Napa High girls soccer coach Dave Todd looks at last Friday night’s Big Game loss to Vintage on a last-minute goal as one of only a few hurdles his team hasn’t cleared in an otherwise extraordinary season.

For the second day in a row on Thursday, Vintage slugger Alex Sasloff was up with two out in the seventh and his team trailing Napa High.

The Braves wrapped up Marin County Athletic League play with Thursday’s win at College of Marin. Justin-Siena (16-8 overall, 12-6 MCAL) scored four in the second inning, one in the third, six in the fourth and one in the fifth.

Colton Dorman was one out away from a complete game Thursday, but he had just allowed a walk and the next Middletown batter had homered in his previous at-bat.

For the second week in a row, the Harvest Middle School seventh- and eighth-grade track and field team made it a sweep of local schools.

In a matchup of Babe Ruth teams at Harvest Middle School, KJ Palzis-Tiffin threw a complete game for the Reds, striking out seven while walking three hitters.

Morea Donahue had a huge game for the Crushers in Wednesday’s Monticello Empire League home rout, pitching a no-hitter with eight strikeouts and driving in seven runs.

The Vintage High School softball team played one of its best defensive games of the season in an 8-0 shutout over Armijo on Wednesday.

Sam Bair pitched 51⁄3 innings of scoreless relief in the loss for Napa, while Tim Nunn (two singles) and David Wieldraayer (single) contributed at the plate for the Indians.

It was a dark and rainy morning as the first fishermen arrived at Lake Hennessey for the annual George Carl Kids’ Fishing Derby.

Face it, folks, it is far easier to keep track of who has NOT tested positive for "performance enhancing substances," in baseball than it is to keep track of those busted in the Steroids Era.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Reed Sorenson completed a one-day test session at Infineon Raceway on Wednesday.

Riders Mat Mladin and Jamie Hacking enter the Kawasaki AMA Superbike Showdown in Sonoma next weekend atop the AMA Pro Road Racing point standings

Every angler and photographer in Napa County will want to attend the May 14 meeting of the Napa Valley Fly Fishers.

Mike McDaniel of Napa scored a nice tom turkey on a muddy, rainy, early-morning hunt in Gordon Valley with his uncle, Gary McDaniel. His gobbler weighed in at 20.5 pounds, with an 81⁄4-inch beard and 1-inch spurs.

I remember it like it was yesterday, the first time I ever saw a major league baseball field with my own eyes.