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Classic Soccer event set this week
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The 11th annual Wine Country Classic Soccer Tournament, sponsored by the Napa Valley Soccer Club and featuring 40 teams, is August 30 and 31 at the Raiders field, Redwood Middle School, Harvest Middle School and West Park Elementary School.
There are 68 games in the Division 3 tournament. It will involve 700-plus players.
There are 68 games in the Division 3 tournament. It will involve 700-plus players.
Championship games are at 1 and 2:30 p.m. at the Raiders field and West Park.
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Megan Gularte, a junior midfielder from Napa, scored the first goal of the 2008 women’s soccer season for Biola University and the Eagles went on to shut out Viterbo University last week, 1-0, in La Mirada, Calif.
It was the opening game of the season for Biola, which recently returned from a 12-day missions and outreach trip to Japan and has been training three times daily to get ready for the season.
It was the opening game of the season for Biola, which recently returned from a 12-day missions and outreach trip to Japan and has been training three times daily to get ready for the season.
While in Japan, the Eagles played eight matches against women’s college teams, men’s teams, high school girls and junior high boys teams. The trip was conducted by Missionary Athletes International, a group which has been sponsoring such trips for the last 11 years.
Gularte, a Vintage High School graduate, scored on a low shot through traffic in the 82nd minute to lift Biola to the win over Viterbo in a nonconference match.
Gularte accounted for a team-high five shots and had a pair of Biola’s best chances early on. In the 22nd minute, she gathered a loose ball at the top of the box and fired a shot which just sailed wide of the net. With 12 minutes to play before the half, Gularte had another look from just outside the box which forced the Viterbo keeper to make a great save.
The Eagles (1-0-0) completely dominated the game from the start and finished with an 18-1 advantage in shots over the V-Hawks and a 7-0 edge in corner kicks.
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My guest in September on Napa Community Public Access TV-Channel 28 is Leon Gilmore II, the executive director of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, the season-ending event on the Champions Tour. It takes place Oct. 27-Nov. 2 at the Sonoma Golf Club.
The Schwab Cup is a season-long points program designed to recognize the Tour’s leading player. The program rewards both top finishes and week-in/week-out consistency at all 29 official Charles Schwab Cup events. Points are awarded to the top-10 finishers and ties and are based on the money distribution for each tournament, with every $1,000 earned being the equivalent of one Charles Schwab Cup point. Points are doubled at the Champions Tour’s five major championships and the season-ending Schwab Cup Championship.
The winner of the 2008 Schwab Cup will earn a $1 million annuity. The second through fifth-place finishers earn annuities of $500,000, $300,000, $200,000 and $100,000.
The half-hour show, “Register Sports with Marty James,” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. and Mondays at noon.
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Brett Wallace, the St. Louis Cardinals’ 2008 first-round draft pick, debuted at the Double-A level last week, going 1-for-4 with a double in his second at-bat for Springfield, Mo., in a 6-5 loss to Northwest Arkansas at Arvest Ballpark in Springdale, Ark.
Wallace is a 2005 graduate of Justin-Siena and was the Pacific-10 Conference’s two-time Player of the Year for Arizona State University.
The third baseman was batting .327 with five home runs, 25 RBIs and 13 multi-hit games for the Class A Quad-Cities River Bandits of Davenport, Iowa at the time of his promotion. Springfield plays in the Texas League.
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Commenting about the passing of NFL Players’ Association Executive Director and Pro Football Hall of Famer Gene Upshaw, “Sunday Night Football’s” John Madden, a former Raiders coach, said: “It was a real shock waking up this morning and hearing that Gene had passed away. And it was such a shock because we all talk about Raiders, and Raider family, and team being family and when something like this happens, you realize that you really are family. Today we lost someone in our family.
“Gene was a great player. He was an All-Pro. He was a Hall of Famer. If you look at the history of the NFL you’re going to find out that he was one of the most influential people that the league has known. He did so much, not only for the players, but also for the owners, the teams, and the game of pro football. In that, he is obviously going to be missed.
“He was respected by everyone, because as a player he was a tough guy, and as the union head he was a tough guy. But he was also smart, and he could compromise, and he could make things happen. This is deeper than head of the union passing away, and it’s deeper than an ex-player. This is missing someone that is and was like family. It’s a tough day for all of us.”
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In a realignment move that makes all kinds of sense, Delta-Clarksburg (Yolo County) is leaving the CIF Northern Section and returning to the Sac-Joaquin Section, where it will join the Division VII Sacramento Metropolitan Athletic League for 2008-09.
Geographically, Delta is in the Sac-Joaquin boundaries, but had been playing in the Northern Section, requiring tremendous travel and time constraints.
In 1979, my first year at the Napa Valley Register, Delta and Justin-Siena played in the Superior California Athletic League.
E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.
Gularte, a Vintage High School graduate, scored on a low shot through traffic in the 82nd minute to lift Biola to the win over Viterbo in a nonconference match.
Gularte accounted for a team-high five shots and had a pair of Biola’s best chances early on. In the 22nd minute, she gathered a loose ball at the top of the box and fired a shot which just sailed wide of the net. With 12 minutes to play before the half, Gularte had another look from just outside the box which forced the Viterbo keeper to make a great save.
The Eagles (1-0-0) completely dominated the game from the start and finished with an 18-1 advantage in shots over the V-Hawks and a 7-0 edge in corner kicks.
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My guest in September on Napa Community Public Access TV-Channel 28 is Leon Gilmore II, the executive director of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, the season-ending event on the Champions Tour. It takes place Oct. 27-Nov. 2 at the Sonoma Golf Club.
The Schwab Cup is a season-long points program designed to recognize the Tour’s leading player. The program rewards both top finishes and week-in/week-out consistency at all 29 official Charles Schwab Cup events. Points are awarded to the top-10 finishers and ties and are based on the money distribution for each tournament, with every $1,000 earned being the equivalent of one Charles Schwab Cup point. Points are doubled at the Champions Tour’s five major championships and the season-ending Schwab Cup Championship.
The winner of the 2008 Schwab Cup will earn a $1 million annuity. The second through fifth-place finishers earn annuities of $500,000, $300,000, $200,000 and $100,000.
The half-hour show, “Register Sports with Marty James,” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. and Mondays at noon.
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Brett Wallace, the St. Louis Cardinals’ 2008 first-round draft pick, debuted at the Double-A level last week, going 1-for-4 with a double in his second at-bat for Springfield, Mo., in a 6-5 loss to Northwest Arkansas at Arvest Ballpark in Springdale, Ark.
Wallace is a 2005 graduate of Justin-Siena and was the Pacific-10 Conference’s two-time Player of the Year for Arizona State University.
The third baseman was batting .327 with five home runs, 25 RBIs and 13 multi-hit games for the Class A Quad-Cities River Bandits of Davenport, Iowa at the time of his promotion. Springfield plays in the Texas League.
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Commenting about the passing of NFL Players’ Association Executive Director and Pro Football Hall of Famer Gene Upshaw, “Sunday Night Football’s” John Madden, a former Raiders coach, said: “It was a real shock waking up this morning and hearing that Gene had passed away. And it was such a shock because we all talk about Raiders, and Raider family, and team being family and when something like this happens, you realize that you really are family. Today we lost someone in our family.
“Gene was a great player. He was an All-Pro. He was a Hall of Famer. If you look at the history of the NFL you’re going to find out that he was one of the most influential people that the league has known. He did so much, not only for the players, but also for the owners, the teams, and the game of pro football. In that, he is obviously going to be missed.
“He was respected by everyone, because as a player he was a tough guy, and as the union head he was a tough guy. But he was also smart, and he could compromise, and he could make things happen. This is deeper than head of the union passing away, and it’s deeper than an ex-player. This is missing someone that is and was like family. It’s a tough day for all of us.”
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In a realignment move that makes all kinds of sense, Delta-Clarksburg (Yolo County) is leaving the CIF Northern Section and returning to the Sac-Joaquin Section, where it will join the Division VII Sacramento Metropolitan Athletic League for 2008-09.
Geographically, Delta is in the Sac-Joaquin boundaries, but had been playing in the Northern Section, requiring tremendous travel and time constraints.
In 1979, my first year at the Napa Valley Register, Delta and Justin-Siena played in the Superior California Athletic League.
E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.
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