig was 1-for-2 from the line to complete Napa’s third-quarter scoring. Of the 10 baskets Napa attempted, it only made two.

Berkeley went on a 13-point run that started in the third quarter and ended in the fourth when Gunderson nabbed a steal and made Napa’s lone fourth-quarter field goal with 4:11 left in the game. She was fouled less than a minute later and made one of her two free throws to come within 57-28 but the Yellowjackets continued their scoring and went on another nine-point spree.