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County championships for track set Saturday
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CommentNOTES AND QUOTES for a Thursday in the Napa Valley:
Napa, Vintage, Justin-Siena, St. Helena and Calistoga high schools are entered in Saturday’s Napa County Track and Field Championships, which start at 1 p.m. at Harvest Middle School. The meet, which features varsity boys and girls and JV boys and girls, is sponsored by the Napa Track Club.
Napa, Vintage, Justin-Siena, St. Helena and Calistoga high schools are entered in Saturday’s Napa County Track and Field Championships, which start at 1 p.m. at Harvest Middle School. The meet, which features varsity boys and girls and JV boys and girls, is sponsored by the Napa Track Club.
Medals will be awarded to the top three places in each division for the varsity. The top three JV finishers will be presented with ribbons. Organizers are also inviting some top middle school and Napa Track Club athletes to compete in the JV divisions.
The meet was started a few years ago and is a collaborative effort between the five schools, the track club and the many volunteers and fans of track and field in the area. Organizers have elected not to crown a team champion this year, and instead are focusing on individual successes.
The meet was started a few years ago and is a collaborative effort between the five schools, the track club and the many volunteers and fans of track and field in the area. Organizers have elected not to crown a team champion this year, and instead are focusing on individual successes.
Each division has 14 individual events and two relays.
The meet is open to the public and there is no charge.
The meet is open to the public and there is no charge.
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Ashley Casassa, a 2003 Vintage graduate, was honored by the state’s Commission on Athletics awards committee for her selection to the 2006 women’s honor roll. She received this for carrying a 4.0 GPA for Solano Community College-Suisun for the fall 2006 soccer season. It was Casassa’s last season playing at the community college level; she has since transferred to UC Berkeley.
Athletes and teams from around the state were honored April 5 at the 10th annual COA Convention and Pepsi Celebration of Student Athletes Luncheon at the Doubletree Ontario Airport Hotel in Ontario, Calif.
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Justin-Siena’s Vicky Deely, the Napa County Player of the Year and Third-Team All-Metro by the San Francisco Chronicle for girls basketball during the 2006-07 season, will be the guest of the “KVON Sportsvine,” an hour-long show that airs Saturday morning on KVON 1440 AM. The show starts at 9 a.m. and is hosted by Arty “Party” Reyes, Charles Kennedy and Terry Simpkins.
Deely averaged 23.4 points, 10.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game this past year. She was named as the most valuable player in the Marin County Athletic League as well as a First-Team All-MCAL selection.
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Matt Yourkin, a Napa High graduate, is 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA in five games as a relief pitcher for the Carolina Mudcats, the Double-A affiliate for the Florida Marlins which plays in the Southern League. Yourkin has allowed five hits and one earned run while striking out four in four innings.
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Compadres Bar & Grill owner Rick Enos, assisted by son Jeff and daughter Lauren, who are also in the business with him, personally catered a benefit golf tournament Monday for the UC Berkeley football team at Blackhawk Country Club in Danville.
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Johnny Miller, a Golf Hall of Famer and former Napa resident who won 24 PGA Tour events, is on the honorary board for the Northern California Golf Association Foundation, which has awarded more than $1 million in grants over the past 15 years to deserving youth.
Miller, the lead analyst for NBC Sports’ golf team and a course designer-architect, is a former U.S. Open and British Open champion. He co-designed Eagle Vines Golf Club in southern Napa County.
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Silver and Black Productions, the in-house production company of the Oakland Raiders, has been nominated for two Northern California Area EMMY Awards. Silver and Black Productions was nominated for The Raiders Report and for an interview with John Madden.
The Raiders Report is an hour long show and can be seen all over Northern California on Comcast Sports Net West on Saturdays at 10 p.m. The show is also available on DirecTV.
Silver and Black Productions produces Behind the Shield and The Silver and Black Show during the football season as well.
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Jessica Salas of Bravo Medical Magnet-Los Angeles and Ali Rawaf from Beckman-Irvine have been selected as the spring 2007 recipients of the prestigious CIF Spirit of Sport Award. The two statewide winners will be recognized at the year-end CIF Federated Council dinner May 4 in San Jose.
Salas is a four-year member of both the softball team and the high honor roll.
Rawaf is a three-sport athlete, having competed in football, wrestling and lacrosse. A member of the new school’s first graduating class, Rawaf is a John Wooden Student-Athlete Award winner as well as a U.S. Achievement Academy National Science Merit Award nominee.
E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.
Ashley Casassa, a 2003 Vintage graduate, was honored by the state’s Commission on Athletics awards committee for her selection to the 2006 women’s honor roll. She received this for carrying a 4.0 GPA for Solano Community College-Suisun for the fall 2006 soccer season. It was Casassa’s last season playing at the community college level; she has since transferred to UC Berkeley.
Athletes and teams from around the state were honored April 5 at the 10th annual COA Convention and Pepsi Celebration of Student Athletes Luncheon at the Doubletree Ontario Airport Hotel in Ontario, Calif.
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Justin-Siena’s Vicky Deely, the Napa County Player of the Year and Third-Team All-Metro by the San Francisco Chronicle for girls basketball during the 2006-07 season, will be the guest of the “KVON Sportsvine,” an hour-long show that airs Saturday morning on KVON 1440 AM. The show starts at 9 a.m. and is hosted by Arty “Party” Reyes, Charles Kennedy and Terry Simpkins.
Deely averaged 23.4 points, 10.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game this past year. She was named as the most valuable player in the Marin County Athletic League as well as a First-Team All-MCAL selection.
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Matt Yourkin, a Napa High graduate, is 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA in five games as a relief pitcher for the Carolina Mudcats, the Double-A affiliate for the Florida Marlins which plays in the Southern League. Yourkin has allowed five hits and one earned run while striking out four in four innings.
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Compadres Bar & Grill owner Rick Enos, assisted by son Jeff and daughter Lauren, who are also in the business with him, personally catered a benefit golf tournament Monday for the UC Berkeley football team at Blackhawk Country Club in Danville.
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Johnny Miller, a Golf Hall of Famer and former Napa resident who won 24 PGA Tour events, is on the honorary board for the Northern California Golf Association Foundation, which has awarded more than $1 million in grants over the past 15 years to deserving youth.
Miller, the lead analyst for NBC Sports’ golf team and a course designer-architect, is a former U.S. Open and British Open champion. He co-designed Eagle Vines Golf Club in southern Napa County.
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Silver and Black Productions, the in-house production company of the Oakland Raiders, has been nominated for two Northern California Area EMMY Awards. Silver and Black Productions was nominated for The Raiders Report and for an interview with John Madden.
The Raiders Report is an hour long show and can be seen all over Northern California on Comcast Sports Net West on Saturdays at 10 p.m. The show is also available on DirecTV.
Silver and Black Productions produces Behind the Shield and The Silver and Black Show during the football season as well.
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Jessica Salas of Bravo Medical Magnet-Los Angeles and Ali Rawaf from Beckman-Irvine have been selected as the spring 2007 recipients of the prestigious CIF Spirit of Sport Award. The two statewide winners will be recognized at the year-end CIF Federated Council dinner May 4 in San Jose.
Salas is a four-year member of both the softball team and the high honor roll.
Rawaf is a three-sport athlete, having competed in football, wrestling and lacrosse. A member of the new school’s first graduating class, Rawaf is a John Wooden Student-Athlete Award winner as well as a U.S. Achievement Academy National Science Merit Award nominee.
E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.
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