NOTES AND QUOTES for a Saturday in the Napa Valley:

The 2007 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which starts March 3 in downtown Anchorage, will again feature Jeff King, a St. Helena High School graduate and a four-time champion.

King, a resident of Goose Lake at Denali Park, Alaska, won last year’s race in nine days, 11 hours and 11 minutes. He called it the best-trained sled dog team that he’s ever had. For the win, he received $69,000 and a new truck. He started out with 16 dogs and crossed the finish line in Nome along the western Bering Sea coast with a team of 12 dogs.

The 1,150-mile race, called the “Last Great race on Earth,” takes mushers and their dogs through small villages in Alaska, including Eagle River, Wasilla, Finger Lake, Rainy Pass, Nikolai, McGrath, Ophir, Ruby, Galena, Unalakleet, Shaktoolik, Koyuk, Elim, Golovin and White Mountain.

King began mushing in 1976. He owns and operates Goose Lake Kennels, where he breeds, raises and trains Alaskan huskies throughout the year. King also won Iditarod races in 1993, ’96 and ’98.

I’ll never forget King recalling one of his wins that occurred in a whiteout. He said he couldn’t see where he was going because of the terrible conditions, but added that his lead dog took the team to the finish because it had been on the trail before.

My guests next month on Napa Community Public Access TV-Channel 28 will be Greg Coryell, Napa Christian’s principal, and Steve Lawrence, the Knights’ athletic director and boys basketball coach.

Napa Christian plays in the Small School Bridge League, which is part of the CIF North Coast Section.

Coryell was the principal of Forest Lake Education Center in Orlando, Fla., from 2001 to 2006. Lawrence, who is also a P.E. and auto mechanics teacher while serving as the head of facilities, pitched in the Atlanta Braves’ organization and played college and pro basketball.

The half-hour show, “Register Sports with Marty James,” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. and Mondays at noon in March.

Sarah O’Neill of Napa went 3-for-4 with three RBIs, a triple and a home run to lead UC Davis to a sweep of San Jose State, 7-5 and 2-0, in a non-conference softball doubleheader Wednesday. O’Neill played at Vintage.

The CIF North Coast Section Division IV playoffs continue tonight for the Justin-Siena boys and girls basketball teams, who are on the road to face Marin Catholic-Kentfield in quarterfinal-round games.

The Braves take a 22-7 record into the boys game, which has a 6:30 p.m. start. The girls team is 20-9 entering the 8 p.m. tip-off.

Tom Long and Adam Fonville, two former Napa Valley College players, are having success at the four-year level for the Cal State Stanislaus (Turlock) baseball team.

Long has started the first five games of the year and is batting .400 with four RBIs. Fonville has made four starts and is batting .250.

Stanislaus is at Sonoma State in Rohnert Park for an 11 a.m. game today, followed by Sunday’s 11 a.m. contest.

Longtime Golden State Warriors head athletic trainer Tom Abdenour has been selected to the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame.

NATA is a not-for-profit organization representing and supporting 30,000 members of the athletic training profession.

Abdenour is in his 20th season with the Warriors, having begun his NBA career with the team in 1987. In 2005, he was the recipient of NATA’s Tim Kerin Award for Excellence in Athletic Training.

In 1990, just his third season in the league, Abdenour’s peers elected him as the NBA’s Athletic Trainer of the Year.

Along with his work with Golden State, Abdenour served as athletic trainer for the gold medal-winning USA Men’s Basketball Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Austrailia.

E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.