NOTES AND QUOTES for a Tuesday in the Napa Valley:

Napa County and the City of Napa will honor Justin-Siena High School, the CIF North Coast Section Division IV champion which went 9-4 during the 2008 football season, in separate ceremonies.

Head coach Rich Cotruvo and the Braves — who beat St. Patrick/St. Vincent-Vallejo (34-19), Ferndale (22-15) and Salesian-Richmond (28-14) in consecutive playoff games — will be honored at a proclamation ceremony by the Napa County Board of Supervisors this morning at 9 a.m. at the County Administration Building.

Cotruvo will be joined by members of the senior class, family and friends of the program. The NCS title was Cotruvo’s fourth with the Braves, who won their final five games of the season and tied for third place in the Marin County Athletic League.

The city of Napa will honor the Braves with a key to the city during a Napa City Council meeting on Jan. 20 at 6:30 p.m. in City Council chambers.

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Jordan Roualdes, a left-handed pitcher and Justin-Siena graduate, has transferred to the University of Nebraska. The Huskers start the 2009 baseball season Feb. 20 at Louisiana-Lafayette.

He was a starter last year for South Mountain Community College of Phoenix, Ariz., and had what amounted to a breakthrough season of baseball. Roualdes appeared in 13 games and was 5-0 with a 2.39 earned run average in 672⁄3 innings.

Roualdes played on Justin-Siena teams that won three straight CIF North Coast Section Class A titles. He was named First-Team All-State.

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Anna Cmaylo ended not only a superb senior season of volleyball for Santa Clara University in 2008, but she also wrapped up an overall outstanding career.

The middle blocker became the fifth Santa Clara student-athlete to earn three All-America honors, as she was named to the AVCA’s third team. She was also selected to the AVCA all-Pacific Region team for the third time and was an all-West Coast Conference First Team selection.

In addition, the political science major was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic all-District VIII third team, as she has a 3.42 GPA. Off the court, Cmaylo serves as president of Santa Clara’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and is actively involved with community service efforts.

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Napa High head girls basketball coach Darci Lewis and members of her team — which open Monticello Empire League action this week — will be guests of the “KVON Sportsvine” Saturday.The show starts at 9 a.m. on KVON-1440 AM.

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Justin-Siena (10-4 overall) is listed as one of several teams on the bubble in this week’s Cal-Hi Sports Bay Area Girls Basketball Top 20.

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Napa’s Taylor Bickell ended the 2008 junior golf season on a positive note, placing very well in three tournaments in the girls 13-18 division on the Future Collegians World Tour.

Bickell was fourth at the Coyote Creek Open in San Jose, shooting 77-80 — 157; tied for fifth at the Hunter Ranch Open in Paso Robles, firing 78-81 — 159; and third at the Mission Hills Pete Dye Challenge in Rancho Mirage, shooting 69-75 — 144.

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The Florida State swimming team finished its training trip in Naples, Fla., with a pair of mixed relays against Penn State earlier this month.

In the 4x50-meter free relay, the Seminole foursome of Jocelyn Phillips, Robby Hayes, C.J. Hendry and Ed Denton placed second, touching the wall with a time of 1:46.84. Phillips is a Vintage graduate. Florida State is preparing for the second half of its season.

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Mike Alberghini of Grant-Sacramento has been selected as the MaxPreps.com National Coach of the Year for football.

Grant ended the 2008 season with a 25-20 win over Long Beach Poly in the CIF State Bowl Championship open division game.

Alberghini’s record at Grant is 192-32-1.

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