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Justin-Siena product nabs Honor Roll award
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Sophomore first baseman Brett Wallace, a Justin-Siena High School graduate who has 10 home runs so far this season for Arizona State University, has been named as a College Baseball Foundation National Honor Roll Player of the Week.
Sophomore first baseman Brett Wallace, a Justin-Siena High School graduate who has 10 home runs so far this season for Arizona State University, has been named as a College Baseball Foundation National Honor Roll Player of the Week.
The Sonoma product went 7-for-12 (.583) with three home runs, five RBIs, six runs scored and four walks as the Sun Devils took two out of three in a Pacific-10 Conference series against USC in Los Angeles. He is the Pac-10 leader in most offensive categories and is batting .466 with 40 RBIs so far this year.
Wallace was named as a Collegiate Baseball/Louisville Slugger All-American, First-Team All-State and the California Small Schools Player of the Year by CalHiSports.com for Justin-Siena. He shared Arizona State’s Newcomer of the Year award after leading the Sun Devils with a .371 batting average as a freshman last year. He was named All Pacific-10 Honorable Mention and was chosen to the Houston All-Regional Team.
Wallace was named as a Collegiate Baseball/Louisville Slugger All-American, First-Team All-State and the California Small Schools Player of the Year by CalHiSports.com for Justin-Siena. He shared Arizona State’s Newcomer of the Year award after leading the Sun Devils with a .371 batting average as a freshman last year. He was named All Pacific-10 Honorable Mention and was chosen to the Houston All-Regional Team.
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Sarah O’Neill of Napa went 2-for-3 with three RBIs for UC Davis in a 4-2 win over visiting Portland State Monday. O’Neill, a former Vintage star, had a two-run single and a run-scoring single for the Aggies (19-11-1 overall), who have won 11 of their past 14 games under head coach Karen Matteson-Yoder, a Napa resident and former Napa Valley College coach. O’Neill starts and plays left field.
Sarah O’Neill of Napa went 2-for-3 with three RBIs for UC Davis in a 4-2 win over visiting Portland State Monday. O’Neill, a former Vintage star, had a two-run single and a run-scoring single for the Aggies (19-11-1 overall), who have won 11 of their past 14 games under head coach Karen Matteson-Yoder, a Napa resident and former Napa Valley College coach. O’Neill starts and plays left field.
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Justin-Siena’s Blaize Boles, the 2006-07 Napa County Player of the Year for boys basketball, will be the guest of the “KVON Sportsvine” Saturday. The hour-long show airs on KVON 1440 AM starting at 9 a.m. and is hosted by Arty “Party” Reyes, Charles Kennedy and Terry Simpkins.
Boles, a co-captain and three-year starter, averaged 15.8 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.9 steals per game for Justin-Siena (22-8 overall, 9-5 Marin County Athletic League), which was fourth in the MCAL and advanced as far as the quarterfinals of the CIF North Coast Section Division IV playoffs.
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Maika Watanabe of Napa won the 51-kilogram division at the Missouri Valley Showcase of Women’s Wrestling last week. Watanabe, who went to Vintage and wrestles for Missouri Valley College, won all three matches in the round-robin format in her class.
The Lady Vikings are coached by Carl Murphree, a former Vintage coach, former director of the Napa Valley Wrestling Club and founder of the ASICS Napa Valley Girls Classic.
John Knudsen of American Canyon finished third in the sit-ski division of the men’s giant slalom at the 2007 Hartford U.S. Disabled Alpine Championships. It was held at New Hampshire’s Waterville Valley ski and snowboard resort.
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Cameron Cruz and his Concord-based Diablo Valley Soccer Club team, Black Pearl, advanced to the round of 16 in the under-17 Boys Class 1 State Cup. Cruz, who attends Trinity Prep in Napa, plays goalkeeper for the Black Pearl, who were ranked 10th in the US Club Soccer national rankings entering the State Cup.
The Pearl opened their quest for the championship by shutting out MVLA (Mountain View/Los Gatos) 8-0 last Saturday and defeating the ACC (Stockton) Mavericks 4-1 in games played at the Cherry Island Soccer Complex in Sacramento.
DVSC will play the Santa Cruz Breakers in Morgan Hill on April 14. DVSC is ranked No. 2 in the state and fourth in the region IV rankings by US Club Soccer.
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Tim Lincecum, a right-handed pitcher who was the San Francisco Giants’ first-round selection in the 2006 First-Year Player Draft, was elected the 2007 Harry S. Jordan Award winner in a vote by his teammates Monday.
The award, which is named for a longtime minor league trainer for the club, is given in recognition of the player in his first big league camp whose performance and dedication in spring training best exemplifies the San Francisco Giants spirit.
Lincecum, in major league spring training a year after competing as a collegian for Washington, went 1-0 with a 6.43 ERA in three Cactus League outings. Tabbed as San Francisco’s top prospect by Baseball America entering the 2007 campaign, he turned in a quality relief stint against Seattle March 11 in which he struck out four over three scoreless innings.
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The NFL’s 2007 Kickoff Weekend will feature the San Francisco 49ers taking on Arizona on Monday, Sept. 10 in a 7:15 p.m. kickoff at Candlestick Park. It’s part of an ESPN Monday Night Football doubleheader.
E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.
Justin-Siena’s Blaize Boles, the 2006-07 Napa County Player of the Year for boys basketball, will be the guest of the “KVON Sportsvine” Saturday. The hour-long show airs on KVON 1440 AM starting at 9 a.m. and is hosted by Arty “Party” Reyes, Charles Kennedy and Terry Simpkins.
Boles, a co-captain and three-year starter, averaged 15.8 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.9 steals per game for Justin-Siena (22-8 overall, 9-5 Marin County Athletic League), which was fourth in the MCAL and advanced as far as the quarterfinals of the CIF North Coast Section Division IV playoffs.
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Maika Watanabe of Napa won the 51-kilogram division at the Missouri Valley Showcase of Women’s Wrestling last week. Watanabe, who went to Vintage and wrestles for Missouri Valley College, won all three matches in the round-robin format in her class.
The Lady Vikings are coached by Carl Murphree, a former Vintage coach, former director of the Napa Valley Wrestling Club and founder of the ASICS Napa Valley Girls Classic.
John Knudsen of American Canyon finished third in the sit-ski division of the men’s giant slalom at the 2007 Hartford U.S. Disabled Alpine Championships. It was held at New Hampshire’s Waterville Valley ski and snowboard resort.
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Cameron Cruz and his Concord-based Diablo Valley Soccer Club team, Black Pearl, advanced to the round of 16 in the under-17 Boys Class 1 State Cup. Cruz, who attends Trinity Prep in Napa, plays goalkeeper for the Black Pearl, who were ranked 10th in the US Club Soccer national rankings entering the State Cup.
The Pearl opened their quest for the championship by shutting out MVLA (Mountain View/Los Gatos) 8-0 last Saturday and defeating the ACC (Stockton) Mavericks 4-1 in games played at the Cherry Island Soccer Complex in Sacramento.
DVSC will play the Santa Cruz Breakers in Morgan Hill on April 14. DVSC is ranked No. 2 in the state and fourth in the region IV rankings by US Club Soccer.
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Tim Lincecum, a right-handed pitcher who was the San Francisco Giants’ first-round selection in the 2006 First-Year Player Draft, was elected the 2007 Harry S. Jordan Award winner in a vote by his teammates Monday.
The award, which is named for a longtime minor league trainer for the club, is given in recognition of the player in his first big league camp whose performance and dedication in spring training best exemplifies the San Francisco Giants spirit.
Lincecum, in major league spring training a year after competing as a collegian for Washington, went 1-0 with a 6.43 ERA in three Cactus League outings. Tabbed as San Francisco’s top prospect by Baseball America entering the 2007 campaign, he turned in a quality relief stint against Seattle March 11 in which he struck out four over three scoreless innings.
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The NFL’s 2007 Kickoff Weekend will feature the San Francisco 49ers taking on Arizona on Monday, Sept. 10 in a 7:15 p.m. kickoff at Candlestick Park. It’s part of an ESPN Monday Night Football doubleheader.
E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.
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