NOTES AND QUOTES for a Friday in the Napa Valley:

Napa High School junior Alyx McChesney was selected by coach Robert Redman, president of the California Women’s Wrestling Association, to join a group of 14 top female wrestlers to represent California in tournaments in Oregon and Washington last weekend.

In the U.S. Girls Wrestling Association Oregon State Championship on March 10, McChesney earned a third-place medal. In the USGWA Washington State Championships on March 11, she took first place.

McChesney, a first-year wrestler, performed well the entire weekend, with all her winning matches ending in pins.

All 14 of the California wrestlers earned at least one medal over the two-day trip. They are preparing to attend the USGWA Nevada State Championships in two weeks, and will be in Livonia, Mich., later this spring for a national championship.

McChesney went 4-2 and finished fifth at 138 pounds at the ninth annual ASICS Napa Valley Girls Classic, which was held in January at Vintage High.

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Presley Bard did very well for Indiana at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, which were held last week at the University of Minnesota’s Aquatic Center.

Bard, a Napa High graduate, broke her own school record in the 200-yard backstroke. The Hoosiers’ talented freshman finished in a time of 1:55.12 to win the consolation final and take ninth overall while earning All-America Honorable Mention honors.

Bard, named as the Big Ten Freshman of the Year, was 27th in the 100 back, finishing in a time of 54.93.

She also swam on Indiana’s 400 medley relay team, which was 13th in a time of 3:38.93 to earn All-America Honorable Mention.

Bard qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials at the U.S. Open, which was held late last year at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Ind. She attained a Trials qualifying time of 1:04.26 in the 100-meter backstroke.

The trials will be held in Oklahoma City in June 2008.

Bard set five school records at Napa High and swam for the Terrapins Swim Club in Concord. She was a senior nationals qualifier in 2004, ’05 and ’06 and has been to four U.S. Opens, two American Short Course Championships and the 2005 World Trials.

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Jordan Litle, a junior right-hander and transfer from Napa Valley College, improved to 3-0 as Biola University beat Fresno Pacific University 10-6 in Game 1 of a Golden State Athletic Conference doubleheader in La Mirada, Calif., last Saturday.

Litle, who went to Vintage, allowed five hits and four runs while striking out three and walking two in five innings.

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Augie Kersting went 1-for-4 and drove in two runs for the University of Dallas in a 13-9 win over Albertus Magnus College last Saturday in Irving, Texas. Kersting, the left fielder for Dallas, is a 2002 Trinity Prep graduate.

He was named All-Napa County and All-Sacramento Valley Christian League each of his four years at Trinity.

At Trinity, he played on the 2002 team that won the SVCL and lost to Central Catholic-Modesto in the semifinals of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division V playoffs in Galt.

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