Eight players in Week No. 12 of our Can You Beat Randy NFL Pool hit for 13 wins, but this time even the tiebreaker was not enough to determine the week’s winner.

State meets have the toughest competition, but they haven’t been the toughest races for Kurt Ruegg.

Logan Hess hurt his shoulder in the first round of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs last week.

One of the most impressive catches by a Napa High football player this season became a footnote when 325-pound Laguna Creek defensive lineman Erik Thomas fell on a fumble on the next play.

Vintage High School coach Darol Smith is looking for big things out of Jordan Price and Kelsey Zeller, two returning players.

Napa Christian starts the 2008-09 basketball season with coaching changes.

Napa High senior Michael Ruffino is the Player of the Year and senior Collin Blom is the Co-Lineman of the Year on this season’s All-Monticello Empire League football team.

Vintage had four players in double figures, but the Crushers dropped a nonleague boys basketball game to Franklin-Elk Grove Wednesday night.

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