Mariah Miller was the leading scorer for the Crushers (13-3 overall) in Tuesday night’s nonleague game with 16 points. Olivia Husted and Ashlee Sills each had eight while Emily Peterson had six.

Napa (8-5 overall) was led by Dani Green with 16 points, Becca Steen with 10, Lauren Holster with eight, Kelsey Vanderschoot with seven, Danielle Beatty with five, Morgan Benson with four points and three assists, MacKenzie LeMasters with three points, three steals and three assists, and Casey Van Camp with three points and four boards.

There will be tryouts for fifth and sixth grade candidates for the AAU Napa Renegades girls basketball team at the small gym at Napa High on Friday, Saturday and Monday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

BCS buster Utah rolled Southeastern Conference power Alabama in the Sugar Bowl thanks, in large part, to stars plucked from the California community college football ranks.

Taide Guera-Martinez will only have to attend one class Friday at Vintage High School, but there’s nothing easy about the rest of the day for the junior.

Noelle Roldan had 14 points for Napa High School, but the Indians lost a nonleague girls basketball game to host Vanden-Fairfield Wednesday night, 62-44.

California’s largest outdoor and travel event is coming to our area this month.

NOTES AND QUOTES for a Thursday in the Napa Valley:

Charlotte Cosca, 8, caught her first fish, an 8-inch rainbow trout, on a fly using a Ted Migdal special.