Joelle Aiello pitched a complete game and struck out 16 batters to help the Napa Sunmasters to an 11-6 win over R.E. Maher in Napa Junior Girls Softball play on Saturday.

Brandt cards ace at Napa Golf Course

Today

PHOENIX — Believe it or not, there is a down side to having a press pass that allows me to go to all sorts of places during spring training — places like the dugout and the dressing room and that most fabled place of all, one of the spots around the batting cage.

Next year’s CIF State Championships for boys and girls basketball will be played at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, the same venue that currently hosts the state wrestling tournament.

The Napa Junior Lacrosse Club varsity team, playing at home on Justin-Siena High School’s Dodd Field Saturday, beat the San Francisco City Outlaws, 9-2.

The Napa Sheriff’s Activities League wrestling club continued its season by attending the Coastal Mountain Wrestling Championships, which were hosted by Windsor High School in Sonoma County.

The Vintage baseball team fell to Galt 9-6 in its opening game of the Land Park Tournament, hosted by McClatchy-Sacramento, on Monday.

• Justin-Siena 14, Tamalpais 2

The gobbling started before we had even set up. Just minutes earlier, hunting partner Matt Schwanebeck and I had split up to take our respective positions.

Sophomore Lea Wallace took fourth place in the women’s 1,500-meter run for Cal State Sacramento at the school’s Mondo Invitational Saturday.

Napa’s Krider Racing towed its 2008 Shelby GT Mustang all the way down to sunny San Diego for the SCCA National Tour March 21-22, only to find it wasn’t so sunny after all.

Danny Giovannoni (left) and Ron Davis battled with this 65-inch Napa River sturgeon for about 45

ALAMEDA — Quarterback Jeff Garcia is returning to the Bay Area after agreeing to a deal with the Oakland Raiders.

Man, I thought we made it out of the woods when Terrell Owens signed with Buffalo.

Man, I thought we made it out of the woods when Terrell Owens signed with Buffalo.