Terri Duban-Orona doesn’t have any complaints about her daughter Lacey, a 12-year-old who attends St. John’s Catholic School.

Lacey is a three-sport athlete, playing baseball, basketball and soccer.

She’s also an honor roll student, is a very good writer and has a love for animals.

“I’m proud of her for her ability to play all her sports,” said Duban-Orona. “She’s a good girl. She does well in school. She wants to be a writer. She writes some great stories. All around she’s a good kid.”

Lacey, who will be going into the seventh grade in the fall, achieved something very special this past spring. She became the first girl in the 22-year history of Napa Little League baseball to hit a home run.

One of only two girls in the major division, Orona hit a fourth-inning solo homer for Party Time during an inter-league game at Sonoma’s Hughes Field.

Orona’s blast on a 3-2 pitch went over the left-field fence as Party Time, which tied for the American Division regular-season title with Fire, went on to a 5-0 win over the Sonoma Cubs.

“You just don’t see home runs hit that much in the major league, period,” said Rick Estes, the manager for Party Time, an expansion team during the 2006 season. “That’s a real privilege, something you’ll never forget — hitting it over the fence in Little League.

“When you do that playing at the majors as a 12-year-old as one of the few girls out there, that’s an accomplishment. There’s a lot of kids that are 12 years old that don’t even play in the majors. She definitely can play at this level offensively and defensively.

“I think she had probably one of the quickest bats on the team. We always tried to keep working with her to try to make contact, because we said every time she’d make contact she was going to hit the ball hard somewhere — she has that type of swing. That one there was basically hit good enough to go out anywhere. It was no cheapy.”

Party Time’s bench emptied with players and coaches welcoming Orona — the only female player on her team — at home to celebrate her milestone and record home-run feat.

She was presented with a home-run pin, which she proudly wears on her cap. Looking on when Orona launched her shot and rounded the bases was her mom, who oversees 62 teams and 700 players as the president of Napa Little League baseball.

“She started running and just hit each bag,” said Duban-Orona, who works for the city of Napa. “She didn’t look that excited to me until she came to home plate and she actually jumped on the plate and smiled.”

Duban-Orona added: “To make it to the majors, I think that’s an accomplishment. It shows me that she’s pretty firm in being athletic and playing the other sports that she does.”

Orona has played Little League baseball for the last five years, starting out in the rookie division and progressing to minor “B” and minor “A.” She was drafted by Party Time after tryouts and joined only one other girl, Mariah Braddock of Silva Plumbing, at the major-division level.

The two girls took part in the league’s annual Opening Day festivities, with Braddock throwing out the ceremonial first pitch to Orona. Orona played first base and left field.

“We knew that she could hit the ball very hard, and that’s why we selected her,” said Estes, who works as the cellar master at Rombauer Vineyards in St. Helena. “When you draft players you look at their ability, you see how they fit on the team and what they contribute to the team. We weren’t hesitant at all to take her on the team.

“It was good to see her not only get a home run, but hit the ball and get a base hit. There’s a lot of kids that don’t ever hit home runs over the fence. This is something that as she grows older, you’ll never forget that. You never forget your Little League days anyway. It’s going to be a great memory. Everybody enjoyed having her on the team.”

Lacey did a good job of adjusting to the major division and the increased speed of the game, said Estes. Batting sixth, seventh or eighth in the order, she had a double in one game and just missed hitting a ball out of the Royce Hall Complex at Garfield Park in another game.

She got to keep her home-run baseball and has it tucked away in a safe place.

“The one thing nice about her was that she wasn’t intimidated at all,” said Estes. “She was very aggressive at the plate. At the beginning it was a little hard, as you see curveballs and change of speeds, and it’s hard to make that adjustment. As the season went along she got more comfortable and we could just tell that she was getting better and more comfortable at the plate.”

While most girls her age are playing softball, Lacey has elected to stay with baseball, a game she thoroughly enjoys. Lacey, who said it wasn’t a goal to hit a home run, will play in the NLL’s junior-senior fall program for youths ages 13-15.

“I’m going to see how she does and then see if I think it will work for her for spring,” said Duban-Orona. “I think she would be awesome at softball, and I think eventually she’s going to have to go there. For now she wants to stay with baseball.”

Local Little League officials did extensive research to make sure Lacey’s home run was the first ever hit by a girl from the Napa league.

“I have to say, Rick was a wonderful coach and the players on the team, they all treated Lacey with the same respect for each other,” said Duban-Orona. “I think she felt comfortable out there with them.”