Anderson will enter shrine

NOTES AND QUOTES for a Monday in the Napa Valley:

Guy Anderson, the head baseball coach at Cordova High School-Rancho Cordova who is from Napa, will be inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame later this year.

Anderson, who has won 822 games in 39 years of coaching at Cordova, joins an elite class of 11 other inductees who will enter the National Federation of State High School Associations National High School HOF on July 1 at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile. The HOF induction ceremony will be the closing event of the 90th NFHS Summer Meeting.

Anderson is a Napa High graduate. Now in his 40th year at Cordova, his 822 victories rank second all-time in the state of California. Anderson’s teams have won 15 league championships and five CIF Sac-Joaquin Section titles.

“When I was the coach at Vintage, our teams played for many years in the preseason,” said Rich Anderson, a former Vintage head coach. “Once we could compete and then beat a Guy Anderson team, I knew that our program had reached the level of the other top schools.

“Guy is an amazing person. Most 20-year-olds wish they had his energy and enthusiasm — to do what he has for as long as he has with that type of passion is truly rare. He is the best spokesman and ambassador there could be for high school baseball. He truly deserves every single accolade he receives.”

Guy Anderson has been inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association and California Baseball Coaches Association halls of fame.

In addition to coaching baseball, Guy Anderson has served as the assistant principal and athletic director at Cordova for the past 30 years.

The NFHS, based in Indianapolis, is the national leadership organization for high school sports and fine arts activities.

The National High School HOF was started in 1982 by the NFHS to honor high school athletes, coaches, contest officials, administrators, fine arts coaches/directors and others for their extraordinary achievements and accomplishments in prep sports and activity programs.

This year’s class increases the number in the HOF to 362.

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Vintage graduate Samantha Sciutto and Napa Valley College transfer Kendra Mason each homered as Cal State East Bay began its California Pacific Conference softball season with a sweep of Menlo College, 1-0 and 8-5.

Sciutto, who is batting .265 for the Pioneers, hit her first collegiate home run.

Mason is batting .176 and leads East Bay, which is located in Hayward, with six RBIs.

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Heather Highshoe had five points and two rebounds for the Cal State Stanislaus women’s basketball team in an 82-61 loss to Humboldt State in California Collegiate Athletic Association action last week in Arcata. The loss ended Stanislaus’ season.

Highshoe is from Napa.

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Ryan Kostecka has started each of the first eight games of the 2009 season for the Lewis & Clark College baseball team and is batting .370 with a double and six walks.

Kostecka is a Napa High graduate.

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Haylee Yepson, a freshman from Napa, participated on the vault (9.375), bars (9.450) and beam (9.000) for the Seattle Pacific women’s gymnastics team in the Salbasgeon Suites Invitational meet, which was won by host Oregon State at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis Friday.

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

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