NOTES AND QUOTES for a Friday in the Napa Valley:

Michael Gastelum of St. Helena has made six starts and played in 10 games so far as a sophomore second baseman for Saint Mary’s College, which at 9-4 is off to its best start in baseball since the 1994 season.

Gastelum, a 2006 St. Helena High School graduate, is batting .200 with four RBIs for the Gaels, who have received votes in the USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Coaches Poll. He also has a .913 fielding percentage.

Gastelum’s 2-for-4, three-RBI game helped Saint Mary’s to a 6-5 win over Stanford March 5. His single gave Saint Mary’s a 2-0 lead and his other base hit drove in two runs, extending the Gaels’ lead to 4-1.

As a true freshman last year, Gastelum played in 18 games and recorded his first collegiate hit against San Jose State. He got his first RBI against San Francisco State.

———

Jimmy Cacho’s final-round 67 skyrocketed him from 35th to a tie for 11th place for the Santa Clara University men’s golf team at the Palmas Del Mar Intercollegiate, which was hosted by St. John’s University.

Cacho, a Justin-Siena graduate, led the Broncos with a 4-over par 220 total at the Palmas Del Mar Country Club’s Flamboyan Course in southeast Puerto Rico. He had earlier rounds of 80 and 73.

Cacho, a junior, has finished as the Broncos’ top player in five tournaments this year.

As a team, Santa Clara finished fifth.

Virginia Commonwealth University won the tournament.

———

Max Alvarez, a forward, scored five goals in four games for the Davis Legacy’s 91’s, a club team, in the under-19 age group, during the Juventus Soccer Showcase last week in Redwood City.

Davis was 2-2.

Alvarez, a Napa High senior and the 2008 Napa County Player of the Year, signed a national letter-of-intent last month to play soccer next year for Cal State Sacramento.

He scored 42 goals in leading Napa into the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs last fall. He was also the Monticello Empire League’s leading scorer.

Alvarez scored 108 goals over the last three years, during which he was named to All-MEL and All-Napa County teams each year.

He was named as the Indians’ MVP and Offensive Player of the Year following the 2008 season.

———

The fourth annual Storm Classic Golf Tournament, a benefit for Napa Valley College student-athletes, is June 8 at Silverado Resort.

Businesses and individuals are invited to become sponsors.

For sponsorship or donation opportunities, call 253-3222.

For more information, contact Storm Athletic Director Kevin Luckey at kluckey@napavalley.edu.

———

Cal State Sacramento opens its 11-game regular-season football schedule Sept. 5 with a nonconference game at UNLV.

The game marks the seventh consecutive season in which the Hornets will face a Football Bowl Subdivision team.

Jake Croxdale (Napa), Jared Pereira (Vintage) and Carlo Trinchero (St. Helena) play for Sacramento.

———

Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis of Mater Dei-Santa Ana has been named as the Gatorade California Girls Basketball Player of the Year.

The 6-foot sophomore has led the Monarchs to a 31-0 record, the No. 3 ranking in the ESPN RISE Fab 50, and to the semifinals of the CIF Southern Section Division II playoffs.

———

Left-hander Jordan Roualdes turned in a solid six-inning performance to get the win as Nebraska beat visiting Cal State Northridge in a nonconference baseball game last week, 11-5.

Roualdes, a Justin-Siena graduate, gave up six hits and four runs (three earned) while striking out one and walking two.

He also worked out of several jams to get his first win as a Husker.

———

Napa’s Tomas Donnelly is batting .313 in 11 games for the Cal State Stanislaus baseball team, which is ranked No. 1 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll’s NCAA Division II rankings.

Stanislaus is 16-3 overall.

Donnelly played baseball at Vintage and Napa Valley College.

———

Caroline DeVincenzi of Napa has been in the starting lineup for the first eight games of the 2009 softball season for Lewis & Clark College of Portland, Ore.

The Justin-Siena graduate, a utility player who has been used at shortstop, center field and pitcher, is batting .368 with a double and two RBIs.

———

Butte College’s basketball season ended with an 86-76 loss to San Jose City College in the regional state playoffs.

Russ Critchfield, a former Vintage coach, directed Butte to a 22-9 record and its first Golden Valley Conference men’s title since 1993.

The Roadrunners were the No. 10 seed for the Northern California regionals.

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