NOTES AND QUOTES for a Labor Day in the Napa Valley:

Marquis Hundley had one of his best games for the University of Arizona Wildcats Saturday night.

Hundley, a Napa High School graduate, recovered a fumble and returned it 87 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter of Arizona’s season-opening 70-0 win over Idaho in Tucson.

Hundley recovered teammate Mike Thomas’ fumble on a punt return and ran untouched from his own 13-yard line. The touchdown gave Arizona a 21-0 lead with 13:17 to go in the half.

It was Arizona’s first fumble return for a touchdown since 2005 against UCLA.

Hundley, a starting cornerback, also had four total tackles, including three solo stops, and had two pass breakups.

He was All-NorCal Conference and a JC Grid-Wire preseason Second-Team All-America for Santa Rosa Junior College.

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Playing in his first college football game, Jake Croxdale carried 10 times for 42 yards for Cal State Sacramento Saturday night in the Hornets’ 45-13 nonconference win over visiting Humboldt State.

Croxdale is a freshman running back from Napa. He had an outstanding senior season of football last year for Napa High, rushing for 2,035 yards and 33 touchdowns and averaging 7.6 yards per carry. 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 from 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.

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Lindsay Brown of Napa was named to the Seawolf Spike All-Tournament Team for the host Sonoma State University volleyball team Saturday, leading the Seawolves to a 4-0 record in Rohnert Park.

Brown, a junior setter who went to Napa High, had a season-high 43 assists in a 3-2 win over Northwest Nazarene in the final match of the tourney.

She was brilliant at setter, pacing the offense with 40 assists in addition to 13 digs in a 3-0 win over Seattle Pacific.

Brown guided the offense, registering 26 assists and five service aces in Sonoma’s 3-0 victory over Montana State-Billings.

In their season opener, the Seawolves got 29 assists from Brown in a 3-0 win over Notre Dame de Namur.

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Lucas Euser of Napa was fourth for the Garmin-Chipotle professional cycling team Sunday at the 110-mile US Pro national road race championships in Greenville S.C.

Euser, a 2002 Napa High graduate, was in an early break that led in various configurations the entire race. He will be in the U.S. for the next 10 days.

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Three-time SAP Open singles champion Andy Roddick, the No. 9-ranked player in the world, will join Bay Area favorite James Blake, former SAP Open champion Lleyton Hewitt, and Japanese tennis sensation Kei Nishikori at the 2009 SAP Open. In addition, Americans Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, known internationally as the Bryan Brothers — recent bronze medal winners in Beijing — have entered into the 16-team doubles field of players.

The SAP Open will be played Feb. 9-15, 2009 at HP Pavilion at San Jose.

Additional information about the SAP Open can be found on the tournament website at www.sapopentennis.com. Ticket packages and group tickets go on sale in November and will be available by calling (408) ACE-2121.ꆱ