Jake Croxdale, only a few weeks removed from Napa High School, carried 10 times for 32 yards during the first scrimmage of fall camp for the Cal State Sacramento football team Saturday. The controlled scrimmage was held at the team’s practice facility north of Hornet Stadium.

Croxdale, a freshman running back, had an outstanding senior year of football last fall for Napa, rushing for 2,035 yards and 33 touchdowns and averaging 7.59 yards per carry. He also had had 39 receptions for 570 yards and four scores. As a linebacker, he made 105 tackles.

He was the co-Monticello Empire League Back of the Year and also earned First-Team All-Metro honors by The Sacramento Bee.

Croxdale scored the go-ahead TD in the title game against St. Mary’s-Stockton to give the Indians (13-1) their first CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I title.

Sacramento will hold its second scrimmage on Aug. 23 inside Hornet Stadium. The Hornets will open the year on Aug. 30 against Humboldt State at 6:05 p.m.

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Ryan Galovic, a senior linebacker from Napa, had a sack for Weber State as the football squad held its first scrimmage of the fall season Aug. 9 with the defense getting the upper hand in Ogden, Utah.

The ’Cats open the 2008 season on Aug. 28, hosting Montana-Western in Stewart Stadium.University of Arizona cornerback Marquis Hundley had three tackles and broke up a pass in a scrimmage Saturday.

Hundley, who played football at Napa High and Santa Rosa Junior College, is contending for a starting role. He lettered as a starter on special teams in 2007, finishing with seven tackles and sharing a team-high with six stops on kickoff coverage.

At Santa Rosa, he earned All-NorCal Conference honors and was a JC Grid-Wire preseason Second-Team All-American.

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UC Davis will go on the road next year to play Boise State in a nonconference football game. The matchup will be played Sept. 19 at Bronco Stadium.

The Aggies open this year’s season on Aug. 30 against WAC member San Jose State.

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Lindsay Brown was one of nine players from the Sonoma State University volleyball team who were named All-Academic by the California Collegiate Athletic Association during the 2007-08 season. In order to earn All-Academic status, a student-athlete must maintain a grade point average of 3.4 or higher over a course load of at least 24 units. They also must be a letter winner on one of the Seawolves’ 13 intercollegiate athletic teams.

Brown garnered Second-Team All-CCAA honors last year. A sophomore setter from Napa, Brown broke SSU’s single-season assist record with 1,140. She also ranked fifth on the team with 107 kills and hit a solid .228 for the season. Brown was third on the team with 205 digs, second with 41 service aces, and even pitched in with 48 blocks, third on the team.

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Any league realignment within the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section won’t take place until the 2010-2011 school year, but section officials will begin addressing any changes this year and next year.

Locally, Rodriguez-Cordelia will almost certainly be moving up due to its increasing size. The Mustangs are expected to leave the Division III Solano County Athletic Conference and join Napa and Vintage in the Monticello Empire League, a Division I league.

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The National Federation of High School Associations recently inducted Karen Smith, the CIF North Coast Section Associate Commissioner and a three-sport athlete at Rio Americano High School-Sacramento from 1976-1980, into the National High School Hall of Fame. The NFHS honors only four athletes each year.

Smith excelled in volleyball, basketball and softball. She scored 2,335 points in her basketball career, a school record.

She was a two-time All-American and was named to the Pac-10 All-Conference team three times for basketball at UC Berkeley.

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