NOTES AND QUOTES for a Thursday in the Napa Valley:

Cornerback Marquis Hundley has a tryout scheduled at a Chicago Bears minicamp this week, according to the University of Arizona sports information department. The Bears’ camp starts Friday and runs through Sunday.

Hundley, a Napa High School graduate, went undrafted, but is a possible free agent. He started at the boundary corner for Arizona last year, tying for the team lead with four interceptions and returning a pick for a career-best 47 yards against Arizona State. He also returned a fumble recovery 87 yards for a score against Idaho.

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Frank Abbott of Napa won the super senior division of the Northern California Golf Association Senior Championship Tuesday at Spyglass Hill Golf Course.

Abbott, who plays out of Silverado Resort, had rounds of 77 and 80, finishing one shot in front of Butte Creek’s Carl Selkirk.

Jan Jakovac, playing in the regular divison, shot 82-82 — 164. Jakovac plays out of Napa Golf Course in Kennedy Park.

This year marked the first time the senior championship has been played at Spyglass Hill, with the plan to hold the event at the Robert Trent Jones Sr. design each year.

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Kelly Downing, a Vintage High graduate, was named as the most valuable pitcher on the all-Bay Valley Conference team and was chosen to the all-State team for the Solano Community College softball team.

Downing, a sophomore, had a 7-1 record and 1.11 earned run average in BVC games. For the year, Downing was 13-6 with five saves. Offensively, Downing  batted .443 with five home runs and 31 RBIs.

Two other Vintage graduates, Amber Daly and Destinee Santisteven, were also honored on the all-BVC team.

Daly was First-Team as a pitcher, going 7-0 with a 0.89 ERA.

Santisteven was Second-Team as an infielder, batting .400 with 14 RBIs.

Solano (25-10 overall) won the BVC title, going 15-1. The Falcons are the 12th seed and start the Northern California regional playoffs with a best-of-three series Saturday at No. 5 seed Sierra College-Rocklin at 2 p.m. Game 2 is Sunday at noon, with a third game, if necessary to follow at 2 p.m.

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Saturday’s “KVON SportsVine” will be dedicated to Dennis O’Donnell, a 1961 Napa High graduate and former Indians assistant football coach, who passed away Feb. 16, 2008 due to respiratory failure from ALS. He was 64.

The program’s guests will be O’Donnell’s close friends, Les Franco, Joe Flax and Bim Coyle.

O’Donnell was an assistant coach from 1981 to 1986 under Franco at Napa High. He worked as a sales rep for Valeo, Fitness Quest, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Berkey and Harbinger.

The hour-long show starts at 9 a.m. on KVON-1440 AM and is hosted by Terry Simpkins, Charles Kennedy and Mark McLeod.

According to Simpkins, the SportsVine show will be suspended for the summer.

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