NOTES AND QUOTES for a Friday in the Napa Valley:

John Hagan returns as manager for Napa Sheriff’s/Matt Salsman Insurance and Dan Parker takes over as the St. Helena Masons manager for the 2009 Napa Valley Joe DiMaggio Baseball League summer season, which starts Memorial Day Weekend.

Raneri & Long/Mark Coleman Insurance is still in need of a manager, but Bill Brown, Mike Fox and Spencer Czekalewski have all said they will help out as coaches. Scott Wright, last year’s manager, stepped down so that he can spend more time with his family.

Wright is also Justin-Siena High School’s head coach.

Brown is Justin-Siena’s pitching coach and Fox is a junior varsity assistant.

Parker, St. Helena High’s head coach, will be making his DiMaggio coaching debut.

Each of the three teams plays 18 to 21 league games and three practice games.

The Napa teams are entered in the North Bay East, a division that also has Middletown, Vallejo Mets and Vallejo Spartans, Tri-City Gamblers, and a new team, the River City Bandits from Sacramento.

There’s a possibility that a team from Vacaville will join the league.

“We’re looking forward to an exciting season,” said Steve Meyer, the national and local president of the DiMaggio Baseball League.

The top Napa Valley team joins the field for the Keith Connelly Fourth of July Invitational, which takes place July 1-5 at the Veterans Home of California’s Cleve Borman Field in Yountville, Napa High and Justin-Siena.

It’s a 16-team field.

The DiMaggio World Series, which goes from July 16-21, will have an eight-team field, including a Napa Valley team as the designated host squad based on its record.

———

Jeff King, a St. Helena High graduate, finished 12th in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

King, a four-time champion of the event, completed the 1,131-mile race from Anchorage to Nome in 10 days, 21 hours, six minutes, six seconds.

King has an outstanding race record, including a Yukon Quest victory in 1981.

He lives with his family on Goose Lake in Denali Park, Alaska.

He began mushing in 1976 and is the owner-operator of Goose Lake Kennels, breeding, raising and training 60 to 70 Alaskan Huskies a year.

———

Three former Napa High players — Lindsey Dreher, Heather Highshoe and Katie Keilig — recently completed the 2008-09 season for their respective women’s basketball teams.

Dreher played in 25 games for UC San Diego, averaging 7.2 minutes, 1.4 points and 1.3 rebounds per game as the Tritons lost a 52-49 decision to No. 2 Alaska Anchorage in the NCAA Division II West Regional semifinals.

Playing for Sonoma State, Keilig averaged 3.7 points and 1.7 rebounds in 11.8 minutes per game. She played in 23 games with three starts.

Highshoe averaged 2.3 points and 11.2 minutes per game for Cal State Stanislaus of Turlock.

She played in 28 games.

———

Because Vintage High’s new track doesn’t have a pole vault pit, the Crushers’ vaulters have to go elsewhere to practice and compete.

Lonnie and Kylie Handy traveled to Vacaville to compete in Vacaville High’s home meet against Fairfield.

Lonnie won the event, vaulting 13-6.

Kylie set another personal record, going 6-6. She is new to this event and has only been vaulting for less than two months.

———

The UC Davis men’s golf team, coached by Napa High graduate Cy Williams, tied for third place this week at the Fresno State Lexus Classic.

It was played at the par-72, 6,511-yard Belmont Country Club.

Davis was tied for the lead going into the final round.

———

Joan Benoit Samuelson, winner of the first-ever Olympic women’s marathon in 1984, will make her second appearance at the USA Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships today in Landover, Md.

Samuelson, here last year to run the Kaiser Permanente Napa Valley Marathon and serve as the keynote speaker at the marathon’s sports and fitness expo, will run the 3,000-meter race.

Benoit Samuelson makes her home in Freeport, Maine.

“Joanie is definitely a charm,” said Rich Benyo, a NVM race director and former executive editor of Runner’s World magazine.

“She’s a magnet for runners of all ages, shapes, and abilities who just want to spend a single moment, or an hour, in her magical presence.”

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